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You can camp at this 100-year-old South Knoxville farm that's also a 'food forest'
South Knoxville native Aaron White lived in Utah for 10 years and worked for rock climbing equipment company Black Diamond. Five years ago, he and his wife, Kat, started buying and flipping homes in South Knoxville, and eventually the couple decided to return to East Tennessee.
The Whites would visit a three-acre parcel of land they owned and approached Burnett Benedict Bolin about purchasing the neighboring 36-acre farm her grandfather settled 100 years ago.
“That was a year and a half ago,” said Aaron White. “She was very enamored with my wife and daughters, and I think she wanted a young family to buy the Burnett estate with hopes that it would not be developed into another neighborhood.
“Ms. Burnett is 93 and told us stories of playing in the creek,” White continued. “She grew up in the summer house in the hollow that burned down in the 1950s and remembers her father going to work for TVA and when power came to the valley.”
The log cabin on the Burnett estate was built in the 1800s and until recently was inhabited by Bolin’s daughter.
“We currently live in the Island Home neighborhood, but we want to restore the log cabin to its original beauty and eventually live on the farm,” White said. “We want to build a working farm and a perennial food forest with a variety of food and supporting plants.”
They have already planted 40 trees: pecan, persimmon, elderberry, apple, peach, pomegranate and mulberry.
“We found wild asparagus, perennial greens, root vegetables and passionfruit vines,” White said. “My wife found Flying Dragon Bitter Oranges that were planted by the Burnetts in the ’30s or ’40s, that she has made into marmalade.” There is plenty of maple sap for syrup and an abundance of walnuts and hickory nuts.
The Whites kept looking at the Brown Bike Farms across from them. “Last July I saw the owner Greg Brown working on it,” White said. “I reached out and asked if he wanted to sell it to me.”
They worked out a deal and purchased Brown Bike Farms last month and renamed it Low Meadow Farms. “The campground is part of the original Burnett estate, and that’s what the Burnetts used to call it,” White said, who wants to offer ecologically friendly accommodations on the properties.
Low Meadow Farms generally has four to five groups every weekend, with two to three camping groups during the week.
“We lessened the number of campsites on top of each other by spreading them out,” White said. “Each site has a fire ring and picnic table, access to fresh tap water and firewood.
“What we have found in the short amount of time we have had the former Brown Bike Farms, the style of camper we have wants fewer amenities and a calmer, more peaceful stay,” he said. “We want to nurture this campground back to life, minimizing impact while maximizing their happiness. No plugged-in lights and flushing toilets. You go back to a more peaceful setting, where you can hear the creek because you’re not on your phone.”
There is already a pavilion at the campground and an information board with maps. A bike wash station and solar showers have been added.
There are three springs, and Burnett Creek encircles the campground.
“The spring house still has the inscription of Ms. Burnett’s grandfather who built it in 1927,” White said.
Low Meadow Farms will be the setting for intimate birthday parties, camping trips with friends and even the occasional pared-back wedding.
“Our child had a birthday party with mountain bikes and every piece of farm equipment we could drag over there,” White said. “A gal has booked out almost the whole site for her friends in May.
“Dogs are welcome, but we need reasonable dog ownership, and you can’t leave your dog alone at your campsite,” White said. Responsible alcohol consumption is also allowed. Low Meadow Farms may partner with local breweries or distilleries for wine, beer or cocktail tasting and then camp overnight.
The campground offers a hint of backcountry camping without the hike in. It is best suited for off-road vehicles, bike, tent and hammock camping.
“We are also looking to host camping, clinics, and programs with Knoxville Adventure Collective and the University of Tennessee Outdoor Pursuits,” White said. Two Bikes shop will be leading a bike packing trip on June 24 to explore both road and mountain bike trails and camp at Low Meadow Farms overnight.
Low Meadow Farms can be booked through Hipcamp and Airbnb, and more details can be found at lowmeadowfarms.com
White is no stranger to outdoor recreation. His first job was renting out equipment at Riversports Outfitters, and he has been a mountain biker since well before the Urban Wilderness was a real thing in South Knoxville. Kat White has a degree in environmental biology and a master’s in natural resource management. | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/low-meadow-farms-south-knoxville-camping-with-a-long-family-history/70159495007/ | 2023-05-02T10:19:24 | 1 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/low-meadow-farms-south-knoxville-camping-with-a-long-family-history/70159495007/ |
As Rule High turns to rubble, Golden Bear alumni look back fondly
Gypsy Holloway Finley loved everything about Rule High before graduating in 1954.
A cheerleader and beauty queen, she especially enjoyed all her schoolmates and teachers. “The best time in my life was at Rule High,” she said. “I loved the people. We bonded like a family.”
But there is one aspect of the school that saddens her these days. The old school building − located at a hilltop spot on Vermont Avenue near Western Avenue northwest of downtown Knoxville − is being torn down.
“It broke my heart,” she said when hearing the news.
The sounds of mostly silence at the site since its closing as a school in 1991 have been replaced in recent days with the noise of heavy construction equipment beginning the demolition process.
After looking at potential uses for the aging property in recent years, building owner Knox County has begun overseeing the demolition work, with the newer, midcentury section on the western end coming down first.
Bob Grant, a member of the Rule Class of 1965 who started a website devoted to the school several years ago, has taken the news of the razing a little easier than Finley.
“At most, I have mixed feelings over tearing it down,” he said. “On the other hand, I would rather see it torn down rather than it just decay. It serves no purpose just sitting there other than preserving our old memories.”
And what memories this building − formerly on Knox Heritage’s Fragile 15 list of threatened buildings − does have. It was opened as an elementary/ junior high in 1927 and named for Knoxville Journal editor and civic leader Capt. William Rule. After some students protested, it became a full high school, too, with the first class graduating in 1939.
Some additions, including the construction of an auditorium, were also made to the school over the years.
Well-known Rule alumni include longtime former University of Tennessee athletic department official Gus Manning from the class of 1943, former city law director Louis Hofferbert ’44, Knox County Clerk Mike Padgett ’66, and former UT and NFL football player Mike Cofer ‘79. Also, Jerry Helton, the father of former Major League Baseball star and UT quarterback Todd Helton, was Mr. Rule High in 1968 and was drafted by the Minnesota Twins.
Former UT golf coach and Tennessee Tech baseball coach Sid Hatfield also taught and coached there.
But Finley – who was named for evangelist “Gipsy” Smith − remembers it primarily as a solid school for mostly students from working-class families, who could take advantage of the vocational and other programs. Her father was a master mechanic at Appalachian Mills for a period and was able to help support their four children, including now-96-year-old Sunny, but she knows some students struggled financially.
However, the school environment at the time was very positive, the 87-year-old added. “I thought it was the most wonderful school in the world and happiest time in my life,” she continued, adding that her late son, Lance, graduated in 1973. “We all were very busy in school.”
She said the girls in that era took such classes as typing and shorthand, and she later used that while doing secretarial work for such department stores as Rich’s and Sears.
She recalled that the principal at the time was John Humphreys and the whole school was well run, including the study hall under the disciplinarian Rubel Cotter.
“I have sweet memories of Rule, but they ran a tight ship. We didn’t have it easy.”
Diane Byrd Kosier enrolled in the seventh grade in 1965 before graduating in 1971 and remembers Cotter with trepidation, too. “She stood at least 6 feet tall and was an imposing woman,” she said. “When she would scream, you could hear her outside.”
Kosier remembers her first year there was when the school was starting to integrate, but as a white person, she was taught not to look at skin color. She simply thought they were all together in the serious challenge of school, or “prison” as she jokingly called it.
While she admitted the food was not great, she liked much else about the school that drew mostly from Lonsdale and Mechanicsville, and she loved being a Golden Bear and wearing blue and gold. The school was pioneering in offering modern dance and gymnastics, had a caring staff, and many male graduates of her era entered the military and later heavily sprinkled the local police force, she added.
And related to the building, it had a special feature that will be missed by her and will need to be incorporated into any new facility, she said.
“The upstairs part that faces Knoxville had the best view in the city,” the retired administrative and word processing worker said of the elevated location. “They would close the shades because students would stand there and be mesmerized. It was beautiful.” | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/rule-high-school-demolition-begins-in-knoxville/70159460007/ | 2023-05-02T10:19:30 | 0 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/rule-high-school-demolition-begins-in-knoxville/70159460007/ |
'This is it': Chart-topper Kenny Loggins brings final tour to Greenville's Peace Center
If, at age 75, Kenny Loggins decided that touring would no longer be a part of his regular life, who could blame the man?
He’s been at this music career for half a century, after all, writing hit songs since the early 1970s as half of Loggins & Messina, followed by a huge run of solo success in the 1980s, an electric period that included several monster soundtrack hits.
And while the chart-toppers haven’t been as frequent in more recent years, he’s stayed busy in the last three decades as a songwriter, with work falling in both the adult realm and in children’s music.
So Loggins would be forgiven for spending time at home or traveling for pleasure, perhaps writing and recording music as time and energy allowed. Loggins may settle into some semblance of that life, but in 2023, he’s venturing out one more time, doing what he is billing as his final extensive tour.
Loggins brings his "This is it! His Final Tour 2023" to the Peace Center, Monday, May 15. Tickets can be purchased here.
He’s bringing his passel of hits to a fan base that’s going to be treated to a set list that incorporates his biggest songs, as well as some deeper cuts. All will be performed with a core band that’s been with him for a good, long while, with a new member, or two, peppered into the group over the past few years. Even the biggest hits get a mild-reworking in tone, pace, color, feel.
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The combination of giving the fans what they want, while satisfying his own interests in revisiting classic “is a balancing act,” Loggins suggested in an early March phone interview.
“For me, I want to pull in songs, deep cuts, that have some emotional meaning for me, something that I connect to and want to convey with that song,” he said. “I’m pulling in ‘Keep the Fire,’ or ‘It’s About Time,’ a song co-written with Michael McDonald. Those have a lot of emotional connection for me. So I pick the songs that I really relate to. Luckily, I have a life’s worth of songs that come from the heart.”
Those include, of course, the mega-hits, songs that’re still heard on throwback radio stations, on countless Spotify playlists and even at the more-than-occasional wedding. (Interestingly, Loggins says he’s seen no small amount of plays of “Danger Zone” in wedding videos.)
The run of mega-hits is something he credits to the song “Whenever I Call You Friend,” the 1978 hit from his album “Nightwatch,” performed with Stevie Nicks. A top-five hit in the US, the song opened up a second career for him, following the Loggins & Messina era. Two years later, his song “I’m Alright” was another top-10 hit, compliments of the movie “Caddyshack.”
The film, he says, “was the beginning my end run around disco. That album kept me alive and viable as an artist for maybe six or seven years.
That was a good idea.
"One of the bad ideas is that during that period of time, I had hits with other people and the thought was that ‘as long as he doesn’t write ‘em or produce ‘em, we can have hits with him. Labels wanted to use outside producers, and my biggest hit, ‘Footloose,’ was created by me. That gave me the chance to move forward as my own producer. There’s a pressure to do outside material. I resisted that pressure to (do other people’s material) and wished to write and perform and produce on my own. It can be a slippery slope to continue your own musical direction.
“I felt, at times, that I needed to have hits with other people’s songs,” he said, “but I’ve always wanted a soul connection, a heart connection with my audience.”
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To loop back to the beginning of a long, wide-ranging conversation, Loggins noted that being an established act has always been a challenge for artists.
“Absolutely in this culture, where we fixate so much on the new and the young, we forget artists that’ve been out there a while and who know what they’re doing,” he said. “We as a culture drop attention toward those people. Madison Avenue will tell you that if you put ‘new’ on a box, it’ll sell more. That’s the nature of culture and part of the fun of rock ‘n’ roll. I’m not bitching about that, it’s just the nature of things. Now that I’m in my 70s, I know that appreciation of doing something for 50 years. I’m really good at what I do.”
And to that, he’s excited about the possibility of young songwriters tackling his songs for a compilation album that could see the light of day this year. On it, he’d hope to discuss the songs with each, possibly allowing them a shot at completing unfinished original tracks, or working in tandem with them to create new material from old cloth.
In addition to tours, all these many years on, those moments of creation are what “keep pulling at me."
“As an artist,” he concluded, “I don’t know how to keep still.” | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/kenny-loggins-brings-final-tour-to-greenville-peace-center-sc-concerts-downtown/70168909007/ | 2023-05-02T10:23:21 | 0 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/kenny-loggins-brings-final-tour-to-greenville-peace-center-sc-concerts-downtown/70168909007/ |
Ask Royale: When will downtown Greenville's Cultural Corridor be completed?
Question: We heard a lot about the "Cultural Corridor," which will dramatically enhance walkability and safety between the Heritage Green area and downtown. What is the current schedule for beginning and completing construction?
Answer: The Cultural Corridor is the section of College and Buncombe streets between Main Street and Heritage Green.
The City of Greenville website describes the project as a "road diet," reducing vehicle travel lanes, removing on-street parking and adding pedestrian paths and planting strips.
The Academy Bypass/Cultural Corridor is being completed in phases according to Beth Brotherton, City of Greenville Communications.
Phase One of construction has already been completed. Phase One was construction at the intersection of Academy/Church.
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Phases 2-4 will be advertised for bids on construction in May and will include the rest of the Academy Bypass, which needs to be completed prior to removing a lane from College Street. This is the work at the intersections of Elford/Academy and East North/Academy, as well as the Elford Road diet.
Phase 5 will be advertised in early June. The final piece of construction will be the street scaling on College Street itself.
Construction on the remaining phases should all begin this summer and the final phase is expected to be complete in late 2024.
We want to give our readers the opportunity to have their questions about Greenville County answered. Email your questions to rbonds@gannett.com.
Royale Bonds covers affordable housing and gentrification for the Greenville News. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/when-will-downtown-greenvilles-cultural-corridor-be-completed-ask-royale/70171399007/ | 2023-05-02T10:23:27 | 0 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/when-will-downtown-greenvilles-cultural-corridor-be-completed-ask-royale/70171399007/ |
Sarasota city commissioners approve flying the progress pride flag at City Hall next week
The Progress Pride Flag will fly outside Sarasota City Hall the week of May 8, coinciding with the PRIDE | Be Fabulous Music & Arts Fest.
Sarasota city commissioners on Monday unanimously allowed the flag to fly at City Hall the week of the festival, which features LGBTQ+ artists. The City Commission had to approve the flag's display this year, even though it has flown at City Hall previously, because the city adopted a new flag policy following a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Progress Pride Flag is a redesign of the original pride flag. The artist who designed the new flag in 2018, Daniel Quasar, added white, pink and light blue stripes, which represent the transgender community. He also added black and brown stripes, which represent communities of color and members of the community who died during the HIV/AIDS crisis, according to Human Rights Campaign.
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Fabulous Arts Foundation, a non-profit organization in Sarasota, requested that the city of Sarasota fly the flag outside City Hall the week of the PRIDE | Be Fabulous Music & Arts Fest, formerly known as the Harvey Milk Festival. The festival is on May 13.
Last September, the commission approved a resolution that sets up guidelines for the flying of flags other than the city of Sarasota’s on the pole that normally holds the city’s flag. The resolution responded to the Supreme Court decision concluding that the city of Boston could not deny a Christian group the ability to a raise a flag at City Hall if the city flies other third-party flags.
The city of Sarasota’s flagpole is different than Boston’s was, though, because the flags in Sarasota are government speech and the flagpole isn’t a public forum. For a flag to be considered government speech, a city has to have a policy that includes the guidelines for the flying of flags at City Hall, City Attorney Robert Fournier said.
The resolution passed last September requires a supermajority of the City Commission to approve each instance that a flag other than the city of Sarasota’s flag is raised on the flagpole. The resolution has other stipulations as well, including that the flag can’t promote or oppose political candidates or promote discriminatory practices.
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Shannon Fortner, the president and founder of the Fabulous Arts Foundation, said in an email to the city manager that the organization has flown the Progress Pride flag at City Hall since the pandemic.
“It really is just really empowering for our youth, specifically, to drive past City Hall when we announce that the flag is up,” Fortner said at Monday’s City Commission meeting. “And it just is a really positive message for the community.”
The flag will fly outside City Hall from Monday, May 8, to Sunday, May 14. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/progress-pride-flag-to-fly-at-sarasota-city-hall-the-week-of-may-8/70171097007/ | 2023-05-02T10:23:29 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/progress-pride-flag-to-fly-at-sarasota-city-hall-the-week-of-may-8/70171097007/ |
Safe Children Coalition's educational outreach director is honored with national award
Jone Williams, the educational outreach director for the Safe Children Coalition, was recently honored at the national level for her work with children and families.
Williams, who is responsible for the HIPPY Program (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters) for Sarasota County, won the Avima D. Lombard Award at the 2023 HIPPY National Leadership Conference on April 16 in Mobile, Ala. The award recognizes professional services that have made a significant contribution to HIPPY and to improving the lives of children and their families.
"Jone Williams exemplifies the true definition of servant leadership. She excels at building community," said Lidia Clarke, associate director of Florida HIPPY. "In every interaction you have with Jone, you hear about the way in which HIPPY has changed the trajectory of children and families in Sarasota. I am honored to know her and feel so much pride in knowing how impactful she has been in sharing HIPPY with generations past and present."
Williams, who also oversees the SCC's Achievers Program for teens, was selected out of 12 nominees from throughout the nation. Winners of the award embody the late Lombard’s dedication to the equalization of educational opportunities for young children.
Home-based intervention
HIPPY is a home-based early intervention program that helps parents teach their 2- to 5-year-old children early literacy and language skills. There are 125 area families currently participating in SCC's HIPPY program.
"The reason I am so passionate about HIPPY is I know first-hand that it works," Williams said. "My son went through the program, graduated high school and college, and now works with children himself at Girls Inc. We both have a love for children and for the benefits – to children, families and communities – of early childhood education."
Williams, a Fort Myers native, graduated from Riverdale High School. She attended Fort Myers Business College and Manatee Community College – now State College of Florida – where she received certifications in the early childhood field.
“We are so honored to have Jone serving children and families on our organization’s behalf,” SCC president Brena Slater said. “Her decades of service have been essential in helping new generations achieve success in school and life. We congratulate Jone on this well-deserved recognition.”
Williams has been a member of the Business & Professional Women/North Sarasota since 2004. She serves on the executive committee for the Sarasota County Branch NAACP and is a co-advisor for the Sarasota NAACP Youth Council. Williams is a past community health worker for the Newtown Wellness program, where she volunteered for years, and was a certified breast cancer awareness facilitator for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Submitted by Sharon Kunkel | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/scc-educational-outreach-director-is-honored-with-national-hippy-award/70149675007/ | 2023-05-02T10:23:30 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/scc-educational-outreach-director-is-honored-with-national-hippy-award/70149675007/ |
Naples group purchases three Venice golf courses
Golfers can join all three courses with one membership
VENICE – A Naples-based investment company recently purchased three Venice golf clubs, increasing the portfolio of courses it owns to eight and the number of courses and country clubs managed by Coral Hospitality to 12.
Coral Investment Group, along with its long-term partner, ITG Group, have acquired the three golf clubs, which will be managed through Coral Hospitality – Calusa Lakes Golf Club, Waterford Golf Club and Capri Isles Golf Club.
The purchase price was not disclosed.
Together, the courses, marketed as Golf in Venice, include 63 holes of championship golf.
The clubs provide members and the public a variety of course options in a market dominated by private clubs.
Known for its hotel and resort management, Coral’s other golf properties in Florida and Georgia include Arrowhead Golf Club, Eagle Ridge Golf Club, Misty Creek Country Club, Jacaranda West Country Club, Riverwood Golf Club, Rosedale Golf and Country Club, Brasstown Valley Golf Course, Georgia Veteran’s Golf Course and Wallace Adams Golf Course.
“We are delighted to add the Golf In Venice properties to our growing portfolio, and look forward to welcoming new members and guests to the Coral family,” Lee Weeks, Chief Executive Officer of Coral Hospitality said in a prepared statement.
“We have successfully managed over 40 clubs over a span of 25-years, as well as owning and developing hotels, resorts and community associations.”
Coral Hospitality is also offering a unique opportunity for golfers to join all three courses with a single membership.
Calusa Lakes Golf Club is situated in wooded terrain, with wooded fairways and Paspalum Grass greens over 18 holes.
Capri Isles Golf Club is a par 72 layout offering challenges for both serious and casual players, with strategic water features, fairway and greenside bunkers, and four sets of tees.
Waterford Golf Club is a semi-private course situated within two upscale home developments. Each of the 27 holes in the Turnberry, Gleneagles and Sawgrass courses has distinct, picturesque features combined with abundant natural landscape and wildlife.
Coral Hospitality says it has tailored its management approach to each individual club to highlight the distinct characteristics of each, allowing members and guests to always have a spectacular and memorable experience. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2023/05/02/three-venice-golf-courses-purchased-by-naples-based-investment-company/70168560007/ | 2023-05-02T10:23:30 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2023/05/02/three-venice-golf-courses-purchased-by-naples-based-investment-company/70168560007/ |
PGT Innovations unveils rebrand for PGT Custom Windows and Doors
VENICE — Venice-based PGT Innovations has announced the company's rebranding of its product line as the company shifts focus of PGT Custom Windows and Doors from hurricane impact-resistant windows and doors to "high performance" glass window and door products that include emphasis on energy efficiency, sound-reduction and security.
The changes include a new logo and tagline for the brand launched in 1987.
The company's new theme is “the freedom to live where and how you want,” reflecting, the company said in a news release, "that PGT products are much more than hurricane protection. They are everyday necessities in that they provide unmatched advantages to lifestyle experiences, giving customers peace of mind and control to live wherever and however they choose, whether it is a coastal waterfront or urban location."
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Instead of tagging itself as “nation’s number one impact resistant brand,” it wants to be known as “America’s authority in high-performance laminate glass for the fenestration industry.”
President and CEO of PGT Innovations Jeff Jackson said via press release that the company is entering an exciting era with the hopes of shaping the industry.
“Since its inception, PGT Innovations has been dedicated to providing solutions that revolutionize the way people live,” stated Jackson. “This rebrand elevates PGT Custom Windows and Doors to a new level of alignment with PGTI’s focus by empowering people to live life on their own terms, wherever they choose to call home. The new PGT Custom Windows and Doors branding is also a demonstration of our commitment to continuous innovation and transformation in order to lead the industry and improve people’s lives.”
The firm said PGT has undergone minor logo design shifts and brand positioning growth during its 36 years as a company. The transition to a more technology-focused company is the "evolution of the brand," officials say.
“It’s all about giving customers control and peace of mind over external forces like extreme weather, home security, and outside noise. Whether someone lives in a sun-drenched coastal home, a busy urban environment, or anywhere in between, PGT Custom Windows and Doors has the product solutions they need for their lifestyle,” the firm said.
PGT Innovations has installed 7 million units in homes. The company has reported no failures and boasts an array of hurricane windows and products.
Besides PGT Custom Windows and Doors, the company's brands include CGI, WinDoor®, Western Window Systems, Anlin Windows & Doors, Eze-Breeze, NewSouth Window Solutions, Martin Door, and a 75% ownership stake in Eco Window Systems. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2023/05/02/venice-based-pgt-innovations-rebrands-its-window-door-company-line/70170085007/ | 2023-05-02T10:23:42 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2023/05/02/venice-based-pgt-innovations-rebrands-its-window-door-company-line/70170085007/ |
From 1-13 record to Florida Golden Gloves boxing champ, Sarasota man has Olympic dream
EJ Griffitts started his amateur boxing career with a 1-13 mark. Since then, the 20-year-old former Riverview football player has gone 20-5 and won the PAL and state Golden Gloves titles at 132 pounds
SARASOTA — The sport of helmets and hard hits wasn’t kind to undersized EJ Griffitts III.
Effort and determination from the former 150-pound Riverview Ram defensive back were shortchanged by injuries that left Griffitts dissatisfied with his high school football career.
“I didn’t get the results I wanted,” the 20-year-old said, “with how much time and work I put in.”
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But it’s in the sport of hard hits, administered by hard hitters, where EJ Griffitts III has found success. He’s still putting in the work, and it’s rewarded him with the unofficial title of finest 132-pound amateur boxer in Florida.
If it were up to his trainer, that title would become law of the land.
“You can’t deny he’s the best 132-pounder in the state,” said former boxer Adam Jaco, owner of Sarasota’s Jaco’s Boxing Fitness and Griffitt’s trainer since the 8-year-old walked into his gym after watching “Rocky” and said he wanted to become a boxer.
“Otherwise, go meet us in a tournament.”
Champ in PAL and Golden Gloves
For any amateur boxer in the state, the two biggest events are the Police Athletic League (PAL) state boxing tournament and the Florida Golden Gloves. Last year, Griffitts lost in the 132-pound Golden Gloves final.
Perhaps that defeat was still on his mind when Griffitts entered the PAL tourney last fall. The fighter whose trainer said “works like a dog” relied on this work ethic to win the PAL 132-pound title, defeating the same fighter Griffitts had lost to the year before.
Attention then turned to the Florida State Golden Gloves Championship April 7-9 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Griffitts made the 132-pound final, and in his corner before the third and final round, he had Jaco planted firmly in his ear.
“I told him, ‘you got three minutes to get out there and get your Golden Gloves title,’ ’’ Jaco said. “ ‘Are you gonna let this kid take it from you? You better show me, because, right now, this fight is (tied at one round each).’ ’’
In amateur boxing, it’s important for a boxer to remain in the middle of the ring, and to throw punches in bunches. Griffitts did both in that third round, and it did just enough to earn a split decision.
So, a boxer 1-13 at one point, tossed from Jaco’s gym for bellyaching a bit too much about one of those 13 losses, was atop Florida’s amateur boxing mountain, possessor of both the PAL and Golden Gloves titles.
Learning to win
That Griffitts won both was a testament to the promise he made to himself after graduating Riverview. Injuries prevented football from being in his collegiate future, so he turned to boxing, which Griffitts had done since age 8 and simultaneously with football.
“I made a commitment … to give boxing my all,” he said. “I’m going to work out, I’m going to work, and I’m going to work out again. I’ve been doing it for the past three years, giving me the confidence that if I put my mind to something and I fully commit to it, I can do it.”
And, suddenly, those close losses were becoming victories. No longer was Griffitts having verbal spats with Jaco. No longer was he wanting to quit the sport. No longer was Griffitts being made to run the Legacy Trail in the summer heat, every morning for a week, Jaco behind him on a bicycle.
He had, in his words, “learned to win.” Griffitts was combining surprising strength, a strong jab, and quick feet, along with a mental disposition in the ring decidedly less passive.
“Because I was losing so much,” he said, “I switched my mindset. I stopped fighting not to lose and started fighting to win. So, instead of reacting, I’m now acting. The second that bell rings, I’m running across the ring to smack (his opponent) in the mouth.
'I just don't want to win. I want to dominate'
“I was always tentative and trying to counterpunch. Now, when the bell rings, I set the tone right away. I just don’t want to win. I want to dominate.”
The strategy has helped Griffitts’ career execute a U-turn. Since that 1-13 start, he’s gone 20-5, improving his amateur record to 21-18. When the final punch has been thrown, Jaco believes Griffitts could be remembered as the finest boxer Sarasota’s ever produced.
The fighter who trains 100 rounds in the ring each week faces an unusual challenge in his dream to box for the United States in the 2024 Paris Olympics. USA Boxing has eliminated the 132-pound weight class from international competition. Griffitts would have to drop into the 125-pound bracket, a sizable weight loss for a boxer weighing just 132.
The last chance for Griffitts to qualify for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials is in June at the National Junior Olympics in Lubbock, Texas. He would have to win the 125-pound weight division, and only the winners in each weight class earn a trip to the Trials.
“His goal is to make the Olympics,” Jaco said. “That’s his goal.”
At one time, EJ Griffitts’ goal was the football goal line.
He now hopes to punch his own ticket to success. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/sports/local/2023/05/02/sarasota-man-wins-florida-golden-gloves-and-pal-boxing-titles/70144457007/ | 2023-05-02T10:24:06 | 0 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/sports/local/2023/05/02/sarasota-man-wins-florida-golden-gloves-and-pal-boxing-titles/70144457007/ |
TUPELO — A Tupelo boy is pursuing a dream millions of children have had since 1996 — the dream of becoming a Pokémon master.
Noah Hartigan, 11, is a fifth grade student at Pierce Street Elementary School. He also happens to be ranked No. 28 in the U.S. & Canada Pokémon Trading Card Game (TCG) Junior division and No. 68 in the global rankings.
He started playing the Pokémon TCG competitively around a year ago after his brother came home from a trip to Walmart with a pack of cards. He quickly developed an interest in the game, too.
Hartigan learned the basics from playing Pokémon TCG Live online and continued to build his skills competing in local tournaments at Tupelo Sportscards.
In local tournaments, he often competes against older teens and adults. Learning from more experienced players has given him a competitive edge when playing against others his own age.
"There are some really good players around here," said Matt Hartigan, Noah's father. "Everybody at the shop, they treat him like family, like a little brother. They really put him through the paces, so it's like a vacation when he plays kids his own age."
The first big Pokémon tournament he competed in was the Arlington Regional Championships in Arlington, Texas, in December 2022. He won first place in the Junior division, which includes players born in or after 2011.
That win secured him an invitation to compete in the 2023 Pokémon Europe International Championships in London, England, in April, where he placed 38th in the Junior division out of about 150 kids.
"It was way different than I thought it would be," Hartigan said. "The language barrier was tough."
He played several rounds against children from other countries, and while much of the game is visual, judges were available to help when translations were needed.
There were plenty of people rooting for him back in Mississippi. The community of players at Tupelo Sportscards hosted a sendoff party, where he was gifted a custom binder featuring his name and favorite Pokémon, Dragonite, along with a playmat covered with encouraging messages, cash and, of course, more Pokémon cards.
Hartigan owns more than 5,000 Pokémon trading cards, with his favorite to use in battle being the Lugia VSTAR.
