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Two big blockbuster movies of the summer are now in theaters – "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer," drawing big crowds and strange comparisons.
They couldn’t be more different, but they’re both represented in a unique way at a museum in South Jersey.
Among tattered flags, old newspapers, and rows of military memorabilia lies a piece of Barbie history at the Millville Army Airfield Museum in Millville, New Jersey.
From the Green Beret to Barbie making
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In 2004, retired Army veteran Robert Yutaka Hasake donated his entire Barbie collection to the Seabrook Education Cultural Center. But, since they didn't have room for the hundreds of dolls, the cultural center loaned them to the Millville military museum.
Hasake was a child during World War II and his family was placed in a Japanese internment camp in California. Toward the end of the war, Hasake's family was allowed to travel to Bridgeton, New Jersey, for work at the Seabrook Farms.
After graduating from college, Hasake then enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a paratrooper with the Green Berets.
After serving, he joined the toy company Mattel as a master model builder. He conceptualized and created countless Barbie dolls.
Now, over 300 Barbies from various eras are on display at the Millville museum along with handwritten notes from Hasake.
"He wanted people to see them and enjoy the history of all the history of Barbie dolls he knows how many people love Barbie dolls," Millville Army Airfield Museum Executive Director Lisa Jester said.
While it's a small piece of history, it shows that every veteran's story needs to be told.
"World War II was a bunch of late teenagers and young adults who basically stood in the path of history and saved the world," Millville Army Airfield Museum President Jerry Carey said.
Want to see the Barbies yourself?
The museum -- located at 1 Leddon St, Millville, New Jersey, is open and free to the public.
Staff recommends going between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. They also take reservations throughout the week.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – One person is dead after a car sank into a lake in Beaverton Monday morning, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to a call of a car in Commonwealth Lake Park around 6 a.m. and found that one person had drowned. The person’s identity has yet to be released.
Officials with Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue successfully recovered the car around 7:45 a.m.
Stay with KOIN 6 as we receive more information.
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Federal funding coming to DeSoto, Manatee counties to speed up internet service
In DeSoto County, 80% of residents and businesses have internet access but half are grappling with connection speeds less than 10 megabits per second.
ARCADIA — Lilly Esaau is a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home. She spends several hours a day at the DeSoto County Library catching up on paperwork and taking continuing-education classes online because she has no internet connection at home.
“No internet. At all,” she said. “Maybe I can get on the neighbor's Wi-Fi, but it's off and on.”
She takes it all in stride. “I've worked here about 12 years. I'm used to it.”
She's not alone. According to a recent survey in DeSoto County, 80% of residents and businesses responding said they have access to the internet. And of those, about half say their connection speed was less than 10 megabits (mbps) per second, barely enough for one person per household to be logged in at a time.
And that is far below what the federal government says should be the standard for Americans. The Federal Communications Commission says the minimum speed for broadband is at least 25 mbps and actual upload speeds of at least 3 mbps.
To that end, the Biden administration is pumping billions into programs administered by state governments to add broadband infrastructure in underserved and unserved areas.
At a June 26 news conference, President Biden declared high-speed internet is no longer a luxury but an “absolute necessity,” and pledged access for every household by 2030 using cables made in the U.S.
Money earmarked for DeSoto, Manatee
In May, Florida's Office of Broadband awarded $60 million in federal grants to 22 projects in 19 counties. It includes $4.9 million to add 13 miles of fiber optic cable to 497 homes west of the municipal airport in southeast Arcadia, with download and upload speeds of 1 gigabyte per second.
It also includes $1.5 million to install 42 miles of fiber optic lines with similar download and upload speed in east Manatee County, to 261 unserved locations in Duette, Parrish, Rubonia and Willow.
The grants were announced after DeSoto County formed a group of community and business leaders. This Local Technology Planning Team conducted a survey of internet usage and needs. The county then offered advice and assistance to internet service providers, who then bid on the projects.
“We are kind of the conduit between the [state] Office of Broadband and then, really, the boots on the ground at the local level,” said Sondra Guffey, DeSoto County's economic development director.
The two companies awarded the contracts to install the broadband facilities were IBT Group, USA, LLC in Arcadia; and Charter Communications LLC in Manatee County. Both projects are scheduled to be complete by the end of 2026.
Rural community realities
The internet survey conducted last year by DeSoto County revealed what most already knew – large areas of the county go without service, and what service exists is not dependable.
“We're finding that a lot of [survey respondents] weren't using the internet as much as probably people who have good service,” Guffey said. “It goes hand in hand. If you have good service, you use it more.”
The need was clear during the COVID-19 pandemic when people were isolated at home.
“I guess, you could say, a good result of COVID is a recognition of how dependent we are on broadband and the recognition that the rural areas are really suffering.”
As economic development director, Guffey says the lack of connectivity works against the county. “I don't have any firsthand knowledge that could say, 'yes, you know, we lost two businesses.' I can't say that,” she said.
“What I can say is that we probably don't even get on the radar screen now of some of these companies that need it.”
Guffey says with more money likely coming for broadband infrastructure, the county is looking at where they would like to see it happen.
“From our perspective, we would really like to get State Road 70 served, and U.S. 17. That would be really important because that's where the core business is going to be,” she said.
“You get to Lake Suzy, that's a big population cluster,” she said, “and it's moving up that way from Lake Suzy up Kings Highway.”
There's also growth in the Fort Ogden and Nocatee areas, she said. “So if they can get those ... hit the population clusters, I think that would make the most sense.”
Meeting the community's needs
Local resources, like the county library, are trying to fill the gap by providing high speed internet and computers during business hours and beyond.
DeSoto County librarian Linda Waters says her staff is doing everything they can to provide an oasis in a digital desert. “Some of them, this is the only place they have to come,” Waters said.
She says when people without internet access come to the library, they often don't have the computer skills to do basic tasks. That's where the library staff steps in to help.
One staffer recently spent three hours with a truck driver to submit a job application that the company would only accept online. “We do our very best to help them do whatever they need to do,” Waters said, “whether it is filling out their food assistance program applications, signing in for their health appointments, or setting up their [email] accounts.”
The library is a busy place during the school year, too. “We have a number of young students whose families don't have Internet at home,” she said. “We have students who come in sometimes after their parents get off work at 4:30-5 in the afternoon. They'll come in for about 45 minutes to finish up a paper, to get the illustrations they need for their science project.”
Waters says the library keeps its Wi-Fi on even after their doors close. It’s a well-known secret that the signal is usable in the parking lot if you park close enough to the building. “It's available 24/7 if you need it – 11 at night, to get that assignment turned in or to finish that test. It's here for you.
“We want to say ‘yes’ to everyone who has a need,” Waters said. “And so we work very hard to try to make that possible.”
This story is courtesy of the Community News Collaborative, made possible by a grant from Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation. You can reach Jim DeLa at jdela@cncfl.org.
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Faulhaber Fab Lab and RND Automation team up to inspire future technology innovators
The Suncoast Science Center/Faulhaber Fab Lab, a Sarasota-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics education, is partnering with robotics leader RND Automation to increase exposure to STEAM careers by offering students enhanced learning opportunities and access to the world of robotics.
The relationship between the Fab Lab and RND Automation – Florida's largest custom robotics, packaging and assembly machinery manufacturer – represents a powerful alliance between education and industry, highlighting the importance of fostering interest and skills in STEAM areas from an early age. By leveraging the expertise and resources of both organizations, students will be empowered to gain firsthand experience and practical knowledge in robotics, automation, and other fields.
The collaboration, said RND vice president Aaron Laine, is "a timely partnership as RND moves beyond its initial objective of broadening its reach nationally and internationally. This expansion now includes an emphasis on fostering technological growth within our community and contributing to its wellbeing."
To kick off the partnership, RND Automation loaned a FANUC robotic arm to the Fab Lab for testing and learning. The robotic arm has already been programmed by summer camp student instructors for use in the lab's Machine Madness camps as well as used in the lab's BUILD program that teaches high school volunteers to use high-tech equipment to bring projects to life.
BUILD volunteers spent 15 hours learning how to program the arm and design 3D printing custom tool heads to seamlessly integrate into the robot. Among the tools built were an adapter that turns the robot into a pencil sharpener as well as a marker adapter that allows the robot to draw perfect shapes.
"We are excited to join forces with RND Automation to bring a new level of engagement and exposure to STEM education," Suncoast Science Center/Faulhaber Fab Lab Executive Director Ping Faulhaber said. "This partnership represents a significant milestone for us as we strive to bridge the gap between academia and industry, equipping students with the skills they need to thrive in the future workforce."
Plans are underway to deepen the partnership by providing students with opportunities to work on real world automation projects at the Fab Lab with support from industry experts who work for RND Automation and other local companies. RND Automation experts will actively engage with students by offering mentorship and shadowing programs, guest lectures, and opportunities to visit their facilities. By connecting directly with professionals in the field, the partnership will expose students to real world applications and career possibilities in STEM earlier than ever.
"Our focus is primarily on creating job opportunities for local students in their hometown. Sarasota and Manatee counties are already celebrated for various facets such as arts, business, and tourism," Laine said. "RND's initiative with the Fab Lab represents our endeavor to include ‘technology’ among these recognized attributes."
To learn more, visit suncoastscience.org or connect on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Submitted by Jenn Sams Scott
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Manatee County fires a dozen animal shelter volunteers with little public explanation
Cathryn Bridwell has volunteered at the Manatee County Animal Welfare Shelter for more than five years, but on July 3, she was among a dozen core animal shelter volunteers terminated in a single email with no further explanation.
Manatee County records show the shakeup stems from interpersonal issues between core unpaid volunteers who have raised concerns over the handling of animals at the shelter, county staff members who operate the shelter, and at least one other volunteer who instead supports staff efforts.
Similar concerns came to light a few years ago when another former volunteer, Paul David Daniels, filed a lawsuit against the county after he was fired in June 2020 after publicly voicing concern about living conditions at the county's animal shelter on Facebook. He claimed a dog had been kept outdoors without air ventilation during the summer and eventually became ill and died in her cage.
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The case was settled in February 2022, and Daniels won a second lawsuit against the county for withholding public records related to the matter.
Bridwell sent an email to county commissioners and top staff members on June 7, questioning a lack of explanation for the recent volunteer terminations.
"With a single email sent to 12 hard-working and committed volunteers, (Director of Public Safety) Jodie Fiske has chosen to purposely take away literally countless weekly hours of care from the dogs," Bridwell wrote. "Make no mistake, these dogs will and are suffering as a result of this decision."
"Can you understand why I would be dumbfounded to find myself dismissed?" she wrote. "Would you please explain to the dogs that I routinely loved on and brought to my home that I am no longer welcomed there? ... Please tell these dogs that I have not forgotten them and that it breaks my heart to not be able to help them in their time of need. This has caused me extreme mental anguish and for what it’s worth, tears are rolling down my face as I write this."
In her email, Bridwell spoke highly of the fired volunteers and the contributions they made to the shelter.
Manatee County has not addressed the situation publicly, but Commissioner George Kruse added plans to discuss concerns about the animal shelter to the agenda for a county commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
Deputy Administrator Courtney De Pol also wrote an email to top staff members and several commissioner aides on July 10 stating Animal Services Chief and Animal Enforcement Supervisor Steve Bell is filling in for vacant volunteer coordinator and dog adoption manager roles. De Pol also pitched reclassifying a vacant position from the Public Safety division to create a second dog adoption manager to help staff the Palmetto shelter.