"The Pokémon community, they're so welcoming," Matt Hartigan said. "It's not like a typical competitive environment. Yeah, they're trying to beat you, and they want to win, but at the same time, they're happy you won too. It's really cool."
There's always someone to teach Noah Hartigan when he has questions about the game, and Tupelo Sportscards has stayed open late or even opened during times when they were closed so that he could practice.
This summer, he'll travel to Columbus, Ohio, at the end of June for the Pokémon North America International Championships. He's also netted enough competitive points to qualify for the 2023 Pokémon World Championships in Yokohama, Japan, this August.
"He's only been playing a year, and we're going to our third continent to play Pokémon," Matt Hartigan said.
By the time he enters the sixth grade, Hartigan will have crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to compete in Pokémon tournaments.
"It's crazy to me," he said. "I never thought I would make it this far in a card game."
Friends at school can hardly believe his meteoric rise in the ranks of the Pokémon TCG. His advice to anyone looking to get into the game: simply try your hardest.
"It takes a little bit to get good," Hartigan said. "But just have fun."
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The Bureau of Land Management Coos Bay District sold 8 million board feet of timber during an oral auction on Friday, April 28, 2023.
Boulder Creek Timber of Roseburg, Ore., was the high bidder for the “Hungry Mountain Reoffer” timber sale. The timber sold for $1.7 million. The timber is located on Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands in Coos County.
The BLM manages 2.4 million acres of forests and woodlands in western Oregon. A sustainable forestry program is critical to the economies in western Oregon. The BLM originally offered the Hungry Mountain timber sale in 2022, but there were no bidders on the contract. The agency was able to rework the contract to match current timber market conditions more closely.
“The jobs and timber that come from BLM forests are important to the local communities,” said Steve Lydick, Coos Bay District Manager. “The BLM is committed to providing predictable and sustainable timber harvest opportunities.
Revenue generated from BLM timber sales on Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands are used to pay an in-lieu tax payment to Coos and Douglas Counties, where the Coos Bay Wagon Roads are located.
It takes approximately 16,000 board feet of lumber to frame a 2,000-square-foot home. One million board feet of timber is enough to build approximately 63 family sized residential homes.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/coos-bay-district-sells-8-million-board-feet-of-timber/article_57a03b88-e876-11ed-a9ca-772ee1134cd9.html | 2023-05-02T10:31:00 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/coos-bay-district-sells-8-million-board-feet-of-timber/article_57a03b88-e876-11ed-a9ca-772ee1134cd9.html |
Recently, Representative Shelly Boshart Davis (R-Albany) urged the Legislature to advance HJR 16, which proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to establish an impeachment procedure for statewide elected officials. Oregon is currently the only state in the nation without such a procedure.
“Recent events illustrate, yet again, the importance of having an impeachment procedure on the books as a check against negligence and abuse of power by public officials,” said Representative Boshart Davis. “While I recognize that investigations need time to play out, members of both parties have already expressed their dismay and concern over the emerging situation with Secretary of State Shemia Fagan and the impact this is having on public trust. The Legislature must have the ability to remove a statewide elected official when necessary.” | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/rep-boshart-davis-calls-on-legislature-to-pass-impeachment-constitutional-amendment/article_305d33a6-e861-11ed-8bdc-8f941c30c762.html | 2023-05-02T10:31:06 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/rep-boshart-davis-calls-on-legislature-to-pass-impeachment-constitutional-amendment/article_305d33a6-e861-11ed-8bdc-8f941c30c762.html |
Receiving a $3,000 Science Technology Engineering and Math STEM Scholarship is Danielle McCain of Bandon. McCain will attend Western Washington University to study biology. Avery Pex of North Bend also received a $3,000 STEM Scholarship as well as a $3,000 Club Scholarship. She will be entering Oregon State University this fall to study biology (pre-vet.)
Alison Kirby of North Bend received a $3,000 Zonta Club Scholarship and the $1,500 North Bend High School Z Club Scholarship. Z Clubs are student clubs of Zonta. Kirby plans to attend the University of Pittsburgh and major in Neuroscience. Victoria Cox will receive the $1,500 Z Club Scholarship from the Marshfield High School Z Club.
She plans to enter the University of Oregon in the fall to study art and music. Both Kirby and Cox were selected for their student leadership and activity while involved in a Z-Club at their high school.
The $1,500 Young Women in Public Affairs Award goes to North Bend High School senior Brynne Hathorn. This is a progressive award with Hathorn moving forward to compete for a $5,000 YWPA award at the District 8 level of Zonta International. The YWPA Award is for young women who demonstrate both leadership skills and a commitment to public service and civic causes. In Hathorn’s case she is a current intern at the SAFE Project assisting women and children dealing with domestic and sexual violence, she also volunteers at Boom Dance Studio at Pony Village Mall. Hathorn will enter Western Oregon University this fall to major in psychology. Her goal is to become a pediatric mental health therapist.
SAFE Project Director Rachael Espy states, “Ms. Hathorn has completed her certification to become a victims advocate as well as completed Certification of Advocacy through the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence. Brynne has an extraordinary work ethic, is extremely punctual, she is great at taking direction and she is always ready for whatever project we give her.”
All recipients will be honored at a upcoming Zonta club meeting to be held at the Seven Devils Waterfront Ale House May 22. Zonta Coos Bay Area members are proud to support the educational goals of our scholarship recipients. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/zonta-club-announces-2023-scholarship-winners/article_3785ea6c-e8af-11ed-a36d-43e0fc31204a.html | 2023-05-02T10:31:12 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/zonta-club-announces-2023-scholarship-winners/article_3785ea6c-e8af-11ed-a36d-43e0fc31204a.html |
WHITSETT — In the fall of 1971, Sam Allred was a 17-year-old high school senior longing for his first new car.
Allred had saved money by driving a school bus and working a variety of farm jobs — including priming tobacco and baling hay.
He’d invested plenty of sweat equity, and his mother had agreed to help a bit.
But Allred still was on a budget.
He was a fan of Chevrolets, but his first choices — either a Chevelle or a Camaro — were simply too expensive. And a Corvette, well, that was completely out of the question.
Allred finally opted for a sporty ‘72 Nova — bright red with a black vinyl top.
“It was $3,000 turnkey off the showroom floor,” Allred recalled. “Tax and tags included.”
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The Nova came with a V-8 motor and automatic transmission. It had air conditioning and power steering. It turned heads.
“Oh, I had a fun in that car,” Allred recalled. “My friends, they all loved it.”
Allred graduated from Southeast Guilford in 1972, and for years he and his Nova were inseparable, the car taking him on all kinds of adventures. Before long, its odometer tripped 100,000 miles.
It was about that time — there in the late ‘70s — that Allred took a sales job with James M. Pleasants Co., a Greensboro business that specializes in heating, cooling and plumbing supplies. One of the perks of the job was Allred was provided a company vehicle.
No longer needing the Nova, Allred parked it in a pole barn behind his house. He never intended to junk it, he insists, always meaning to one day return the vehicle to its new-car glory.
But exactly when that would take place wasn’t clear.
And so, the Nova sat. And years rolled by.
Occasionally, a passing motorist would spot the car under its shelter and stop to ask Allred if he was interested in selling. His answer was always the same: “No, I’m going to fix it up one of these days.”
Meanwhile, Allred and his wife, Nancy, were busy raising two daughters and living their lives. Allred made a career with James M. Pleasants, rising to the rank of company vice president.
For decades, the Nova wasn’t moved.
“The next thing I know,” Allred said, “it’s 40 years later and I decided I was running out of time.”
In 2019, Allred used a tractor to pull the Nova from the barn in which it had snoozed for the longest while. By Allred’s own admittance, the car was a mess.
“The squirrels had eaten through the wires under the hood,” he said. “The mice had built nests all through it. It was a rust bucket is what it was.”
The car’s restoration would take three years.
It began with Allred replacing the tires and wheels, then having the car trailered to the home of Billy Brim — a friend, neighbor and mechanic extraordinaire.
Brim said the first time he looked at the Nova, he wanted to make sure Allred was aware of the project he was undertaking.
“I told him, that’s going to take a lot of work,” Brim said. “All that rust, what a mess.”
Allred insisted he was in it for the long haul.
Brim removed the Nova’s motor and delivered it to Bo’s Machine Shop in Greensboro for a rebuild. While that was taking place, Brim busied himself with all kinds of work to the Nova — everything from replacing the gas tank to installing a fuel injection system, and far more.
Brim eventually reinstalled the Nova’s rebuilt motor and finished his end of the mechanical work. After that, the car was driven to Chris Caviness, another friend and neighbor who specializes in body repair and painting.
Caviness cut the rust from the Nova and repaired the car’s body. Months later, a bright new coat of red paint sealed the deal.
Brim said he was astounded the first time he laid eyes on the finished product.
“For sitting 40 years, boy, I tell you what, that car has come a long ways,” Brim said. “The difference is night and day.”
All told, Allred figures he’s got about $16,000 invested in the restoration, a bargain, he said, considering the compliments he receives and the thumbs-up he gets from fellow motorists.
Now 68, Allred takes a sort of an “Aw shucks” attitude to the accolades.
“I never could have done it without the help of others,” he said.
Work on the Nova was completed in time for Allred to drive it to the 50th reunion of his high school class held last October at Forest Oaks Country Club. Any trouble he had with the restoration or money he worried he was wasting was put to rest that night.
“Everyone seemed to enjoy it,” Allred said. “I’m glad I finally got around to saving the car. It makes me proud.” | https://greensboro.com/news/local/super-nova-whitsett-man-rekindles-love-affair-with-his-51-year-old-chevy/article_d4559ee4-e5d7-11ed-94a3-5fd7556d094d.html | 2023-05-02T10:33:32 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/super-nova-whitsett-man-rekindles-love-affair-with-his-51-year-old-chevy/article_d4559ee4-e5d7-11ed-94a3-5fd7556d094d.html |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Executive pastry chef Josh Cain credits his great aunt with fostering his sweet tooth.
“For me, chocolate and sweets is something that I didn’t realize until I got older, that I did this a lot with my great aunt,” Cain said. “My grandmother was cooking, but my great aunt was the one who always made all of the desserts and I was right there, helping her out.”
Cain later graduated from Johnson and Wales culinary school in North Carolina to pursue his career as a pastry chef, eventually making his way to Caribe Royale in Orlando.
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While Cain makes a variety of sweet treats, he has a deep passion for chocolate.
He has become known for creating elaborate displays out of chocolate, such as a 32-foot-long model train and an 11-foot-tall replica of a Saturn V rocket.
“I actually make molds as well,” Cain said. “So if I want to make something out of chocolate, and I maybe want it to have certain details, I’ll create my own molds. So I use silicone, I use different thermoforming techniques to make different plastic molds and stuff like that to create what I want to out of chocolate.”
For the model train, Cain said he used 1,600 pounds of chocolate.
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The chef said the most stressful part of making these massive confections is moving them.
“The biggest thing with that is it really, that’s when everybody comes around and gets in your way,” he said.
Cain added that he works to make sure his large-scale displays will last, some as long as eight years.
“I build these things really substantial so that they can last the test of time,” he said.
While his enormous creations are a quite the sight, Cain is bringing something even more unique to Caribe Royale; a proprietary chocolate formal that will only be found at the resort.
“In October, I was I had the chance to go to France and the company I was with, they approached me. They said, ‘Hey, would you be interested in formulating your own chocolate?,’” Cain said. “I pitched it to my boss. And he’s like, ‘That sounds amazing. Like who’s doing that around here?’”
The chef described the trip as a fully immersive experience.
“It’s really cool. So we start the process, we work on the flavor profiles, we take those and then we kind of start a formula,” Cain said.
The formula then went through several revisions before he landed on a product he was happy with.
“The one that I actually landed on was it had beans from Venezuela and Madagascar. It has a really nice flavor profile and what I was trying to do is tie in what happens in Central Florida, what grows in Central Florida, and some of those notes,” he said. “So they have a lot of fruity notes, red berry kind of notes — kind of like Plant City strawberries — citrus notes, the honey that goes along with that. So I wanted to kind of tie that into my chocolate so it really brings it all home for what we have in Central Florida.”
In addition to this special chocolate formula, Caribe Royale is also expanding its chocolate-making facilities.
“I’m working on expanding that to make it where we can do actual classes and bring guests and they can pay to take these classes and come see what we do and create these things,”
On the latest episode of Florida Foodie, Cain explains more about the different kinds of chocolate and how he uses them in his work. He also shares some of his favorites from Caribe Royale.
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ATLANTIC CITY — Eric Alvarez, the owner of Popa Pizza, said he is in favor of any projects that would help generate more traffic to his business.
But that doesn’t mean Alvarez supports the city’s plans to cut a lane in each direction on Atlantic Avenue for a “road diet,” something that would generate the kind of traffic he doesn’t want at his business located at the busy intersection of South Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues.
Business owners like Alvarez think the city should focus on synchronizing lights, repaving roads and mitigating traffic concerns without turning Atlantic Avenue into a two-lane road.
“There’s too much traffic. Getting rid of a lane is a bad idea,” said Alvarez. “I don’t think it’s a good idea.”
The road diet, another term for a roadway reconfiguration, will make Atlantic Avenue into a two-vehicle-lane road, down from its current four-vehicle-lane configuration. The idea is to improve safety by increasing mobility and access to different modes of transportation, such as bike lanes, roads and bus stops. Repaving roads, synchronizing lights, improving traffic flow and slowing down cars are just some ways a road diet can help improve Atlantic City’s quality of life.
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The multimillion-dollar project calls for repaving Atlantic Avenue, installing Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant sidewalks, adding bike lanes and LED streetlights, and making drainage improvements.
Road diets reduce crashes anywhere from 19% to 47%, according to the Federal Highway Administration.
The program has worked in the Downbeach communities of Margate and Longport. Although it was highly debated by Margate residents and officials at first, the city went ahead and completed the $400,000 street configuration project in 2021 with the help of a $271,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
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In Atlantic City, the project is expected to cost an unclear number of millions, with $10.7 million covered by a federal infrastructure grant.
“The estimated cost of Phase 1 is $5,061,891.80. The estimated cost of the first part of Phase 2 (2A) is around $2.2 million,” said city spokesperson Andrew Kramer. “Because the remaining phases are in the design stage, there are no estimated costs at this time.”
The first phase of the road diet will start at Maine Avenue in the Inlet section of the city and run to Tennessee Avenue in midtown. Additional phases will complete the work 2.7 miles down to Albany Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood.
But while City Council has already approved the first phase of the project, several council members have said they would not vote to continue past that point.
State Sen. Vince Polistina, R-Atlantic, said traffic throughout the city should remain two lanes in each direction, and that major transportation changes shouldn’t happen without a complete traffic study that analyzes how the redistribution of traffic on adjacent roads will affect those roads.
“The first phase at the north end doesn’t have the same traffic as the center or southern portions of the town, so I think the road diet should be stopped after phase one,” Polistina said.
Greater Atlantic City Chamber President Michael Chait also agreed that the city shouldn’t carry out the road diet without a proper traffic study, and wouldn’t know how city businesses and the city’s economy would be affected until a full study was done.
Kramer said the city had illustrations to show what work will be done to each road and what they will look like. The city also has done a traffic study that showed how many vehicles approach traffic lights at about six intersections, how many vehicles turn left, how many bicyclists and pedestrians pass, and other traffic information.
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“We don’t know how much the synchronization of the lights will impact potential congestion. It’s possible that this could improve traffic flow. But it’s difficult to understand what that is without the true study,” said Chait. “We would love to see the city implement a traffic study that would show potential additional congestion, or lack thereof. Paving the roads as part of this, which is obviously critical, a huge need for synchronization of the lights, would be fantastic. But without seeing an engineering firm conduct a traffic study, there’s some cause for concern.”
Mark Giannantonio, president of the Casino Association of New Jersey and CEO of Resorts Casino Hotel, also had concerns. He expressed his opinion during a recent city Clean and Safe committee meeting, wondering whether the road diet would be a “turn-off” to travelers coming to Atlantic City during peak traffic times.
Noel Feliciano, owner of One Stop Bait and Tackle in the Inlet, is worried about how the changes would affect small businesses.
“I’m sure people will get used to it, but will it help if people have to wait 15-20 minutes to get three blocks?” said Feliciano. “Fix what you have, and stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Down here it’s going to work, but once you get past Pennsylvania Avenue, it’s not. The city is already congested as it is. I doubt it’s going to work.”
Preliminary work has already started on phase one of the road diet, which will affect 28 city streets.
“The dieting portion of the project and paving will begin as soon as possible,” Kramer said. “If it begins this summer, the city will make sure work will be done in a way to ensure normal business activity during the height of tourism season will not be disrupted.”
It’s not the first time the topic of traffic flow has been discussed in the city.
Since 1906, officials periodically have tried to make Pacific Avenue a one-way street, to no avail.
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Former Mayor Edward Bader, for whom Bader Field is named, made an unsuccessful attempt in 1920. And ideas to turn Atlantic Avenue into a one-lane road, along with other road reconfiguration options, were thrown into the mix in the 1980s and ‘90s.
The idea to make Pacific one-way toward the Inlet and Atlantic one-way toward Ventnor was also entertained, but fell apart. Criticism from the Atlantic City Jitney Association and the business community halted the initiative.
“If someone says one way, I think you must have a one-way mind to think that,” said city resident Higinio Rivera. “It’s not the right decision. The city needs to rebuild what it already has.”
Fixing potholes and bumpy roads should be the city’s first solution to mitigating traffic problems, said Rivera. City officials and residents have long complained about the state of the roads throughout the city’s 48 blocks.
The community and public officials have long advocated for paved roads and synchronized lights, which many think would eliminate the need for a road lane reduction.
“Casino executives, public safety professionals, business owners/groups, most elected officials, etc., believe the road diet is a bad idea,” said Polistina. “The city should listen to the many voices that don’t think the road diet should happen and work together on alternatives to getting Atlantic Avenue paved.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/is-anyone-in-favor-of-the-atlantic-city-road-diet/article_6eb2f048-d955-11ed-a3d4-db43cf651550.html | 2023-05-02T10:38:03 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/is-anyone-in-favor-of-the-atlantic-city-road-diet/article_6eb2f048-d955-11ed-a3d4-db43cf651550.html |
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Tere Sita, left, Tina Mesiano and Norm Sita, all of Pittsgrove Township, protest a proposed warehouse Saturday along Landis Avenue.
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Pittsgrove resident Carolyn Jacob is among those against the warehouse plan.
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Event organizer Nicholas Mesiano Jr., of Pittsgrove, says there are plenty of other places better suited for a 962,500-square-foot warehouse. “This is virgin, natural land. It is absolutely unacceptable. The damage would be real.”
PITTSGROVE TOWNSHIP — Some residents are protesting a proposed mega warehouse at 638 Gershal Ave. that will be the subject of a special Planning Board meeting and public hearing Tuesday.
Nicholas A. Mesiano Jr., 29, was one of at least 20 people standing with “No Mega Warehouse” signs and handing out flyers against the proposed warehouse Saturday at Gershal and Landis avenues.
“The Vineland Industrial Park is already built. That would be fine. ... The Bellwether District in Philadelphia has warehouses on top of oil refineries,” Mesiano said. “This is virgin, natural land. It is absolutely unacceptable. The damage would be real.”
The developers are asking for four variances before making their way through the site plan approval process for their proposed 962,500-square-foot warehouse building for Four Seasons Tree Service:
As warehouses are not permitted within the Planned Highway Business District, use variance relief is required to permit a portion of the proposed warehouse accessory driveway to traverse the district.
As warehouses are a conditional use within the Highway Business District, conditional use variance relief is required to permit a portion of the proposed accessory driveway from Landis Avenue to traverse the district.
The applicant seeks variance relief to allow a building height of 50 feet as current industry standards and technology dictate the need for the increase in height above that permitted within the current township zoning code.
Variance relief for maximum building coverage, maximum lot coverage, minimum number of parking spaces and any and all other variances and waivers the board may reasonably require in the exercise of its discretion.
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The applicant will return to the Planning Board for preliminary and final major site plan approval if the present application for variance relief is approved, the project’s public notice states.
Board of Education member Angie Bradley, 60, who will be running for Township Committee this fall, was out Saturday protesting against the proposed warehouse.
“The farming area here is not made for that industrial building,” Bradley said. “We have been asking questions and not getting answers.”
The township’s 2000 land use master plan changed the emphasis of the existing commercial districts along Route 40 (Harding Highway) and Route 56 (Landis Avenue) to be more consistent with non-residential uses that do not depend heavily on public infrastructure.
In December, the Harrison Township Joint Land Use Board voted down a plan to build a 2.1 million-square-foot warehouse project on unoccupied farmland in Mullica Hill, Gloucester County.
In 2021, Mesiano was also involved with convincing the Salem County Improvement Authority to vote against a recycling facility in the township’s Norma section with a website and door-to-door petitions.
The warehouse and its accompanying truck traffic would have an impact on more than just the township, Mesiano said. Neighboring Vineland would also be impacted by the proposed development.
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Vineland is trying to develop Landis Avenue as a hospitality corridor with food, shopping and entertainment, and the warehouse would ruin the whole idea and shut off access, Mesiano said.
“How would people from Bridgeton or Pittsgrove go to Landis Avenue for shopping?” Mesiano asked.
Harriet Reaves, 75, of the Brotmanville section of the township, said she was concerned about the proliferation of mega warehouses in the area. The cause is near and dear to her heart. She heard about the “Save Pittsgrove” efforts through Facebook. She was out protesting Saturday and said drivers gave them a great deal of support with thumbs up and honking horns.
The township’s existing truck and tractor-trailer traffic already keeps Reaves from heading out of her house for walks.
“If they (the mega warehouse) come, the quality of life here will be totally destroyed. I do not want them at all,” Reaves said.
Tuesday’s Planning Board meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. and will be viewable via Zoom.
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Tere Sita, left, Tina Mesiano and Norm Sita, all of Pittsgrove Township, protest a proposed warehouse Saturday along Landis Avenue.
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For decades, James Comisar collected memorabilia from the television shows he grew up watching. Now, nearly 1,000 pieces from his collection is hitting the auction block in Dallas, Texas at Heritage Auction. The collection includes the sets of “All in the Family”, “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson and “Cheers”. When Johnny Carson retired from “The Tonight Show” after 30 years, Comisar was determined to make the iconic set part of his burgeoning collection of television memorabilia. However, it took some convincing. According to Comisar, Carson thought he had the tackiest set in Hollywood and didn’t think anyone would ever want to see it. That set is among a dizzying number of items from Comisar's collection of props, sets and costumes from beloved television shows that will be sold in early June by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions — from the bar where Sam Malone greeted customers on “Cheers” to the pink confection Barbara Eden wore in “I Dream of Jeannie” to the set from Archie and Edith Bunker's timeworn living room from “All in the Family.”
Colleen Mason reached the 100-point mark for her career last week for the Ramapo College women's lacrosse team.
Mason, a Southern Regional High School graduate, scored eight to go with two ground balls and two draw controls in a 23-12 loss to US Merchant Marine. The junior finished the season with 53 goals and six assists, bringing her career total to 105 points (93 goals).
Maddie Barber (Middle Township) had three draw controls, two ground balls and a caused turnover in Temple's 12-11 loss to Vanderbilt.
Casey Murray (Mainland Regional) had five draw controls in Virginia Commonwealth's 17-12 win over Saint Joseph's.
Kacey Kubarewicz (Southern) had three draw controls in Belmont Abbey's 21-8 win over North Greenville.
Phoebe Ohnemuller (Oakcrest) had an assist and a draw control in Caldwell's 22-10 loss to Bridgeport.
Maggie Boyle (Lower Cape May Regional) had an assist in Indiana's (Pennsylvania) 14-12 win over Lock Haven.
Carina Raymond (Lower Cape May) had two draw controls and a ground ball in Jefferson's 17-7 loss to Mercy. She scored four to go with an assist and three draw controls in a 24-3 win over Chestnut Hill.
In Cabrini's 13-9 win over Scranton, Anissa Serafine (Our Lady of Mercy) scored twice. Maggie Cella (Holy Spirit) added a goal and an assist. In an 18-1 win over Gwynedd Mercy, Cella scored twice, and Carolina Gallagher (Middle Township) had a goal and an assist. Abbey Fenton (Ocean City) made one save in 30 minutes of shutout play. Sophie Sobocinski (Holy Spirit) and Serafine each scored once.
Aubrey Hunter (Middle Township) had an assist in FDU-Florham's 22-12 loss to Moravian.
Cheyenne Avellino (Egg Harbor Township) scored twice in Gwynedd Mercy's 23-6 loss to Marymount.
Kylie Giordano (Millville) scored six to go with an assist, five draw controls and two ground balls in Kean's 11-9 win over Montclair State. She had three goals, an assist and seven draw controls in a 14-7 loss to Stockton.
Chelsea Stack (Ocean City) scored twice in Montclair State's 11-9 loss to Kean.
Fiona Lockhart (OLMA) scored twice and added an assist in Rowan's 19-8 win over Stockton. She scored twice in a 21-2 win over Montclair State.
Anna Devlin (Ocean City) had four goals, two assists, five draw controls, three ground balls and a caused turnover in The College of New Jersey's 22-1 win over Ramapo.
Ashley Devlin (Ocean City) scored the game-tying goal in the fourth quarter and added an assist in Washington College's 7-6 win over Swarthmore. She had three goals and an assist in an 18-7 win over McDaniel.
Men's lacrosse Colin Cooke (Mainland) scored in High Point's 17-11 loss to Saint Joseph's.
Ryan Sinsinsky (Southern) scored three, including the game-winning goal in overtime, in New Jersey Institute of Technology's 11-10 victory over UMass Lowell. Logan Hone (St. Augustine Prep) got one assist. Teddy Grimley (Ocean City) contributed three caused turnovers and a ground ball. Billy Kroeger (Ocean City) was 7 for 11 in faceoffs with two ground balls.
Vincent Giunta (Mainland) had two goals, three assists, two ground balls and a caused turnover in Georgian Court's 17-11 win over Dominican.
In Cabrini's 27-2 win over Gwynedd Mercy, Matt Vanaman (St. Augustine) had two goals and two assists, and Jake Schneider (Ocean City) had a goal and an assist.
Anthony Firmani (Southern) won four of eight faceoffs and had two ground balls in Eastern's 21-1 win over Alvernia. In a 21-8 win over Hood, Firmani was 9 for 14 in faceoffs, and Zach Washco (Southern) scored.
Robert Nawrocki (Cedar Creek) scored and added three ground balls in FDU-Florham's 18-12 win over Lycoming.
Anthony Inserra (Ocean City) had two assists, three ground balls and a caused turnover in Immaculata's 22-7 loss to Neumann. Matthew Kirkland (St. Augustine) allowed 13 goals and made 17 saves in just under 40 minutes.
Men's golf Drexel's Drue Nicholas (St. Augustine) placed second at the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament last week in Dataw Island, South Carolina. Nicholas shot 7-under par 209 over three rounds, capped with a 3-under 69 on the last day. He was named to the All-Conference team with his finish. Drexel placed third.
Ursinus' T.J. Stanton (Ocean City) placed 34th with a three-round 262 at the Centennial Conference Championships in Waynseboro, Pennsylvania.
Women's golf Hamilton College's Olivia Strigh (Hammonton) tied for 22nd with a two-round 175 at the New England Small College Athletic Association Championship in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Women's track and field Anne Rutledge (EHT) ran on Monmouth's third-place 4x400 relay (3 minutes, 47.18 seconds) at the Penn Relays. Isabella Leak (EHT) ran on the sixth-place 4x800 relay (8:54.44).
Rutgers' Claudine Smith (Atlantic City) placed ninth in the triple jump (12.41 meters) at the Penn Relays.
Rowan's Alexia Bey (Oakcrest) was fifth in the hammer throw (41.49m) at the TCNJ Lion Invite. Amanthy Sosa Caceres (Absegami) was eighth in the 100 (13.02). Olivia Shafer (EHT) was sixth in the 1,500 invitational (5:00.51) and seventh in the 800 (2:25.23.).
TCNJ's Erin Hanlon (Ocean City) was sixth in the 800 invitational (2:23.10) at the Lion Invite.
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Drexel junior forward Delaney Lappin, a 2020 Ocean City High School graduate, scored five goals and 11 points through eight games for the 5-0-3 Dragons.
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Drexel junior forward Delaney Lappin, a 2020 Ocean City High School graduate, has five goals and 11 points through eight games for the 5-0-3 Dragons.
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Lehigh's Jack Sarkos, a Mainland Regional High School graduate, was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. He had five goals and 11 points through five games.
Morgan Weindel, Lehigh Athletics
Lehigh’s Jack Sarkos, a Mainland Regional High School graduate, was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week on Monday. He had five goals and 11 points through five games.
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Virginia Union running back Jada Byers rushed for 205 yards and two TDs in a 49-0 win over Elizabeth City State on Saturday. The St. Joseph High School graduate from Hammonton leads NCAA Division II with 1,096 rushing yards and 13 TDs. The Panthers are 6-0, the only undefeated team in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
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Virginia Union running back Jada Byers rushed for 205 yards and two TDs in a 49-0 win over Elizabeth City State on Saturday.
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Virginia Union running back Jada Byers celebrates scoring one of his two touchdowns Saturday against Elizabeth City State. He has 13 TDs through six games.
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Virginia Union running back Jada Byers rushed for 205 yards and two TDs in a 49-0 win over Elizabeth City State on Saturday.
Juan McCall, Virginia Union Athletics
Virginia Union running back Jada Byers rushed for 205 yards and two touchdowns in a 49-0 win over Elizabeth City State on Saturday. It was his third game of the season with at least 199 yards, as he leads all of NCAA Division II with 1,096 yards and 13 TDs.
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Delaware Valley QB Louie Barrios IV breaks away from would-be tacklers in a 21-0 win over Lycoming on Oct. 8. The Aggies are 7-0 and ranked 14th in the nation by d3football.com .
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Delaware Valley QB Louie Barrios IV hands off to running back Jay White in 21-0 home win over Lycoming on Oct. 8.
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Delaware Valley QB Louie Barrios IV stiffarms a Stevenson defender in an Oct. 1 game.
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Delaware Valley QB Louie Barrios IV escapes the pocket during the season-opening 22-8 win over Westminster on Sept. 3
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Delaware Valley QB Louie Barrios IV runs the football against Lebanon Valley on Saturday.
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Mainland Regional High School graduate Katie McClintock in action for the University of Wisconsin swimming team this past weekend in a tri-meet in Arizona.
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Mainland Regional High School graduate Katie McClintock in action for the University of Wisconsin swimming team this past weekend in a tri-meet in Arizona.
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Penn State University-Berks freshman Donovan Sullivan, an Egg Harbor Township High School graduate, is 2-0 in each singles and doubles this fall.
Tyler Schueck, PSU-Berks
Penn State University-Berks freshman Donovan Sullivan, an Egg Harbor Township High School graduate, is 2-0 in each singles and doubles this fall.
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Michigan running back Blake Corum (2) scores a touchdown against Rutgers linebacker Tyreem Powell (22) and defensive lineman Aaron Lewis (71) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022 in Piscataway, N.J.(AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
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Delaware Valley wide receiver Nahsir Morgan, an Atlantic City High School graduate, hauls in the first of his two touchdown receptions Saturday in a win over FDU-Florham.
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Delaware Valley wide receiver Nahsir Morgan, an Atlantic City High School graduate, prepares to throw a 47-yard pass Saturday in a win over FDU-Florham.
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Delaware Valley wide receiver Nahsir Morgan, an Atlantic City High School graduate, made three catches for 77 yards and two TDs on Saturday in a win over FDU-Florham.
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University of California, Berkeley junior Destin Lasco in action against Utah on Oct. 12. Lasco, a junior, is a former three-time Press Swimmer of the Year at Mainland Regional High School and a key member of the Golden Bears, the reigning national champions, again this season.
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University of California, Berkeley junior Destin Lasco in action against Utah on Oct. 12.
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Montclair State defensive lineman Dimitri Pali (6) defends against Kean on Saturday.
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Montclair State defensive back Brennan Ray scores on a 4-yard run for his first offensive touchdown in college Saturday against Kean. Earlier in his college career, he scored two TDs while playing defense.
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Lehigh's Jakob Alamudun, center, is guarded by Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) and Hunter Cattoor (0) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Blacksburg, Va. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
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Virginia Tech’s Justyn Mutts, right, celebrates at a game against Lehigh in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Nov. 10. Mutts is averaging double-digit points through the first six games.
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Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) shoots while guarded by Lehigh's Keith Higgins Jr.(13) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Blacksburg, Va. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
Matt Gentry
Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) shoots a 3-point basket in the first half of the Lehigh Virginia Tech NCAA college basketball game in Blacksburg Va. Thursday Nov. 10 2022. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
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Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) meets with fans after the team's NCAA college basketball game against Lehigh on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, in Blacksburg, Va. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
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Villanova's Caleb Daniels, right, tries to get past Temple's Jahlil White during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Matt Slocum
Temple's Jahlil White, left, celebrates past Villanova's Chris Arcidiacono after Temple won an NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Matt Slocum
Temple's Khalif Battle, left, and Jahlil White celebrate during the final second of an NCAA college basketball game against Villanova, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Michigan State receiver Jayden Reed, right, catches a pass against Rutgers defensive back Max Melton (16) during the first half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in East Lansing, Mich. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
Al Goldis
Michigan State receiver Jayden Reed, right, catches a pass against Rutgers defensive back Max Melton during an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, in East Lansing, Mich. Michigan State won 27-21. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
Al Goldis
Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi (21) takes a shot around North Carolina A&T's forward Webster Filmore (25) during the first half of an NCCA college basketball game on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, in Ames, Iowa. (Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune via AP)
Nirmalendu Majumdar
William & Mary's Ben Wight (35) has his shot blocked by Virginia Tech's Grant Basile (21) as Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) looks on in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Blacksburg, Va., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
Matt Gentry
William & Mary's Matteus Case (4) shoots while guarded by Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Blacksburg, Va., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (Matt Gentry/The Roanoke Times via AP)
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Kylee Watson debuted with the University of Notre Dame women's basketball team this season after spending her first two collegiate seasons at Oregon. The Mainland Regional High School graduate is a three-time Press Player of the Year.
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Kylee Watson debuted with the University of Notre Dame women's basketball team this season after spending her first two collegiate seasons at Oregon. The Mainland Regional High School graduate is a three-time Press Player of the Year.
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Kylee Watson debuted with the University of Notre Dame women's basketball team this season after spending her first two collegiate seasons at Oregon. The Mainland Regional High School graduate is a three-time Press Player of the Year.
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Kylee Watson debuted with the University of Notre Dame women's basketball team this season after spending her first two collegiate seasons at Oregon. The Mainland Regional High School graduate is a three-time Press Player of the Year.
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Kylee Watson debuted with the University of Notre Dame women’s basketball team last week in an 88-48 win over Northern Illinois. The three-time Press Player of the Year from Mainland Regional High School played 24 minutes, scored nine points and added four assists, two blocks, two steals and one rebound.
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Syracuse running back LeQuint Allen (20) scores a touchdown past Wake Forest linebacker Dylan Hazen (50) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Chuck Burton
Syracuse running back LeQuint Allen (20) is tripped by Wake Forest defensive lineman Jasheen Davis (30) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Chuck Burton
Syracuse running back LeQuint Allen (20) runs for a touchdown against Wake Forest during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Winston-Salem, N.C., Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
Chuck Burton
Syracuse running back LeQuint Allen runs as Wake Forest defensive lineman Jasheen Davis attempts a tackle during the second half of Saturday’s game.
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Virginia Tech’s Justyn Mutts, left, dribbles the ball as Penn State’s Jalen Pickett defends in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Charleston Classic in Charleston, South Carolina on Nov. 18. Mutts is averaging double-digit points through the first six games. Mutts is averaging double-digit points through the first six games.
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Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi (21) reacts after a dunk against Milwaukee during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, in Ames, Iowa. (Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune via AP)
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Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi, left, shoots over North Carolina forward Armando Bacot during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the Phil Knight Invitational tournament in Portland, Ore., Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)
Craig Mitchelldyer
Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi, left, dives for a loose ball next to North Carolina guard Caleb Love during a Phil Knight Invitational game in Portland, Oregon on Friday.
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Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi dunks the ball against Connecticut during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game for the championship of the Phil Knight Invitational on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Albright College’s Gabby Boggs averaged 18 points and 13.3 rebounds through the team’s first six games.
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Albright College fifth-year player Gabby Boggs is averaging 18 points and 13.3 rebounds through the first six games.
John Robert Pankratz, Albright Athletics
Albright College fifth-year player Gabby Boggs is averaging 18 points and 13.3 rebounds through the first six games.
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Albright College graduate student Gabby Boggs was named the Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth Player of the Year and the Defensive Player of the Year. The Mainland Regional alumna led her team with 14.1 points and 10.8 rebounds per game.
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Hammonton High School graduate Jada Thompson in action for the Ramapo women's basketball team.
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Hammonton High School graduate Jada Thompson in action for the Ramapo women's basketball team.
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Hammonton High School graduate Jada Thompson in action for the Ramapo women's basketball team.
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Hammonton High School graduate Jada Thompson in action for the Ramapo women's basketball team.
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J.D. DiRenzo started 12 games for Rutgers this season, including nine at left guard and three at left tackle.
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J.D. DiRenzo started 12 games for Rutgers this season, including nine at left guard and three at left tackle.
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Rutgers offensive lineman J.D. DiRenzo in action against Michigan State on Nov. 12. The Scarlet Knights gained 460 yards of offense that game, the most against a Big Ten Conference opponent since 2015.
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Nazim Derry has played in all nine games for New Hampshire (3-6), including three starts, and is averaging 8.6 points and 2.1 rebounds in 24.3 minutes per game.
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Nazim Derry has played in all nine games for New Hampshire (3-6), including three starts, and is averaging 8.6 points and 2.1 rebounds in 24.3 minutes per game.
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Nazim Derry has played in all nine games for New Hampshire (3-6), including three starts, and is averaging 8.6 points and 2.1 rebounds in 24.3 minutes per game.
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Misericordia junior Sonialys Badillo, a Vineland High School graduate, competes in a relay event. On Monday, Badillo was named the Middle Atlantic Conference Track Athlete of the Week.
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Misericordia junior Sonialys Badillo, a Vineland High School graduate, competes in a relay event this season. On Monday, Badillo was named the Middle Atlantic Conference Track Athlete of the Week.
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Misericordia junior Sonialys Badillo, a Vineland High School graduate, competes in a relay event this season. On Monday, Badillo was named the Middle Atlantic Conference Track Athlete of the Week.
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Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts eyes the net during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
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Boston College's DeMarr Langford Jr., left, and Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts fight for the ball during overtime of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
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Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts holds onto a rebound as Boston College's CJ Penha Jr. (24) and Makai Ashton-Langford (11) defend during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
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Virginia Tech's Justyn Mutts (25) adds two points during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
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Virginia Tech’s Justyn Mutts attempts to score under defensive pressure from Boston College’s Jonathan Noel during the first half of their Dec. 21 matchup. Mutts, a St. Augustine Prep graduate, scored 18 and grabbed eight rebounds in the Hokies’ 70-65 loss.
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Virginia Tech head coach Mike Young sends Justyn Mutts (25) onto the court during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mark Stockwell)
Mark Stockwell
Miami forward A.J. Casey, left, blocks a shot by St. Francis forward Marlon Hargis, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, in Coral Gables, Fla. Miami won 91-76. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Lynne Sladky
Syracuse running back LeQuint Allen is tackled by Minnesota linebacker Mariano Sori-Marin, obscured, during the second half of the Pinstripe Bowl on Thursday at Yankee Stadium in New York.
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Gary Nagle, top, went 3-0 for Ursinus College at the Manganaro Duals on Saturday. The Middle Township High School graduate’s three wins came by pin, decision and forfeit.
Joanna Franklin, Ursinus Athletics
Alexis Harrison became a 1,000-point scorer for Goldey-Beacom College on Saturday, matching the milestone she reached playing for Millville High School.
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Alexis Harrison became a 1,000-point scorer for Goldey-Beacom College on Saturday, matching a milestone she reached playing for Millville High School. On Monday, she was named to the Central Athletics Collegiate Conference honor roll.
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Alexis Harrison became a 1,000-point scorer for Goldey-Beacom College on Saturday, matching the milestone she reached playing for Millville High School.
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Stevens Institute of Technology senior Hunter Gutierrez, left, a Lacey Township High School graduate, won the 149-pound championship at the NCAA Division III Southeast Regional.
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Stevens Institute of Technology senior Hunter Gutierrez, a Lacey Township High School graduate, stands atop the podium following his Middle Atlantic Conference Championships title at 149 pounds this weekend.
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Stevens Institute of Technology senior Hunter Gutierrez, a Lacey Township High School graduate, is 16-3 this season following his Middle Atlantic Conference Championships title at 149 pounds over the weekend.
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Shannon McCoy, a Barnegat High School graduate, is averaging 17.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game for Kean University this season. On Monday, she was named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Player of the Week.
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Shannon McCoy, a Barnegat High School graduate, is averaging 17.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game for Kean University this season. On Monday, she was named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Player of the Week.
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Kean University fifth-year guard Shannon McCoy drives to the basket against William Paterson on Jan. 18. The Barnegat High School graduate scored a career-high 41 points, including 10 of 16 3-pointers, in the 85-70 win.
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Monmouth University sophomore Ahmad Brock competes at the Penn 10-Team Select Meet on Jan. 14.
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Monmouth University sophomore Ahmad Brock competes at the Penn 10-Team Select Meet on Jan. 14.
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Monmouth University sophomore Ahmad Brock, an Egg Harbor Township High School graduate, competes at the Penn 10-Team Select Meet on Jan. 14.
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Monmouth University sophomore Ahmad Brock competes at the Penn 10-Team Select Meet on Jan. 14.
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Senior swimmer Grace Curry, a 2019 Egg Harbor Township High School graduate, in action for Iona College this season.
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Senior swimmer Grace Curry, a 2019 Egg Harbor Township High School graduate, in action for Iona College this season.
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Marcellus Ross, a St. Joseph High School graduate, scored 17 in Rowan’s win over Ramapo.
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Rowan sophomore Josh Wright, a Cape May Tech graduate, drives toward the basket in a 97-66 win over Ramapo on Saturday. He scored nine points to help the Profs extend their win streak to nine.
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Sophomore forward Keith Palek III in is averaging 18.5 points for PennWest California this season.
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Sophomore forward Keith Palek III in is averaging 18.5 points for PennWest California this season.
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Sophomore forward Keith Palek III, a St. Augustine Prep graduate, is averaging 18.5 points for PennWest California this season.
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Sophomore forward Keith Palek III in is averaging 18.5 points for PennWest California this season.
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Limestone freshman attack Rylee Johnson looks to make a play against Rollins on Saturday. Johnson, a Southern Regional High School graduate, had a goal and an assist in a 13-8 loss.
Brian Westerholt, Limestone Athletics
Limestone freshman attack Rylee Johnson, right, looks for a play against Rollins on Saturday. Johnson, a Southern Regional High School graduate, had a goal and an assist in the 13-8 loss.
Brian Westerholt, Limestone Athletics
Wilkes junior Dawson Tallant, a Middle Township High School graduate, went 4-0 to win the Mideast Futures Tournament on Sunday.
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Miami forward A.J. Casey, left, blocks a shot by St. Francis forward Marlon Hargis, right, during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, in Coral Gables, Fla. Miami won 91-76. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Lynne Sladky
Notre Dame's Kylee Watson (22) keeps the ball away from Western Michigan's Taylor Williams (33) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game on Wednesday Dec. 21, 2022, in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
Michael Caterina
Notre Dame's Kylee Watson (22) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Western Michigan on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022 in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
Michael Caterina
Notre Dame forward Kylee Watson (22) defends against Miami guard Haley Cavinder (14) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Rhona Wise)
Rhona Wise
Notre Dame's Kylee Watson (22) works against Boston College's Maria Gakdeng (5) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023 in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
Michael Caterina
Notre Dame's Kylee Watson (22) drives as Boston College's Kayla Lezama (14) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023 in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
Michael Caterina
Notre Dame's Kylee Watson (22) drives as Boston College's Kayla Lezama (14) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023 in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
Michael Caterina
Notre Dame’s Kylee Watson looks to make a play during a Jan. 1 game agaisnt Boston College in South Bend, Indiana.
Michael Caterina, Associated Press
Notre Dame's Kylee Watson (22) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Boston College Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023 in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Michael Caterina)
Michael Caterina
Notre Dame forward Kylee Watson (22) reaches for a rebound over Pittsburgh forward Liatu King, second from left, during the first half of an NCCA college basketball game in Pittsburgh, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
Matt Freed
Rutgers University freshman Trevor Cohen, a Holy Spirit High School graduate, runs the bases during a game last fall.
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Rutgers University freshman Trevor Cohen, a Holy Spirit High School graduate, seen during a fall exhibition game, He made his collegiate debut over the weekend, going 8 for 11 with a double and six RBIs.
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Holy Spirit High School graduate Trevor Cohen made his Rutgers debut this past weekend in a three-game series against Campbell.
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Holy Spirit High School graduate Trevor Cohen made his Rutgers debut this past weekend in a three-game series against Campbell.
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East Stroudsburg freshman Brady Carter, a Lacey Township High School graduate, placed third at 125 pounds at the NCAA Division II Super Region I Championships over the weekend, earning a bid to the national tournament.
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East Stroudsburg freshman Brady Carter, a Lacey Township High School graduate, placed third at 125 pounds at the NCAA Division II Super Region I Championships over the weekend, earning a bid to the national tournament.
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East Stroudsburg freshman Brady Carter, a Lacey Township High School graduate, celebrates winning the third-place bout at 125 pounds at the NCAA Division II Super Region I Championships over the weekend, earning a bid to the national tournament.
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East Stroudsburg freshman Brady Carter, a Lacey Township High School graduate, placed third at 125 pounds at the NCAA Division II Super Region I Championships over the weekend, earning a bid to the national tournament.
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Widener's Pat Holden in action against Swarthmore on Nov. 16, 2022.
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Widener's Pat Holden, a Lower Cape May High School graduate.
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Widener’s Pat Holden in action against Swarthmore on Nov. 16, 2022. In Widener’s 74-69 win over Alvernia in the MAC Commonwealth Tournament final on Saturday, Holden had 12 points, six assists and four rebounds.
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Old Dominion junior infielder Kenny Levari, from Vineland and a St. Augustine Prep graduate, entered Wednesday hitting .375 (12 for 32) with four doubles, a homer, nine runs and five RBIs.
Bruce Butler, ODU Athletics
Old Dominion junior infielder Kenny Levari, from Vineland and a St. Augustine Prep graduate, entered Wednesday hitting .375 (12 for 32) with four doubles, a homer, nine runs and five RBIs.
Bruce Butler, ODU Athletics
Old Dominion junior infielder Kenny Levari, from Vineland and a St. Augustine Prep graduate, entered Wednesday hitting .375 (12 for 32) with four doubles, a homer, nine runs and five RBIs.
Bruce Butler, ODU Athletics
Salisbury University junior pitcher Nicole Ortega, a Vineland High School graduate, earned three wins for the Seagulls.
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Salisbury University junior pitcher Nicole Ortega, a Vineland High School graduate, earned three wins for the Seagulls last week.
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West Virginia redshirt freshman David Hagaman, a Holy Spirit High School graduate, pitches against Georgia Southern on Feb. 19.
Chloe Paugh, West Virginia Athletics
West Virginia redshirt freshman David Hagaman, a Holy Spirit High School graduate, pitches against Georgia Southern on Feb. 19.
Chloe Paugh, West Virginia Athletics
Western Kentucky graduate student Faith Hegh, a Mainland Regional High School graduate, entered Wednesday hitting .346 (18 for 52) with five doubles, a home run, 10 runs and 12 RBIs.
Steve Roberts, WKU Athletics
Baylor guard Keyonte George (1) looks to shoot under pressure from Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi, left, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the second round of the Big 12 Conference tournament Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Charlie Riedel
Iowa State center Osun Osunniyi goes up for a shot while being guarded by Kansas forward Jalen Wilson during a Big 12 Conference Tournament semifinal game Friday in Kansas City, Missouri.
Reed Hoffmann, Associated Press
Ball State senior catcher Matthew Rivera, a 2018 Holy Spirit High School graduate, is hitting .343 (12 for 35) with five doubles, two homers, seven runs and 11 RBIs in 12 games.
Chad Smith, Ball State Athletics
Ball State senior catcher Matthew Rivera, a 2018 Holy Spirit High School graduate, is hitting .343 (12 for 35) with five doubles, two homers, seven runs and 11 RBIs in 12 games.
Chad Smith, Ball State Athletics
New Jersey Institute of Technology's Keegan Ford, a Mainland Regional High School graduate.
Lamar Carter, NJIT Athletics
New Jersey Institute of Technology's Billy Kroeger, an Ocean City High School graduate.
Lamar Carter, NJIT Athletics
New Jersey Institute of Technology's Teddy Grimley, an Ocean City High School graduate.
Lamar Carter, NJIT Athletics
New Jersey Institute of Technology's Logan Hone, a St. Augustine Prep graduate.
Lamar Carter, NJIT Athletics
New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Keegan Ford (19), a Mainland Regional High School graduate, celebrates with his team after scoring the game-winning goal with no time left in a 14-13 victory over Lindenwood.
Lamar Carter, NJIT Athletics
Cal Berkeley’s Destin Lasco, a Mainland Regional High School graduate, is seen in the moments after a race at the Pac-12 Championships this month.
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Cal Berkeley’s Destin Lasco, a Mainland Regional High School graduate, swims the backstroke during the Pac-12 Championships this month. Lasco is in Minneapolis this week for the NCAA Championships.
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West Chester University sophomore Makenzie Edwards entered Wednesday 3-3 with a 1.59 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 26 1/3 innings in eight appearances.
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West Chester University sophomore Makenzie Edwards entered Wednesday 3-3 with a 1.59 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 26 1/3 innings in eight appearances.
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West Chester University sophomore Makenzie Edwards entered Wednesday 3-3 with a 1.59 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 26 1/3 innings in eight appearances.
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University of Miami senior Sincere Rhea, left, a St. Augustine Prep graduate, competes at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Championships last month.
James Knable, Miami Athletics
University of Miami senior Sincere Rhea, a St. Augustine Prep graduate, competes at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Championships last month.
James Knable, Miami Athletics
University of Miami senior Sincere Rhea, a St. Augustine Prep graduate, hugs head coach Amy Deem at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Championships last month.
James Knable, Miami Athletics
University of Miami senior Sincere Rhea, a St. Augustine Prep graduate, competes at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Championships last month.
James Knable, Miami Athletics
James Knable, Miami Athletics
Jackson Vanesko, a St. Augustine Prep graduate from Ocean City, is 2-2 with a 1.50 ERA in five appearances for Bryant.
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Jackson Vanesko, a St. Augustine Prep graduate from Ocean City, is 2-2 with a 1.50 ERA in five appearances for Bryant.
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Korie Hague, a 2018 Vineland High School graduate and fifth-year senior at Rowan, is hitting .387 (24 for 62) with two doubles, 12 runs and 15 RBIs in 20 games.
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Korie Hague, a 2018 Vineland High School graduate and fifth-year senior at Rowan, is hitting .387 (24 for 62) with two doubles, 12 runs and 15 RBIs in 20 games.
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BASEBALL
3:45 p.m.
Barnegat at Jackson Liberty
Lacey Twp. at Manchester Twp.
4 p.m.
Buena at Absegami
Middle Twp. at ACIT
Cherry Hill West at Bridgeton
Atlantic City at Cedar Creek
Egg Harbor Twp. at Hammonton
St. Joseph at Holy Spirit
St. Augustine at Ocean City
Millville at Vineland
Oakcrest at Woodstown
Cumberland at Schalick
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Toms River North at Southern
4:45 p.m.
Point Pleasant Borough at Pinelands
6 p.m.
Lower Cape May vs. Wildwood at Maxwell Field
SOFTBALL
3:45 p.m.
Barnegat at Jackson Liberty
Lacey Twp. at ManchesterTwp.
4 p.m.
Our Lady of Mercy at Clayton
Williamstown at Hammonton
Atlantic City at Millville
Holy Spirit at Oakcrest
Toms River North at Southern
Buena at Ocean City
4:45 p.m.
Point Pleasant Borough at Pinelands
BOYS TENNIS
4 p.m.
Middle at Egg Harbor Twp.
Lower Cape May at Hammonton
Wildwood Catholic at Holy Spirit
Absegami at Millville
Bridgeton at Vineland
Lacey Twp. at Southern
4:30 p.m.
Haddon Twp. at Mainland
FLAG FOOTBALL
4 p.m.
Ocean City at Cedar Creek
6 p.m.
Mainland at Hammonton
BOYS LACROSSE
3:45 p.m.
St. Augustine at Shawnee
GIRLS LACROSSE
3:45 p.m.
Ocean Twp. at Barnegat
4 p.m.
Gateway at Cedar Creek
Absegami vs. Middle Twp. at Shunpike Athletic Fields
Lower Cape May at Millville
6 p.m.
Pinelands at Central Reg.
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
3:45 p.m.
St. Augustine at Riverside
4 p.m.
ACIT at Cedar Creek
Timber Creek at Hammonton
Toms River East at Southern
5:15 p.m.
Lacey Twp. at Pinelands
BOYS AND GIRLS GOLF
3 p.m.
Holy Spirit vs. Oakcrest vs. Buena at Buena Vista Country Club
4 p.m.
Cedar Creek vs. Hammonton vs. Vineland at Buena Vista Country Club
Lower Cape May vs. Middle Twp. vs. Bridgeton at Centerton Country Club
Millville vs. Eg Harbor Twp. vs. Mainland at Eastlyn Golf Course
St. Augustine vs. Absegami vs. ACIT at Green Tree Golf Course
Southern vs. Brick Memorial at Ocean Acres Country Club
Lacey Twp. vs. Central Reg. at Pines Barrens Golf Course
GIRLS GOLF
3:30 p.m.
Our Lady of Mercy vs. Washington Twp. at Wedgewood Country Club
4 p.m.
Cumberland vs. Kingsway at Running Deer Golf Club
Lacey Twp. vs. Central Reg. at Cedar Creek Golf Course
BOYS AND GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
4 p.m.
Egg Harbor Twp. vs. Hammonton at Absegami
Lower Cape May at Holy Spirit
Wildwood Catholic vs. Middle Twp. at Memorial Field
Mainland vs. Millville at Oakcrest
Bridgeton at Ocean City
Atlantic City vs. Buena at Pleasantville
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Election Day has officially begun, as polls are now open in a majority of communities across the Miami Valley, with tax levies the No. 1 focus of the day region-wide.
Polls will remain open from 6:30 a.m. until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
If you’re unsure of your voting location, you can go to voteohio.gov and choose “find your polling location.” At that same link, you can also select “view your sample ballot” and follow the prompts to see what you can vote on in Tuesday’s election.
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What’s on the ballot?
The May 2 election is purely a local election — there are no statewide or national races that everyone votes on. That means some communities will have multiple important votes to cast Tuesday, while others will have no election at all (Kettering, Springboro, Oakwood and Tipp City are among the areas with no contested election).
In Clark County, the ballot is light, featuring only a few tax levies (New Carlisle and Pleasant Twp.) and local liquor option votes.
In Butler County, the focus is on two large school tax levies (Edgewood and Ross), plus utility aggregation in Middletown and a few liquor option votes.
The core Dayton area has a wide range of items on the ballot, including candidate races for Troy mayor, Miamisburg Municipal Court judge, plus the first round of the Dayton City Commission race, which will be decided in November.
And there are a bevy of tax levies around the Miami Valley. Nine of them are school levies, including requests for significant tax increases in Northmont, Vandalia-Butler, Huber Heights and Mad River. Several cities and townships, including Beavercreek, Trotwood and Washington Twp., are seeking funds for police, fire/EMS, roads and parks.
Results later tonight
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How Time Flies is a daily feature looking back at Pantagraph archives to revisit what was happening in our community and region.
100 years ago
May 2, 1923: Mrs. E.R. Morgan, J.H. Hudson and Reid Davidson: This trio constitutes the new park board of Bloomington. Appointed by Mayor-elect Frank Shorthose, it is expected that the new park board members will be formally inducted into office at the initial session of the new administration next week.
75 years ago
May 2, 1948: Ann Rosen, who was born in Bloomington and graduated from Bloomington High School in 1926, is now an artist of coming rank in New York. Rosen previously traveled with theater stock companies and did newspaper and radio work in New York. She started painting while recovering after she was the only survivor in one train car in a disastrous Labor Day railroad accident outside of Philadelphia a few years ago.
50 years ago
May 2, 1973: Timmy Kauffman, the 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Kauffman, became a naturalized American citizen during a ceremony at the federal district courthouse in Peoria. His first grade classmates at Centennial School took a field trip to witness the event. A native-born Korean, Timmy is the biological son of a Korean woman and American serviceman.
25 years ago
May 2, 1998: Local builders trying to avoid a Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamation District fee hike obtained scores of building permits this week while criticizing the hike as a "hidden tax" that unfairly targets their industry. The fee to connect to the sewer system is doubling to $700 and will double again to $1,400 in three years; the increases are to pay for a new $44 million sewer plant.
101 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
Gerthart's
Union Gas and Electric Co.
Hoover
Dr. J.A. Moore Dentists
Moberly & Klenner
W.P. Garretson
W.H. Roland
Pease's Candy
Thor 32 Electric Washing Machine
The Kaiser's Story of the War
Ike Livingston & Sons
Gossard Corsets
Cat'n Fiddle
'Stolen Moments'
Case Model X
The Johnson Transfer & Fuel Co.
The Pantagraph want ads
Franklin Motor Car Co.
'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'
Calumet Baking Powder
Mayer Livingston & Co. Newsmarket
'The Emperor Jones'
'California Fig Syrup'
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There is an increased police presence on Floyd Street in Lynchburg.
At this time, it’s closed between 15th and 16th Street and crime scene tape is up.
We have a crew at the scene working for you to learn more.
10 News spoke with neighbors who said they were woken up early Tuesday morning by what they say sounded like gunshots. This is not confirmed by police yet, but we have reached out to the Lynchburg Police Department to learn more about the details surrounding the incident.
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ROANOKE, Va. – Happy Tuesday! As you’re sipping your morning coffee, check out the Morning Sprint at 8 a.m. for the news of the day.
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- Salem Craft BBQ’s ‘small but mighty’ menu is dressed to impress
- Lynchburg City Schools announces 2023 Teacher of the Year
- Weather forecast
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CEDAR FALLS — A marketing firm with ties to the Cedar Valley is expanding into the Twin Cities in an effort to strengthen its work in fundraising.
Amperage Marketing & Fundraising closed on the acquisition of Minneapolis-based fundraising firm Hansen Henley Yoder & Lamb last month, after learning that Hansen’s partners were looking for an exit strategy.
Amperage, with an office in Cedar Falls, had no staff and few clients in Minnesota, and felt its business could help Hansen better serve its pool of a couple hundred clients. Those clients are in industries ranging from arts, education and social services to bigger name nonprofits like the Great Lakes Aquarium, Northside Achievement Zone, Ronald McDonald House and University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Amperage has a little more than 40 employees and its primary presence had been in the upper Midwest, specifically Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and South Dakota.
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“The center of our work is always the people who are served by the nonprofits we serve. That will not change and they’ll ultimately be better served because of what Amperage brings to the table,” said Tim Torgerson, former president of HHYL and now senior fundraising adviser for Amperage.
He, along with partner and CEO Brighid Hansen, had been looking to retire or transition into a reduced role when the opportunity to be purchased presented itself.