The county's volunteer program has 667 registered volunteers, including 72 dedicated dog walkers at the Palmetto shelter, with another 115 in process.
The county is working to consolidate animal services from Palmetto to the recently acquired Bishop Animal Shelter. The county also is working to establish 20 pre-fabricated kennels to place at the county jail to allow inmates to work directly with dogs, pending approval by county commissioners.
More from Manatee:Manatee County assures earthy tasting drinking water is safe to consume, despite concern
Manatee County spokesman Bill Logan did not directly address the situation but told the Herald-Tribune the county remains committed to the care of animals in its care.
"Manatee County Animal Welfare is committed to enriching the lives of the animals in our care," Logan said in a statement. "Our animals’ physical and mental well-being remains our top priority. Through collaboration with regional partners and animal behavior experts, we are constantly evaluating our best practices across all areas of responsibility."
Anyone interested in adopting a furry friend from Manatee County can visit https://www.mymanatee.org/departments/public_safety/animal_services/adopt_a_pet.
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Loyd Robbins opens new real estate firm in Sarasota after leaving family firm to sons
Despite stepping away from the company he helped build for 50 years, Loyd Robbins has already launched a new real estate firm just a short walk from his old office on Tuttle Avenue.
Loyd Robbins & Co. was founded by Robbins, his wife Freya Robbins and their daughter Ali Marks, according to the news release.
The office at 3580 Tuttle Ave. has a team of 17 agents with a combined 399 years of real estate experience.
Robbins sold his shares in Harry E. Robbins & Associates in mid-June, a firm he helped build with his mother and father beginning in 1973, to his four sons.
However, the transition out of the company was not because Robbins, 68, plans to retire. He said he and his 91-year-old mother sold their shares so that the third generation could take over the family business.
"This may be a new venture, but it is firmly rooted in our longstanding heritage," Robbins said in a news release. "It’san opportunity to pay homage to my parents’ legacy while forging our own path — and prioritizing thecore values of honesty and integrity that have been the foundation of my career.
However, there was some whiplash when he first moved into the new office property. The office for Loyd Robbins & Co. sits diagonally from Harry E. Robbins & Associates on Tuttle Avenue.
"It did seem a little weird going to a different building after 50 years," he said.
Recent real estate coverage:Sarasota-Manatee remains a 'pretty darn stable' real estate market
More:Benderson Development plan calls for "adaptive reuse" of Sarasota County headquarters
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Graphic details released in manatee Hugh's death from traumatic injuries at Sarasota's Mote Marine
The death of Hugh, a 38-year-old manatee who died at Mote Marine Aquarium and Laboratory in April, could have been prevented, according to new records that detail the beloved animal's death.
Hugh died from a 14.5-centimeter rip in his colon and other traumatic injuries caused by a sexual encounter with another, larger, male Manatee at the facility, according to necropsy report findings published by the United States Department of Agriculture.
In case you missed it:Mote Marine manatee Hugh died at the age of 38 in Sarasota
The inspection report states "The facility failed to handle Hugh expeditiously and as carefully as possible to prevent trauma and physical harm, resulting in the death of the animal."
Mote Marine announced Hugh's death in a press release on April 30, when the aquarium described the incident differently.
"After Hugh showed a change in his behavior earlier in the day, animal care staff began closely monitoring him. Saturday late afternoon, Hugh suddenly became unresponsive in his habitat at Mote Aquarium's Marine Mammal Center," the aquarium announced in the news release. "Hugh’s Animal Care team responded immediately, and ultimately determined that Hugh had passed away."
On Monday, Mote Marine spokesman Kevin Cooper said staff members who worked with Hugh continue to mourn his death, adding that the aquarium is committed to the USDA's gold standards for animal care. Mote is appealing the USDA findings.
"Our Mote Marine Laboratory family continues to mourn the passing of our beloved manatee Hugh," Cooper said. "Throughout the events leading up to his passing, Mote acted within the professional standards and practices that we have observed throughout Hugh's 27 years with us, and as recommended by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership."
"Mote's animal care staff communicated with the medical care team as quickly and as often as possible, including communications with experienced certified veterinary technicians, a senior contract manatee veterinarian, and a staff veterinarian," he said.
Manatee deaths:Snooty the manatee's death was preventable, museum says
Hugh was born at the Miami Seaquarium and was moved to Mote Marine in 1996 along with Buffett, who shared a tank with him. Hugh and Buffett were trained to participate in manatee research projects to help Mote Marine staff study their eyesight, hearing, physiology, and body temperature.
The two Manatees also gained fame from picking NFL Super Bowl championship teams. Hugh correctly picked the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl last season.
"We trust the Mote Marine Laboratory and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums will be examining the laboratory’s protocols to ensure this tragedy isn’t repeated," Nicole Meyer, a spokesperson for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said in a statement Monday.
Hugh is not the first beloved Manatee to die in captivity in the Sarasota-Bradenton region. Snooty, who at the age of 69 was the world's oldest known Manatee, made national headlines when he died in a preventable incident at The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature in Bradenton in 2017.
At the time of Snooty's death, aquarium staff knew that a panel leading to the "cave" where Snooty drowned was missing screws, but because of failures in record keeping, reporting, communications and follow-through, no action was taken and no repairs were made.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more details become available.
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GARLAND COUNTY, Ark. — Police are now investigating after a 12-year-old boy reportedly drowned early Sunday morning while in Lake Ouachita near the Brady Mountain campground.
According to reports from The Sentinel-Record, the Garland County Sheriff's Office got a call about a missing 12-year-old who was last seen in the water.
The Piney Fire Department was also called to the scene just after 7:30 a.m., and after a search of the lake by crews and divers, they were able to recover the body about two hours later at around 9:45 a.m.
Shortly after the body was recovered, the Garland County Coroner's Office was also called to the scene.
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The clock is ticking for Governor Abbott to remove buoys he ordered installed along the border in the Rio Grande.
He has until 1 p.m. Monday to remove them, or the Federal Government will take legal action. This was Governor Greg Abbott’s attempt to limit illegal border crossings.
However, critics are calling the move inhumane, saying migrants could get hurt by the buoys. Two weeks ago, the floating barriers were installed along the river.
The 4-foot wide spheres are also located next to newly installed razor wire in the Rio Grande.
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the governor saying his actions to install buoys near Eagle Pass "violate federal law".
The governor responded the next day with a tweet saying Texas has "sovereign authority" to defend its border.
Some lawmakers are criticizing the barriers. Others say addressing immigration reform is the best route forward.
"It's barbaric treatment , it's extreme cruelty, there's no need for that kind of cruelty, that's something you would expect to see in a country like North Korea," said Congressman Castro.
"I would be happy to host the President of the United States in Eagle Pass and walk through this situation," said Congressman Tony Gonzales. "To me, congress has to solve this because we've been waiting on a president for decades to solve this, and it's not gonna be solved."
In response to the border crisis, Congressman Tony Gonzales introduced an act which he says would focus on legal immigration and has bi-partisan support.
The governor has until 1 p.m. to remove the barriers.
We will keep you updated on this developing story.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The City of Flint announced that the 4th of July holiday Fireworks have been rescheduled for Aug. 18 during Back to the Bricks.
The fireworks originally scheduled for the Independence Day holiday were postponed due to inclement weather.
According to the city, the Back to the Bricks weekend was chosen because of the security measures already planned for Back to the Bricks.
Fireworks will launch from the Chevy Commons at dusk, around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 18.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Some Kansas teachers spent some time learning how to build model airplanes on Wednesday. The lesson was part of the We Build It Better classroom curriculum.
The goal is for the teachers to pass the love of creating things to their students during the school year.
Teachers from Wichita Public Schools, Maize and Abilene gathered at Truesdell Middle School in Wichita. Truesdell and Brooks Magnet Middle School started the We Build It Better program last year. The program will be added at more WPS middle schools this year.
Teachers have seven different kits they will share with students to expose them to various aspects of manufacturing, including math, 3D printing, electricity, and aviation.
Five years ago, the Wichita State Engineering Department created the model airplane kits for the Kansas BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology) Robotics Program.
The kits were redesigned with help from Flight Works Alabama and local Wichita printer, Print Source. Flight Works Alabama helped the Kansas teachers learn how to build model planes.
“It was very, very heartwarming for us to see how Print Source right here in Wichita are the ones who manufacture the planes for us, and then the students have to build them,” Robin Fenton, Flight Works Alabama, said.
The kits will be used throughout the U.S. at schools using the We Build It Better curriculum.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Wichita Public Schools in-person enrollment will be Tuesday, July 25 and Thursday, July 26, from 12 – 7 p.m. All kindergarten families need to enroll in person.
Online enrollment for the 2023-24 school year began on July 5 and is available for grades 1-12.
If you are a returning parent and forgot your ParentVUE account or password, please use the password reset button on the homepage of ParentVUE. If that doesn’t work, contact our Help Desk at 973-4357.
The first day of school is Tuesday, Aug. 15, with a half-day orientation for 6th and 9th-grade students on Monday, Aug. 14.
All families are encouraged to complete and submit the Application for Free and Reduced Price School Meals form and qualify in order to receive free or reduced-priced meals, as well as free or reduced prices on textbook rentals, athletic fees, instrument rentals and student fees.
Parents can apply through LINQ Connect (formerly Titan), using their Titan log in and password. Any families who completed enrollment on July 5-10 will need to go back online to complete the Free and Reduced Price School Meals application.
Families interested in enrolling students for pre-kindergarten should go to the pre-K page to complete an interest form.
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ATLANTA — UPDATE: Fulton County now says contractors have "completed repairs to the chiller at the Fulton County Jail, a key step toward restoration of air conditioning at the facility. This will allow temperatures to return to the normal range over the course of today."
Original story below
Inmates at the Fulton County Jail experienced uncomfortable conditions all weekend after severe storms knocked out power for much of the weekend, the sheriff's office said on Sunday.
The jail experienced a number of issues this weekend -- including no air conditioning, limited hot meals, and even being forced to stop accepting detainees for a period of time, the sheriff's office said.
A backup propane tank was also damaged from a fallen tree after straight line winds impacted much of Atlanta on Friday, fire officials said. They had to remove dangerous gasses before contractors could restart the air conditioning system within the jail.
Backup generators kicked on right away for basic power, but Atlanta Fire officials said that mechanical equipment has to remain off until the propane tank can finish venting.
A portable chiller truck has been used to help keep the jail cool in the absence of air conditoning.
Georgia Power was called in to help fix problems in the kitchen, which forced the jail to serve sandwiches on Friday night. Once the jail got those issues fixed, they served inmates hot meals with double portions on Saturday night.
Fulton County Sheriff Patrick "Pat" Labat was at the jail overnight on Saturday and came back to the jail Sunday to work directly with the emergency response teams to help keep operations running smoothly, the sheriff's office explained in a statement.
Although the jail was forced to stop accepting inmates in the immediate aftermath of the storm damage on Friday, they were back to normal operations in accepting detainees on Saturday, the sheriff's office confirmed.
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ATLANTA — A metro Atlanta dog shelter is starting repairs after severe weekend storms caused flooding.
Community members ran to the rescue to foster dogs as the Midtown Lifeline shelter, which is located on Howell Mill Road, and worked to restore the damages, the shelter announced in an Instagram post.