Torgerson had known Amperage President & Chief Executive Officer Bryan Earnest from previous work. When they reconnected last year, Earnest said the acquisition felt right because of Hansen’s “great reputation” in the Minneapolis area and “long-standing” expertise in the industry.
Amperage will help Hansen fulfill its active contracts before it eventually absorbs the Minneapolis company and its portfolio of clients.
“There’s a lot of things we do at Amperage that Hansen didn’t have as a smaller consulting firm that did fundraising advising,” said Earnest. “They had deep knowledge and expertise, but not necessarily the expanded services around marketing, video production, campaign material development, brand, social media, and public relations. Those are all things that we’re able to bring to those clients that are in that Minneapolis area.”
Torgerson, too, pointed out the “parallel” needs served by the two companies when working with clients in the middle of a fundraising campaign or on the precipice of embarking on one.
“It becomes very helpful to them to have access to more resources,” he said. “Hansen Henley has raised millions and millions of dollars over the years for nonprofits but we didn’t have that same capability as Amperage.”
In addition to the new Minnesota client base, Earnest also notes that Hansen’s team will benefit his company’s current clients in the Cedar Valley and throughout Iowa. Further expertise will be ascertained in donor evaluation and grant identification, to name a few of the areas already seeing improvement.
Talent acquisition is another area where his company will benefit, Earnest pointed out. By moving into the new market, he says there will be another pool of potential candidates for future job openings at Amperage.
Since its founding in 1996, Amperage has completed three other acquisitions or mergers.
“An acquisition like this, I think, is also evidence of our commitment to continuing to grow Amperage. We have been a strong company for more than 26 years, working with great clients in great communities across the Midwest, and we continue to look for opportunities to grow and evolve and elevate our business,” said Earnest.
Hansen technically has zero employees. Its core team is four independent contractors who lean on a network of advisors and consultants. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/amperage-expands-into-minnesota-with-hansen-henley-yoder-lamb-acquisition/article_fb30a18f-1561-5752-8a34-2454da0f2b8f.html | 2023-05-02T11:52:50 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/amperage-expands-into-minnesota-with-hansen-henley-yoder-lamb-acquisition/article_fb30a18f-1561-5752-8a34-2454da0f2b8f.html |
It was nearly a sure thing Ron McInroy was going to be a union man.
Good jobs were anything but sure anywhere he or his family worked. He knew he’d have to fight for them.
What he may not have anticipated, however, was that he would be fighting for tens of thousands of workers and their families all across the central and northwestern United States.
Charles City native
McInroy, a native of Charles City who began working at John Deere’s Waterloo operations in 1979, recently retired as regional director of the United Auto Workers in the central and northwestern United States.
He held that position for 12 years, after working his way up from the shop floor at Deere in Waterloo, where he was elected a union steward after two years on the job.
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In that time he’s seen massive layoffs during the 1980s farm crisis, lockouts, strikes and plant closings.
The strikes included a five-week work stoppage at Deere in 2021, the first in 35 years, in which two tentative agreements were rejected before a contract was reached.
But he also saw a major billion-dollar redevelopment of Deere’s Waterloo operations over the past two decades and generational changes in the needs of the manufacturing workforce.
Through all that, he said, though taking on positions of increased responsibility and complexity, his 20 years working at Deere in Waterloo and walking the shop floor on behalf of the union kept him grounded and focused on what really mattered – the welfare of union-wage working members and their families.
Waterloo is home to Moline, Ill.-headquartered Deere’s largest North American manufacturing complex. Deere is Waterloo’s and Iowa’s largest manufacturing employer and United Auto Workers Local 838 is one of the largest private sector union locals in the state and the largest within Deere.
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“I started right downtown as a yard factory laborer, the bottom of the barrel,” said McInroy, 65, a graduate of Charles City High School and one of 15 chldren. “The reason I know a little bit about the UAW is because my brother and my uncles worked at White Farm.” White Farm Equipment was a Charles City agricultural equipment manufacturer that sustained significant layoffs beginning in the mid-1970s and eventually closed in 1993.
“I got a firsthand look at pensions being raided during that time,” he said.
He also worked at Salsbury Laboratories in Charles City, a nonunion shop which also saw significant job reductions when it ran into environmental waste disposal issues with the state. He was laid off in the late 1970s.
“So I signed up with John Deere. I got called back after six months up there (at Salsbury). But then John Deere called and I came down, and the guy said, “Do you want to start today?’ Jan 3, 1979, is when I started.” He got a tooling position in three or four months, still at the downtown facilities, where tractor components such as transmissions are manufactured.
That was when Deere employed a record 16,000 workers in Waterloo. The popular notion was that one could be virtually “hired off the street’ to work at Deere, or the other major employer in town, The Rath Packing Co.
Then the 1980s recession and farm crisis hit.
“I got hit in the first layoff. It was ’80. I was laid off six, eight months,” he said. He was called back from layoff to the Deere Tractor Works on East Donald Street in northeast Waterloo, where the company’s large row-crop tractors are assembled. He worked there before being recalled back to his old position downtown, working second shift, as he would for 20 years.
“Really, the reason I got to stay? I got elected (union) steward in 1981,” McInroy said. He came back from layoff and some of his colleagues asked him to run for steward.
“I said ‘What’s that?’” he said with a laugh. He acquainted himself with the responsibilities associated with the post and decided to run.
Because of workforce reductions, the number of stewards had to be reduced proportionately. McInroy was thrown into a multi-candidate race, with multiple rounds of runoffs. Her survived two runoffs, but was up against a seasoned incumbent in the final vote and faced certain defeat.
Then his opponent surprised him.
“He came to me and he said he liked what I was doing and that they need somebody young,” McInroy said. “He took me around and introduced me to all the mechanics. So that’s how I got elected. He basically helped me get elected.”
McInroy held that post through layoffs and a bitter five-month strike and lockout in I986-87, the longest collective bargaining-related work stoppage in the company history. Through continued layoffs, Deere’s Waterloo employment dropped to around 5,000; it’s at about 5,500 today, more than half of which are union-wage UAW-affiliated workers.
In 1993, McInroy was elected to a committeeman position, representing workers in the Deere Waterloo Foundry, as well as skilled trades employees in the Waterloo Works and second shift in the Product Engineering Center in Cedar Falls. At that time, company and union negotiated a two-tier wage structure with a lower starting wage and benefits in exchange for a promise by Deere to bring outsourced manufacturing work back into its factories and preserve jobs. Deere said at that time the agreement allowed the company to “repopulate” its plants.
A master collective bargaining agreement governs pay, benefits and working conditions for UAW locals throughout the company – the largest of which is in Waterloo.
“When you go from the local to bargaining, you realize you’re not just bargaining for Waterloo at that point; you’re bargaining for the whole chain” – twice as many workers plus their families.
“Each step you go up, it’s a bigger picture, a broader (worker) base,” McInroy said. “You have more involvement, and then you understand what goes into the business – the union and that of the companies (whose works) you represent.”
In 2001, Deere launched a massive multi-phase modernization of its Waterloo operations, in coordination with the union-wage work force. It demolished some of its outdated older multi-level manufacturing buildings and constructed new single-level ones, modernizing the Foundry with a new melt process and re-equipping and streamlining assembly lines.
After being part of the bargaining committee that negotiated the 2003 Deere-UAW master agreement, McInroy was put on full-time UAW staff in 2005, serving workers at companies of varying sizes in addition to Deere.
“The best part about that is you get to use the skill sets you learned early on from your local leadership here and you get to use it with all the different sizes and different types of companies you have,” he said. “I had like 15 contracts then and they were all different sizes of companies, types of companies. But you get to use the things you learned here (in Waterloo) and apply them. That’s always the advantage of being union; you can talk to each other and bring different concepts to your workplace and share the ideas to make it better.”
In that regard, coming from an already large UAW local was an advantage, McInroy said. “The other things I was always very fortunate of on Waterloo was, I had leadership to work with to mentor me.”
McInroy was a UAW servicing representative from 2005 to 2008. “I was still in Iowa,” he said. “We drove about 55,000 miles a year. I had locals in Des Moines, I had locals in Cedar Rapids and I had locals here.
“And I had Maytag in Newton, so I went through that too,” McInroy said, when the washing machine manufacturer wound down its operations.
“I’d seen what’d happened in Charles City,” with White Farm Equipment, he said. “Now I get see it a second time when Maytag closes,” in 2005-06. “You see four or five generations of families seeing jobs leave the community. It changes the community. You realize that. It’s like having a cloud coming over your town.”
In 2008, he became assistant regional director and relocated to Illinois a year later. He then served three four-year terms as regional president.
When McInroy was elected regional director in 2010, “we had nine states with 40,000 active members and 120,000 retirees,” he said. Due to a merger, the region has grown to 17 states with 60,000 members and double the previous number of retirees.
There were challenges and more plant closings during his time as regional director. And the most recent Deere-UAW labor agreement was approved on a third vote – not by a majority of members of Local 838 in Waterloo, by enough workers in all the other locals that it was adopted. But McInroy maintains the agreement is one of the best in the industry, if not the best, which workers are now seeing the benefits from. It includes a restoration of cost-of-living adjustments in wages – important in inflationary times – and other benefits down the road in workers’ careers.
“It’s a ride,” he said of his position. “It’s really an opportunity to help people – a lot of times when they don’t even know it.” Workers are justifiably absorbed in their jobs and their families’ lives, and may not understand the full ramifications of a labor agreement until they need to utilize its provisions later in their careers or lives.
“If you’re doing it right, the enjoyment you get is the success you see for the members and the communities. We do a lot in the communities too,” McInroy said. “You’re only there for a short period of time, and you do the best you can do to make it better than when you got there.”
But, McInroy said after three terms and 12 years as regional president,”that’s enough,” he said. “It’s time to go spend time with your family.”
Pat Kinney is a former longtime Courier reporter and editor who still writes freelance. His column “View from the Cedar Valley” can be seen online at patkinney.substack.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/state-and-regional/from-deere-worker-to-region-chief-waterloo-labor-leader-looks-back/article_196815a5-c7e8-522b-83fb-13cbee63fcff.html | 2023-05-02T11:52:57 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/state-and-regional/from-deere-worker-to-region-chief-waterloo-labor-leader-looks-back/article_196815a5-c7e8-522b-83fb-13cbee63fcff.html |
The cities of Bismarck and Mandan are asking residents to help clean up the communities.
The 10th Annual Clean-Up Day in Bismarck is from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Volunteers will gather at the Bismarck Parks & Recreation Office at Peace Park, 400 E. Front Ave. Participants are asked to wear pants and closed-toe shoes, and to bring gloves. Safety vests and/or T-shirts, garbage bags, instructions and designated routes will be distributed at 9 a.m. at the park.
For more information on Keep Bismarck Beautiful go to https://tinyurl.com/ye26xd9a or contact bismarckrotary@gmail.com.
City staff in Mandan and the Community Beautification Committee earlier scrapped the planned cleanup day on April 22 due to poor weather.
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Organizers instead asked volunteers to clean routes throughout Mandan on their own throughout the month of May. To sign up for a Keep Mandan Beautiful route, contact Kari Schmidt at kari.schmidt@cityofmandan.com.
Hundreds of volunteers in the two cities including civic organizations, youth groups, business owners, city leaders and sports teams have picked up thousands of pounds of litter the past nine years, according to organizers. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck-mandan-residents-asked-to-volunteer-for-cleanup-duty/article_fb89d42c-e473-11ed-8b34-274f9d22655e.html | 2023-05-02T11:57:47 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck-mandan-residents-asked-to-volunteer-for-cleanup-duty/article_fb89d42c-e473-11ed-8b34-274f9d22655e.html |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — As summer approaches and the weather starts to heat up, Alabamians will be looking for fun outdoors.
There will be tons of events being held throughout Alabama in the coming months. Here’s a look at events taking place in the spring and summer around Birmingham and beyond:
May
- 5/6: Sunshine Saturday – Talladega
- 5/6: Birmingham Folk Festival – Birmingham
- 5/6: Noble Street Festival – Anniston
- 5/6: Cullman Strawberry Fest – Cullman
- 5/6: Southern Appalachian Dulcimer Festival – McCalla
- 5/6-5/7: Happy Hippie Festival – Columbiana
- 5/7: Birmingham Taco Fest – Birmingham
- 5/7: Darter Festival – Birmingham
- 5/12-5/14: Logan Martin LakeFest and Boat Show – Pell City
- 5/13: Baileyton Family Fun Day – Baileyton
- 5/13: Magic City Wine Fest – Birmingham
- 5/19-5/21: Hangout Festival – Gulf Shores
- 5/19-5/20: Springfest (formerly Mayfest) – Guin
- 5/20: Do Dah Day at Cahaba Brewing – Birmingham
- 5/20: Leeds Creek Bank Festival – Leeds
- 5/20: Arley Day Festival, Car Show and Parade – Arley
- 5/20: Cahaba Lily Festival – West Blocton
- 5/26-5/27: Coal Fest – Brilliant
- 5/27: Woodstock Music Festival – Woodstock
- 5/27: Riverfest at RiverRocks – Gadsden
- 5/27: The Magic City Smoke and Boil – Birmingham
- 5/27: Smith Lake Park Memorial Day Weekend Festival – Cullman
June
- 6/2: Zoo Brews – Birmingham
- 6/2-6/3: 9-1-1 Festival – Haleyville
- 6/2-6/3: Mule Day/Chickenfest – Gordo
- 6/3: Alabaster CityFest – Alabaster
- 6/3: Lakeview Hullabaloo – Birmingham
- 6/3: African Heritage Festival – Birmingham
- 6/4: Vulcan’s Birthday Bash – Birmingham
- 6/9-6/11: Wheels on the Hill – Gadsden
- 6/10: Central Alabama Caribbean Food and Music Festival – Bessemer
- 6/10: Hueytown City Fest – Hueytown
- 6/11: Central Alabama Pride Fest – Birmingham
- 6/16: Juneteenth Celebration Bessemer – Bessemer
- 6/16-6/17: Steel City Smooth Jazz Festival – Birmingham
- 6/16-6/18: Euphonius Music Festival – Birmingham
- 6/17: Birmingham Juneteenth – Birmingham
- 6/17: Anniston Heritage Festival – Anniston
- 6/17: Juneteenth Festival at the Gardendale Civic Center – Gardendale
- 6/18: Tuscaloosa Black Heritage Festival – Tuscaloosa
- 6/18: Juneteenth in the Magic City Festival – Birmingham
- 6/23-6/24: Liberty Day – Columbiana
- 6/24: Peach Jam Jubilee – Clanton
- 6/24: CahaBAZAAR Vendor Market – Birmingham
- 6/30-7/2: Independence Celebration in Cordova at Indian Heat Cotton Mills – Cordova
July
- 7/1: Cordova Independence Celebration – Cordova
- 7/2: Fire on the Water – Pelham
- 7/3: Independence Day Blast – Leeds
- 7/4: Thunder on the Mountain – Birmingham
- 7/4: Independence Day Celebration at American Village – Montevallo
- 7/4: Smith Lake Park Fireworks and Music Festival – Cullman
- 7/8: J2A Cultural Arts Street Festival – Birmingham
- 7/20-7/22: Rock the South – Cullman
August
- 8/4-8/5: Clay County Yellow-Meated Watermelon Festival – Ashland
- 8/5: Weiss Lake Music Festival – Centre
- 8/12: Fultondale CityFEST – Fultondale
- 8/19: Mitchell’s Place Dragon Boat Race and Festival – Birmingham
- 8/19: Homewood’s Block Party – Homewood
- 8/26-8/27: Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival – Birmingham
- 8/26-8/27: Black Belt Folk Roots Festival – Eutaw | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/heres-what-you-can-do-this-spring-and-summer-around-alabama/ | 2023-05-02T12:21:34 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/heres-what-you-can-do-this-spring-and-summer-around-alabama/ |
TARRANT, Ala. (WIAT) — Tarrant Police Chief Wendell Major is back on the job. He was reinstated during a fiery city council meeting Monday night after being placed on leave April 26.
There was overwhelming support for Chief Major at the meeting with some angry and passionate pleas on his behalf. All five councilors voted to reinstate him effective immediately. Tarrant Mayor Wayman Newton was the only vote against him.
“I’ve had the unique opportunity to not only create law but enforce law,” says Representative Allen Treadaway who showed up in support of Major. “He’s 100% correct in how he represented this city, the police department and himself [Monday night]. Makes me proud to know him.”
Treadaway went to Major’s defense in front of the city council Monday, also calling the meeting “chaos” after sitting through the heated debate.
The council worked to understand why Major was placed on administrative leave by Mayor Newton.
“The law is the law. It will be enforced, it will be obeyed and the orders of the court are what law enforcement officers enforce, the orders of the legislature are what law enforcement officers enforce, we do not enforce executive decrees that are not based in law,“ says Major.
Recordings from the magistrate’s office were played for the council to give a fuller picture of what happened the day in question.
The debate boiling down to whether or not an inmate should have been released on bond without the magistrate’s signature on necessary paperwork.
“I think they will find that the police department in the city of Tarrant has operated in an above-board, within the law, and with their best interest at heart,” says Major. “If we have missed the mark, we will point that out, we will correct it and we will move forward to protect the people of this state.”
People from Tarrant also addressing the council on Major’s behalf, saying the mayor’s decision to place the chief on leave was “childish and petty”.
“I mean I’ve been here through the n-word fiasco and everything else, all the way up until the slap,” says Waynette Bonham with the Tarrant City Crime Commission. “I really wish they would consider growing up or consider a conflict resolution course that includes the city council as well as the police.“
Mayor Newton as well as Tarrant council members declined to comment. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/tarrant-police-chief-reinstated-at-city-council-meeting/ | 2023-05-02T12:21:41 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/tarrant-police-chief-reinstated-at-city-council-meeting/ |
News Tribune, May 2, 1983
- Yesterday, a man disguised as Captain Duluth rappelled from the top of the Radisson Duluth Hotel down 10 stories to the roof of the hotel's walkway. The stunt was done to draw attention to next Saturday's comic book collectors' convention at the hotel.
- Workers at the Washburn Marina are building a new ship for the Madeline Island Ferry Line. When completed next fall, the "Madeline" will weigh 145 tons and be able to carry 20 automobiles and 150 passengers between Bayfield and Madeline Island.
News Tribune, May 2, 1923
- A banquet last night marked the completion of the exterior portion of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary on East Fourth Street in Duluth. The chapel will be completed in August and will serve as the church for the district.
- Nearly 200 Duluthians gathered at the Chamber of Commerce last night to pay tribute to Ignatz Freimuth for his 40-year business career in Duluth. Freimuth is the owner of the I. Freimuth Department Store on Superior Street and Lake Avenue. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-40-years-ago-man-rappelled-down-the-radisson-in-duluth | 2023-05-02T12:22:28 | 0 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/bygones-40-years-ago-man-rappelled-down-the-radisson-in-duluth |
Here is episode 9 of the Northlandia podcast.
Drury Lane Books in Grand Marais may have a picturesque location, but what keeps people coming back is the tailored selection and the sense of community.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A standoff is over in south Wichita.
Around 10:45 p.m. on Monday, the Wichita Police Department was called to a disturbance involving a suspect armed with a firearm at a home near Harry and Broadway.
The department’s SWAT team responded to the scene.
“We utilized time, distance, and negotiation, as well as technology, in an attempt to resolve this peacefully,” said Lt. Aaron Moses. “At about 5:53 this morning, the suspect in that incident was taken into custody without anyone incident, without any injuries.”
During the standoff, officials closed Broadway from Osie to Harry Street. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/standoff-closes-road-in-wichita/ | 2023-05-02T12:25:41 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/standoff-closes-road-in-wichita/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) says it plans to widen and expand portions of Highway 112 in Fayetteville.
On Friday, April 28, ARDOT held a meeting to get public feedback on the revised 3.9-mile plan.
The two-lane highway between Truckers Drive and Howard Nickell Road will be widened to four lanes divided by a 15-foot wide median and include three roundabouts.
This is an effort to reduce congestion as Northwest Arkansas continues to rapidly grow.
"Safety, congestion, ease of way, we gotta get going," said Dave Parker with ARDOT.
It comes as developers plan to build a new entertainment district near the area.
They are calling it The Aronson and hope to bring an Alamo Drafthouse Theatre to the old 112 Drive-in.
They also want to bring in more than 200 residences and more space for other stores and businesses.
Improvements were already being planned before the announcement of The Aranson but ARDOT says they added to the design of the project to accommodate more traffic.
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MADISON COUNTY, Ark. — A deadly crash left one woman dead in Madison County, on Saturday, April 29 at around 7:30 p.m.
According to the crash report by the Arkansas Department of Public Safety, the crash took place on State Highway 12.
The report states Robin Jerkins, 44, of Huntsville was killed when she crossed the center line in her Toyota Corolla hitting another vehicle's trailer and then hitting a Ford F-350 on the front driver's side.
Three others were injured including a minor that was in Jerkin's car, and they were taken to Washington Regional and Children's Hospital, according to the report.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The new Fayetteville Police headquarters officially opened to the public on Monday, May 1, at 7 am.
The new facility will be located at 1800 N. Stephen Carr Memorial Blvd. The original facility was located at 100 W. Rock St. in downtown Fayetteville and was operating there since July 1993.
Visitors can access the lobby after normal operating hours on an as-needed basis and use an intercom system to contact dispatch. Both on and off-street parking will be available for visitors.
"The architecture was kind of based off of the Walton Arts Center, and Theater Squared, the front lobby area is very inviting," said Fayetteville Officer Sgt. Anthony Murphy.
Fayetteville voters approved a bond measure in April 2019 to fund this project, and the construction began on approximately 82,500 square feet. secured in February 2021.
"Just leaving the old PD after working somewhere for so long is a big change ... but it was greatly needed. We just moved from a 25,000 square foot, retrofitted JC Penney's," Sgt. Murphy said.
"It's very streamlined. I know my unit [was] very cramped ... There was lots of stuff everywhere because we had nowhere to put anything and now we have plenty of space to put stuff in," he added.
"It was kind of hard to get around quickly because you were driving through the entertainment district, lots of traffic and stuff like that," Sgt. Murphy said. "You can get to North Fayetteville or South Fayetteville either way. So it's centrally located."
The new building has an indoor shooting range, a workout room, and many other spacious training and meeting rooms.
Fayetteville Police says its new facility is fully ADA accessible, and includes several areas capable of hosting public meetings while offering increased space, safety, and security for officers and staff.
"We spent a lot of money sending officers to training— whether it be local or out of state and since we have this big training area that we can utilize, hopefully we can get some training opportunities here," Sgt. Murphy said.
Security measures are noticeable throughout the building with gates, cameras, and many locked doors and barriers. Sgt. Murphy explained that safety was a top priority for the city after the killing of Stephen Carr.
"When they decided to rename Porter Road, as Stephen Carr Memorial Boulevard, it was a huge deal for not just me, but everyone that works for the police department, all the citizens of Fayetteville," Sgt. Murphy said, recognizing how meaningful the new facility is. "If everyone remembers back in 2019, December 7, when that happened, and the weeks that followed, it was a community outpouring of support. And I think the community really heard from it. And I think they still do, and I think it's special to everybody that was involved in that."
This new facility won't only be for Fayetteville police training. The public is also invited to participate in their citizen's police academy. Classes have not been scheduled yet, but when they are you'll find them on the police department's website.
A building dedication ceremony and community tour plans will be announced later this month.
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KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas — Another North Texas school district has announced new leadership with continuing change across the area.
On Friday, Kaufman Independent School District named Dr. Joshua Garcia as the lone finalist for superintendent, according to district leaders. Garcia is currently the superintendent of Rockport-Fulton ISD in Rockport, Texas, where Kaufman ISD said he led the district through a long-range facilities master planning process that resulted in the passage of a $66 million facilities bond, increased the district's fund balance, and expanded opportunities for students.
On Feb. 13, 2023, Kaufman ISD Superintendent Lori Blaylock announced her retirement to the district's board of education during a board meeting. The board accepted her retirement date of December 2023.
Garcia has been a professional educator for 24 years with 19 years spent in leadership roles at three levels—elementary, middle school, and high school. Garcia also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middle Tennessee State University, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Master of Education from The University of Texas at Arlington, and a Doctor of Education from Dallas Baptist University.
"It is exciting to welcome a new leader that is committed to building on the unique strengths of the Kaufman ISD and the greater Kaufman community," Byron Gregg said, president of the Kaufman ISD Board.
Garcia is married to Olga Garcia, a bilingual pre-kindergarten teacher. They are parents to three children: Caleb Garcia, Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army; Michaela Garcia, nursing student at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; and Kristen Garcia, a marketing major at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
There has been a recent rise in superintendents leaving the education industry in parts of the U.S., forcing many districts to deal with shifts in their leadership teams.
North Texas is in the middle of its own transition period. From November 2021 through February 2022, 11 superintendents from 11 local school districts announced they would be leaving, resigning or retiring from their leadership positions.
Three happened on the same day: Jan. 13, 2022.
Since March 2022, six more North Texas superintendents, including Blaylock, have also stepped down. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/kaufman-isd-names-new-superintendent-2023/287-438aaf9c-358e-4dc9-8b3c-584214e87f15 | 2023-05-02T12:26:47 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/kaufman-isd-names-new-superintendent-2023/287-438aaf9c-358e-4dc9-8b3c-584214e87f15 |
ROGERS, Ark. — After several budget shortfalls, the Beaver Lake Fire Department could be getting additional funding, but voters will have to decide in a special election.
“The fact of it is, we need more personnel and we need new equipment," said Beaver Lake Fire Chief, Dusty Qualls. "We need more funding for adequate staffing.
Qualls took over as chief a little more than a month ago and works at the Beaver Lake Fire Department part-time, in addition to working at the Rogers Fire Department.
“We have a very limited crew during the day, and most of the time nobody at night,” said the Beaver Lake Fire Department Board Chairman Larry Smith.
In December, the department had to cut four of its 10 full-time firefighters, and the chief's pay by 7.5%. The department currently has 4 full-time staff members and 3 part-time, including the chief.
"We need the resources to be staffed adequately,” Qualls said.
Funding for this would come from a membership due increase— the first since 2017. It would change dues from $150 a year to $200 a year.
"Just a Little over $4 a month,” Smith said.
If approved by voters it would give the department $120,000 in additional funding.
Smith says if the membership increase does not pass, that “it really boils down to what the members of our community want.”
Smith says these votes could impact response time, and that currently, there's only one firefighter per shift. “There’s not much a single firefighter can do except get the truck there.” According to Smith, two or more firefighters have to be out for a firefighter to go inside a home.
He says it's essential the department get more staff to better cover the area. Especially with more people in the area during the summer.
“Fire Departments are like insurance companies," Smith said. "For the most part, you don’t need ‘em, but when you need them, you really need them.”
The department says that if the due increase is approved, it would hire two more part-time firefighters and focus on equipment upgrades.
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EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. — Carole Baskin was in Northwest Arkansas on Saturday, April 29.
Baskin, famous for her rivalry with Tiger King Star, Joe Exotic, was at Turpentine Creek's 'Feast with the Beasts' event in Eureka Springs on Saturday, April 29.
Dozens gathered in support of the 31st anniversary of Turpentine Creek and the recent passage of the Big Cat Safety Act. But the celebration doesn't stop there, the park has big plans coming this fall.
"Well we're actually developing a 13-and-a-half-acre field and it's a big pasture that we have and it's a big pasture that we have and it's been the prime one of the most special locations we have on this property," said Tanya Smith, President and founder of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Park.
President and Founder Tanya Smith says the expansion plan will feature about 40 habitats and 22 of those cages will be for smaller cats. As of now, the park has nearly 100 cats, 8 bears, and 1 hyena.
"We're hoping that by July we'll be able to get the big cats here. They only have six tigers right now, so we'd like to get those six tigers moved here as soon as possible and then we feel like by October we'll be able to get all the smaller animals here," Smith explained.
In late March, Turpentine Creek announced it will acquire dozens of Carole Baskin's big cats and provide lifetime refuge for the animals.
Tanya Smith is the president and founder of Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge Park.
"The Baskin's had Scott and I to Tampa to celebrate the big cat public safety act getting passed, they another agenda I guess to come and ask us if we would (Turpentine Creek) would take in their 41 cats there," Smith said.
Attendees at this event say the uniqueness of this refuge is its reputation for caring for the animals and providing education to the public. One attendee stated, "It's so important that they rehabilitate animals and they take care of the animals, you know, so many bad things happen people keep cats as pets and put them in cages. and here they're free to live their lives out safely."
Aside from seeing all the animals at the park attendees, we're excited to see Saturday evening's special guests Carole and Howard Baskin. By bringing the cats from Big Cat Rescue in Florida to Arkansas, the Baskins say they want to pay it forward.
"By moving the cats here we will be able to sell the land, and it's worth millions and [we'll] be able to fund much more of these projects," Howard Baskin said.
If you want to visit the new cats, you have to wait. Park officials told 5NEWS the expansion is expected to be complete by October and once it's complete, Baskin's cats will start to come to Northwest Arkansas.
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The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a driver was injured by a bullet fired during a road rage shooting that happened on I-95 on Monday night.
According to police, the incident happened just before 8:45 p.m. when the driver was, allegedly, involved in -- what police considered -- a "road rage incident" that cumulated into a shooting when the driver of an older model, white Volvo produced a firearm and shot into the victim's vehicle.
The incident, officials said, happened as these vehicles were traveling northbound along I-95 at the Bartram Avenue on-ramp, not far from the airport in South Philadelphia.
A bullet hole could be seen in the driver's side window of the victim's vehicle on Monday night as officers investigated the scene.
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The victim, police said, suffered a graze wound across their arm.
Police are on the lookout for the individual who is alleged to have fired a gun during this incident. After the shooting, the gunman's vehicle fled northbound on I-95, investigators said.
Officers said he is believed to be a black man with dreadlocks who was driving a white, older model, cloth-top convertible Volvo sedan, likely a Volvo C70, at the time of the shooting.
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At least nine people were hurt in two separate crashes involving stolen vehicles in downtown West Chester, Pennsylvania, early Tuesday, according to authorities. And, police say at least one vehicle was being pursued prior to crashing.
Police officers and medics initially responded to East Gay and North Matlack streets around 12:10 a.m., West Chester Borough Police said. A car could be seen with bad front-end damage and a street pole was torn out of the ground at that scene.
Officers and medics also responded to West Gay and North Darlington streets to find another stolen vehicle that had struck several other vehicles before coming to a stop, police said.
West Chester police said that both vehicles were stolen from other jurisdictions. Police said at least one vehicle was being pursued prior to the downtown wreck.
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Several people in the stolen vehicles were treated for injuries, police said, while not revealing the extent of injuries. Earlier police said at least nine people in total were hurt.
No further details about the crashes were immediately available.
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May 2 is International Harry Potter Day. Potterheads all over the world celebrate on this day as it marks the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts — May 2, 1998 — which is also the day Harry Potter finally defeats the wicked Lord Voldemort. To celebrate, watch one of the “Potter” films again, pick up a “Potter” book or just cast a few spells.
The UW-Parkside Parkside Range, the university’s a cappella group, is performing at 7 tonight in UW-Parkside’s Bedford Concert Hall, on the west side of the campus at 900 Wood Road. The Range performs a mix of in-house arrangements and hit songs. Ami Bouterse, a member of UW-Parkside’s music department faculty since 2004, launched Parkside Range in 2016. Tickets are $10 for adults; $5 for senior citizens, students and UW-Parkside staff. For tickets, go to uwp.edu/therita or call 262-595-2564. A free livestream option is also available on the UW-Parkside website.
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Head to the Simmons Library, 711 59th Place, “Legos at the Library” from 5 to 6 p.m. Participants will “build with Legos and display your creation at the library.” This is a free event, recommended for ages 5 and up. For more library programs, log on at www.mykpl.info.
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is hosting the 28th Parkside National Print Exhibition, on display through July 28 in the Emile H. Mathis Gallery. The gallery is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Admission is free. For more details, go to www.uwp.edu/therita/artgalleries.cfm.
New exhibits are now on display at the Anderson Arts Center, 6603 Third Ave. The new exhibits feature works from the Racine Art Guild, plus solo show winners from the Winter Juried Show 2022 and works from the Area Artists Group and Kemper Lakefront Studios. The Anderson Arts Center is open from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is free. For more information, go to kempercenter.com. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-tuesday-may-2/article_fef8ff26-e82d-11ed-bc1c-7b533a3127e8.html | 2023-05-02T12:38:01 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-area-events-for-tuesday-may-2/article_fef8ff26-e82d-11ed-bc1c-7b533a3127e8.html |
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa State Fair has released a list of free entertainment options this year, just 100 days out from the "Best Days Ever".
Free entertainment options are available throughout the fair and range from daytime family-friendly shows, to tribute bands, to up-and-coming stars.
A complete program of events and entertainment will be released in July on the Fair's website and app.
All free entertainment is available with admission. Buy tickets in advance for just $11 ($16 at the gate). Buy tickets online here.
Check out the full list of free entertainment below.
You can also find a complete list of Grandstand performances here.
Susan Knapp Amphitheater
- August 10: Priscilla Block
- August 11: Blake Guyre (Tribute to Elton John/Billy Joel)
- August 12: Shane Profitt
- August 13: Nate Smith
- August 14-15: Hairball
- August 16: Ned LeDoux
- August 17: Megan Moroney
- August 18: Ingrid Andress
- August 19: Claire Rosinkranz
- August 20: Asleep at the Wheel
Anne and Bill Riley Stage
- August 10-11: Rockland Road
- August 12: 2023 Iowa State Fair Queen Coronation
- August 13: Latino Celebration
- August 14-18: Hypnotist Ron Diamond
- August 19: Country Gold - LeRoy Van Dyke, Mandy Barnett, David Frizzell
- August 20: CAIN
MidAmerican Energy Stage
- August 10: Jason Brown
- August 11: The Nadas
- August 12: Good To Be King (A Tribute to Tom Petty)
- August 13: Renata
- August 14: Autograph
- August 15: Vixen
- August 16: Great White
- August 17: TBA
- August 18: Paradise Kitty
- August 19: Bob Dorr's Iowa Music Revue
- August 20: Junior Marvin & the Legendary Wailers
Fun Forest Stage
- August 10-20: Fantastick Patrick
- August 10-20: Barrel O'Fun, magic show
Other entertainment
- Chainsaw Artists Gary Keenan, T.J. Jenkins and Clint Henik – Country School Area
- Bruno’s Tiger Show – Near Gate 15 and Little Hands on the Farm
- iFlip, sponsored by Mountain Valley Spring Water – Jacobson Building West Lawn
- The Red Trouser Show – Expo Hill
- Bandaloni, one-man band – Strolling
- The Strolling Piano – Strolling
- Robocars, transforming robot vehicles – Strolling
- Brian Sobaski's Straw Art – Near Giant Slide
- Sandscapes – Thrill Ville Entrance on the Grand Concourse | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/state-fair/iowa-state-fair/iowa-state-fair-free-entertainment-concerts-shows/524-19e91a0e-c04b-4c2f-b602-362002c65e53 | 2023-05-02T12:42:04 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/state-fair/iowa-state-fair/iowa-state-fair-free-entertainment-concerts-shows/524-19e91a0e-c04b-4c2f-b602-362002c65e53 |
5 things to know about Hartville Hardware's Idea House
- The Idea House opened recently at Hartville Hardware.
- The style of the 1,845-square-foot home is inspired by the deep roots of modern European architecture.
- Here are five things to know about the Idea House.
LAKE TWP. − On a Saturday not long after its unveiling, the new Idea House at Hartville Hardware & Lumber, at 1315 Edison St. NW, was bustling with people.
The 1,845-square-foot home − yes, a full-size home − is inside the hardware store. Its style is inspired by the “deep roots of modern European architecture featuring natural elements and a calming color palette resulting in a unique blend of comfort and refinement,” according to a prepared statement from Hartville Hardware.
“Seeing is believing,” said Cindy Kandel, Divisional Merchandise Manager. “We are beyond excited to be opening the door to the new house and providing our guests a welcoming space where they can find design inspiration.”
“We are constantly working with our vendor partners to fill the growing need for beautiful and cost-effective products and are extremely thankful for their support. With a little grit and a lot of determination, we turned this dream into reality.”
The Idea House is open six days a week during regular business hours, and also is available by appointment.
Here are five things to know about the newest Idea House at Hartville Hardware.
1. The idea for the house originated at a home and garden show
The concept originated from Howard Miller, who is on the leadership team and board of directors and runs the pricing and other systems on a part-time basis. His family owns the store.
“Years ago, he attended a home and garden show where a similar concept caught his attention. He felt there was value in introducing a house within a store, and in 2012, the first Idea House was introduced to the public,” said Kelli Hill, marketing director at Hartville Hardware.
2. This is the fourth Idea House at Hartville Hardware
The original house was built in 2012. In 2016, it was updated to reflect more modern trends. In November 2022, the Idea House was converted to a gingerbread house for the holiday season. The newest version was unveiled earlier this month.
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3. A lot of items used to build the house can be purchased at Hartville Hardware
“It was a deliberate decision to showcase items that our guests can purchase and enjoy in their homes,” Hill said.
Materials, such as the decking, cabinets, countertops, tiles, flooring, appliances, fixtures and decor used to stage the home, are available to purchase in store and at hartvillehardware.com.
Each of the rooms have a placard showing available items, plus their cost.
Home design trends:Josh Hostetler: Six home design trends to watch in 2023
4. The house took 13 weeks to build
“With the leadership of an incredible design team, we spent 13 weeks deconstructing the previous house and constructing the new Idea House that represents the evolution in interior and exterior design trends,” Hill said.
The intention behind the design was to build a house that customers can experience in a tangible and intangible way. Each room was purposefully designed to “promote inspiration and imagination.”
5. The house’s street number pages homage to the original store
In honor of the original store, the Idea House features the street number 940 from the original Hartville Hardware on West Maple Street.
Stark County Real Estate Transfers:Auto dealership property sells for $1.3 million in Jackson Township | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2023/05/02/5-things-to-know-about-hartville-hardwares-idea-house/70116631007/ | 2023-05-02T12:42:16 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/hartville-lake/2023/05/02/5-things-to-know-about-hartville-hardwares-idea-house/70116631007/ |
North Canton Council set to allow residents to keep trash cans outside garages
- North Canton council tweaks garbage ordinance.
- North Canton administrator announces longtime eyesore property has been demolished.
NORTH CANTON − By not placing their large Kimble garbage container in their garage, many residents are violating the city's trash collection ordinance.
Council plans to soon legalize what many residents are doing in practice — keeping their Kimble trash cans outside because they don't have enough space in their small garages.
Council voted Monday to place proposed legislation overhauling the waste collection ordinance on its agenda for action next week.
More North Canton news:Papa Bears, Bojangles, Wendy's also to open in North Canton
Right now, the ordinance requires that property owners keep their garbage containers in a storage area except during the 24 hours before trash collection day. The code defines storage area as "the interior of a garage, shed, commercial building, or a location to the rear of a residential or commercial building that is shielded from the view of adjoining property owners by natural buffering, or a constructed enclosure."
The legislation would change the definition of storage area to "a location on the property that is not curbside and is set back at least five feet from any property line."
At-large council member Daryl Revoldt said many residents have small garages and can't fit their car and the large Kimble can into their garage. The proposal also would prohibit anyone from placing trash into a container that wasn't their own. But a violation of the ordinance would remain a minor misdemeanor.
The legislation also increases the minimum liability insurance coverage for a trash hauler operating in the city from $500,000 to $1 million. But it eliminates the requirement that a trash removal company post a performance bond of $10,000.
City provides update on SAFEbuilt
City Administrator Patrick DeOrio gave council an update on the city's relationship with SAFEbuilt, a contractor that does housing code inspections for the city and provides citation notices for violations. The city contracted with SAFEbuilt in 2018.
DeOrio said the company does not only building code enforcement but inspections of plumbing, mechanical systems, and electrical systems. It also helps draft housing code and zoning code legislation.
DeOrio showed a pie chart that listed the top types of housing code violations from 1999 to 2023. The top two types are grass and weeds, 927 since 1999, and temporary sign violations, of which there were 859. He also showed a slide that said that landlords for 1,308 rental units in the city have registered those units through the rental registration program, which SAFEBuild is helping to administer.
DeOrio announced that due to SAFEbuilt's help the city was able to demolish on Monday a problem property at 1646 Westfield Ave. SW, south of Everhard Road NW. The city filed suit against the property's owner in January 2022. DeOrio said the evidence collected by a SAFEbuilt inspector helped the city build a case.
Reach Robert at robert.wang@cantonrep.com. Twitter: @rwangREP. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/north-canton/2023/05/02/north-canton-council-looks-at-changes-to-trash-hauling-ordinance/70173311007/ | 2023-05-02T12:42:22 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/north-canton/2023/05/02/north-canton-council-looks-at-changes-to-trash-hauling-ordinance/70173311007/ |
Walsh University's commencement speaker May 6 will be Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda.
NORTH CANTON − Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Erbil, Iraq, will deliver the Walsh University commencement address during graduation ceremonies Saturday and will concelebrate a Baccalaureate Mass.
Walsh will present Warda with an honorary doctorate of theology for his lifetime achievements. He is a leading international voice for the persecuted Christians in Northern Iraq and founder of a hospital, a nongovernmental organization (NGO), four schools and builder of three churches.
Originally from Baghdad, Warda joined the St. Peter's Chaldean seminary and was ordained a priest in 1993. In 2009, the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church elected him archbishop of the Archeparchy of Erbil.
Last November, Walsh welcomed Warda, chairman of the Board of Trustees and chancellor of the Catholic University in Erbil, to campus to sign a memorandum of understanding aimed at creating new opportunities for education and understanding in the Middle East. Walsh is one of three universities in a relationship with Catholic University. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/north-canton/2023/05/02/walsh-universitys-commencement-speaker-may-6-will-be-archbishop-bashar-matti-warda/70171671007/ | 2023-05-02T12:42:28 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/north-canton/2023/05/02/walsh-universitys-commencement-speaker-may-6-will-be-archbishop-bashar-matti-warda/70171671007/ |
Stark County primary election updates: Polls are open until 7:30 p.m.
Today is election day in Ohio.
Polling locations open at 6:30 a.m. You can vote in the primary election until 7:30 p.m. at your polling location in Stark County.
For a full list of candidates and issues, visit https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/board_of_elections/.
Photo ID required to vote in Ohio primary election
Under the state's new election law, you're required to show photo ID in order to vote. If you don't or can't, you can cast a provisional ballot, but you have to return to the board of elections within four days of election day, instead of seven days under the old law, to provide a qualifying form of ID for your ballot to be counted.
Boards of elections have until eight days after the election, May 10, to determine what provisional ballots can be counted.
The absentee ballot postmark deadline was Monday. May 6 — four days after the election instead of 10 under the old law — is the last day for boards of elections to receive absentee ballots postmarked by May 1.
You or one of your near relatives can drop your absentee ballot in the drop box at the Stark County Board of Elections, 3525 Regent Ave NE, Canton, until 7:30 p.m. tonight, when the polls close.
What are valid forms of photo ID for Ohioans?
Acceptable forms of ID include:
- Ohio driver's license
- State of Ohio ID card
- Interim ID form issued by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles
- U.S. passport
- U.S. passport card
- U.S. military ID card
- Ohio National Guard ID card
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ID card
All photo ID must have an expiration date that has not passed, photo of the voter and the voter's name, which must conform to the name that appears in the poll list or poll book. An unexpired Ohio driver's license, state ID card or interim documentation with a voter's former address is acceptable as long as the current address is listed in the poll book.
Voters previously had the option to show an alternate form of ID, such as a utility bill or paycheck that indicated their current address. Those documents will no longer be accepted. A county-issued veteran's ID also does not qualify.
Ohioans who are 17 and older can obtain a free state ID from the state BMV.
What to know:Ohio's new voter ID law
What's on the ballot in Stark County?
Voters in Stark communities will decide on a number of primaries, levies and other issues. Among offices on the ballot in Stark County are mayor's posts in Canton and Alliance. Canton and Massillon also have large groups of candidates seeking at-large seats on their city councils.
Voters seeking issues-only ballots will see two countywide renewal levies. The Stark County Board of Developmental Disabilities is asking for the renewal of a five-year, 3.3-mill levy for programs and services and facility maintenance. Voters will also decide whether to renew a 0.1-mill levy for the maintenance and operation of the county's 911 system for five years.
Canton City Schools voters will see Issue 18, which would build two elementary schools and change how the district of nearly 8,000 students educates its youngest pupils. Issue 19, out of Perry Local School District, would provide new operating money. Lake Local Schools also is seeking new operating money.
East Canton voters will see an 8.1-mill levy for the village's police department. Osnaburg Township is seeking three new property taxes − 0.15 mills for cemetery maintenance; a 1.05-mill levy for road maintenance; and 1.3 mills for fire protection.
In Alliance, voters will be asked to renew a 3-mill property tax that funds parks and recreation activities. The issue first was passed five years ago.
A full rundown of candidates and issues is available online at https://starkcountyohio.gov/government/offices/board_of_elections.
The Repository will be posting updates throughout the day on this page. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2023/05/02/stark-county-primary-election-updates-how-long-polls-open-voting-vote/70171392007/ | 2023-05-02T12:42:34 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2023/05/02/stark-county-primary-election-updates-how-long-polls-open-voting-vote/70171392007/ |
A new U.S. News & World Report rated all 50 states. Here's where Wisconsin ranks
Here's a talker.
For the second straight time, Wisconsin was rated No. 8 out of 50 states in U.S. News & World Report's Best States rankings, released early Tuesday.
States were measured on a series of metrics in eight categories including healthcare, education and the economy.
Two of Wisconsin's neighbors fared slightly better: Iowa was No. 7 and Minnesota was No. 5.
Illinois landed at No. 36.
Utah was No. 1 while Washington was No. 2.
In the overall individual categories, Wisconsin ranked 12th in healthcare, 6th in education, 22nd on the economy, 27th for infrastructure, 8th for opportunity, 7th for fiscal stability, 25th for crime and corrections, and 29th for natural environment.
This is the fifth time the outlet produced the rankings, which were last released in 2021. According to the outlet, "the data behind the rankings aims to show how well states serve their residents in a variety of ways."
The study showed national improvements in preventable hospital admissions among Medicare beneficiaries and a rise in the business creation rate. But it noted a rise in the age-adjusted rate of mortality.
“With the economic and social devastation caused by COVID-19 pandemic finally slowing down, U.S. News’ analysis of state data during that time reveals some bright spots — including a rise in the business creation rate. Unsurprisingly, the hardships Americans faced were also apparent — from soaring retail electricity costs to asignificant rise in the mortality rate,” Morgan Felchner, executive editor for news and events, said in a statement.
“Citizens, business leaders and policymakers will benefit from the 2023 Best States’ data-driven journalism and rankings to see how well states are performing and gain insights on both state and national levels.” | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/05/02/wisconsin-rates-no-8-in-u-s-news-best-states-rankings/70171458007/ | 2023-05-02T12:48:39 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2023/05/02/wisconsin-rates-no-8-in-u-s-news-best-states-rankings/70171458007/ |
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) More than 60 Flint-area groups will help maintain nearly 3,600 vacant properties in and around the city from now until September.
The 2023 Clean and Green program officially kicked off April 25. Block clubs, schools, churches, neighborhood associations and local nonprofits are taking part.
They'll get a stipend for maintaining at least 25 properties every three weeks.
The Genesee County Land Bank says cleaning up the community helps reduce crime. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/flints-clean-and-green-program-starts-for-a-new-season/article_bf5d0c7e-e8df-11ed-8a92-7f2cd9f97c2f.html | 2023-05-02T12:59:10 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/flints-clean-and-green-program-starts-for-a-new-season/article_bf5d0c7e-e8df-11ed-8a92-7f2cd9f97c2f.html |
MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Tuesday is a special Election Day with 21 different proposals on the ballot across Mid-Michigan.
A controversial measure in Montrose will determine whether the city allows recreational marijuana dispensaries.
Most of the questions on the ballot Tuesday involve school millages, including costly millages for voters in Saginaw Township Community Schools and Lake Fenton Community Schools.
The Saginaw Township school district is asking voters to approve nearly $245 million in bond funds. The district says it will use the money to build a new high school and renovate seven other buildings.
Voters in the Lake Fenton school district will decide on a $57 million bond proposal. The money would be used to build new facilities and a new early childhood center.
Other districts with bond proposals on the ballot include Bangor Township Schools in Bay County, Coleman Community Schools in Midland County and Dryden Community Schools in Lapeer County.
Gladwin Community Schools are asking for more than $55 million to build a new junior high school.
Other items on the ballot include sinking funds and fire protection millages.
Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Click here to see which communities have questions on the ballot Tuesday and where to vote. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/key-questions-on-the-ballot-for-some-mid-michigan-voters-tuesday/article_3b9393e8-e882-11ed-9c14-4fdc1fdf8a12.html | 2023-05-02T12:59:16 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/key-questions-on-the-ballot-for-some-mid-michigan-voters-tuesday/article_3b9393e8-e882-11ed-9c14-4fdc1fdf8a12.html |
Bob Baffert wanted to see, and touch, greatness. An accomplished quarter-horse trainer, he was transitioning to thoroughbreds, and to educate himself, he traveled to Kentucky in the late 1980s to see the Triple Crown champion legions believe is unrivaled.
He wasn’t disappointed. Secretariat was stunning, even at his advanced age.
“I’ll never forget his neck and shoulders, his deep heart girth,” Baffert said. “It was the biggest shouldered heart girth I’d ever seen in a horse. ... I think he was just one of those freaks of nature we see come along. Just a rare athlete.”
Rare, indeed.
Fifty years ago this spring, Secretariat won the 1973 Triple Crown with a five-week tour de force not witnessed before or since, dominance of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes that awed and enchanted not only seasoned horsemen, but also folks who didn’t know a furlong from a filly.
He was racing's first Triple Crown champion since Citation in 1948.
This improbable journey, from The Meadow foaling shed in Caroline County, just north of Richmond, to international acclaim, included a fateful coin flip, record syndication and the founder of a riding club frequented by future first lady Jacqueline Bouvier.
Moreover, Secretariat’s fame endures in the form of books, birthday parties, monuments — the most recent could well find a permanent home in Ashland — and a 2010 Disney movie starring Diane Lane, John Malkovich and Scott Glenn.
“At some of the birthday celebrations at The Meadow, you would have people come from all over the United States, and they would start weeping when they saw (his first) saddle,” Maryland-based trainer Rob Bailes said. “People of all ages just felt a connection. It’s something, really something.”
That saddle is a Bailes family heirloom — for good reason. The late Meredith “Mert” Bailes, Rob’s father, was the first person to ride Secretariat, when he was a yearling at The Meadow.
Baffert, the trainer of Triple Crown champions American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018), understands the sentimental attachment.
“Whenever I have a good 2-year-old, I never say, ‘Will this be the next Justify?’” Baffert said. “I want a Secretariat. Before I leave this beautiful Earth, I’d like to (train) a Secretariat.”
IN THE BEGINNING
Christopher Chenery grew up poor in Ashland, and the family home still stands on the corner of Duncan and — wait for it — Racecourse. Food was occasionally scarce, and as a child he helped out by exercising horses at the nearby farm of Bernard Doswell.
His affinity for thoroughbreds lasted. His poverty did not.
Chenery attended Randolph-Macon, blocks from his home, and transferred to Washington & Lee, where in 1908 he earned an engineering degree. He then landed in New York and commenced a career in high finance.
In a book on Secretariat’s Virginia origins, “Secretariat’s Meadow,” Kate Tweedy wrote that Chenery, her maternal grandfather, “spent his life pursuing two great passions. The first was making money and providing financial security for himself and his loved ones. The second was horses.”
The latter pastime led Chenery to start a riding club in suburban New York City that counted John Kennedy’s future wife as a client. Most providential, it led Chenery to bring The Meadow back under family ownership.
That ownership had ebbed and flowed for two-plus centuries, and while recovering from a heart attack in 1936, Chenery went all-in converting the property to a top-flight breeding operation. The business was up and running by 1939, and in 1950 Meadow Stable produced Horse of the Year and Preakness champion Hill Prince.
So prominent was Chenery that he partnered with the established Phipps family, owner of 1957 Preakness winner and renowned sire Bold Ruler. Each year, two of Chenery’s mares were bred to Kentucky-based Bold Ruler, and a coin flip determined which family received the first pick of foals.
When her father became cognitively impaired in 1968, Penny Chenery Tweedy took over management of The Meadow from Colorado, where she lived with her husband and children. Miscast as a housewife, this former Smith College equestrian captain was an experienced rider and novice breeder.
But Penny Tweedy proved a shrewd businesswoman.
"Mom should have been a CEO from the beginning," Kate said over coffee at an Ashland café.
Penny's most auspicious decision was among her first.
She insisted that the coin-toss loser for the 1968 breeding with Bold Ruler automatically have first choice the next cycle. But of the two Chenery mares sent to him in 1969, only Somethingroyal became pregnant, meaning the loser of the flip automatically received that offspring.
Who tossed the coin? Who called it? Heads or tails?
The details of that summer day at Saratoga have been lost to history.
But Penny lost, settling for the second choice from 1968, a soon-forgotten colt that Meadow Stable named Rising River. In return, she gained the product of the 1969 mating of Bold Ruler and Somethingroyal.
Born March 30, 1970, at The Meadow, he was Secretariat, named by Chenery’s trusted assistant, Elizabeth Ham, a former staffer at the League of Nations Secretariat.
Distinguished by his size, three white feet and deep red coloring, “Big Red” quickly impressed everyone at The Meadow, including Mert Bailes and his father, Bob, who managed the stable’s training track.
“Beautiful Colt,” Bob Bailes wrote of Secretariat in his logbook Aug. 28, 1971. His granddaughter Renee Bailes-Webb, then a teenager, treasures that logbook and all of her family’s Meadow memorabilia.
“Growing up there at The Meadow was such an unbelievable experience,” she said from her Ashland home. “I guess you don’t realize it when you’re (young) but later in life you realize how special it was.
“Dad said (Secretariat) was just unbelievably smart, that he very quickly caught on to any training they were doing with him. The one thing I regret more than anything is not having my dad on video or recorded in some way, shape or form talking about his experience breaking Secretariat.”
But Mert Bailes’ words live on in William Nack’s authoritative biography, "Secretariat."
“He was beautiful to train," Bailes told Nack. "No problem. A perfect gentleman. We thought the world of him, you know, because of his breeding. I (have) been wrong on a lot of them, but I really felt he was special when we had him. ... We live right off Route 95, between Washington and Richmond, and I felt we could have galloped him right down the road. Nothing bothered him.”
But would his training translate to the racetrack? Unlike previous Bold Ruler progeny, would he win at classic distances?
Far from the pastoral Meadow, Secretariat wasted little time answering — emphatically.
The Times-Dispatch is publishing six stories to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown. Timed to coincide with each of the Crown races, they will appear in three sets of two.
1. Exploring Big Red’s Virginia roots.
2. Jockeys Ron Turcotte and Laffit Pincay Jr., relive the Kentucky Derby. (online Wednesday)
3. Secretariat’s stirring prelude.
4. Turcotte’s bold Preakness move.
5. Secretariat’s enduring legacy and The Meadow today.
6. The pinnacle at the Belmont.
With his sights set for victory in the June 9 Belmont Stakes to capture the Triple Crown, Secretariat works out with an exercise rider in the shed row at Belmont Park, New York, May 23, 1973. The horse loosened up indoors to avoid rainy weather. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
"The track is very much of a man's world," says Penny Chenery, at her Laurel Hollow, New York, May 23, 1973. But Ms. Chenery, owner of Secretariat, adds: "I feel very comfortable there." She stresses however: "I don't want to be one of the boys, I want to be treated like a lady." The trophy is Secretariat's 1972 Horse of the Year award. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Jockey Ron Turcotte pilots Secretariat (leading, #4) over the finish line at Aqueduct in New York, March 17, 1973 to win the $27,750 Bay Shore stakes in his debut as a three-year-old. The 1972 Horse of the Year, got under the wire 4½ lengths ahead of Champagne Charlie, with Michael Venezia up, second from left, with a time of 1:23 1/5. Venezia's mount was two and a half lengths ahead of Impecunious, right, ridden by James Moseley. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Race horses Secretariat and Riva Ridge in their barn at Belmont racetrack, New York, Sept. 17, 1973, after a workout. Guard, maintained on a 24-hour basis to protect the fabulous pair, is seen in foreground feeding Secretariat. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
Groom Clay Arnold stands with the 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, May 7, 1975 after giving him hiss daily bath. Old super horse has sired 27 foals since retiring to Claiborne farm in eastern Kentucky and his first offspring will be ready for the track in 1977. (AP Photo)
Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown of racing in 1973, relaxes at the Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, May 2, 1974 with his groom, Edward Fields. Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness in 1973. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
FILE - This June 9, 1973, file photo shows Penny Chenery, owner of Secretariat, reacting after her horse won the Belmont Stakes, and the Triple Crown, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Chenery, who bred and raced 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat as well as realizing her disabled father’s dream to win the Kentucky Derby in 1972 with Riva Ridge.
FILE - In this April 29, 2010, file photo, Secretariat owner Penny Chenery appears at a news conference about the movie based on the story of the legendary horse, in Louisville, Ky. Chenery, who bred and raced 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat as well as realizing her disabled father’s dream to win the Kentucky Derby in 1972 with Riva Ridge, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, at her Boulder, Colo. home following complications from a stroke.
FILE- This June 9, 1973, file photo, shows Penny Chenery, right, as she receives the August Belmont Memorial Cup from New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in the Belmont Park Winner's Circle, after her horse, Secretariat, won the Belmont Stakes by an astounding 31 lengths. Watching are jockey Ron Turcotte, second from left and Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton.
Two of Secretariat's great granddaughters, Twinkie and Clever (right) walk in a pen in front of Secretariat's yearling stall where the 1973 triple crown winner stayed in his time at Meadow Farm, now home to the State Fair of Virginia in Doswell on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014.
Nabil Elhilali from Malage, Spain, stopped by to see a Secretariat display at Main Street Station, which features the second largest horseshoe in the world along with other items from Meadow Farm, the land now occupied by Meadow Event Park in Caroline County.
In this publicity image released by Disney, from second left, Diane Lane, Nelsan Ellis, Otto Thorwarth, and John Malkovich are shown in a scene from, "Secretariat." (AP Photo/Disney, John Bramley)
FILE - In this May 9, 1973 file photo, Secretariat, Ron Turcotte up, wins the 98th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Secretariat's owner has asked the Maryland Racing Commission to conduct a hearing about changing the time of the horse's winning run in the 1973 Preakness Stakes. Penny Chenery, along with Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas, say advances in modern video technology will prove Secretariat ran the 1 3/16 mile race in 1 minute, 53 and 2/5 seconds. That would have been a record at the time and would match the standing record for the Preakness.
Penny Chenery, L, signed autographs for admirers during the 40th Anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown win in 1973. The event was held at Meadow Farm.
Richmond Police Department's Mounted Division officers Amanda Bass, L, and Dawn Lehmann escorted the Percheron team driven by Goochland's Dr. Tom Newton and pulling a carriage bringing Penny Chenery and her daughter Kate Chenery Tweedy to celebrations for Secretariat's 40th anniversary of Triple Crown victories in 1973.
Secretariat, the record-breaking winner of the Kentucky Derby is greeted in his stall at Pimlico Race Course by Mrs. John Tweedy, manager of Meadow Stables which controls the big chestnut. Looking on is George Davis, the exercise boy for Secretariat. May 16, 1973.