Officials said on Sunday that at least 30 dogs were still in need of foster.
In an Instagram Story on Monday, officials thanked everyone who helped and asked the public to volunteer to help with repairs or foster a dog.
The shelter has recently experienced issues with overcrowding amid a flu outbreak which put many other dogs at risk of being euthanized.
How to help
Shelter leaders are reminding people that if they find a healthy pet in Fulton County, one should take 48 hours to help reunite them with their family. By assisting in the search, people keep dogs out of shelters and keep animals in an area they are likely familiar with.
People should also take suspected strays to a vet or shelter to see if they have been microchipped. Lastly, people should consider fostering animals especially if they have the space and time. More resources can be found online here.
For those who can adopt or foster, consider going to LifeLine Midtown at 981 Howell Mill Rd, which is open seven days a week. Fulton County Animal Services at 860 Marietta Blvd NW is also an option, this location is closed on Wednesdays. Appointments are not necessary and all dog adoption fees are waived right now thanks to an anonymous donor.
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BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Multiple businesses were shot up overnight in Brookhaven, according to DeKalb County Police.
Officers said they initially received a call about shots fired at the Kinder Care Learning Center around 6 a.m. When they arrived, they said they found bullets had hit a Waffle House and dental office near by. The daycare was never hit.
According to police, there are no victims and no shooter was located.
Multiple shell casings were also found in the parking lot and roadway. In addition, two cars were also hit by the gunfire.
This is a developing story. Check back often for new information.
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HAMPTON, Ga. — A week after a mass shooting devastated the community of Hampton, racially incited hate flyers were littered across the city in the early hours of Sunday morning, the city manager said.
Hampton City Manager Alex Cohilas said they have received approximately 227 reports of the flyers being distributed to homes and businesses in the city so far. He said that number will likely rise as they still have people calling in.
11Alive spoke with a resident in the community who shared a flyer that showed the pictures of the four mass shooting victims, with text below the photos that appeared to described the senseless killings to be motivated by one race on another. 11Alive has chosen not to share a photo of this flyer out of respect for the victims' families.
Other versions of the flyers, as described by Cohilas, depict an antisemitic tirade along with what appears to be corn kernels inside a bag.
Another flyer distributed in the community said "White Unity" with the phrases "Defend Your Race" and "Love Your People" depicted on the flyer. A photo of those flyers was shared by a viewer with 11Alive and can be seen below:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with Hampton Police Department, are now investigating the matter. In a statement released by Cohilas Sunday night, he said in part:
"The City of Hampton is disgusted by and condemns the actions of those responsible for the distribution of these hateful leaflets throughout our city. They are in no way representative of our city, our citizens, or our values."
Cohilas explained that authorities are using Ring doorbell cameras and other sources to help find leads and find those responsible for distributing the flyers.
Cohilas also explained the flyers were intended to incite racial feelings and that the central message "does not represent the city of Hampton, our citizens or our values."
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KCC will hold its final public hearing on a proposed Evergy rate increase on Thursday
Evergy customers will have one more opportunity to attend a public hearing to learn about the company’s rate increase request, ask questions and make comments before the Kansas Corporation Commission.
The third and final public hearing will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 27, at Wichita State University’s Lowe Auditorium at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, 5014 S.E. 29th St. North.
The application, filed with the KCC on April 25, requests an average monthly rate increase of $14.24 for Evergy Central customers and $3.47 for Evergy Metro customers. Commission approval is required before a regulated utility can change its rates.
For those unable to attend the hearing in person, a virtual option via Zoom is available to allow remote participants to comment. Advance registration on the KCC’s website is required for those participating by Zoom. The hearings will be broadcast on the KCC’s YouTube channel for those wanting to view the hearing without participating.
The commission is also accepting written comments regarding the rate increase request through 5 p.m. Sept. 29 on its website; by mail to the Kansas Corporation Commission, 1500 S.W. Arrowhead Road, Topeka, KS 66604-4027; or by calling the KCC’s Office of Public Affairs and Consumer Protection at 785-271-3140 or 800-662-0027.
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The Evergy Central service area includes Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence, Olathe, Leavenworth, Atchison, Manhattan, Salina, Hutchinson, Emporia, Parsons, Arkansas City, El Dorado, Newton, Fort Scott, Pittsburg and Independence, among other towns and rural areas. The Every Metro service area includes Lenexa, Overland Park and other communities near the Kansas City metro area.
Hearings were previously held in Topeka on July 11 and Overland Park on July 13. Recordings of both hearings are available on the KCC’s YouTube channel.
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The Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission met to a packed conference room at the Kenosha County Center in Bristol, July 20, 2023.…
BRISTOL — A commission tasked with addressing racial and ethnic equity in Kenosha County is seeking data and other background on the origins of a 2020 resolution approved by the County Board that declared racism a public health crisis.
To that end, the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission last week voted 5-2, with one abstention, requesting all reports, including, research data and meeting minutes of committees and groups related to the declaration.
Voting in favor of the recommendation were commissioners Dan O’Keefe, Courtney Marshall, Chair Xavier Solis, Elizabeth Garcia and Supervisor Brian Thomas, who proposed the motion. Commissioner Justin Crosby and Supervisor Andy Berg opposed the recommendation. Commissioner Alayna Arrington abstained. Commissioner A. Brian Gonzales had an excused absence.
The July 20 meeting drew a capacity crowd at the Kenosha County Center, at 19600 75th St., with more than 60 people in attendance. Among those attending were 18 speakers, many concerned the advisory panel had intentions of recommending the County Board rescind its declaration altogether. And while the commission did not suggest that action, other issues, including the proposed renaming of gender and racial equity award, have brought conflict among residents, panel members and local elected officials.
Kenosha County Board Supervisor Brian Thomas, left, explains that he requested data and additional information forming the basis for a 2020 Co…
Thomas’ suggestion for additional information was initiated at last month’s commission meeting, held County Board chambers to accommodate a larger crowd, but it was not formally considered at the time. As he did at the June meeting, Thomas reiterated that there was a “misunderstanding” as to why the commission was discussing the County Board’s 2020 resolution.
“Perhaps, the agenda item could’ve been written in a way that was a little more clear. I don’t know,” Thomas said.
Thomas said he proposed looking into the data and origins for why the declaration came about because six of the nine commissioners were new to the panel, which was established two years ago. Since then, the commission has had significant turnover and several of the original government officials involved were no longer with the county.
“I asked if we could ask the County Board, the health department and the county executive to provide whatever information that they accumulated in their research or whatever might’ve been, minutes of meetings that would help us better understand what led them to declaring racism as a public health crisis,” said Thomas, who along with Berg, are the two County Board representatives on the commission.
“That was it. There was no discussion on trying to dissolve this or negate any aspect,” said Thomas who sought to clear the air on the matter.
“All of us are working together. Some of us have only had two meetings under their belt,” he said.
Supervisor Andy Berg, one of two Kenosha County Board representatives on the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission, opposed a recommendation req…
Berg said he could not support Thomas’ motion because he felt it was an attempt to discredit the work done previously.
“We’re discussing things that have already happened. We need to take the data that we’re getting and we need to move forward and make action on what the data is saying,” he said.
Crosby questioned what Thomas intended to do with the data.
“I think it would be helpful to the new commissioners to know … what that data was. The other thing I think is I don’t want to have to go and look up the same data that might already be available,” he said.
O’Keefe, who seconded the motion, said he felt as a new commissioner he needed the information to educate himself. He said that having the information didn’t necessarily mean going back to change what others had done, but when he first came on the commission, he wondered about what it had accomplished.
“Listening to everything else, it didn’t sound like a real lot has been accomplished,” he said.
Crosby then questioned O’Keefe’s motives for joining the commission.
“He wants to educate himself more on how this commission came about and the resolution, so, my question is why did you…” asked Crosby. Solis said that he didn’t think that was what O’Keefe was saying. Crosby then asked if he was misquoting O’Keefe.
Kenosha County Board Supervisor Laura Belsky explains to the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission that the data supporting the board's 2020 res…
In the audience, County Board Supervisor Laura Belsky also asked to speak. Solis, then asked whether Belsky's statement would be long because he had already recognized her.
“That has nothing to do with whether it’s long or not,” Belsky said. Berg said County Board supervisors attending county meetings were allowed to speak, even though they are not on a particular panel.Solis responded saying that Belsky had already spoken twice. Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel Jennifer Kopp, however, clarified that Belsky was allowed to speak twice on any agenda item that is currently before the panel. Kopp recommended Solis afford Belsky the opportunity to speak again.
“I think it’s great that you guys want to know the history and that you want all the information,” Belsky said. She said it was the reason she sent all of the links to the resources to Thomas, Solis and Berg, so the information could be shared with the commission. She said the county’s website for the commission already contains the data the commission seeks.
“That’s all that I wanted to say,” she said.
Belsky was the chair of the Human Services Committee in 2020 and introduced the resolution to declare racism a public health crisis in Kenosha County.
During public comments, she said the commission was established after a group of community leaders attended the Racial Equity Institute training sponsored by the Kenosha-based Building Our Future, which looks to improve social and educational outcomes in the county. The training led to the county supporting the Wisconsin Public Health Association advocacy that racism is a public health crisis. The County Board approved the resolution on Aug. 4, 2020.
Award a flashpoint
Also on the agenda was the possible consideration of candidates for the Jennie Tunkieicz Award for Gender and Racial Equity. The process for considering an awardee involves county employees nominating people in government. No candidates had been nominated as of last week, according to Kelsey Hubeler, the county’s equity, diversity and inclusion coordinator. The nomination deadline is July 28.
The award, however, has also become a flash point as it had initially been targeted for renaming at the commission's special meeting held July 13.
Questions have arisen, however, as to whether the commission was overstepping its authority in looking to rename the award, which was created by county executive order. At last week’s County Board meeting, Supervisor Terry Rose called on the Corporation Counsel to rule on the commission's authority in renaming the award. Rose said he felt the commission was wasting its time and not adhering to its mission.
A decision from Corporation Counsel Joseph Cardamone is expected later this week.
Thomas said that when he joined the commission, he was not aware of the award’s existence.
“To be perfectly honest with you, (Tunkieicz) has got more marketing and appeal… people better understand this award than they ever would have,” he said. “So, that is a good thing that has come out of this discussion.”
The award was created in April last year by former Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser. Tunkieicz served as Kenosha County’s first female chief of staff, the highest-ranking, non-elected administration position in county government and was instrumental in coordinating efforts to address racial disparities and equity issues.
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The Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission met to a packed conference room at the Kenosha County Center in Bristol, July 20, 2023. On the commission are County Board Supervisor Brian Thomas, left, Alayna Arrington, Dan O'Keefe, Courtney Marshall, Chair Xavier Solis, Justin Crosby, Supervisor Andy Berg and Elizabeth Garcia. A. Brian Gonzales (not pictured) is also on the commission. The commission voted 5-2, with one abstention, requesting data, documentation and other information that served as the basis for a 2020 County Board decision declaring racism a public health crisis in Kenosha County.
Courtney Marshall, left, a member of the Kenosha County Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission, listens as Xavier Solis, the panel's chair, leads the commission's meeting Thursday, July 20, 2023. To the right of Solis is Justin Crosby, who is also on the commission.
Kenosha County Board Supervisor Brian Thomas, left, explains that he requested data and additional information forming the basis for a 2020 County Board resolution declaring racism a public health crisis to help members new to the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission during the meeting on Thursday, July 2023. To his right is Commissioner Alayna Arrington, one of six new members on the nine-member panel.
Supervisor Andy Berg, one of two Kenosha County Board representatives on the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission, opposed a recommendation requesting all the data and other information that formed the basis of the County Board's 2020 resolution declaring racism a public health crisis during the commission's July 20, 2023 meeting. He said the recommendation served to discredit the work done in the prior county administration.
Kenosha County Board Supervisor Laura Belsky explains to the Racial and Ethnic Equity Commission that the data supporting the board's 2020 resolution declaring racism a public health crisis is already available on the county's website during the panel's meeting on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
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FISHERS, Ind. — A 21-year-old motorcyclist is dead after a crash Saturday evening in Fishers.
Police said the crash happened on 116th Street and Spyglass Ridge Drive around 6:30 p.m.
Officers arrived to find a 2007 Yamaha YZRF1 motorcycle and a 2008 Ford F350 Truck involved in the crash.
Medics transported the driver of the motorcycle, 21-year-old Jasnoor Aulakh, to the hospital, where he later died.
Witnesses said the truck was in the process of turning westbound onto 116th Street, from Spyglass Ridge Drive, when the motorcycle, traveling eastbound, collided with the truck.
The driver of the truck was not injured and remained on scene.
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GREENWOOD, Ind — Indiana State Police said a trooper is expected to recover after they accidentally shot himself Monday morning.
Police confirmed the incident happened July 24 around 11:30 a.m. at the Indy South Greenwood Airport, near County Line Road and Emerson Avenue.
An ISP spokesperson told 13News the trooper shot himself in the leg, and their injury is said to be non-life-threatening.
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OWEN COUNTY, Ind. — A 17-year-old has died after a crash in Owen County on July 20.
The Owen County Sheriff’s Office said they investigated a single-vehicle fatal crash involving a local teen on U.S. 231 and Lanes Road.
When investigators arrived on scene, they found a vehicle off the west shoulder of the road that was inverted.
Investigators said the teen was a student at Owen Valley High School. He was pronounced dead on scene.
The cause of the crash could not be determined, and no signs of foul play were suspected.
Owen Valley High School confirmed via a Facebook post the student who died was senior Tristan Calvin. The school said he was a gifted athlete, and was a member of the cross country, track, and swimming teams. He also marched in the Patriot Band.
"Through these activities and daily interactions at school, Tristan positively impacted everyone around him," the school wrote. "We plan to honor Tristan's legacy, and we will run, swim, march and play in his memory throughout the 2023-2024 school year."
OVHS has counselors available for any student or staff member that needs support during this difficult time.
Funeral services will be conducted at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25 in the Owen Valley High School Auditorium.
Visitation will be from 4 p.m. until time of service Tuesday evening at the high school.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Washington County commissioners made it clear in June that they wanted to specifically fund $ 2-an-hour raises for all county employees, but a bit of work remains to complete that task.
A resolution commissioners will vote on Monday makes it clear they don’t want any employees left out of a raise that could equate to more nearly 20% for some of them.
Budget Director Mitch Meredith said some library, solid waste and highway department employees still hadn’t received raises of at least $2 an hour when staff got their first paychecks of the new fiscal year that started July 1.
When they passed the fiscal 2024 budget in late June, commissioners approved an additional $150,000 from the county’s fund balance to ensure everyone could receive a $2 raise. Meredith said they knew that might not be enough to completely fund all the raises.
“Originally it was 200 and some change ($200,000-plus),” Meredith said of the original estimate to cover all those raises. “It’s pretty close to that.”
But commissioners are insistent on the money being made available.
Monday’s resolution references “the intent of the County Commission to allocate funding … to meet a two dollar ($2.00) per hour increase for Washington County employees.”
Budget Committee member Richard Tucker told News Channel 11 he supported not only making sure everyone got the bump but that it be retroactive to the beginning of July for those who hadn’t received a raise yet.
July 12 budget committee minutes show fellow commissioner and budget committee member Jim Wheeler led a discussion about the commission’s wishes. That ended in a unanimous vote to amend the budget to add funding for any general fund employee that hadn’t received at least a $ 2-an-hour increase.
The resolution also makes clear that the budget committee “recommended consideration and approval of the County Mayor’s proposed Budget Amendment conditioned upon there being additional funding to support a two dollar … raise for all employees whose salaries are funded in the General Fund…”
The committee plans to review pay increases for Highway and Solid Waste department employees in August.
A document obtained by News Channel 11 shows that even a few full-time employees of the library system didn’t receive $2 an-hour raises in the initial budget. Two of them were earning less than $13 an hour and had initial raises of 75 cents per hour.
A couple of full-time employees making $16.75 an hour were not given raises at all, while a third was increased 40 cents to $16.75. A dozen part-time employees making between $11.00 and $11.15 also were given 75 cents per hour raises.
$2 an hour amounts to an 18% increase for an employee earning $11 an hour, and 12% for one making $16.75. It would take a full-time worker making $11 from $22,880 a year to $27,040.
The average salary of the county’s 484 employees is $43,557, but half of those employees make less than $39,229, which is $18.86 an hour. If all those employees end up with $2 an-hour raises, half of them will see raises of 10 to 18%.
Before commissioners raised the $2 suggestion, a number of department heads and officials had asked for funding that would have meant significantly smaller percentage increases. That would have left lower-paid employees in particular receiving far less than $2 an hour more.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University’s museum dedicated to telling the stories of Appalachia has received $65,000 in grant funding.
The funding comes from the Henry Luce Foundation and will support the Reece Museum’s Sammie L. Nicely Collection, according to a release from ETSU.
“The Sammie L. Nicely Collection: Black Appalachian & African American Art Project” focuses on Black imagery and themes to tell its own Appalachian story. It is comprised of 50 of Nicely’s own artworks from his personal collection, the release states.
According to ETSU, the funding from the grant will aid in further research of the collection, help create programs to engage the community with the pieces on display and connect natives of the region with their history.
ETSU reports the Sammie L. Nicely Collection includes a total of 140 works and is continuing to grow.
“Sammie Nicely was an outstanding Appalachian artist who consistently demonstrated how art can bring together people of all backgrounds. We are so pleased to see the Nicely Collection continuing his legacy and are thankful to the Luce Foundation’s support of this important effort,” Dr. Ron Roach, director of the Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services, stated in the release.
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Funded by school vouchers, middle school for LGBTQ+ youth to open in Phoenix
Last week, 13-year-old Ash Blakely decided to switch schools, and his mom thinks there's been something different about him since.
"There's just a little bit more of a smile on his face," Melanie Ford said.
Ash decided to enroll at the Queer Blended Learning Center, a microschool being launched in August for middle schoolers. The school will be funded by Arizona's education vouchers and housed at the downtown Phoenix headquarters of one∙n∙ten, a nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ youth. The school's founders aim to give young people who may feel uncomfortable in a larger school a safe space to be themselves and learn. LGBTQ+ history will be on the curriculum.
Ash, who is transgender, said the school will take stressors off his mind. For one, the school uses single-stall bathrooms, removing a day-to-day complication he had to deal with at his old school. He said he's also excited by the smaller class size and more freedom to explore topics that interest him.
When Ash and his parents visited the space that will become the Queer Blended Learning Center last Tuesday, he was sold on enrolling before he left the building. Outside the classroom space, young people were laughing in a kitchen stocked with snacks. A friend Ash knows from camp, another one∙n∙ten offering, was there checking out the school and decided to enroll too.
Jason McIntosh, the teacher for the new microschool, asked prospective students who visited last week how they felt about the classroom space. McIntosh plans to allow students to decorate the space. He wants them to feel comfortable.
"Maybe some Pride flags on the wall," Ash said on Tuesday.
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School founders responding to anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment
Nearly 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced this year in statehouses across the country, according to a tally by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Arizona's Legislature so far this year has passed bills to stop school officials from honoring transgender students' names or pronouns without parental permission and restrict trans students' access to public school bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity. Both were vetoed by Gov. Katie Hobbs.
It's this environment that makes a school for LGBTQ+ youth so critical, the school's founders said.
“We’re seeing nationally that LGBTQ youth are, frankly, under attack legislatively” and culturally, said one∙n∙ten CEO Nate Rhoton. “It’s deadly to the youth that we serve."
Because of "this state of cultural war with the LGBTQ community at the epicenter," the organization's leaders believe programming like the Queer Blended Learning Center "is absolutely necessary and, in fact, lifesaving for the young people that we will reach," he said.
Rhoton said similar projects are underway elsewhere in the U.S. A queer-centered microschool recently opened in Atlanta and a microschool for LGBTQ+ youth is planned for Las Vegas.
Through one∙n∙ten's existing programs, which include wellness programs and regular gatherings for youth across the Valley, the organization's staff has found that middle school is particularly challenging for young LGBTQ+ people, Rhoton said.
“We just had this population of sixth, seventh and eighth graders that could really benefit from a safe space to be able to really have exceptional education while also having education that pertains to their own identity,” he said.
LGBTQ+ youth "tend to be shy" and "don't want to become targets," said Clayton Davenport, one∙n∙ten's director of development and marketing.
“Being able to raise their hands and ask their questions in a safe, affirming environment is going to be key to their mental health and educational advancement," Davenport said.
The school's operators are cautious of potential backlash. But because Hobbs has been "very direct about her insistence on protecting LGBTQ youth," one∙n∙ten has "some cover" to open the microschool without too much fear of retaliation from other elected officials, Rhoton said.
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School will combine in-person and online instruction
So far, there are about a half-dozen students enrolled in the Queer Blended Learning Center, according to Darla Baquedano, the director of education for Spark Community Schools, a program of Thrive Services Group. While one∙n∙ten is providing the space, classroom supplies, technology and internet access, Thrive Services Group hired McIntosh, lined up the curriculum and is in charge of the school's administration.
McIntosh will be instructing a mixed-age classroom that could grow to 10 to 12 students. Families will be able to pay for the whole cost of tuition through Arizona’s school voucher program, which was expanded last year to allow all school-age children in Arizona to receive public funding for private school tuition, home school supplies and other educational resources.
Come Aug. 1, Ash and his new classmates’ school days will begin with sessions on topics like problem-solving and conflict resolution, said Baquedano.
“We know that throughout the rest of the day, they might encounter situations where they’ll need to use those skills,” she said.
Reading, writing, math and science lessons will be delivered to students in the classroom through an online homeschool program called Time4Learning. Each student's instructional level will be determined through an individual assessment, Baquedano said.
Students will learn LGBTQ+ history each day from McIntosh, who will use a curriculum created by the New York City Department of Education called Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History.
The curriculum "highlights different significant historical figures in the LGBTQ+ community," Baquedano said.
It's a program the students will be able to "see themselves reflected in," she said. "We thought that that was very important."
Social studies lessons will also be taught with a curriculum from the NYC Department of Education called Civics for All. The goal of these lessons will be to teach students about "history and government and civics ... through the lens of populations and communities that aren't always prevalent in traditional textbooks," Baquedano said.
Students will take on projects that will encourage them to delve into a topic they're interested in and "along the way, they're learning critical thinking and problem-solving skills," McIntosh said.
Although the curriculum is set, some logistical aspects of the school are still being organized. The school hopes to offer lunches and transportation in the future. For now, parents will need to fill in those gaps.