Triple Crown winner Secretariat gallops during a workout with exercise jockey George Davis in saddle at Arlington Park race track in Arlington Heights, Ill., Friday morning, June 29, 1973. (AP Photo)
Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to win the Belmont Stakes and capture the Triple Crown in this June 9, 1973 photo. Secretariat set a world record for a one and a half mile course in 2:24, and a record for largest margin of victory in the Belmont, 31 lengths.(AP Photo)
Jockey Ron Turcotte, aboard Secretariat, turns for a look at the field many lengths behind in this June 9, 1973 photo as they make the final turn on his way to winning the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown.
FILE - In this June 9, 2012 file photo, retired jockey Ron Turcotte, left, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, poses for photos with Kenny Foudy, 5, next to a statue of the race horse prior to the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
Secretariat, the 1972 Horse of the Year, cools off in New York on March 17, 1973, after winning the seven furlong Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct by four and a half lengths in his debut as a 3-year-old. “He’s just like he was, good,” said jockey Ron Turcotte (checked shirt) after Secretariat’s explosive stretch run that took him to victory over Champagne Charlie. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
PHOTOS: Celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown
PHOTOS: Celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown
With his sights set for victory in the June 9 Belmont Stakes to capture the Triple Crown, Secretariat works out with an exercise rider in the shed row at Belmont Park, New York, May 23, 1973. The horse loosened up indoors to avoid rainy weather. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Ron Frehm
Secretariat and jockey Ron Turcotte leave other racers in the dust at the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
Secretariat.com
FILE -- Jockey Ron Turcotte poses aboard Secretariat in the winners circle at Churchill Downs after winning the Kentucky Derby in 1973. (AP Photo/HO)
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"The track is very much of a man's world," says Penny Chenery, at her Laurel Hollow, New York, May 23, 1973. But Ms. Chenery, owner of Secretariat, adds: "I feel very comfortable there." She stresses however: "I don't want to be one of the boys, I want to be treated like a lady." The trophy is Secretariat's 1972 Horse of the Year award. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Ron Frehm
Jockey Ron Turcotte pilots Secretariat (leading, #4) over the finish line at Aqueduct in New York, March 17, 1973 to win the $27,750 Bay Shore stakes in his debut as a three-year-old. The 1972 Horse of the Year, got under the wire 4½ lengths ahead of Champagne Charlie, with Michael Venezia up, second from left, with a time of 1:23 1/5. Venezia's mount was two and a half lengths ahead of Impecunious, right, ridden by James Moseley. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Ron Frehm
Race horses Secretariat and Riva Ridge in their barn at Belmont racetrack, New York, Sept. 17, 1973, after a workout. Guard, maintained on a 24-hour basis to protect the fabulous pair, is seen in foreground feeding Secretariat. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
Dave Pickoff
Groom Clay Arnold stands with the 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, May 7, 1975 after giving him hiss daily bath. Old super horse has sired 27 foals since retiring to Claiborne farm in eastern Kentucky and his first offspring will be ready for the track in 1977. (AP Photo)
The Associated Press
Secretariat, who won the Triple Crown of racing in 1973, relaxes at the Claiborne Farm near Paris, Kentucky, May 2, 1974 with his groom, Edward Fields. Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby, the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness in 1973. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
Bob Daugherty
FILE - This June 9, 1973, file photo shows Penny Chenery, owner of Secretariat, reacting after her horse won the Belmont Stakes, and the Triple Crown, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Chenery, who bred and raced 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat as well as realizing her disabled father’s dream to win the Kentucky Derby in 1972 with Riva Ridge.
FILE - In this April 29, 2010, file photo, Secretariat owner Penny Chenery appears at a news conference about the movie based on the story of the legendary horse, in Louisville, Ky. Chenery, who bred and raced 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat as well as realizing her disabled father’s dream to win the Kentucky Derby in 1972 with Riva Ridge, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, at her Boulder, Colo. home following complications from a stroke.
FILE- This June 9, 1973, file photo, shows Penny Chenery, right, as she receives the August Belmont Memorial Cup from New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in the Belmont Park Winner's Circle, after her horse, Secretariat, won the Belmont Stakes by an astounding 31 lengths. Watching are jockey Ron Turcotte, second from left and Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton.
Harry Harris
Two of Secretariat's great granddaughters, Twinkie and Clever (right) walk in a pen in front of Secretariat's yearling stall where the 1973 triple crown winner stayed in his time at Meadow Farm, now home to the State Fair of Virginia in Doswell on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014.
DEAN HOFFMEYER
Groundshaker, a great-great granddaughter of Secretariat, at Meadow Event Park in Doswell VA Wed. March 23, 2016.
Mark Gormus
Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat at the Belmont Stakes on June 9, 1973. Secretariat won the race by 31 lengths and captured the Triple Crown. (AP Photo)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Owner Penny Chenery shown with Secretariat in a family photo.
JOE MAHONEY
Nabil Elhilali from Malage, Spain, stopped by to see a Secretariat display at Main Street Station, which features the second largest horseshoe in the world along with other items from Meadow Farm, the land now occupied by Meadow Event Park in Caroline County.
JOE MAHONEY
Kate Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery who operated The Meadow horse farm in Caroline County when Secretariat was born.
BILL LOHMANN
Curry Roberts, president of State Fair of Va. stands outside the stables that once housed the great Secretariat.
JAM
In this publicity image released by Disney, from second left, Diane Lane, Nelsan Ellis, Otto Thorwarth, and John Malkovich are shown in a scene from, "Secretariat." (AP Photo/Disney, John Bramley)
John Bramley
FILE - In this May 9, 1973 file photo, Secretariat, Ron Turcotte up, wins the 98th Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Secretariat's owner has asked the Maryland Racing Commission to conduct a hearing about changing the time of the horse's winning run in the 1973 Preakness Stakes. Penny Chenery, along with Maryland Jockey Club president Tom Chuckas, say advances in modern video technology will prove Secretariat ran the 1 3/16 mile race in 1 minute, 53 and 2/5 seconds. That would have been a record at the time and would match the standing record for the Preakness.
The Associated Press
1973 AP
Penny Chenery, L, signed autographs for admirers during the 40th Anniversary of Secretariat's Triple Crown win in 1973. The event was held at Meadow Farm.
JOE MAHONEY
Ann Carter of Sandston shakes hands with racing hall of fame jockey Ron Turcotte during Secretariat celebrations at Meadow Farm.
JOE MAHONEY
Richmond Police Department's Mounted Division officers Amanda Bass, L, and Dawn Lehmann escorted the Percheron team driven by Goochland's Dr. Tom Newton and pulling a carriage bringing Penny Chenery and her daughter Kate Chenery Tweedy to celebrations for Secretariat's 40th anniversary of Triple Crown victories in 1973.
JOE MAHONEY
FILE -- Jockey Ron Turcotte poses aboard Secretariat in the winners circle at Churchill Downs after winning the Kentucky Derby in 1973. (AP Photo/HO)
AP
Secretariat, the record-breaking winner of the Kentucky Derby is greeted in his stall at Pimlico Race Course by Mrs. John Tweedy, manager of Meadow Stables which controls the big chestnut. Looking on is George Davis, the exercise boy for Secretariat. May 16, 1973.
AP
Secretariat shown winning the final leg of racing's 1973 Triple Crown at Belmont Park in New York.
AP
Meadow Farm, where Secretariat was born, photographed Tuesday, June 2, 1998.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND
Horses on Meadow Farm, where Secretariat was born, photographed Tuesday, June 2, 1998.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND
Ross Sternheimer, owner of Meadow Farm, stands at the door to Secretariat's stall. Photo taken Tuesday, June 2, 1998.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND
Triple Crown winner Secretariat gallops during a workout with exercise jockey George Davis in saddle at Arlington Park race track in Arlington Heights, Ill., Friday morning, June 29, 1973. (AP Photo)
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Ron Turcotte rides Secretariat to win the Belmont Stakes and capture the Triple Crown in this June 9, 1973 photo. Secretariat set a world record for a one and a half mile course in 2:24, and a record for largest margin of victory in the Belmont, 31 lengths.(AP Photo)
AP
Jockey Ron Turcotte, aboard Secretariat, turns for a look at the field many lengths behind in this June 9, 1973 photo as they make the final turn on his way to winning the Belmont Stakes and the Triple Crown.
DAVE PICKOFF
FILE - In this June 9, 2012 file photo, retired jockey Ron Turcotte, left, who rode Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973, poses for photos with Kenny Foudy, 5, next to a statue of the race horse prior to the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
Mark Lennihan
Secretariat, the 1972 Horse of the Year, cools off in New York on March 17, 1973, after winning the seven furlong Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct by four and a half lengths in his debut as a 3-year-old. “He’s just like he was, good,” said jockey Ron Turcotte (checked shirt) after Secretariat’s explosive stretch run that took him to victory over Champagne Charlie. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Penny Tweedy, owner of Secretariat, right, jockey Ron Turcotte, second from right, and trainer Lucien Lauren, third from left, show off trophy in the Winner's Circle at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, May 5, 1973 after Turcotte rode Secretariat to a record win in the 99th Kentucky Derby. (AP Photo) | https://richmond.com/sports/local/50-years-later-secretariats-magical-triple-crown-run-instills-awe-in-virginia-and-beyond/article_89e3e15a-e43c-11ed-8f70-0749ea449410.html | 2023-05-02T12:59:20 | 1 | https://richmond.com/sports/local/50-years-later-secretariats-magical-triple-crown-run-instills-awe-in-virginia-and-beyond/article_89e3e15a-e43c-11ed-8f70-0749ea449410.html |
You can help: Garden for a food bank, monitor kids for CASA, be a Best Buddie speech coach
The City of Bloomington Volunteer Network is your source for information about volunteering locally. For a complete listing, visit BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org or call 812-349-3433. The inclusion of an organization in this list does not imply City endorsement or support of the organization’s activities or policies. Information and registration information for the following opportunities can be found online at BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org.
Hoosier Hills Food Bank garden volunteering
Hoosier Hills Food Bank (HHFB) rents and operates a 1-acre plot of land at Will Detmer Park. The garden produces a variety of fruits and vegetables that are harvested in order to provide for those in need. No gardening experience necessary; come out and have a great time this summer and fall while helping feed the needy. Garden volunteers are needed from May 1 through Nov. 13, on Mondays and Fridays from 9 .am. to noon. This family-friendly opportunity is open to individuals between the ages of 10 and 79. Please wear close-toed shoes, no sandals or flip-flops. In the Summer months, it is recommended to bring water and sunscreen. Learn more and respond today at https://tinyurl.com/garden-volunteers. For additional questions, contact garden@hhfoodbank.org or call the food bank at 812-334-8374.
Child Visit Monitors needed; help monitor CASA's waitlist
Monroe County CASA is in need of Child Visit Monitors, a position created in 2018 to help observe the situation of children on CASA’s waitlist. A Child Visit Monitor (CVM) will help to monitor the children through monthly visits until a CASA advocate is available. The CVM will visit a child or sibling group each month in the current placement location and then report back to CASA staff. Community members interested in becoming a CVM must be 21 years of age or older, have access to the internet for visit reporting, and be willing to potentially travel outside of Monroe County for visits. This volunteer position requires approximately three hours per month of volunteer time and at least one year of service. This is a great volunteer opportunity for someone interested in the CASA program but unable to commit the time to be an advocate. Visit www.monroecountycasa.org/volunteer or call 812-333-2272 for more information and to sign up today.
Best Buddies International Leadership Conference 2023
Best Buddies Leadership Conference (BBLC) unites Best Buddies leaders, volunteers and community advocates from around the globe to connect, engage and lead this inclusive movement. BBLC needs 90-100 volunteers to join them at Indiana University in Bloomington, this July 21 though the 24 from approximately 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Volunteers will be serving as speech coaches, working with 2-3 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, who come to the conference with a speech, or at least an outline, and then work to help these individuals perfect and deliver their speeches by the end of the weekend. Volunteers will need to commit to the entire weekend. Anyone involved in academia, studying to be a teacher, or anyone pursuing a field in the disability arena would be an ideal match for this opportunity. Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/best-buddies-volunteers/. For additional questions, contact kathydirusso@bestbuddies.org.
Community Wish List Spotlight
Shalom Center Wish List
The Shalom Community Center, a program of Beacon Inc., is dedicated to relieving the plight of those experiencing homelessness and poverty in south-central Indiana. Wish List donations help support visitors to the day center.
Donations: Donations can be made 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday at 620 S. Walnut St.
For more information contact: Tory Crowe at 812-334-5734, ext. 113, or tory@beaconinc.org.
Featured Wishes: deodorant, razors, shaving cream, laundry detergent (liquid or in pod form), coats, jackets, sweatshirts, sweatpants, sweaters, jeans, belts, rain ponchos, umbrellas and more.
View their complete Wish List online at: https://tinyurl.com/shalom-wish-list
You can find current in-kind, material needs on the year-round Community Wish List at bloomingtonvolunteernetwork.org/communitywishlist. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/bloomington-needs-garden-help-casa-child-monitors-speech-coaches/70159685007/ | 2023-05-02T13:00:05 | 0 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/bloomington-needs-garden-help-casa-child-monitors-speech-coaches/70159685007/ |
Former Bear's Place sold to IU Foundation with no plan for the site
The lights have been out and the doors locked at the former Bear's Place on East Third Street since February. There's no immediate plan for what's next for the building and its small parking lot at 1316 E. Third St.
That's what Matt Kavgian, director of strategic communications and projects at Indiana University Foundation, said recently about the Foundation's purchase of several properties, including the Bear's Place location and an adjacent residential property, which has occupants and will continue to provide housing.
"It was a package deal, if you will," Kavgian said. "Bear's Place came to us. We didn't pursue it."
The properties were sold Feb. 28 for $3,155,000. The registered agent for the seller is Angela Parker with Bruce Storm Real Estate and Management. Repeated attempts to contact the real estate business were unsuccessful.
Excluded:Indiana University president condemns defunding of Kinsey Institute by state Legislature
A few weeks before the sale, on Feb. 11, the Bear's Place Facebook page had a post:
"We have some unfortunate news to share. We have decided to close Bear's at this time. The current business climate has just made things too difficult, and we feel the best course of action is to take a break and put our efforts toward the future of Bear’s Place. We are looking forward to jumping into the creative process and deciding how, where, and when to bring Bear’s Place back. We'll let you know what that looks like when we know. Until then, thank you honestly for the endless love and support."
The Herald-Times reached out to the former owners numerous times over several months, but no one responded. There have been no new posts on the Facebook page.
"Any time property becomes available at the periphery of the campus" IU Foundation officials will be interested, Kavgian said ― especially when they're in what he called "an important gateway" to IU.
Neither the foundation nor the university has an intended use for the property right now. Kavgian anticipates the parking lot will taken over by IU parking for students and staff.
The situation is similar to what happened in July 2017 when the former Yogi's location at 519 E. 10th St. closed because it had been sold to the IU Foundation. That property remains vacant although Yogi's reopened under new ownership in the former Scotty's Brewhouse property at 302 N. Walnut St. | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/iu-foundation-purchases-bears-place-without-a-plan-for-its-use/70155989007/ | 2023-05-02T13:00:20 | 0 | https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/iu-foundation-purchases-bears-place-without-a-plan-for-its-use/70155989007/ |
TEXAS, USA — Governor Greg Abbott appointed Joshua Hamby as the District Attorney for the 118th Judicial District.
The district covers Howard, Martin and Glasscock counties. The term will last until December 31, 2024. Hamby is from Big Spring and has been the Howard County Attorney since 2009.
Hamby received a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics from Texas Tech University, and a Juris Doctor from Texas Wesleyan School of Law. | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/governor-abbott-appoints-joshua-hamby-as-118th-judicial-district-attorney/513-aff2ec58-8d0a-406b-b603-05ad68b7d3f7 | 2023-05-02T13:15:09 | 0 | https://www.myfoxzone.com/article/news/local/governor-abbott-appoints-joshua-hamby-as-118th-judicial-district-attorney/513-aff2ec58-8d0a-406b-b603-05ad68b7d3f7 |
Flagstaff recycling services on hold after sudden facility closure
Recycling services for Flagstaff residents came to a sudden halt last week when the facility that contracted with the city closed abruptly.
As a result, the city temporarily paused the collection of residential recycling until it is able to finalize an arrangement with a new processing facility. It is currently working on finalizing a deal with a plant near Phoenix, according to an update from the city on Monday.
Due to overflow concerns and capacity limitations for local businesses, collection of commercial recyclables will continue on a normal schedule but will be disposed of at the Cinder Lake Landfill.
"At this time, the City has evaluated and exhausted all immediate alternatives and, unfortunately, has no other option but to landfill these materials," according to a press release from the city.
A fire was reported at the recycling facility, operated by Norton Environmental, Inc., on Tuesday, April 25, but it remains unclear if the fire is related to the closure.
Contact northern Arizona reporter Lacey Latch at LLatch@gannett.com or on social media @laceylatch.
Coverage of northern Arizona on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is funded by the nonprofit Report for America and a grant from the Vitalyst Health Foundation in association with The Arizona Republic. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/05/02/flagstaff-recycling-services-paused-indefinitely-after-facility-closure/70172381007/ | 2023-05-02T13:16:59 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/05/02/flagstaff-recycling-services-paused-indefinitely-after-facility-closure/70172381007/ |
BALTIMORE — Baltimore City recorded 23 homicides and 63 non-fatal shootings in April 2023.
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Since September 2020 WMAR-2 News has tracked daily murders and shootings each month in the city.
Here is May 2023:
5/2/23 - 3:50am: A 33-year-old man was injured in a shooting in the 5500 block of Force Road.
5/2/23 - 12:51am: A 23-year-old man checked into a hospital after being shot in the 4900 block of Reisterstown Road. He's expected to survive. | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/may-2023-tracker-baltimore-murders-and-shootings | 2023-05-02T13:23:45 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/local/may-2023-tracker-baltimore-murders-and-shootings |
A local panel discussion and forum centered on the history and threat of banning books will be held next week at Carthage College.
“The Freedom to Read: The History and Threat of Book Banning” is the topic of the next Courageous Conversation co-sponsored by the Kenosha Coalition for Dismantling Racism, the Kenosha Public Library and Carthage. The in-person panel discussion will be held at 6 p.m., May 10, at the Campbell Student Union on the campus at 2001 Alford Park Drive. Free visitor parking is available in the South Upper parking lot and South Lower parking lot.
Julius Crump, assistant professor of religion, and director of Equity and Inclusion for Faculty and Academic Integration at Carthage College, will facilitate the panel discussion. Panelists will include:
• Barbara Brattin, director of the City of Kenosha Library and the Kenosha County Library System, and the chairperson of the Wisconsin Library Services
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• Jacqueline Witter-Easley, professor of education at Carthage College and co-director of Teaching Commons
• Gregory Bennett Jr., executive director of Peace in Our Streets – Kenosha Inc., and
• Carthage College students: Brisedya Bautista Gonzalez, Miles Chubin, Kyah Jernigan and Sydney Anderson
The panel will discuss the historical context and recent attempts to ban and challenge books in schools and public libraries, and the effect such efforts have on restricting information, freedom of thought and cultural, racial and religious diversity.
The audience will also have an opportunity to ask questions and the evening will conclude with an action plan for attendees.
The forum comes as a growing number of book bans have been enacted at school libraries in a handful of states, but the surge from activists challenging public libraries nationwide to remove certain literary materials from their shelves has also gained momentum.
Locally, the novel "Homegoing", the award-winning novel by author Yaa Gyasi sparked debate last fall as an elected official challenged the Kenosha Public Library to offer a less controversial alternative to the book, which is the National Endowment for the Arts' selection for this year's Big Read event that commenced April 4. The novel contains some graphic details, including the rape of a teen, among the depictions of the plight of Ghanaians captured and enslaved during the 18th century. While past Big Reads have been geared toward family literacy, Kenosha Public Library officials have said this year's title is intended for adults. While the novel is available at public libraries locally, it is not in Kenosha Unified school libraries or part of the district's curriculum.
Two weeks ago, a meeting of the Salem Community Library Board drew a room packed with residents on either side of the book ban debate, although no specific titles were targeted. A majority of people who spoke at the library board meeting favored allowing novels and publications addressing race, equity, discrimination, gender and sexuality issues and wanted them available for use in the public library. However, those critical decried the availability of such materials and questioned who should be allowed to read or view them.
For more information about the upcoming Courageous Conversation, visit the coalition's Facebook page at Facebook.com/KenoshaCFDR. | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-coalition-public-library-to-hold-panel-discussion-at-carthage-college-on-history-and-threat/article_a3b3e468-e888-11ed-9703-d7d7e7c38464.html | 2023-05-02T13:25:54 | 1 | https://kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-coalition-public-library-to-hold-panel-discussion-at-carthage-college-on-history-and-threat/article_a3b3e468-e888-11ed-9703-d7d7e7c38464.html |
The next governor of Indiana and the other statewide elected officials holding office on Jan. 1, 2025, are set to receive eye-popping pay raises compared with the current salaries for those positions.
Tucked inside the 245-page, two-year state budget plan in House Enrolled Act 1001, approved Friday by the Republican-controlled General Assembly, are pay hikes every Hoosier worker would love to receive — but almost certainly never will.
For example, the new annual salary of the next governor will equal the amount paid to an Indiana Supreme Court justice, currently $198,513.64.
The governor's pay probably will exceed $200,000 a year by the time the new wage kicks in because the salary of a Supreme Court justice is due to grow at the same rate as the raises provided to other state employees in 2023 and 2024.
In comparison, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, who is barred by the Indiana Constitution from running for a third consecutive term in 2024, earns $133,683.94. The new rate is a 48.5% pay increase.
Holcomb said the massive pay hike for his successor and the other elected officials is not something that would prompt him to veto the state budget. Higher wages have been discussed as a state need nearly two decades ago when Holcomb was a top aide to Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels.
"It's been talked about for years, long before I was in this office. Or on this side of the desk, I should say," Holcomb said. "I remember discussions. It crops into conversations, I bet you, every session. This particular session, when asked, I stated that I understand for others, but when I ran for this office I knew what the salary was, so I didn't support it for myself.
"I was very pleased that the (legislative) leaders took that to heart and started it after. And that gives everyone who seeks to run for office in the future, they'll know what the new salary will be. So I'll gladly sign it."
Under the plan, the new salary for the lieutenant governor will be 88% of a Supreme Court justice, or $174,692 a year. The attorney general will earn 83% of what a Supreme Court justice makes, or $164,766.32.
Currently, the lieutenant governor is paid $108,819.62, making the new rate a 60.5% increase. Meanwhile, the attorney general's pay hike is a 45% boost over his $113,653.54 annual salary.
Both positions are up for election in 2024. Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch already is running for the Republican nomination for governor, while Attorney General Todd Rokita is hoping to be renominated by the Republican Party for a second term as the state's chief lawyer.
On the other hand, the three Republican state officeholders elected in 2022 to four-year terms are guaranteed to enjoy the big pay hikes included in the new budget: Auditor Tera Klutz, Treasurer Daniel Elliott and Secretary of State Diego Morales.
Each will earn 66% of the salary of the Supreme Court justice, or $131,019, beginning in 2025, compared to their current annual pay rate of $94,501.42 — a 38.6% increase.
The attorney general did not respond to a request for comment on the raises. The state auditor, state treasurer and secretary of state all said they did not lobby the Legislature to increase their salaries.
Statewide elected officials aren't the only employees due for pay raises in the new budget. Among other provisions, it sets a $70,000 minimum salary for new state police officers, up from $53,690, a 30.4% boost, and awards a double-digit percentage pay hike on average to nearly all other state employees.
Left unchanged, however, for the 13th consecutive year, is Indiana's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, the lowest rate permitted by federal law.
Adjusted for inflation, the current value of Indiana's minimum wage is equivalent to $5.24 an hour compared to 2010, when the rate last was increased.
Meet the 2023 Northwest Indiana legislative delegation | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/eye-popping-pay-raises-for-indiana-elected-officials-included-in-new-state-budget/article_ad2082d6-e860-11ed-b82a-c722e31bd58c.html | 2023-05-02T13:26:38 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/eye-popping-pay-raises-for-indiana-elected-officials-included-in-new-state-budget/article_ad2082d6-e860-11ed-b82a-c722e31bd58c.html |
Hoodoo expands free skiing for kids as local Oregon slopes target families
Hoodoo Ski Area will expand its age for free skiing next season to 10 years old and under, in another sign that slopes near the Willamette Valley are doubling-down on families and affordability to drive business.
The ski area on Santiam Pass, east of Salem and Eugene, previously offered free skiing to those 7 and under. In 1999, it was 5 and under. General manager Matthew McFarland said next year was the right time to increase the age to 10.
“It’s a great way to get more families up there and get more kids into the sport we love,” McFarland said.
Hoodoo wrapped up its second-busiest ski season on record in 2022-23, only slightly behind the pandemic season of 2020-21, he said.
Hoodoo was purchased in 1999 by Chuck Shepard and has seen its popularity skyrocket in recent years as a closer and more affordable option to Mount Hood resorts and Mt. Bachelor. Most weekends are so busy that arriving early is required for a parking spot. A big part of that growth has been families with children.
But Hoodoo isn't the only place vying for ski families from Salem, Eugene, Albany and Corvallis.
Willamette Pass Resort, southeast of Eugene, made a splash this season when it expanded its free skiing to 12 and under. The resort also introduced deals aimed at families and affordability — cheaper rentals and free lessons — after entering into a new co-ownership agreement with Colorado-based Mountain Capital Partners.
The timing of Hoodoo’s decision might seem like a response to Willamette's forays, but McFarland said that isn’t the case.
“Our decision wasn’t influenced by them at all. It’s something we’ve been talking about doing for a long time,” he said. “Honestly it’s been awesome to see what’s happening at Willamette with the new ownership group. We’re really excited because a thriving Willamette Pass is good for everybody. Having them teaching more skiers and getting more people excited about skiing and riding is nothing but positive.”
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Hoodoo and Willamette are nearly sibling ski areas, in terms of size and price. Each has its own specialty — Willamette with its longer flowing runs and high-speed chairlift, Hoodoo with its steep terrain, night skiing and events like the New Year's party and winter carnival.
Both have lodges. Willamette's has a more rustic mellow feel while Hoodoo's is newer and has more amenities.
“The bottom line is we’re here to teach families, be affordable and be fun,” McFarland said. “We’re kindred spirits.”
Expanded parking at Hoodoo … maybe next year?
McFarland said Hoodoo is seeking to expand its parking by about 80 spaces, although it’s unclear if their permits will be approved by next year. Originally, the area had been planned for an RV park.
“We decided we’d rather turn it into parking to fit some of the people coming from farther away, who come all this way and then can’t find a spot,” McFarland said. “It’s not an ideal for RVs — it’s pretty remote and doesn’t have power. We think more parking serves everyone better.”
McFarland said he doesn't anticipate the added parking changing the experience.
“For the most part our parking lot fits the mountain really well — even when it’s full you’re maybe waiting 4 or 5 minutes to get on the lift at most,” McFarland said. “I don’t think that would change much."
El Nino concerns for the next ski season
Oregon's state climatologist, Larry O’Neill, has said next season could be a tough one for ski areas. The past three years were La Nina seasons, which tend to be cooler than normal and indeed, Oregon has had three pretty good ski seasons.
But beginning this summer and heading into next fall and winter, El Nino is expected to develop, which often brings warmer than normal conditions.
Next winter’s El Nino could be the strongest since 2015, which was a disastrous year for ski areas across Oregon and particularly mid-elevation ski areas like Hoodoo and Willamette. That year — 2015 — was the warmest in Oregon’s recorded history and often led to precipitation falling as rain instead of snow even on Santiam and Willamette Pass. At one point, a lake developed in the Hoodoo ski bowl.
“We’re just crossing our fingers that it falls as snow,” McFarland said. “Historically it has usually meant more of a mid-December start but obviously the weather is the first thing on our minds.”
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Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter in Oregon for 15 years and is host of the Explore Oregon Podcast. He spent a lot of time the past two years skiing at both Hoodoo and Willamette Pass. He does not take any freebies or discounts to write about either location. His two daughters have season passes at Hoodoo. Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6801. Find him on Twitter at @ZachsORoutdoors. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/oregon/2023/05/02/hoodoo-ski-area-free-skiing-snowboarding-kids-oregon-willamette-valley/70171193007/ | 2023-05-02T13:34:21 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/oregon/2023/05/02/hoodoo-ski-area-free-skiing-snowboarding-kids-oregon-willamette-valley/70171193007/ |
3,600 DTE customers without power in Macomb Co. Tuesday morning
Nearly 3,700 DTE customers in Macomb County are without power Tuesday morning, though the cause is unclear.
The customers are in Anchor Bay Harbor and New Baltimore. They've been without power since 8:30 a.m., according to DTE Energy's outage map.
DTE expects to restore power by 11:00 a.m., according to the utility's outage map. The cause was not listed on the map.
Two smaller outages affecting 339 customers nearby in Anchorville began around the same time and DTE cited an equipment problem as the cause.
DTE provides power to southeast Michigan and the utility received large amounts of public backlash when winter storms left over 500,000 customers without power in February. Some customers did not get their power restored for over a week.
hmackay@detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2023/05/02/3600-dte-customers-without-power-in-macomb-co-tuesday-morning/70173906007/ | 2023-05-02T13:38:33 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2023/05/02/3600-dte-customers-without-power-in-macomb-co-tuesday-morning/70173906007/ |
1 shot during fight between parents in Flint school parking lot
Charles E. Ramirez
The Detroit News
A 31-year-old mother is in critical condition after being shot Monday in a Flint school parking lot, state police said.
The shooting happened at about 3:45 p.m. at the Flint International Academy, a K-12 charter school located on South Saginaw Street near Interstate 475, according to authorities.
Police said the victim and another parent got into a fight during student pickup time and the suspect shot her. They also said they arrested the other parent, a 27-year-old woman.
Medics took the victim to a hospital and she was later transferred via helicopter to a trauma center.
No other injuries were reported and the investigation is ongoing.