For Ash's parents, finding a way to get him from north Peoria to downtown Phoenix is a small price to pay.
“We’ll do whatever we have to,” Melanie said. “It’s important for him.”
Helen Rummel is a Pulliam Fellow for The Arizona Republic. She can be reached at hrummel@gannett.com or on Twitter @helenrummel.
Madeleine Parrish covers K-12 education. Reach her at mparrish@arizonarepublic.com and follow her on Twitter at @maddieparrish61.
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New Gilbert council ethics complaints could cost thousands
Questions are being asked about the ethical behavior of two Gilbert council members in two separate ethics complaints, one by a resident and the second by Mayor Brigette Peterson.
The first ethics complaint was filed by town resident Maureen Hoppe, who alleged council members Torgeson and Bobbi Buchli violated 10 areas of the town’s policy, including fairness and respect, abstaining from voting and loyalty.
Peterson filed the ethics complaint against fellow Councilmember Jim Torgeson after receiving a voicemail from Hoppe to her town email. In it, Peterson stated she was obligated to report the voicemail and that it may have violated five areas of the town’s council code of ethics.
Complaints like this aren’t new for the seven-member elected group. The latest episode draws renewed attention to the infighting on the Town Council that has plagued it for the past three years.
Peterson has had multiple complaints filed against her and Councilmember Yung Koprowski most recently had a complaint filed against her that questions her business contracts with the town. The unresolved complaints will likely be sent to an independent investigator to be reviewed.
Following an investigation, the council will determine if a violation has occurred. Council members could face a censure vote if the council chooses to penalize the elected officials.
Through a spokesperson, Peterson said she had “no comment regarding the ethics complaint.” Buchli did not respond to inquiries from The Republic.
What promoted the complaints
Hoppe, a resident active in local politics and a former volunteer for Torgeson’s campaign, stated in her complaint she experienced harassment and “irreparable damage” to her reputation because of the actions of Torgeson and Buchli.
Using two different aliases on political Facebook groups, Hoppe expressed her frustration with town council actions, including Torgeson’s abstention to vote on an apartment complex project in April.
Torgeson called Hoppe to respond to her comments about that vote leaving a 78-second voicemail on her phone.
In it, Torgeson alleged Peterson has targeted him and said, “She’s that (explicative). She’s that bad a human being.”
Hoppe included this voicemail in her complaint, which she emailed to Peterson, the town attorney and town clerk. Peterson said in her separate complaint that she was obligated to report the voicemail.
“This is the most recent example of Jim Torgeson creating and spreading a false narrative and disparaging comment about me.” Peterson wrote.
She alleged that Torgeson’s voicemail may have violated the following sections of the town’s code of ethics policy:
- Fairness and respect.
- Loyalty.
- Personal interests.
- Confidential information.
- Interference with duty to disclose violations.
The town's code of ethics requires officials to "maintain the highest standards of integrity and honesty" and handle "all issues and citizens … with fairness, impartiality and respect."
The code mandates "loyalty" so that public officials put the interests of Gilbert before themselves and view the public's interest as their primary concern.
In an email response to the ethics complaints sent to the town council, attorney, manager and others Torgeson wrote, “I know that the process will not find either of us to have done anything improper.”
“The mayor earned the expletive from me,” he wrote.
Hoppe’s complaint also referenced the topic of council pay that stemmed from a resident’s public comment in May to the council. The resident criticized Gilbert for its low pay to council members and the mayor compared to surrounding communities.
Buchli and Torgeson made public comments supporting a council and mayoral raise to expand the pool of candidates.
Hoppe argued the two council members were trying to pad their pockets and spreading misinformation about when the pay raise would take effect.
Gilbert pays its council members $21,000 per year, which it voted to cut it by $3,000 from its previous rate in 2018. The mayor’s annual salary is $43,000 per year.
Hoppe also argued in her complaint that Buchli blocked her from the Facebook profile the council member uses to communicate town work.
What happens next?
According to the town’s current code of ethics policy, the town attorney will prepare a recommend to the council or request an independent investigation. The attorney could choose a firm to review the complaints, according to the town’s deputy town clerk.
How long the investigation could take is not certain. A complaint against the mayor in 2021 took nearly four months to conclude.
“The council will review the recommendation at a council meeting and may vote on possible penalties,” the deputy clerk wrote in an email to The Republic.
Torgeson told the Arizona Republic, the town will now have to spend thousands of dollars investigating the claims brought forward by both Hoppe and Peterson.
In the coming month, a new process will be put in place to deal with complaints of this nature. The council voted in June to adopt a new code of conduct and ethics handbook. Torgeson was on the council subcommittee along with Councilmembers Kathy Tilque and Scott Anderson that updated those policies.
After Aug. 21, the complaint process will start with an in-person mediation with an independent mediator, the complainant, public official and town attorney. If the complainant is not satisfied with the results of the mediation, they can request an ethics investigation. The new policies also outline nine possible penalties to a code of conduct violation including mandatory ethical training, imposition of a $500 fine and loss of funding privileges, among other consequences.
For now, the outstanding complaints will need to be satisfied with the current code of ethics.
Reporter Maritza Dominguez covers Mesa and Gilbert and can be reached at maritza.dominguez@arizonarepublic.com or 480-271-0646. Follow her on Twitter @maritzacdom.
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$1 billion project proposed at shuttered CrackerJax site in north Scottsdale
A shuttered amusement park in north Scottsdale could make way for a $1 billion redevelopment with apartments, condominiums, office space, a hotel and retail development on the 28-acre CrackerJax site.
George Kurtz, CEO of cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, bought the former CrackerJax amusement park in mid-2022 for $55 million, according to real estate database Vizzda.
Kurtz submitted plans to Scottsdale to redevelop the site, on Scottsdale Road south of Bell Road, into a mixed-use project, called the Parque.
According to the application submitted to the city, the Parque project will include:
- A 223-room five-star hotel.
- 126 five-star hotel-branded condominium units.
- 115 condominium units in another building.
- 897 for-rent apartment units.
- 98 workforce housing units.
- 100,000 square feet of office space.
- 25,250 square feet of retail buildings.
- 34,800 square feet of restaurant space. Site plans show five restaurants.
- A two-acre central park that would be public open space.
- A “green parking garage” planned to have vegetation and open space on the roof.
In total, about 2 million square feet of buildings are planned on the site.
Kurtz said he is in discussion with two luxury hotel companies for the hotel and branded residences, but cannot name a brand on the project yet. Scottsdale is home to many five-star hotels, including the nearby Fairmont Scottsdale Princess.
The city has not yet scheduled public hearings for the Parque project, and the development will have to be reviewed by both the city’s planning commission and City Council.
The existing CrackerJax facility includes a driving range, go-karts, miniature golf, batting cages and an arcade. It announced its permanent closure in July 2022 after about 30 years in business.
Developer calls it a transformational 'legacy project'
Kurtz said he had been looking for a location in Scottsdale where he could build a development that "could sustain a transformational mixed-use campus," he said in an email. The goal is to create a project that will attract investors, technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
"The former CrackerJax site is that place," Kurtz said. The development team has been working on the plans for about three years.
Kurtz said he hopes technology startups can cluster and grow there. "To me, this is a legacy project, one that will define the future of a community I love," he said.
Dedicating 10% of the housing on the site to "workforce housing" will allow the area to attract workers to Scottsdale who might otherwise choose to live elsewhere, he said.
"This is important to the success of our unique community, as it will allow us the opportunity to attract the necessary knowledge workers, who could go anywhere in the country, to Scottsdale," Kurtz said.
The development group has done community outreach for the past year, and Kurtz said it has gotten "very positive feedback" and will continue to engage with nearby residents and stakeholders throughout the process.
Neighbors could be concerned about height, density
Scottsdale Councilmember Betty Janik said she has not had an opportunity to discuss the project with her colleagues, but said she has heard concerns about the proposed building heights and the density of the project.
However, she is glad to see Kurtz is the developer behind the project.
“I know the owner is a reputable individual, and I know he wants what’s best for the community,” Janik said. “I hope we can come to a compromise with what the neighbors want.”
Constituents have expressed concerns about the potential loss of views of the McDowell Mountains if the buildings are too high, a problem that possibly could be solved by being mindful of the orientation of the buildings, Janik said.
Other issues that have been brought up include the desire for additional open space and concerns about increased traffic onto the already busy Scottsdale Road, Janik said, adding that she hoped the development could be designed to divert traffic onto other nearby streets.
Commercial space, natural resource conservation could be benefits
The project has more commercial space than some of the other mixed-use developments around the city, which is a benefit, Janik said. Across the Valley, many City Councils have put an emphasis on additional commercial space in mixed-use projects.
When the proposal does come before the council, Janik said, councilmembers will look closely at sustainability measures taken.
"We will definitely focus on conservation measures and not adding to the heat island," Janik said. "But it would not surprise me if this particular developer is more innovative than some others when it comes to that."
Kurtz said conservation and sustainability will be key pieces of the development.
"It is important to me that this community focuses on wellness for its residents and that it is a sustainable community that is a catalyst for innovation," he said.
When could construction begin?
The project still has several stages of approval before any development can move forward, but if granted the go-ahead, Kurtz said he would like to start construction as soon as possible.
"The market will certainly dictate our phasing plan, but we are excited to see our vision move forward," he said.
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5-year-old plan never came to be
Kurtz is not the first high-profile Arizonan to take a crack at redeveloping CrackerJax. In 2017, JDM Partners, the real estate firm led by Jerry Colangelo, David Eaton and Mel Shultz, submitted plans for the site.
At the time, the partners proposed a development focused on “innovation and art," according to city documents from 2017. JDM’s plans placed more of an emphasis on office buildings, which have become less popular in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan also called for a new hotel, a grocery store, condominium and apartment units. The plan never went forward, and the amusement park remained in its place.
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How do rental homes fit into Buckeye's housing future? Water law loophole could bring more
An increase in build-to-rent homes in the West Valley and elsewhere could occur as a result of what one expert called an oversight in the state's groundwater law.
When land is subdivided into six or more lots, developers must get a 100-year assured water supply certificate from the Arizona Department of Water Resources if the city does not already have a 100-year assured water supply designation. That likely would apply to for-sale houses, since buyers typically purchase a lot that includes a house, and developers usually build more than six houses.
But if houses are built on only one lot, like build-to-rent homes often are, they won’t need the certificate. The assured water supply program is tied to the definition of a subdivision, said Kathy Ferris, senior research fellow at the Kyl Center for Water Policy and a former state Water Department director.
“I’m of the frame of mind that we should include more, rather than less, on the issue of water supply,” Ferris said. Rentals and industrial projects, for example, are types of developments that should have to have a 100-year assured water supply as well, she said.
What are build-to-rent homes?
Traditionally, two types of housing existed — houses that can be purchased and apartment buildings, said Adam Baug, a zoning and land use attorney with Withey Morris Baugh. About 10 years ago, build-to-rent houses emerged on the market. They're houses, but rented out instead of sold to own, Baugh said.
They've become popular because many people don't want to be homeowners, but at the same time don't want to live in an apartment building where they have people living above and below them with shared walls. Build-to-rent houses also don't require the same maintenance obligations as a home, Baugh said.
In some ways, build-to-rent homes function similarly to apartments. And while it might be easy to picture an apartment building on one parcel of land, build-to-rent homes can also be built on a single lot.
Buckeye, one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, could see a shift to rentals in its housing market in the coming years. Developers there no longer can rely on groundwater to supply for-sale houses, and Buckeye doesn't have a 100-year assured water supply designation.
Gov. Katie Hobbs announced earlier this year that developers no longer could use groundwater from the Hassayampa sub-basin, which is where Buckeye gets the majority of its water. Instead, developers would need to find a different water source.
In June, a similar regulation was expanded to include all groundwater within the Phoenix Active Management Area, which is an area where the groundwater is subject to certain regulations by the Arizona Department of Water Resources.
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Build-to-rent home developments now going through the planning process in Buckeye include Avilla Marigold, which is being developed by NexMetro Communities. In May, some Buckeye residents spoke at a City Council meeting to voice opposition to the development, with some residents expressing concern about the city's water supply and some being concerned about the potential influx of traffic to the area. The development will be located west of the southwest corner of Jackrabbit Trail and Thomas Road.
The development was approved by the city Planning and Zoning Commission and the Buckeye City Council in May. Although the leases will be for one year or longer, the development won't require a certificate of assured water supply because it will all be on one lot. NexMetro Communities did not respond to a request for comment.
Is the exclusion of rentals a loophole in groundwater law?
When the Groundwater Management Act was established in 1980, Ferris said build-to-rent homes weren’t intentionally excluded from the 100-year assured water requirement: They simply were not being built at the time and so weren’t even considered. It's also a concern to the state water department that there’s no way to tell what is going to happen to these homes in the future, Ferris said.
In addition to build-to-rent homes, the assured water supply program currently does not require industrial companies to obtain a certificate of assured water supply. As a result, large manufacturing plants affect how much groundwater is physically available to subdivisions, Ferris said. But moving forward, Ferris said additional types of development should be subjected to the requirement.
Build-to-rent homes, like apartment buildings, do not require a 100-year assured water supply certificate because they're typically not built on subdivided land.
“The answer became as long as it’s planted on a single lot, and it’s leases of one year or less, they don’t qualify as subdivided land,” said Michael Pearce, an attorney with Gammage & Burnham specializing in water law, who represents both Buckeye and Queen Creek.
While Pearce doesn't view the exclusion of build-to-rent homes as a legal loophole, that's not the core issue, he said.
“The issue is whether making the assured water supply program so difficult or impossible to comply with that the unintended consequence is to shift the housing market toward rental housing,” Pearce said.
Pearce said he believes the solution is to look at ways to incentivize recycling of water to offset any groundwater demand, rather than loosening the assured water supply program. Alternative water sources will be needed in order to sustain growth in the future, he said.
Will Buckeye see an increase in build-to-rent homes?
While build-to-rent homes aren't unique to Arizona, Pinal County saw an uptick after similar regulations were enacted several years ago, Pearce said.
It’s possible more build-to-rent homes will crop up across Maricopa County as a result of recent groundwater regulations, but it’s too soon to know for sure since the Phoenix Active Management Area groundwater model was only recently released, said Spencer Kamps, vice president of legislative affairs for the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona.
About 80,000 lots in the county have 100-year assured water supply certificates, Kamps said. Those will take several years to be filled with houses, meaning there probably won’t be any sudden shift in the housing market.
Either way, housing will be built: The state is already short 270,000 units, said Kamps, including both for-sale and rentals. For-sale housing is short by about 45,000 units.
What kind of housing will be more prominent?
Buckeye Public Information Officer John O'Halloran said the city still has a decade's worth of single-family lots to be built that do have certificates of assured water supply. Currently, 1,900 multifamily permits have been issued for construction, while an additional 2,700 units are currently being reviewed by the city.
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Multifamily housing has been driven by the increase in economic development seen in Buckeye, O'Halloran said in a statement.
"As the population expands, multifamily housing addresses the increasing demand for affordable, accessible and diverse housing options," O'Halloran said. "By offering a range of housing options, including apartments and condominiums, multifamily developments cater to individuals and families with varying needs and financial means."
Baugh said it’s also possible that there won’t be a significant increase in build-to-rent homes because they can only exist wherever there is demand. If the demand is for single-family homes, developers will look to obtain a 100-year assured water certificate.
“They’re just not going to build just because they can,” Baugh said.
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BLOOMINGTON — Police are investigating a report of gunfire in east Bloomington over the weekend.
The Bloomington Police Department said Monday that officers were called at 12:42 p.m. Saturday to a report of shots fired in the 700 block of Fairmont Drive.
In a statement, BPD said officers found evidence of gunfire, including damage to a nearby residence and vehicle. No injuries were reported.
Police continue to investigate. Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Detective W. Gresham at 309-434-2570 or wgresham@cityblm.org .
To remain anonymous, BPD's Crime & Intelligence Analysis Unit can be reached at 309-434-2963 or CIAU@cityblm.org . Information can also be texted to 847411 by texting the word "BPDTIPS," and inserting a space before your tip information.
Calls to CIAU should be made from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. A voicemail or email should be left outside of those hours.
The use of chemical weapons during warfare were made illegal by the Geneva Protocol way back in 1925, shortly following the horrific events of world war one. Now, nearly 100 years later, the US military has finally disposed of its last drop of its reserves of those very weapons. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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25 facts about nuclear weapons
25 facts about nuclear weapons
The early years of nuclear weapons were marked by an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the United States built the first nuclear bombs, dropping them on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, the Soviet Union's nuclear program was not far behind. By the beginning of the 1950s, both countries had even more powerful weapons—hydrogen bombs.
Each side built more and bigger bombs until the stockpiles peaked in the late 1960s at 31,255 for the United States and 40,159 for the Soviet Union. One bomb that the Soviet Union developed, known as the Tsar Bomba, was too big to use. When it was tested in 1961 on Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, it destroyed all of the houses in a village 34 miles from ground zero.
Today the stockpiles have shrunk, but the battles over nuclear weapons remain and feature new actors. Experts say North Korea could have materials for as many as 100 nuclear bombs , and although Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful use, there is concern over whether it will develop weapons.
Using government documents, news reports, and academic studies, Stacker compiled 26 facts and events that shaped the state of nuclear weapons in the world today.
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Countries armed with nuclear weapons
According to security experts, nine countries now have nuclear weapons (whether acknowledged or not): the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of its weapons. The United States and what was then the Soviet Union were the first to develop them, followed by the United Kingdom, France, and China.
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Trying to stop nuclear proliferation
The United States and other countries hoped to stop the spread of nuclear weapons with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons , which went into effect in 1970. Since then, 191 states have joined , including the five so-called nuclear weapons states—the U.S., Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China. These countries were allowed to keep their weapons but are supposed to be reducing the number of them they have.
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Refusing to agree to the accord
India, Pakistan, and Israel, all of which have nuclear arsenals, never signed the treaty. Israel is believed to have about 100 weapons. North Korea withdrew from the pact in 2003 and, since 2006, has tested nuclear explosives a number of times.
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Large arsenals of the late 1960s
At its peak in 1967, the U.S. had 31,255 nuclear weapons in its stockpile. The Soviet Union topped that with 40,159 in 1968. Globally, the numbers have dropped overall; however, more countries now have nuclear weapons.
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China's "modest" nuclear weapons stockpile
China has what the Union of Concerned Scientists classifies as a relatively modest nuclear arsenal of about 250 warheads and bombs, of which fewer than 100 could reach the U.S. China conducted its first nuclear test explosion in 1964. The country's limited number of nuclear weapons can be traced back to the attitude of its former chairman, Mao Zedong, who called them "paper tigers."
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Lost bombs and other missing nuclear devices
According to the Brookings Institution , the United States has never recovered 11 nuclear bombs lost in accidents. Four were aboard a plane that crashed in Greenland in 1968, contaminating a fjord when the weapons broke open. A 1989 study found that 50 warheads and nine nuclear reactors had been lost at the bottom of the ocean as a result of accidents involving the U.S. and the former Soviet Union.
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To launch or not in 12 minutes
If missiles were believed to have been launched at the U.S., the president would have only about 12 minutes to decide whether to counter with a retaliatory intercontinental ballistic missile—what is known as the launch-under-attack option.
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Assassinating Iran's top nuclear scientists
Since 2007, Israel is believed to have assassinated seven scientists and military officials essential to Iran's nuclear program. The first was a nuclear scientist who died in a gas leak at a uranium plant. Among the most recent was in November 2020, when Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, was ambushed and shot to death. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful use, but there is widespread concern that the country will work to develop weapons. Americans and Israelis say Fakhrizadeh was crucial to Iran's nuclear weapons development.
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Blackout at Iran's nuclear fuel enrichment facility
A power failure caused by an explosion at Iran's primary nuclear fuel enrichment facility in Natanz in April 2021 set Iran's nuclear program back nine months. Israelis are believed to have played a part in the explosion. In July 2020, a different explosion destroyed part of the same facility, and intelligence officials say Israel was also responsible for that attack.
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U.S., Iran negotiate nuclear deal
Under President Biden, the United States is negotiating with Iran to try to revive a nuclear agreement that would limit Iran's production of nuclear fuel in return for relaxing sanctions that have crippled its economy. The deal went into effect under President Obama, but it was scuttled by President Trump. As of April 2023, the administration is exploring a "freeze for freeze" approach that would call for Iran to reduce its nuclear development program in exchange for relief from certain sanctions.
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Iran steps up uranium enrichment
In response to the attack on its main nuclear facility in Natanz, Iran announced that it was enriching uranium at 60% for the first time. This was one of several moves Iran made in response to sanctions that would cut the time necessary to develop a nuclear weapon. It also announced it would install extra centrifuges needed for uranium enrichment and begin producing uranium metal used in a weapon's core; the country has refused U.N. inspectors daily access to its sites.
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A weapon as large as a minivan
The B53 bomb went into service in 1962. The heaviest nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal after the Cold War, the bomb weighed 8,850 pounds and was about the size of a minivan. In 1997, the bombs were taken out of the active stockpile, and in 2011, they were finally disassembled.
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Largest weapon in U.S. stockpile
The largest known weapon currently in the U.S. stockpile is the B83, a 1.2-megaton bomb. Its explosive power is 80 times that of the bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima.
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$600 billion to modernize nuclear arsenal
The United States would need to spend $600 billion through 2030 to modernize its nuclear arsenal, which covers operating costs, extending the life of its nuclear weapons, and purchasing new delivery systems for what's known as the strategic triad—bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
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U.N. tries to ban nuclear weapons
A treaty whose goal is to eliminate nuclear weapons entered international law in late 2020. Sixty eight countries have ratified the accord , but none of the nine countries with nuclear weapons have. These countries boycotted the negotiations that brought about the treaty, and they are not bound by it if they do not sign it. The U.S. has argued that the treaty will not result in the elimination of a single weapon.
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U.S. offers a "nuclear umbrella"
The United States provides a "nuclear umbrella," or guarantee of defense to its non-nuclear allies, including the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plus Australia, Japan, and South Korea. Japan demilitarized after World War II, though in 2014 then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted the ban on the military defending allies under attack.
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Withdrawing forward-deployed weapons in the Pacific
The U.S. removed the last of its forward-deployed nuclear weapons, or those located in other countries, from the Philippines, Guam, South Korea, Taiwan, and Okinawa in 1991. At its peak in 1977, the country had 3,200 such weapons deployed in the Pacific region.