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CharlesERamirez | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/1-shot-during-fight-between-parents-in-flint-school-parking-lot-international-academy/70173694007/ | 2023-05-02T13:38:39 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/1-shot-during-fight-between-parents-in-flint-school-parking-lot-international-academy/70173694007/ |
Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society pays tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society is mourning the death of Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian folk singer-songwriter whose hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" commemorates the infamous 1975 Lake Superior shipwreck.
Lightfoot passed away Monday night in a Toronto Hospital and the society said he was more than just a star, he was a friend.
"To him, 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,' was more than just a hit song he wrote," they said in a post on Facebook. "Gordon truly cared about the families of that tragedy. That was proven in 2015 when he came to Whitefish Point for the 40th anniversary of the sinking…but he came a day early, on November 9th, to meet and talk with the family members…he did not want to be the focus of the day on November 10th, he was that classy."
The hit folk song came out in 1976 and recounts the Edmund Fitzgerald's final voyage and sinking during a severe storm the year before. The ship carried iron ore and was once the biggest to sail the Great Lakes. None of her 29 crew members survived the wreck.
Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums and hundreds of songs, including hits like "Early Morning Rain," "Carefree Highway" and "Sundown." His work was covered by the likes of Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte and Johnny Cash.
The Edmund Fitzgerald's bell was removed from the wreck and restored by Michigan State University. It is now housed at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and is rung 29 times in a ceremony each Nov. 10, the anniversary of the wreck.
"Every time the bell tolls from now on, he will be a part of those 29 chimes," said the society. "Gordon Lightfoot was 84…rest in peace, friend."
hmackay@detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/great-lakes-shipwreck-historical-society-pays-tribute-to-gordon-lightfoot/70173740007/ | 2023-05-02T13:38:45 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/great-lakes-shipwreck-historical-society-pays-tribute-to-gordon-lightfoot/70173740007/ |
Historic late season snow storm in U.P. dumps 20 inches on Marquette
A historic late season snow storm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is expected to end Tuesday after already dumping more than a foot of snow in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.
The agency has issued a winter storm warning for several counties, including Keweenaw, Northern Houghton, Baraga, Marquette, Alger, Ontonagon and Gogebic. The warning is in effect until 2 p.m. Tuesday.
"Snow continues this morning, heaviest across the northcentral highlands," officials with the service's office in Marquette said. "Snow will then quickly diminish this afternoon and will end in most areas by late afternoon."
Meteorologists said an additional 6 inches to 10 inches of snow is possible through Tuesday afternoon, especially in the higher terrain of the U.P.'s interior.
Some areas in the U.P. report as much as 18 inches fell over the last 72 hours and some places saw more than a foot of snow on Monday.
Marquette, for example, received nearly 20 inches Monday and set a snowfall record, according to weather service data. The previous May 1st snowfall record in the area was 5.4 inches, set in 2019. for
The area also set a record for cold — Marquette's high temperature topped out at 33 degrees. The previous record for the lowest high temperature on May 1st was 34 degrees, which was set in 1984. The normal for May 1st is 54 degrees. Weather records at the agency's Marquette office date back to 1961.
cramirez@detroitnews.com
Twitter: @CharlesERamirez | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/snow-historic-storm-nationa-weather-service-spring-marquette/70173715007/ | 2023-05-02T13:38:51 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/05/02/snow-historic-storm-nationa-weather-service-spring-marquette/70173715007/ |
VIERA, Fla. – Following an approximately two-month search, Brevard’s school board will choose the district’s new superintendent at a 9 a.m. board meeting Tuesday, News 6 partner Florida Today reported.
The three finalists to head Brevard Public Schools are Mark Rendell, current principal at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High and former superintendent for Indian River County Schools; Scott Schneider, chief of schools for Duval County; and Jason Wysong, a deputy superintendent in Seminole County since 2021.
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A fourth finalist, John Stratton of Hernando County, was previously under consideration for the position. However, he withdrew from the finalist pool April 25 following a controversy that made national headlines, in which a teacher reportedly made threatening remarks about students.
The decision comes after in-person interviews were conducted between board members and the three finalists on Thursday and Friday, with a community event held Thursday night to allow community members to meet the finalists.
The selection of the new superintendent follows the ousting of the previous superintendent and the interim superintendent, as well as the sudden retirements of two high-ranking cabinet members. At a November 2022 board meeting, the newly elected board discussed not renewing then-Superintendent Mark Mullins’ contract. He stepped down before the issue could be brought to a vote. In March, a public falling out with Interim Superintendent Robert Schiller, in which he blasted the board for their “absurd” superintendent search timeline, led to the board placing him on indefinite leave and naming Sue Hann, assistant superintendent of facilities, as interim superintendent.
In addition to the superintendent turnover, BPS has also faced discipline and book-related issues over the past semester.
They underwent a discipline audit to address complaints about student and teacher safety, with the audit revealing their current reporting process for harmful behaviors is disorganized, causing behaviors to be improperly reported.
A recent vote by the board changed their review policy for challenged books, barring media specialists from having a vote on the review committee. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/brevard-school-board-to-choose-new-superintendent/ | 2023-05-02T13:39:43 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/brevard-school-board-to-choose-new-superintendent/ |
TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in the case of convicted cop killer Markeith Loyd.
Loyd was sentenced to death in March 2022 for the murder of Orlando police Lt. Debra Clayton, who was shot to death in 2017.
Judge Leticia Marques made her final decision months after a jury recommended the death penalty for Loyd, who was found guilty on five charges, including first-degree murder. Loyd fatally shot Clayton outside a Walmart in 2017 while he was on the run for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon, in December 2016.
Loyd’s lawyers appealed the decision shortly after his sentencing, claiming there were mistakes by the court and arguing he was not competent to be sentenced. Now, they are calling for a new trial and a new penalty phase hearing.
Loyd’s mental health was called into question during his penalty phase after a doctor diagnosed him with several mental illnesses.
The court ruled he was competent to be sentenced.
“All these families have suffered. Debra Clayton’s family has suffered. Sade Dixon’s family has suffered. ... All because of the evil actions of Markeith Loyd,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said outside the courthouse after the sentencing. “... And now it’s time for Markeith Loyd to suffer.”
Loyd was already serving a life sentence for the murder of Dixon when he was found guilty of murdering Clayton.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/florida-supreme-court-to-hear-markeith-loyd-death-penalty-appeal/ | 2023-05-02T13:39:49 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/florida-supreme-court-to-hear-markeith-loyd-death-penalty-appeal/ |
SARASOTA, Fla. – A 15-year-old girl was killed Sunday when a horse she was riding fell and landed on her head during an equestrian event in Florida, according to WWSB-TV.
Officials said Hannah Serfass died in the accident, which happened at Fox Lea Farm in Sarasota County.
Sheriff’s officials told WWSB-TV that Serfass was about halfway through the course when the horse she was riding leaned on a front hoof, causing her to fall forward. The horse also fell and landed on her head, officials said.
Serfass was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Sumter County 4-H posted about Serfass on its Facebook page, asking others to keep her family in their thoughts while giving them privacy.
Read the full story here. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/horse-falls-on-kills-florida-girl-during-equestrian-event/ | 2023-05-02T13:39:55 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/horse-falls-on-kills-florida-girl-during-equestrian-event/ |
Fifty veterans will take flight once again this Saturday, but this time, it’s all to honor them.
Honor Flight Central Florida serves veterans in the local community by providing them free flights to memorials in Washington D.C. to honor the service and sacrifice of themselves and their friends. Guardian donors accompany veterans on this one-day trip at their own expense. This covers the cost of the Honor Flight related expenses and provides them the privilege of accompanying one of our hometown heroes for the day on the national mall.
On Saturday, May 6, the public is invited to welcome those veterans home at Orlando Sanford International Airport. Veterans on this flight sponsored by Chapters Health Valor Program include men and women from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam Era. The event begins at 9:00 p.m. with the veterans expected to land around 9:30 p.m. on a special Allegiant flight, according to the group’s Facebook event page.
Greeters can bring family and friends to make this a memorable experience for veterans and are welcomed to bring signs or flags to help celebrate these amazing men and women.
If you can’t make it out on Saturday, below is a list of upcoming flights, and you can always volunteer or donate by going to the Honor Flight Central Florida website.
- Sat. 6 May - Sanford Int’l Airport in Sanford. (52 vets, guardians & staff) Central Florida Chapter
- Sat. 20 May - Orlando Int’l Airport (25 vets, 25 guardians & staff) Space Coast Chapter
- Sat. 10 June - Orlando Int’l Airport (25 vets, 25 guardians & staff) Space Coast Chapter
- Sat. 10 June - Villages Honor Flight will have a Flightless Honor Flight with 25 veterans who are medically unable to take an airplane trip
- Sat. 9 September - Orlando Int’l Airport (25 vets, 25 guardians & staff) Space Coast Chapter
- Wed. 27 September - Sanford Int’l Airport in Sanford. (70 vets, 70 guardians & staff) Villages Chapter
- Sat. 14 October - Orlando Int’l Airport (25 vets, 25 guardians & staff) Space Coast Chapter
- Sat. 4 November - Orlando Int’l Airport (25 vets, 25 guardians & staff) Space Coast Chapter
- ·Sat 18 November - Villages Honor Flight will have a Flightless Honor Flight with 25 veterans who are medically unable to take an airplane trip | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/serving-those-who-served-volunteer-to-greet-honor-flight-veterans/ | 2023-05-02T13:40:01 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/05/02/serving-those-who-served-volunteer-to-greet-honor-flight-veterans/ |
BANGOR -- Eastern Maine community college and dead river company celebrated the grand opening of dead river institute north Monday.
The state-of-the-art training facility is the second DRI location in Maine.
The new location offers propane classes and oil burner technician training at no cost to students through the Harold Alfond Center for the advancement of Maine's workforce and Maine jobs and recovery plan.
The Maine jobs and recovery plan was approved by the Maine legislature allowing Governor Mills to invest heavily in job training and supporting small businesses.
"Around week four.. Week five things are going to start coming together," said Chris Lincoln, a technician student for Dead River Company.
"EMCC's mission is to serve as a dynamic institution that powers students to meet their personal and professional goals and to collaborate with our business and community partners," according to Liz Russell, president & CEO of Eastern Maine Community College.
The next technician course will be scheduled at a later date.
Anyone interested in learning new technical skills or additional job training can visit this link to more details. | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/new-dri-north-location-opens/article_b5a35b4a-e8ec-11ed-9cd4-d3b0f262e573.html | 2023-05-02T13:46:57 | 0 | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/new-dri-north-location-opens/article_b5a35b4a-e8ec-11ed-9cd4-d3b0f262e573.html |
SAN ANTONIO — A 14-year-old is recovering in the hospital after he was shot overnight, police say.
Police were called out to historic Old US Highway 90 near Levi Strauss Park on the west side at around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday morning
Police are having some difficulty figuring out what happened because the boy has changed his story multiple times.
In fact, they’re having a hard time figuring out where the shooting happened altogether.
Police say the 14-year-old boy was shot in the left leg just below the knee and was taken to University Hospital where his condition is stable.
The boy told police he was shot on a trail behind an apartment complex.
But SAPD say his stories aren’t matching the scene.
They say they’ve found a blood trail that leads to his home.
This is an ongoing investigation as they try to figure out what happened and who may have shot the boy.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia woman is celebrating 100 years of making history and her milestone birthday.
Ellen Maxine Pritchard is ringing in the centennial celebration on May 3. She was born in Matoaka, West Virginia in 1923 and is one of 10 children.
Her father, Harley Dishon, worked as a coal miner to support the family but was badly hurt in a mine collapse. The Great Depression influenced his decision to relocate to Baltimore where he found work building ships at the Bethlehem Ship Yard. The rest set the stage for Pritchard's life.
In her adult years, Pritchard answered an ad for the Eastern Aircraft Division of General Motors Corporation. The company was recruiting women to build the aircraft for WWII -- and Pritchard would become one of them.
She worked at setting up supplies and materials needed to complete the tasks. After the war, she continued to work at the Holabird Army Base in Maryland where she met her husband.
She and Everett Scott Pritchard married on February 19, 1949. Everett served in the First Special Services Force, Company G, the 474th Infantry Regiment with the U.S. Army. Everett's unit was dubbed the Devil's Brigade by the Germans, which inspired the film "The Devil's Brigade."
Together, they started a family. The Pritchards had four children. Over the years the family has blossomed to include eight grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
Apart from being a mom, she also earned her master's degree and was a high school economics teacher for most of her life.
Eventually, she became a Cumming, Georgia resident, and left her mark on the Peach State too.
During her two decades living in Forsyth County, Pritchard answered an ad in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to help inmates at Phillips State Prison in Buford. She assisted with their transition helping them learn life skills. She also started the GED program and a library in the four years she volunteered there. She took her experience to the Forsyth County Jail and also tutored detainees for the GED for four years.
Her family describes her as a woman of faith and someone who shows God's love to everyone she meets.
They plan to host a big 100th birthday bash on May 13 in Forsyth County to celebrate her life. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/ellen-maxine-pritchard-turns-100/85-09c7e1a6-f44d-4de9-bce1-80843e148a26 | 2023-05-02T13:48:54 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/ellen-maxine-pritchard-turns-100/85-09c7e1a6-f44d-4de9-bce1-80843e148a26 |
PRINCETON, Texas — A former North Texas high school baseball player is recovering in intensive care after being shot during a college baseball game in Texarkana on Saturday.
Matthew DeLaney, who played at Princeton High School and is now a player for Texas A&M-Texarkana, was struck in the chest by a stray bullet during the fifth inning of the university's final homestand of the season.
DeLaney, per the Texarkana Police Department, was standing near a bullpen and batting cages at the southwest corner of George Dobson Field when he was hit.
He was taken to an area hospital, where he remains as of Monday.
The game was stopped while detectives and police scoured the field for possible evidence.
Investigators said Sunday that the stray bullet was fired roughly 400 yards away in a neighborhood just west of the stadium during a gunfight between two people.
Demarco Banks, 20, turned himself in and has been charged with deadly conduct in connection to the shooting. A 17-year-old named Kamauri Butler is still at large and wanted for aggravated assault.
Police added that they received calls about the gunfire nearby and connected the two scenes when they found shell casings in front of a home in the neighborhood.
DeLaney is in stable condition, but his injuries are serious. Princeton High School head baseball coach Leroy Mansanales told WFAA that the teen is dealing with a collapsed lung and that the bullet hit a few of his vertebrae.
Per Mansanales, DeLaney is dealing with some paralysis on his left side.
"My son is close with Matthew, and they sent each other messages on Snapchat all day before that. To hear what happened hit hard. He's at a baseball field, where he's supposed to be, and he wasn't causing trouble or anything," Mansanales said.
"He walked through our gate daily ready to fight with a great attitude. His effort and attitude were unmatchable and unquestionable. I texted him that now was the time to fight and that if I've ever asked him to fight, now is the time. He texted back, and I was happy to see that. So he's a fighter," Mansanales said.
Mansanales is working to gather donations to deliver to the DeLaney family, as they will likely be in Texarkana for the foreseeable future as their son recovers.
He said he grew close to the DeLaney family throughout his six years of coaching at Princeton.
While the 2022 graduate is now dealt a severe and tragic hand in life, Mansanales said the teen would find a way to get better and back on the field.
"I can't imagine what he's going through right now, but he will fight," Mansanales said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/former-north-texas-baseball-player-recovering-hit-by-stray-bullet-college-game-texas-am-texarkana/287-72e24b0d-96ec-45c9-8eb7-adeb884234c2 | 2023-05-02T13:49:00 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/former-north-texas-baseball-player-recovering-hit-by-stray-bullet-college-game-texas-am-texarkana/287-72e24b0d-96ec-45c9-8eb7-adeb884234c2 |
SAN ANTONIO — A SWAT situation on the northeast side of town has ended peacefully after the man who was barricaded inside his car surrendered to SAPD.
Crews have had the access road of I-35 at Rittiman Road closed since just after 10 p.m. The closure runs all the way to George Beach near BAMC.
An officer on the scene tells us there was a possible wreck on I-35 near Manchester United Road. When police arrived at the scene, something caused SAPD to back off and call for help. There were also two armored SWAT trucks and several unmarked police units
Police used drones and loudspeakers to try and communicate with the man inside his car.
The man surrendered to police officers just before 6 a.m.
This is a developing story.
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GLEN ROSE, Texas — Some park rangers in North Texas came across a unique-looking snake that has now caught the attention of social media.
Employees for Dinosaur Valley State Park recently found a red-and-orange copperhead near the main track site in the Glen Rose park. Park media members shared an image of the snake on the organization's Facebook page.
According to the post, this snake had "quite an attitude" with park rangers while they worked to move it to a safer, more remote area of the park.
As a result, park rangers determined an appropriate name for the snake was "Red Hot Cheeto."
Park rangers reminded people in the Facebook post that all species of wildlife, including snakes, are protected in the park. If someone comes across a snake while exploring the park, they are asked to follow these tips to keep them and the snakes safe:
- Turn around and go back the other way if hiking. Do not get close as it could irritate and cause the snake to become frustrated and upset.
- Feel free to call park rangers if you need to. They are happy to come check and relocate the snake as needed.
- Leave the snake alone. Follow "Leave No Trace" by respecting wildlife and their homes.
Archeological evidence suggests humans have occupied Dinosaur Valley State Park for many centuries, according to the park's website. Native American Indians reportedly lived at sites in the park from about 6,000 years ago until Europeans arrived. They came here for the water and the game, fish and mussels. They were probably ancestors of the Tonkawa, who lived in this region in later times, according to the park. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-park-rangers-come-across-red-and-orange-copperhead/287-0d6364db-8247-4bcb-9ed5-ea135190aa70 | 2023-05-02T13:49:12 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-park-rangers-come-across-red-and-orange-copperhead/287-0d6364db-8247-4bcb-9ed5-ea135190aa70 |
SAN ANTONIO — A train collided with a truck southwest of downtown and the two men inside walked away without any injuries, police say.
The truck was crossing the tracks near Driftwood and Beechaven just before midnight Monday when the train smashed into the vehicle, dragging it and pushing the truck off the tracks.
The driver told officers he didn't see the arms being lowered before it was too late to get out of the way.
No charges are expected to be filed.
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Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
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WATERLOO — Authorities are trying to determine the identity of a man who was found dead inside a tent in a wooded area Monday night.
Police said they found documents and other records at the makeshift camp site. But the papers show two different names, and neither name comes back to a missing person.
A mushroom hunter came across the tent and body about 100 yards off La Porte Road behind the Crossroads shopping center area and called 911 around 8:30 p.m. Monday, said Capt. Jason Feaker with the Waterloo Police Department.
No foul play is suspected at this time and the body has been taken to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Feaker said it appeared the man had been deceased for some time. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-waterloo-police-working-to-identify-body-found-in-wooded-area/article_2407dcb7-dcde-5bad-b4c9-c0056d8c730a.html | 2023-05-02T13:51:33 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-waterloo-police-working-to-identify-body-found-in-wooded-area/article_2407dcb7-dcde-5bad-b4c9-c0056d8c730a.html |
WATERLOO — A West High School student will soon take to the stage in Washington, D.C. to perform poetry after becoming the state champion.
Lydia Newsome, 17, will be one of 50 students across the U.S. to compete in the Poetry Out Loud national competition.
For the competition, students memorize and recite poems they select from a collection of more than 1,200 classic and contemporary poems. After competing at districts, which took place in Cedar Falls, Newsome went to Iowa City to compete at the state competition. After winning first place out of seven other competitors, she heads to semifinals on May 9.
There are three semifinals and the top three students from each of those semifinals will move onto the national finals on May 10.
The national champion will win $20,000, second place will win $10,000 and third place will win $5,000.
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Newsome said she first became interested in poetry during her sophomore year. Her first introduction was in class – learning about Shakespeare. She said at first she thought it was boring.
“And then the second time around, I was kind of reading into it more and it was some pretty strong literature,” she said. “Going back and analyzing, it makes a difference because after rereading it I would think about it and I was like ‘Huh, that’s pretty interesting.’”
Analysis is important for Newsome. She asks questions of herself such as “How am I supposed to feel about this?” and “Who am I presenting it to?” in order to perfect her performance.
She said the same thing can be done with writing her own poetry but she said it doesn’t “feel as impactful.”
“I can always write a story and then people are gonna read it how they want to read it,” she said. “But if I’m telling the story, they’re going to take it how I’m presenting it. It is probably going to have a lot more meaning and it’s going to be a lot more interesting for the people who are listening.”
The person helping her with analysis, among other things, is her poetry coach, Benjamin Hirdler.
Hirdler, a West alum, is the speech and theater coach for the high school. He said Newsome reached out to him to be her personal coach for the competition. Since starting her coaching, he has seen her technical skills – like diction and articulation – grow, as well as her confidence.
“Really more than anything, watching her perform at the state competition, like her abilities and to just be confident in what she had presented and not necessarily worried about ‘this is the right way to do it’ but ‘this is my way of how I want to present the material.’”
Newsome said one of the hardest things for her was to pick poems that fit her rather than try to find ones that are long or complicated.
The theme of her three poems for the national competition is about “the system.”
“(One piece) is very narcissistic and sarcastic with the stuff saying about how it’s not our fault you were born,” she said. “I feel like, since I am a Black woman in America, I can connect to it a little bit more than I was able to connect to the other poems that I was (previously) presenting.”
Newsome’s mother, Amber Collins, who owns Soul Book Nook in downtown Waterloo, said reading was fundamental when raising her children.
“I feel like it’s the root and the foundation of your whole life moving forward into your future,” Collins said.
Collins said she’s impressed with her daughter’s ability to take her studies, as well as her theater knowledge, and to manifest it into performing poetry.
“I would say a lot of people usually are into social media and want to react to other people and I feel like you can really get that if you read poetry,” Newsome said. “If you’re reading poetry, it’s like it’s your opinion, it’s what you’re thinking and you can take that home and you can use it however you want. … It’s so much better to just read a couple of poems a day, rather than be on TikTok.”
Once she graduates this year, Newsome will head to the University of Iowa to major in musical theater on a pre-law track. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/waterloo-student-will-head-to-washington-dc-for-poetry-competition/article_5a2d8019-c0c8-518e-beb6-57cdb79ae876.html | 2023-05-02T13:51:40 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/waterloo-student-will-head-to-washington-dc-for-poetry-competition/article_5a2d8019-c0c8-518e-beb6-57cdb79ae876.html |
CAMP HILL, Pa. — Police in Cumberland County are searching for a man accused of suspicious activity in the parking lot of the Capital City Mall.
Dasean Maurice Myles, 21, is wanted on outstanding warrants in several states, according to Lower Allen Township Police.
He was identified as the suspect in a Feb. 13 incident in the Camp Hill mall's parking lot.
At 4:37 p.m. that day, police said, officers were patrolling the lot when they noted the odor of marijuana emanating from a white Dodge Ram pickup truck parked there.
As officers approached the truck, they saw two women get inside. The vehicle then pulled off, taking an "unusual" path to exit the mall in order to avoid the officers, police said.
Officers initiated a traffic stop after the truck failed to stop at two posted stop signs, police said. As officers approached the vehicle, the man driving it fled and led police on a short chase before they discontinued the pursuit out of concern for public safety, the police department said.
Investigators later learned that a male suspect with the same physical description was seen walking around the parking lot, trying to open vehicle doors, according to police.
He was also spotted urinating in the parking lot, police said.
The suspect's vehicle was later recovered in Harrisburg, and police learned it was registered to Myles.
He was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude police, reckless driving and recklessly endangering another person.
A warrant for his arrest has been issued, according to police. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cumberland-county/dasean-myles-suspicious-activity-warrant-capital-city-mall/521-d5558157-e341-4c8a-ad94-5c7e44d53d64 | 2023-05-02T13:53:13 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cumberland-county/dasean-myles-suspicious-activity-warrant-capital-city-mall/521-d5558157-e341-4c8a-ad94-5c7e44d53d64 |
LANCASTER, Pa. — The 2022 Atlantic League champions are back at Clipper Magazine Stadium for their home opener on Tuesday.
The Lancaster Barnstormers will face their rivals, York Revolution, at 6:30 p.m. for the War of the Roses game.
The first 1,000 fans that make it to the ballpark will receive a free 2022 Atlantic League Championship t-shirt.
Fans can also expect new food, new games at the Silver Ball Arcade and so much more.
Last year, the Barnstormers had the second-highest attendance in the Atlantic League.
For tickets and more information, click here. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-barnstormers-home-opener-baseball/521-bdcf063a-abbd-456c-a9ae-e6ab6869f538 | 2023-05-02T13:53:20 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-barnstormers-home-opener-baseball/521-bdcf063a-abbd-456c-a9ae-e6ab6869f538 |
DULUTH — The number of Duluth Public Schools students cited in school by city police has fallen dramatically this school year, but the preponderance of Black and American Indian students among that group remains disproportionately high.
Between September 2022 and March of this year, 28 students were cited by Duluth Police Department officers — often called school resource officers or SROs — stationed at the school district’s two high schools and two middle schools, according to data sent to the News Tribune on Monday. That’s about 70% fewer students than the 96 cited over approximately the same time period last school year.
But the number of non-white students who received citations remains much higher than their share of the overall student population would suggest.
About 4% of the students enrolled this school year at Denfeld High School, East High School, Lincoln Park Middle School and Ordean East Middle School are Black, according to Minnesota Department of Education data. But 11 of the 28 students cited by the officers stationed at those schools — not quite 40% — are Black. Similarly, American Indian students at those four schools make up about 6% of the student population but are 35% of the students cited.
The lower overall number is music to the ears of groups like the Duluth NAACP and the Law Enforcement Accountability Network, both of which have questioned the wisdom of posting police in schools .
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“It is harm reduction,” Jamey Sharp, a team member at the accountability network, told the News Tribune. “That’s less kids that are missing school to go to court, less kids who are getting bigger sentences later in life because of some kind of a record that was started when they were sitting in their classroom. That’s a huge impact.”
We still know that the students who are struggling the most are BIPOC students, students in poverty.
Still, Sharp and Classie Dudley, the president of the local NAACP chapter, each noted that the racial disparities persisted.
“We still know that the students who are struggling the most are BIPOC students, students in poverty,” Dudley said.
Both chalked the decrease in total citations, in part, up to the broader attention paid to the district’s school resource officer program over the past few years.
“I think all eyes are on them,” Dudley said. “In part, it’s the community’s work that kind of uplifted this issue to change the narrative on it.”
Returning to class
School district and police leaders said the drop in citations is partly the result of students getting reacclimated to school after spending months and months learning remotely during the apex of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our kids are resocialized at school,” Tom Tusken, Denfeld’s principal, told the News Tribune. About 50-60% of students cited this school year and last were enrolled at Denfeld.
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Tusken noted that the bulk of Hunters who received a police citation last school year did so in September and October, which he said illustrated how difficult the return to in-person learning was for students there.
“As the year goes on, you see those citation numbers drop, and that is due in large part to kids re-establishing relationships and us working to mitigate the conflict that gets brought back into the building,” Tuksen said. “We had a rough start last year to bring kids back in, and it kind of mitigated from there.”
But the much-higher citation figures recorded last school year are approximately in line with those recorded in prior ones, including multiple pre-pandemic years. District data indicates that 78, 88, and 90 students were cited during the 2017-2018, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school years, respectively.
Our emphasis now is trying to be preventative and restorative, and that is certainly a much bigger piece of what we’re doing now than ever before.
Tusken said the district is more focused on alternatives to suspension, among other practices, than it was before the pandemic.
“I’ve never seen a school year like the year we got back last year. I’ve never seen anything like it, so I’m surprised that the numbers are as high as they are,” he said. “But certainly the mindset of the district has changed. … Our emphasis now is trying to be preventative and restorative, and that is certainly a much bigger piece of what we’re doing now than ever before.”
The school’s alternative suspension program, Tusken said, is now much more focused on the impact of a conflict, skills students can learn or hone to navigate future conflicts, and to understand the impact of their behaviors.
“And that is much more robustly applied than it ever has been before,” Tusken. “So that’s got to be a large part of why you’re seeing the decrease. We simply handle discipline different to begin with.”
Brian Kazmierczak, the principal at Lincoln Park Middle School, said staff there are doing more “pre-teaching” instead of reacting to a student conflict, which allows them to get ahead of an incident that could ultimately result in a citation and intervene before it reaches that point.
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New contract
District and police staff also indicated that they’re putting a greater emphasis on the student handbook, which outlines the rules and policies under which students are expected to behave.
“We’re looking for ways to better utilize the student handbook, and not looking to rely as much on citations to drive some of those behavioral changes,” Police Chief Mike Ceynowa said.
The district’s contract with the police department sets out the parameters for the school resource officer program here.
District and police department leaders reworked it after hearing from an advisory committee comprised of school administrators, nonprofit staff, school board members, and high school students at Denfeld and East. The new contract was approved in September 2022, and it either explicitly or implicitly adopted each of the 20 recommendations set forth by that committee, including regular meetings with student groups, district input on the officers who are assigned or hired to a school post, and yearly evaluations of the program.
That rethink was an opportunity to discuss citation data, as well as when school police are used, when they cite students, and what type of citation students might receive, according to Anthony Bonds, the school district’s assistant superintendent.
“We’ve invested a lot of money in restorative practices and other programs to create positive learning environments in our schools,” Bonds said. “All of those things have led to fewer incidents happening, and when fewer incidents happen, many of those incidents … do not rise to the level where students are receiving citations.”
District leaders want the student handbook to be the primary source of consequences and discipline for students, Bonds said. The regular assessments stipulated in the new contract are leading to “great dialogue” about when it's appropriate to cite a student or not, he said.
“I think there’s more dialogue or consideration that is given, or that is had, before a citation is actually given,” Bonds said. “I think those things are leading to a reduction overall, as well.”
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Chief Ceynowa also chalked up part of the citation decrease to new school district leaders, including Bonds and Superintendent John Magas, both of whom were hired in the early stages of the pandemic.