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Estimates on North Korea's nuclear capabilities
Experts say North Korea could have materials for up to 100 nuclear weapons , and the country has tested ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S. North Korea has continued testing despite U.N. Security Council sanctions and summits with both South Korea and the U.S. regarding its nuclear weapons. In March 2023, North Korea revealed that it possesses small nuclear warheads capable of being fitted to short-range missiles.
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North Korea unveils enormous new missile
Just before the U.S. presidential election in 2020, North Korea unveiled a large new intercontinental ballistic missile, parading it through the streets of Pyongyang. The Washington Post described the untested missile as one of the largest "road-mobile, liquid-fueled" ballistic missiles ever made and noted that the Hwasong-15, the largest missile before this, could likely reach all of the U.S. The U.S. and Russia have produced larger missiles, but those are powered by solid fuel and are kept in silos.
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North Korea tests nuclear bombs
North Korea has conducted a number of nuclear tests, most during Kim Jong Un's time as the country's leader. The first bombs were detonated in 2006 and 2009 under Kim Jong Il; tests were then done in 2013, twice in 2016, and in 2017 under Kim Jong Un. North Korea said the last test was of a thermonuclear weapon . In 2022, North Korea conducted 63 missile tests , and while none contained a nuclear payload, the frequency of such tests may be a harbinger of the eventual development of further nuclear payload capability.
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Trump, Kim Jong-un meet in historic summit
Kim Jong Un and former U.S. President Donald Trump attended a summit in Singapore in 2018, making Kim the first North Korean leader to meet with a sitting U.S. president. The summit ended with little substance, and Trump was criticized for giving credibility to Kim. However, some scholars argue that the talks showed Kim is rational and might be persuaded to hold off on new testing if the Biden administration promises something in return.
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Second North Korea, U.S. summit held in Hanoi
In 2019, Kim Jong Un and former U.S. President Donald Trump met for a second time in Hanoi, Vietnam. The two-day meeting ended unexpectedly in the middle of the second day, and no joint statement was issued. The same differences that tripped up the first meeting—the definition of denuclearization among them—seemed to have played a role here.
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Trump crosses into DMZ separating two Koreas
At their third meeting, former President Donald Trump crossed into the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea and met for 50 minutes with Kim Jong Un. Nonetheless, no further progress was made on nuclear talks, and Trump was again criticized for giving legitimacy to Kim without any concessions.
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Russia-Ukraine War raises concerns about Russia's use of nuclear arsenal
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has meant mounting tensions not only in the immediate area but also between Russia and NATO allies. As of 2022, Russia has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world, closely followed by the U.S. Together, the two countries own 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. In September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened the use of "all weapons available" in the event of an attack on Russia by Western allies of Ukraine, alluding to the nation's nuclear stockpile and emphasizing that the threat was not a bluff. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken responded with a condemnation of Putin's threat , calling it "loose talk." Other U.S. officials underscored Blinken's point, stating that there was no indication that Russia was actually making moves toward employing a nuclear weapon.
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A man on a bicycle was struck and killed by an SUV late Sunday in Brevard County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
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Troopers responded to State Road 50 near Plantation Drive in Titusville shortly before midnight.
They determined that the bicyclist was traveling westbound on State Road 50 when a Nissan Rogue, also heading westbound, collided with him.
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Investigators said the bicyclist was not in a marked crosswalk and there were no lights on his bike.
FHP said the bicyclist, 33, of Phoenix, Arizona, died at the crash site.
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Troopers said the driver of the SUV and her two passengers, all of Orlando, were not hurt.
The crash remains under investigation.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — A Florida Department of Corrections probation officer is accused of stealing from an apartment in Altamonte Springs.
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Police said probation officer Elizabeth Holliman was arrested after stealing someone’s Hydrocodone pills, a prescribed pain medication.
Officers said they were called for reports of a theft Sunday at the Los Altos Apartment community.
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Police said they made contact with Holliman as she was seen leaving the victim’s apartment.
According to a report, Holliman was “wearing street clothes and did not have appropriately displayed credentials.”
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Police said she also tried to hide from the officer’s sight as they approached, and several pills were found on the ground where she was standing.
Holliman told officers that she “was visiting the victim to discuss early probation termination but could not explain the pills or the reason for attempting to conceal herself from the officer.”
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Records show Holliman was arrested and charged with larceny grand theft of a controlled substance, obstructing justice tampering with evidence, and drug possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. — A tow truck driver died in an Osceola County crash involving a tanker truck on Monday morning.
Troopers said the crash happened around 9:20 a.m. at Poinciana Parkway and Marigold Avenue in Kissimmee.
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Troopers said the tow truck driver, a 24-year-old Ohio man, died on the scene. The driver of the tanker truck, a 65-year-old Winter Park man, had minor injuries.
Troopers said the tow truck was hauling a 2018 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class at the time of the crash.
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Investigators said they are still looking into the sequence of events that led to the crash.
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Two motorcyclists and a driver died in Huntington County crashes during the last week, the county coroner's office said today.
In a statement, the coroner's office said:
• In the first crash, about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Frank W. Anzinger, 84, of Huntington, stopped at the intersection of County Roads 300 West and 700 North, then proceeded into the intersection and collided with a pickup truck. Anzinger was removed from his car and taken to a Fort Wayne hospital, where he died Sunday. The pickup truck's driver was not hurt.
• In the second crash, shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday, Steven K. Miller, 50, of Summitville, was driving a motorcycle south on Mount Etna Road when he failed to negotiate a turn in the roadway and was ejected onto a grassy median. Miller was flown to a Fort Wayne hospital, where he later died.
• In the third crash, at about 7:20 p.m. Sunday, Dominick M. Gill, 26, of North Manchester, was driving a motorcycle west on Indiana 16 when he attempted to pass a westbound vehicle. He was in the eastbound lane when he collided with an eastbound vehicle, which attempted to avoid the collision. Gill was ejected from the motorcycle and died at the scene. The vehicle's driver was not hurt.
All the victims died accidentally from multiple blunt-force trauma, the coroner's office said. The Gill crash remains under investigation.
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RED RIVER COUNTY, Texas — An AMBER Alert has been issued for a missing East Texas teenager who is believed to be in grave danger.
According to the Red River County Sheriff's Office, officials area searching for Erika Anderson, 15. She may also identify as Erika McCarver.
Anderson stands 5'4 and weighs about 115 lbs. She has brown hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing a gray hoodie.
She is believed to have been abducted by 22-year-old Jonathan Ramirez. He stands 5'8 and weighs about 150 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. It is unknown what he is wearing.
Officials say Ramirez is driving a 2009 green and beige Toyota Camry with the TX license plate: RWW6625. He was last seen in the Brookston area.
If you have any information on this case, please contact the RRCSO at (903) 427-3838 or 911.
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SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and other state and national leaders for a roundtable discussion and news conference on issues affecting the Texas/Mexico border.
The group specifically addressed four new bridge projects going on at the border.
The two leaders are joining forces to overcome what they call "bureaucratic red tape" preventing new border bridges being built to increase trade between Mexico and Texas. They each said they are including language in the House and Senate's must-pass budget bills to allow for the funding of the bridges.
“One way or the other, at the end of the year, this will get done," Rep. Cuellar said. "We are here because trade is important. We are almost reaching a trillion dollars in trade, so every minute we are here, we are losing over a million dollars in trade with Mexico. So bridges are very important."
This all comes in the middle of a dispute between Governor Abbott and the U.S. government over border buoys that were recently placed along the Rio Grande River to prevent migrants from crossing. Abbott has until 1 p.m. Monday to remove them, or the federal government will take legal action.
The floating barriers were installed along the river two weeks ago. The 4-foot wide spheres are also located next to newly installed razor wire in the Rio Grande.
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the governor saying his actions to install bouys near Eagle Pass "violate federal law". The governor responded the next day with a tweet saying Texas has "sovereign authority" to defend its border.
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You may not ever be faced with the prospect of a street robbery, but it’s important to know how to act if you ever encounter such a situation. The best way to protect yourself from a street robbery is to reduce your exposure to potentially being victimized.
For the second time in less than 10 days, Lincoln Police are investigating a robbery and an attempted robbery reported in residential neighborhoods south of downtown Friday night, authorities said.
Police responded to 16th and D streets shortly before 10 p.m. Friday, when a 33-year-old man said he was robbed of his phone and wallet by a group of unknown teens, Lincoln Police Investigator Scott Parker said Monday.
The man told police that the teens approached him and accused him of parking his car in their family's parking stall, imploring him to move it, Parker said.
When the 33-year-old agreed to move the car, the teens assaulted him before making off with his phone and wallet, fleeing the area in a white sedan, Parker said.
Twenty minutes later, a 26-year-old woman called police to 14th and Sumner streets, where she reported a group of teenage males approached her and pointed "finger guns" at her, demanding her belongings, according to police.
The woman instead threw a slushy at one of the teens and retreated into her car, locking the doors and calling police, Parker said. The group drove away from the area in a white 2015 Hyundai Sonata, which had been reported stolen in Valley, Parker said.
Police found the car Saturday morning near 58th and Lillibridge streets, where a resident reported the car had been abandoned in the street.
Another Hyundai — a 2019 Elantra — was reported stolen a block away the same morning, Parker said.
Investigations into all three incidents are ongoing, said Parker, who added that police believe the cases are related.
Police linked that string of robberies, which transpired July 12, to a stolen 2003 Hyundai Sonata and took a 15-year-old boy into custody, authorities said then.
Cars manufactured by Hyundai and Kia have increasingly become the favored target of car thieves after videos illustrating how to start and steal those makes of cars went viral in late 2021.
The Lincoln Police Department in June offered free steering wheel locks — provided by Hyundai — to local Hyundai and Kia owners. But the department's supply of steering wheel locks ran out this month.
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TEXAS, USA — Governor Abbott responded Monday to threats by the federal government to take legal action over border buoys he ordered installed along the border in the Rio Grande.
The government gave him a deadline of 1 p.m. Monday to remove them.
This was Governor Greg Abbott’s attempt to limit illegal border crossings. However, critics are calling the move inhumane, saying migrants could get hurt by the buoys. Two weeks ago, the floating barriers were installed along the river.
The 4-foot wide spheres are also located next to newly installed razor wire in the Rio Grande.
Monday, the governor issued a letter saying he has authority to install the barriers. He said in the letter the U.S. Constitution grants Texas sovereign authority to protect its borders. He also claims the Biden Administration is not following federal law.
"To end the risk that migrants will be harmed crossing the border illegally, you must fully enforce the laws of the United States that prohibit illegal immigration between ports of entry," the letter reads. "In the meantime, Texas will fully utilize its constitutional authority to deal with the crisis you have caused. Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.”
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the governor saying his actions to install buoys near Eagle Pass "violate federal law".
The governor responded the next day with a tweet saying Texas has "sovereign authority" to defend its border.
Some lawmakers are criticizing the barriers. Others say addressing immigration reform is the best route forward.
"It's barbaric treatment , it's extreme cruelty, there's no need for that kind of cruelty, that's something you would expect to see in a country like North Korea," said Congressman Castro.
"I would be happy to host the President of the United States in Eagle Pass and walk through this situation," said Congressman Tony Gonzales. "To me, congress has to solve this because we've been waiting on a president for decades to solve this, and it's not gonna be solved."
In response to the border crisis, Congressman Tony Gonzales introduced an act which he says would focus on legal immigration and has bi-partisan support.