“They’ve been open to hearing our concerns and the community’s concerns about police in school,” Ceynowa said. “I think by having those conversations and working closely together, we found … in a lot of situations, alternatives.” | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/duluth-police-cite-fewer-students-this-year | 2023-05-02T13:53:47 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/duluth-police-cite-fewer-students-this-year |
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DULUTH — The city’s housing market remained tight in 2022, though less so than the previous year in places.
The city released its annual "Housing Indicator Report" late last week, and it showed the local vacancy rate for rental housing rising from 2% in 2021 to 3.5% in 2022. A vacancy rate of about 5% is usually considered the sign of a healthy market.
And some sorts of rentals were especially tough to come by. For instance, the vacancy rate for one-bedroom apartments in Duluth was just 1.9% last year, based on a citywide survey.
The overall local vacancy rate may have been skewed upward a bit by a water main that broke, causing damage to some apartments in the Morgan Park neighborhood and temporarily forcing them off the market, as well as another significantly large property owner that left a number of units vacant to undergo renovations, said Theresa Bajda, senior housing developer for the city.
“But it definitely tells us we have a lot of work to do to create and preserve more units across all levels of affordability,” she said.
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The local median rent in Duluth rose from $1,274 to $1,355 in 2022 — a 6.4% uptick.
About 39% of Duluth households reside in rental properties, and about 61% of households live in owner-occupied homes.
Rental vacancy rate: 3.5%
Median rent: $1,355
Median price of a home: $260,000
Median household income: $58,014
The cost of homeownership in Duluth continues to rise, as well, with the median price of a house climbing from $240,000 to $260,000 in 2022, an 8.3% increase.
Houses remain in tight supply, with single-family homes lingering on the market for an average of only 26 days, as opposed to 38 days in 2021.
Duluth continues to make progress toward increasing its housing inventory, gaining 176 net units in 2022 and 1,183 since 2019.
But that’s far from the mark set by Maxfield Research and Associates, a firm that estimated in 2019, Duluth would need an additional 3,600 units of affordable housing by 2024 to meet local demand.
Bajda said Boldt and Associates has been retained to explore opportunities in Duluth’s downtown, including the potential conversion of vacant space to housing.
Many Duluth residents struggle to afford a place to stay. Generally speaking, housing is considered affordable if it consumes no more than 30% of household income. With the average monthly rent of a one-bedroom apartment sitting at $861 last year, a person earning the state’s minimum hourly wage of $10.59 would need to work 63 hours per week to afford such housing and 80 hours a week to afford a two-bedroom unit, with an average monthly rate of $1,099.
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Homeownership is even less attainable for a large segment of the local population, especially in the face of rising interest rates. The housing report estimates the average monthly mortgage payment on a $260,000 home would be about $1,628. To support such a purchase, a homeowner would need to pull in $65,120 annually.
Duluth’s median household income rose to $58,014 in 2022. Over the previous five years, the earning power of a typical Duluth household has increased 18.2%. But the city’s residents continue to earn less than 75% of the state median income of $77,720.
I like to remind people that we have pent up demand for housing across all levels of affordability.
“I think we have to approach it from all income levels, and we’re constantly showing up for tax credit projects. We’re also constantly trying to buy down rents when we use TIF (tax-increment financing) districts. One Roof (Community Housing) is doing amazing work with the Community Land Trust to support affordable homeownership, too,” Bajda said.
“But I think sometimes market rate housing gets lost in the shuffle, because when we talk to Cirrus and Essentia, they do have a lot of potential employees who want to sign on with incomes above our median income," she said. "So, they could afford more expensive homes or higher-rate rentals. Having movement in the market where folks who can afford it choose to move, might free up more starter homes or less-expensive studio apartment units. I like to remind people that we have pent-up demand for housing across all levels of affordability."
Bajda explained that Duluth’s housing prices also are driven by construction expenses that are often 20%-30% higher than in other markets, due to the greater cost of labor and materials in the region, as well as geological and topographical challenges developers often encounter on site.
“What this tells me is that we need to keep working at what we’re doing, approach new construction, conversion and rehab projects," Bajda said. "We need to continue to push them aggressively and show up in the ways that we can, whether it’s helping to identify sites, funding sources, partnerships or getting more developers to want to work in Duluth to really diversify our market up here."
“I don’t think we need to convince folks anymore that we have a housing shortage here in Duluth and that we need more units across the spectrum,” Bajda said. | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/report-shows-duluth-housing-in-high-demand-short-supply | 2023-05-02T13:54:07 | 1 | https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/report-shows-duluth-housing-in-high-demand-short-supply |
GREENWOOD, Ark. — The City of Greenwood announced plans for a splash pad at Bell Park.
The city says it plans on breaking ground on the project this fall, and intends to have it done by 2024.
A photo of the concept was shared on their Facebook page.
"We have worked extensively to make sure your kiddos have a fun and safe place to cool down in the summer!"
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sunday was a special day for hundreds of students at Otterbein University. It was also a day one father has waited years to see.
Valentina Dixon graduated Sunday afternoon with her father cheering her on from the audience. It was the first of her graduations he had been able to attend.
Valentino was imprisoned for a murder he did not commit when his daughter was four months old.
After 27 years in prison, that conviction was overturned. Because of that, he finally received the chance to watch his daughter walk across the stage to receive her degree.
“Out of everybody in this world, I needed to have you here. This moment is a miracle and a blessing I would never take this for granted,” Valentina said.
Despite some travel hiccups, Valentino was there to watch her walk the stage.
“I wouldn’t miss it for nothing in the world…this magical moment,” Valentino said.
Valentina earned her Master of Arts in Education. It’s her second graduation from the masters program at the university.
Since being released in 2018, Valentino has been busy writing a book accompanied by drawing portraits of Black freedom founders, something he picked up during his time in prison.
But he said nothing compares to spending time with family and celebrating each other's accomplishments.
"It's an awesome moment for us and just a dream come true for me, to be celebrating this momentous occasion," Valentino said.
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PINE BLUFF, Arkansas — There is a heated debate going into Pine Bluff's special election, and voters will soon decide whether to pass more taxes.
"The conditions dictate we need this funding, we need these initiatives, and we don't have time to wait," said Ryan Watley, CEO of Go Forward Pine Bluff.
In 2017, the people of Pine Bluff passed a five-eighth cent sales tax to improve education and economic development.
That tax will sunset soon and it's once again on the ballot for voters to decide if it should continue.
Voters will also decide whether or not to pass a new three-eighth cent sales tax for public safety.
"We have so much work that needs to be done, but that's going to cost a lot of money," said Watley.
The NAACP Pine Bluff Chapter opposes the tax, and the president said it does not meet the priorities of the city.
"To put this tax before our children, the NAACP had to speak out," said Pine Bluff's NACCP President Ivan Whitfield.
Instead, the president said the city should be putting money towards the Pine Bluff school millage.
Early voting begins on Tuesday, May 2 at the Jefferson County Courthouse until next Monday, May 8 from 8:30 am - 5:00 p.m.
Election Day will be held on May 9 at your polling location from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/early-voting-pine-bluff/91-3a5a89b1-6ddc-4566-8b6a-d0fcdff20a95 | 2023-05-02T14:01:15 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/early-voting-pine-bluff/91-3a5a89b1-6ddc-4566-8b6a-d0fcdff20a95 |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A few weeks ago Terri-Rae Elmer was at home when the phone rang.
"I hear this just screeching, high pitched, screaming: 'Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, you have to help me, I'm so scared, I don't know what to do.' And it sounded like my older daughter. And then this man comes on the phone, he said, 'You're going to give me $5,000 or I'm going to hold the phone up and you can listen while I start cutting your daughter's fingers off one by one'," Elmer said.
The caller said he was nearby and wanted to pick up Elmer and take her to the bank. That's when she realized it was a scam because Elmer's daughter was in another state at the time.
"And that's when I finally hung up on him. I immediately, immediately called both daughters," she said.
Elmer's daughters were both fine and she didn't lose any money, but that's often not the case.
Last year, Rio Brown told CBS News how scam artists used spoofing technology that can replicate phone numbers to trick her. When her phone rang the caller ID said it was her mom. She answered and a man came on and said he had both her parents.
"He said, we're going to kill your parents if you don't listen," Brown said.
The caller ordered her to send three transactions through a payment app totaling more than $1,500. She later contacted her parents and learned it was a scam. The payment app agreed to reimburse the payments but often scam victims never get their money back.
The FBI says Americans lost more than $54 million dollars to extortion scams last year, but the number is likely much higher because most cases are not reported. Investigators say sometimes the calls are random but can also be targeted. The FBI has seen many cases of con artists scanning social media for people who are traveling out of the country and then contacting family and claiming to have them, hostage.
"The first thing we tell people is before you do anything, hang up the phone and try to contact your loved one," says Michael Peasley, the FBI's Unit Chief for the International Violent Crime Unit.
Peasley says if you can't contact your loved ones start asking the caller questions.
"You could use something simple as: 'What was our first dog's name, or what's my middle name'," Peasley says.
A simple step, that can keep you from becoming a victim.
Correspondent: Danya Bacchus Producer: Chris Stein | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/fake-calls-loved-one-child-grandchild-scam-fbi-scary-calls-make-it-seem-like-a-loved-one-is-in-danger-hang-up-ask-questions/83-5498c1be-cd87-4f33-928b-fcc6f9c2956a | 2023-05-02T14:01:21 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/fake-calls-loved-one-child-grandchild-scam-fbi-scary-calls-make-it-seem-like-a-loved-one-is-in-danger-hang-up-ask-questions/83-5498c1be-cd87-4f33-928b-fcc6f9c2956a |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — City leaders in Little Rock have been actively working to recruit more people to move to the Natural State. They hope a growing economy and job opportunities will attract former Arkansans— and potentially new ones.
“From a job standpoint, we've already brought close to 10,000 new jobs,” said Mayor Frank Scott Jr.
The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has partnered with about 40 businesses looking for employees for the “Little Rock Love Connection" campaign.
“To matchmake between a company looking for a talented professional, and an individual that might be looking for a new opportunity, looking to come home,” said Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Jay Chesshir.
He hopes that a cash incentive will sweeten the deal.
“Our partner companies are offering a $5,000 signing bonus to talented people who choose to come to work for them,” said Chesshir. “Then one year later, if that person is still working with that organization, we will pay them out of the incentive fund an additional $5,000 bonus to retain them.”
He also said this is key, especially during a time when recruitment hasn't been easy for a lot of businesses.
“When you look at our Little Rock region when you look at the MSA, and you look at the unemployment rate of 3%, it's really, really tight when it comes to trying to find new talent,” Chesshir added.
The chamber also relies on help from current Arkansans to make the capital city successful.
“The most unique piece of it is also that we're going to use our local Arkansans as matchmakers so that they can share this information far and wide,” he said.
The jobs range from health care to engineering and much more, and the first 50 people that help create a match will be given $501. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock-campaign-work-force/91-6fcba62d-5a19-4055-a430-fafd24320739 | 2023-05-02T14:01:27 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock-campaign-work-force/91-6fcba62d-5a19-4055-a430-fafd24320739 |
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Update: She has been found and police have deactivated the Silver Alert.
Arkansas State Police have activated a Silver Alert with hopes of finding a missing North Little Rock woman.
She was last seen in North Little Rock when she left her home to get on a bus at 1400 Kanis but never made it to her destination.
She is described as being 5'3" in height and weighing about 175 pounds with short, straight black/gray hair and brown eyes.
Anyone who may have information regarding her whereabouts is urged to contact the North Little Rock Police Department at (501) 749-5654. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/silver-alert-north-little-rock-woman/91-4570c48c-8fa0-4bca-87d5-171b43e3f65f | 2023-05-02T14:01:33 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/silver-alert-north-little-rock-woman/91-4570c48c-8fa0-4bca-87d5-171b43e3f65f |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Immerse Arkansas will be hosting a groundbreaking ceremony for a new youth center, The Station, on Tuesday, May 2 at 10 a.m.
The Station will be the first shelter of its kind in the state, created as a safe place for young people ages 18-24 experiencing homelessness and other traumas.
Once finished, the 9,342 square-foot facility will include 15 suites each with private bedrooms and bathrooms, a shared kitchen and recreation space, rooms for counseling, and outdoor areas.
Located in Little Rock at 3201 Mary Street, The Station is less than a quarter of a mile from Immerse’s Youth Center (The OC).
The Station's goal is to protect youth during vulnerable times and help them integrate into Immerse’s proven youth programming as they pursue safety, stability, and healing.
The groundbreaking ceremony will also feature a time capsule for guests to place personalized notes and prayers in.
The Loblolly Creamery Truck will be on-site, and guests can snack on coffee, cookies, and fruit.
Additionally, there will be renderings of The Station available to view and personalized Immerse yard signs.
In attendance at the event will be Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr., Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins, Arkansas DHS Secretary Kristi Putnam, DHS Deputy Director of Youth and Families Mischa Martin, and Immerse Arkansas Executive Director Eric Gilmore, Immerse staff, youth, board members, public officials, plus donors. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/outreach/immerse-arkansas-opening-youth-shelter/91-de732ddb-0644-4283-99a9-b948483e0194 | 2023-05-02T14:01:40 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/outreach/immerse-arkansas-opening-youth-shelter/91-de732ddb-0644-4283-99a9-b948483e0194 |
TAMPA, Fla. — The 2-year-old daughter of Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Shaquil Barrett drowned Sunday morning after falling into a pool at the family’s home in the Beach Park neighborhood, police said.
A 911 call came in at around 9:27 a.m. from a home near South West Shore Boulevard about a toddler found in a pool, Tampa police say.
Tampa Fire Rescue responded and performed CPR on the girl and was able to get a pulse back, authorities say. The football player's youngest child was taken to Tampa General Hospital but later died.
The Bucs released a statement following the death of 2-year-old Arrayah Barrett.
"Today’s tragic news is heartbreaking for all members of the Buccaneers family. Our thoughts and prayers are with Shaq, Jordanna and the entire Barrett family during this unimaginably difficult time.
"While no words can provide true comfort at a time such as this, we offer our support and love as they begin to process this very profound loss of their beloved Arrayah."
Barrett, 30, and his wife, Jordanna, have three other children.
Tampa police officers do not believe the drowning is "suspicious in nature at this time, but a purely accidental and tragic accident."
In his most recent Instagram post on April 19, Barrett shared it was Arrayah's second birthday. He added "You made our family complete" in the caption.
Several teams in the NFL including the Denver Broncos also shared their support on Twitter writing, "#BroncosCountry is with you, Shaq & the entire Barrett family."
Bucs fans like Chris Elmore, who works with the "What The Buc Really Matters foundation," said he wants Barrett and the rest of the family to know that Bucs Nation has their back.
"We're here to support him in any way possible and necessary," Elmore said.
Off the field, Elmore recalls Barrett as a gentle giant — always kind and loving to his fans.
10 Tampa Bay was there when Barrett helped surprise children with a shopping spree at Target in an event dubbed "Lights Up The Holidays" in 2019.
Barrett is also involved with his Fifty50 Foundation, where 10 Tampa Bay reported on his partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Tampa to help distribute toys, hang out, and speak with families to provide a Christmas celebration for those in need. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/toddler-drowns-in-pool-in-south-tampa/67-ea53494d-5451-439c-a81b-b4165a9103bb | 2023-05-02T14:01:41 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/toddler-drowns-in-pool-in-south-tampa/67-ea53494d-5451-439c-a81b-b4165a9103bb |
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A recent movie titled “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” so alarmed James Beauchamp, president of the Midland-Odessa Transportation Alliance that he organized a luncheon to highlight the contributions of pipelines.
What alarmed him about the movie, which was based on a non-fiction book by a Swedish environmental activist, was not its seeming advocacy for bombing pipelines, he said. Instead, he told the luncheon crowd, what was alarming was that it seemed to justify blowing up pipelines for the greater cause of environmental protection.
“Let’s be honest, there’s morons out there who would only blow themselves up,” Beauchamp said. “Blowing up a pipeline is no way to solve environmental concerns.”
He added that Homeland Security officials have been busy briefing area officials about pipeline threats. “When you have Homeland Security under the Biden administration briefing people out here, it’s serious,” he said.
Pipelines will play an increasing economic role in the Permian Basin as natural gas production associated with crude production continues to rise in tandem with oil production. The forecast is that natural gas takeaway capacity will rise by 2 billion cubic feet by the third quarter, an additional 6.2 Bcf by the fourth quarter and by an additional 2.5 Bcf by the fourth quarter of 2024.
“We are a tremendous exporter of natural gas,” he said.
According to statistics cited by Beauchamp:
- 32% of all Texas freight tonnage is moved by pipeline
- 20% of all freight value moves by pipeline
- Pipelines are responsible for 155,600 jobs
- Pipelines are responsible for $25 billion in income, $21.8 billion in gross state product and $6.3 billion in tax revenues
“We’re not just supporting jobs here in the Permian Basin, we’re supporting jobs at Gulf Coast refineries, at Cushing, Oklahoma, at or ports. We support jobs all across the state, and that’s just pipelines,” Beauchamp stated.
Just think, he added, “how much pollution there would be from all the trucks on the road without pipelines. That’s why pipelines are important.”
The drive toward zero carbon through carbon capture and storage will make pipelines even more important, according to Nick Medina, public and stakeholder engagement manager with ExxonMobil Pipeline.
If the industry doesn’t tell its own story, he said, it will be defined by others – and not in a positive way.
Addressing the luncheon remotely, Medina told the audience pipelines – specifically pipelines transporting carbon dioxide – will be key to a lower carbon economy.
“You hear a lot about the energy transition, the future of energy, the evolution of energy – low carbon, zero carbon. The Permian Basin will play a key role in delivering the world’s energy needs while also finding ways to be more sustainable,” he said.
The drive toward carbon capture and storage and even carbon capture, utilization and storage, will offer major opportunities for pipelines, he said.
“Carbon goals will require a wide range of reduction technologies,” he said. “Carbon capture, utilization and storage can’t be realized without an expanded network of CO2 pipelines.”
There are currently 5,600 miles of CO2 pipeline globally, 5,300 of that in the US, he said. Projections are there will be a 10-fold increase in the CO2 pipeline network by 2050. Those new pipelines will cross urban areas and transport CO2 long distances. Successfully expanding that network will require educating the public about the safety of both CO2 and pipelines and their economic benefits as well as educating first responders on how to correctly handle any emergencies involving CO2 pipelines.
According to Medina, by 2025 there will be $50 billion invested in carbon capture and storage, $2 billion of that in pipelines, all creating 10,000 jobs. A decade later, in 2035, he said, that investment will grow to $175 billion, with $9 billion invested in pipelines and 40,000 jobs created.
“At the beginning of a new era like this, we need to ensure people trust it can be done safely,” he said. “CO2 is not corrosive, it’s not explosive. We take safety very, very seriously. And though we’re several years away from starting projects, the time is right to start working with first responders to train them and prepare them.”
Looking toward future energy sources like hydrogen, Medina pointed out that blue hydrogen is estimated to be 90% of the hydrogen used in the future. Blue hydrogen is derived from natural gas and the CO2 generated by the manufacturing process is permanently sequestered.
Cement, fertilizer and steel can all utilize hydrogen to become emissions-free, he said. “Again, it’s derived from natural gas. Fossil fuels are here to stay and we need to produce fossil fuels to produce the fuels of the future,” he said.
And pipelines will be needed to transport those fuels of the future, he added. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/exxonmobil-executive-pipelines-key-low-carbon-18072180.php | 2023-05-02T14:28:24 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/exxonmobil-executive-pipelines-key-low-carbon-18072180.php |
New housing lots are being made available under a final plat of DR Horton’s Quail Run Section 2 development approved by the city's Planning and Zoning Commission.
Commissioners unanimously approved a request by LCA, on behalf of DR Horton, for a replat of three lots in the development located at the east side of north Midkiff Road and north of Valley Quail Road. Because the developer is extending streets rather than creating cul-de-sacs, 28 residential lots have been created.
Two restaurants also received expansion approval at Monday’s commission meeting.
Karen Rodriguez, who opened Gorditas Don Elver with her husband Alex late last year at 210 W. Longview, had her request for a Specific Use Designation with Term for Alcoholic Beverages Sales for On-Premises Consumption in a restaurant approved. Proposed hours are Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next day and on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next day. Alcohol service hours will be 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next day Monday through Sunday.
Bubba’s 33, located in the north parking lot of Midland Park Mall at 4511 W. Midkiff Road, had its plans extend its hours of operation approved by commissioners. Commissioners approved the request by restaurant owner Strategic Restaurant Enterprises, Inc. for a Specific Use Designation with Term for Alcoholic Beverages Sales for On-Premises Consumption in a restaurant. The request was made to extend the restaurant’s hours of operation to 11 a.m. to midnight daily. Current hours of operation are from 3 p.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday and from 11a.m. to midnight Friday through Sunday. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-city-commission-approves-dr-horton-s-18070268.php | 2023-05-02T14:28:30 | 1 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/midland-city-commission-approves-dr-horton-s-18070268.php |
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Police in Philadelphia are investigating after a shooting during a suspected robbery in the city's East Germantown neighborhood led to the death of one man and put another in the hospital in critical condition.
According to investigators, the incident happened before 10:45 p.m. on Monday along the 6300 block of Ogontz Avenue.
Officers responding to a report of gunshots found a 43-year-old man -- whose identity has not been provided by police -- after he had been shot in the hand and face, officials said. This individual, police said, was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced at 11:42 p.m.
Also, investigators said, first repsonders also located a 53-year-old man who had suffered gunshot wounds to his chest. He was also taken to a nearby hospital where, police said, he was placed in critical condition.
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Officials said there has been no arrests in this shooting and a weapon has not yet been recovered, but police believe the shooting happened in the course of a robbery.
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Contact Us | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-parking-authority-issues-thousands-of-street-sweeping-zone-fines/3557633/ | 2023-05-02T14:30:55 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-parking-authority-issues-thousands-of-street-sweeping-zone-fines/3557633/ |
Thousands of car owners throughout the city were issued tickets from the Philadelphia Parking Authority on Monday as the agency cracked down on vehicles blocking the roadway.
According to the PPA, 3053 tickets were issued to vehicles that were parked along roadways targeted in the city's Mechanical Street Cleaning program.
The tickets for those who violate the street sweeping parking regulations cost $31.
Phase 3 of this program is set to start on Wednesday.
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A list of the 14 neighborhoods that will be the focus of Phase 3 can be found, here.
Also, according to the PPA, the newly launched bike lane enforcement unit -- which hit the streets for the first time on Monday -- ticketed at least 60 vehicles that were illegally parked in bike lanes.
Tickets for parking in bike lanes could cost drivers between $51 and $76. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/ppa-issues-over-3000-tickets-for-street-sweeping-violations/3557627/ | 2023-05-02T14:31:01 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/ppa-issues-over-3000-tickets-for-street-sweeping-violations/3557627/ |
As of now, there are no plans to fix the levee on Lower Lake Mary that failed last month. That’s according to a spokesperson with the Coconino National Forest, which manages the levee.
“Long story short is we don't have any plans for fixing that levee,” National Forest spokesperson Randi Shaffer told the Arizona Daily Sun.
Shaffer said any money that could be used to repair the levee is already dedicated toward other avenues for the foreseeable future.
“We’ve got a lot of our projects planned out years in advance, so we don't really have an emergency-levee-break-repair pot of money that we can pull from,” Shaffer said. “Funding that we have is going to be going to our projects that we've already earmarked in long-term budgets.”
Case in point: keeping the hundreds of miles of forest roads across the high country open and passable is a significantly higher priority.
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One of those roads in need of work might be Forest Road 296, which was flooded and became impassable when the levee broke.
But other than FR 296, no other infrastructure or structures were impacted by the levee break, and that is a significant factor in the decision to leave the levee as is.
The main purpose of the levee was simply to keep a higher level of water in Lake Mary to provide anglers with better fishing. But even then, throughout recent years the water levels in the lake have generally been so low that water didn’t approach the levee.
All the land impacted by the water flooding through the levee, and the land immediately surrounding the area, is forest land. And the area flooded by the levee break is actually just the historic lakebed from before the levee’s construction.
On top of all that, while the City of Flagstaff pulls water from Upper Lake Mary, the same cannot be said for Lower Lake Mary.
Shaffer said the record-breaking snows and subsequent runoff that swelled the lake and led to the levee’s breach was a pretty unique occurrence. Even with the break, it is unlikely that the lake level is regularly high enough to cause problems.
And should that occur, it would simply lead to the closure of FR 296.
The Forest Service did issue a closure order around the levee just before the breach, over a concern that anglers of other members of the public might be at risk if they were on or near the levee when it failed. However, now that the levee is breached, the risk to public safety is significantly diminished, Shaffer said.
“There's no public safety concern at this point,” Shaffer said, adding the National Forest plans to simply let that closure order expire on May 31. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/cest-levee-coconino-nf-has-no-plans-to-repair-lower-lake-mary-levee/article_1270a9b2-e87b-11ed-8e3d-f75d49ebf959.html | 2023-05-02T14:31:29 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/cest-levee-coconino-nf-has-no-plans-to-repair-lower-lake-mary-levee/article_1270a9b2-e87b-11ed-8e3d-f75d49ebf959.html |
TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers are asking for the public’s help identifying the driver responsible for a deadly hit-and-run in southeast Travis County on Saturday night.
DPS said the incident happened around 11:56 p.m. at the intersection of US 183 and FM 973.
A 44-year-old motorcyclist was traveling south on US 183 when he was struck by a car. He was ejected from the motorcycle and later died at the scene, DPS said.
The car fled the scene of the crash, dragging the motorcycle underneath the front of the vehicle for approximately 3 miles south before entering the ramp to Toll-45.
A plastic piece of a GM headlamp was found at the scene of the crash, according to DPS troopers. Information provided by a witness on the scene shows a possible 2014 to 2018 Cadillac Escalade dragging the motorcycle and creating sparks underneath the vehicle.
The driver failed to stop and render aid.
Anyone who has any information is asked to contact DPS at 512-424-7193. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/dps-us-183-motocycle-hit-and-run/269-0d28628c-2d9d-4ec0-a366-2c520f783f53 | 2023-05-02T14:46:05 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/dps-us-183-motocycle-hit-and-run/269-0d28628c-2d9d-4ec0-a366-2c520f783f53 |
HAYS COUNTY, Texas — One of the most popular swimming spots in Central Texas remains closed for swimming. Monday, May 1, was supposed to be opening day for swimmers at Jacob's Well in Hays County.
Katherine Sturdivant, the Hays County Parks education coordinator, said it is not open to swimming because of low water levels. She said it's been caused by the drought and groundwater pumping.
"Many people have found themselves in Central Texas. It is a gorgeous place, but that has put stress on that groundwater resources," said Sturdivant.
Sturdivant said to open Jacob's Well for swimming, it would need significant rainfall, slow and steady, especially into Trinity Aquifer.
"Rain falling to the west of us goes into the Trinity Aquifer system. It recharges that aquifer, and that is where the water is coming from," said Sturdivant.
When swimming is allowed there, usually more than 200 people swim throughout the day.
The park does remain open for hiking and nature's beauty. Soni Lee from Boston was on the trails on Monday but was hoping to go swimming.
"Thought we're going to be first in," said Lee.
Lee enjoys traveling the country and checking out natural resources.
"There is nothing but the well with a little of fish. It is beautiful but sad there is no water," she said.
The Hay's County website will be updated when Jacob's Well has "sustainable flow and we deem it is safe for swim access." They will then open up reservations for swimmers. Be sure to check the website for up-to-date information regarding Jacob's Well. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/jacobs-well-closed/269-deb03617-4c2c-4850-bf3e-d2671552d62e | 2023-05-02T14:46:11 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/jacobs-well-closed/269-deb03617-4c2c-4850-bf3e-d2671552d62e |
AUSTIN, Texas — Supporting local businesses is always important, but it's officially Small Business Week in Texas!
Gov. Greg Abbott is encouraging Texans across the state to recognize the week and celebrate the essential role Texas’ 3.1 million small businesses play in the state's thriving economy.
According to Katie Galan, the regional director with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) serving the Heart of Texas, over 41,000 small businesses are in the Austin and Round Rock metro area.
For Austin, that's about one business per every 100 people - which is something experts say is a very healthy number to have in the growing city.
Kyle DeHaas, a franchise consultant with FranNet, says for aspiring business owners it's important to look outward and see what the market needs. Specifically in Austin, there is a strong demand for irrigation services that have a focus on water conservation, senior care and children-focused businesses.
The BBB offers support for business owners including marketing help, finding funding options available and resolving issues with consumers. Galan says buying from locals not only supports their business but ultimately the community as a whole.
"Small businesses are you know, yes, they are making revenue in that community, but they also live there. They don't only work there, they live there, too. So when you're contributing to that small business, that business owner can turn around and contribute to the rest of the community," said Galan.
The BBB also offers education, workshops and free seminars to business owners. Whether aspiring entrepreneurs are looking for marketing help, funding options or resolve issues with consumers, the BBB wants to assist.
"We help them resolve those issues to the satisfaction of both the consumer and the business owner so that everybody walks away happy. So trust is restored. So we really do help mediate that between the consumer and the business owner, which is something that's really unique to BBB as opposed to other kinds of third-party websites that are out there where you can leave reviews and you can leave complaints," said Galan.
When it comes to ways to support locals, it's encouraged to shop at farmer's markets, where local products and vendors are on-site. Also, avoid choosing third-party delivery services. Although those delivery services are convenient, it results in the local retailer paying a fee to be a partner to utilize the system.
Even if money is tight, residents can support their favorite small businesses by taking a picture outside their storefront and sharing it on social media or by leaving a positive review online. This allows a positive message to be spread about the local business and its products.
Abbott’s Small Business Summit is providing Texas' small business owners and entrepreneurs the opportunity to network and share relevant advice on small business topics. The summit will kick off in Temple, on May 4.
More information on other upcoming cities and dates, as well as event registration, can be found on the website. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/small-business-week/269-b981a2e0-600d-4ee3-ac17-d8403ca17583 | 2023-05-02T14:46:18 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/small-business-week/269-b981a2e0-600d-4ee3-ac17-d8403ca17583 |
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