The governor has until 1 p.m. to remove the barriers.
We will keep you updated on this developing story.
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Drivers are going to notice lane changes on Route 228 in Middlesex Township during ongoing construction.
The lane shift is part of the Ball’s Bend Safety Improvement Project, which will eventually eliminate a sharp curve in the road and widen Route 228 from two lanes to four lanes.
Starting Monday and going until Friday, Penn Dot says a contractor will be making lane changes between the intersections of Route 228 with Park Road and Officer Edward Brooks Drive. There will be a crossover near Orchard Lane.
Additionally, one lane will be closed for the next four nights.
Some people who live in the area are ready for the construction to be over.
“It has changed how we plan our days dramatically because we don’t want to sit in 228 traffic,” said Jenay Leach of Middlesex.
Others are excited about what construction means for the community.
“The Butler area is starting to grow a lot more, definitely for it, excited to see what it’s going to be up here,” said Ben Tirado, of Middlesex. “With that comes the construction. And obviously, no one looks forward to construction.”
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WINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Pennsylvania authorities are searching for a missing woman out of Ohio who they say may be driving a stolen car.
State police say they were searching Ridgeview Road and Moorehead Road in Winfield Township, Butler County, for 20-year-old Sarah Hopkins Monday morning. That search is no longer ongoing.
Channel 11′s Jillian Hartmann is in Butler County working to learn more and will have a live report on Channel 11 News starting at 4 p.m.
Hopkins is considered missing and endangered by the Cambridge, Ohio, police department.
Hopkins is 5′4″ and weighs 150-160 lbs. She has blue hair. She was last seen wearing brown boots, black leggings, a black long-sleeve shirt and wearing a red handkerchief on her head. Her car was found near the search location.
State police say a 2018 Chevrolet Silverado with PA registration ZPT-8039 was stolen from a garage near where the search was taking place. Hopkins is believed to be driving that car.
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Take a sneak peek inside the new York County History Center at the project's halfway point
The new York County History Center project at the intersection of West Philadelphia Street and North Pershing Avenue in a former steam powered electrical generating plant, is more than 50 percent complete, said Joan Mummert, president/CEO Thursday while standing in the new multi-story entryway that was once an open space between two buildings.
Interior spaces are starting to take shape while digital display preparation is taking place off site to coincide with completion to the interior.
Highlights
Some highlights of the building include a 208-inch screen that will be mounted on the exposed base of a former smoke stack that rises above the building.
A glass atrium and entryway with a catwalk that will connect upper floors and a third-floor multi-purpose room with a wall of glass that features a horizon of York city and will house the 1804 Tannenburg organ.
Mummert said the new building will have the same footage as the old museum, only more open space so the public will be able to see more of the collection. She added that the interior design was built for changeability so that the collection can be rotated more often.
Large artifacts are expected to begin moving into the new building this November.
Savings anticipated
The History Center hopes to save $200,000 a year in "reconfigured personnel, reduced utilities, insurance and related expenses" by consolidating space from multiple existing buildings.
The Steam Plant will have 52,000 square feet of space when the construction is completed. It will be used to house a library and archives to store most of the artifacts collection − and for exhibit space. They anticipate using somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000 square feet for exhibits. Some of this will be devoted to two changing exhibition galleries in order to allow a continual rotation of artifacts by theme or subject showcasing the collection depth, according to the History Center.
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TEXAS, USA — Whether you prefer the classic lime or something fun like a Blue Moon margarita, there is a tequila-based cocktail for everyone on National Margarita Day.
Wine specialist Nate Snelbaker with Fine Wine and Good Spirits demonstrates how to make three varieties of the celebrated drink.
Ginger Beer Margarita
Ingredients
3 ounces, ginger beer
1 ½ ounces, Jose Cuervo Tradicional Tequila Reposado
1 ounce, fresh lime juice
Lime wedge, for garnish
Coarse salt, for garnish
Directions
Salt a rocks glass and fill it with ice. Combine the first three ingredients in the prepared glass; stir. Garnish the drink with the lime wedge.
Blue Moon Margarita
Ingredients
1 ounce, Margaritaville Tequila Silver
½ ounce, Bols Blue Curacao Liqueur
½ ounce, pineapple juice
4 ounces, Daily’s Margarita Mix
Lime wedge, for garnish
Salt, for garnish
Directions
Rim a margarita glass with salt; add ice. Combine the first four ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour the mixture into the prepared glass. Garnish with the lime wedge.
Classic Margarita
Ingredients
1 ½ ounce, tequila
½ ounce, triple sec
1 ounce, lime juice
Salt, for garnish
Lime wedge, for garnish
1 cup, ice (optional)
Directions
Rub the rim of a margarita glass with lime juice and dip the rim in salt. Shake all of the ingredients with ice. Strain the mixture into the salt-rimmed glass, then garnish with the lime wedge and serve.
For a frozen margarita, combine all of the ingredients (except for the lime wedge) and the ice in a blender. Blend well at high speed.
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FRISCO, Texas — Two Frisco firefighters were hospitalized after a blaze that also destroyed a family’s home Sunday afternoon.
Just after 4 p.m., flames started in a back garage of the home on Brazoria Drive, just south of West University Drive. The fire then quickly moved into the attic.
Frisco Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner said they still aren’t sure what started the fire. They were able to put it out relatively quickly, and no people or pets were hurt, but the family that lives at the home was displaced.
With temperatures around 100 degrees, the department struggled to fight the flames in gear they said is both not breathable, and heavy. Two firefighters were taken to the hospital for heat-related illnesses but are expected to be OK.
The fire was quickly elevated to a two-alarm fire, meaning more units were called in to assist specifically because of the temperatures.
“Because of the heat, the incident commander, the person in charge of the fire scene knew that the heat was going to be a factor with our firefighters so they went ahead and called for that second alarm so that we had people there that they could switch out people more frequently and they could share more of those duties and those tasks,” Kistner said.
The plan of extra units for a rotation system has been a long-term policy for the department during periods of extreme heat.
Kistner said they have both regular checks in place and when firefighters share concerns about heat exhaustion, EMS crews on the scene will assist in checking them out, as well.
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BOSTON — The pilot of a small plane that crash-landed on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard last weekend after he suffered a medical emergency has died, authorities said.
Randolph Bonnist, 79, of Norwalk, Connecticut, died at a Boston hospital on Thursday night, according to a statement from the office of Cape and Islands District Attorney Robert Galibois.
The plane was on its final approach to Martha's Vineyard Airport in West Tisbury, Massachusetts on July 15 when Bonnist fell ill and his wife took the controls, which “resulted in a hard landing outside the runway that caused the aircraft’s left wing to break in half,” state police said at the time.
His wife was not injured.
The 2006 Piper Meridian airplane departed from Westchester County, New York, earlier that afternoon.
The crash is being investigated by state police, the National Transportation Safety Board, and the Federal Aviation Administration. An FAA spokesperson said the NTSB is in charge of the investigation.
It is not considered suspicious, Galibois said.
The crash happened almost 24 years to the day after a Piper crash killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister Lauren Bessette off Martha's Vineyard.
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SAN ANTONIO — The City of San Antonio is suing the state of Texas over a bill that they say puts major limits on local regulation.
House Bill 2127 bars cities and counties from passing regulations — and overturn existing ones- that go further than state law in a broad swath of areas. including labor, agriculture, natural resources and finance.
The bill’s backers argued it was needed to combat what they call a growing patchwork of local regulations that make it difficult for business owners to operate and harm the state’s economy.
“We want those small-business owners creating new jobs and providing for their families, not trying to navigate a byzantine array of local regulations that twist and turn every time” they cross city limits, said state Rep. Dustin Burrows, the Lubbock Republican who carried the bill in the House.
City staff said the bill will prevent them from taking several necessary local actions. Staff said HB 2127 would prevent Texas cities from adopting or enforcing ordinances related to matters already regulated by the State Agriculture code, Business and Commerce code, Finance code, Labor code, and more.
"This will jeopardize tenants' rights. It will jeopardize our responsible bidder ordinance, noise mitigation which we have taken up recently, heat related illness (water break ordinance) that we were planning to take up, and then the proactive apartment inspections. Those are just a few of the ones that are really critical," Councilwoman Rocha Garcia said back in May.
The City of Houston has already taken legal action to the block the law earlier in July.
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Hottest weather so far this season is expected later this week
Parents and children walking to Richmond's Fairfield Court Elementary School on Monday morning were met with music, cheering and hugs from teachers and school staff.
The July Monday morning marked the first of the 200-day school year – a new pilot program from Richmond Public Schools, and among the first of its kind in the region.
Fairfield Court Elementary and Cardinal Elementary School in South Richmond added 20 days to their academic calendars in an effort to curb learning loss that was exacerbated by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sgt. Edward Gore, a Richmond Public Schools safety and security officer, hugs a student as she arrives for the first day of school at Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond on Monday. Fairfield Court is participating in a pilot program of adding 20 days of instruction to the curriculum to make the school year 200 days.
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Remy Cartel, who has a 4-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son, moved to Richmond from New York in February and said that Fairfield Court Elementary School has already changed her family’s life with the support they’ve received from the school community.
“This girl went from not reading at all and being behind in school to being on point, doing summer reading and everything else,” Cartel said as she walked her children to school Monday morning. “It’s been a struggle and we’ve been through some hard times but the support we get from the school is 100%. She lives for the teachers.”
Cartel added: “They need to implement the 200-day school year citywide, nationwide, everything because education doesn’t stop when the summer starts.”
Dhaka Damir, 3, fist bumps a teacher as he arrives for the first day of school at Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond on Monday. Fairfield Court is participating in a pilot program of adding 20 days of instruction to the curriculum to make the school year 200 days.
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After years of back-and-forth on the issue, the Richmond School board approved the extended school year for the two schools in split votes earlier this year.
“We've gone through a very difficult time, the pandemic really set us back," said RPS Superintendent Jason Kamras. "In this once-in-a-century moment, we need once-in-a-century responses, and that is what we have here today."
Kamras added: “Our motto at RPS is to teach with love. I've learned as a father, the greatest gift we can give our children is our time. And that is exactly what we're giving our children today — 20 extra days of our time.”
Remaya Bacon, 5, high fives a teacher as she arrives for the first day of school Monday at Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond. Fairfield Court is participating in a pilot program of adding 20 days of instruction to the curriculum to make the school year 200 days.
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Fairfield Court Elementary, adjacent to the Fairfield Court public housing project in Richmond’s East End, counts 97% of its students as “economically disadvantaged,” a rough gauge of poverty measured by the state. At Cardinal Elementary School, about 54% of students are deemed “economically disadvantaged” by the state.
About 28% of students at Fairfield Court Elementary passed state reading tests last school year, compared with a pass rate of 47% division-wide and 73% statewide. At Cardinal Elementary School, about 37% of its students passed state reading tests last school year.
Calie Mayo, 5, goes to hug a teacher Monday as she arrives for the first day of school at Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond. Fairfield Court is participating in a pilot program of adding 20 days of instruction to the curriculum to make the school year 200 days.
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The typical summer breaks in between academic years can cause serious learning loss for children, and even more so for low-income students, research shows.
By the fifth grade, summer learning loss can leave low-income students up to three years behind their classmates, according to research conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers. A child’s summer learning experiences during elementary school years can impact whether that child earns a high school diploma and continues on to college.
Richmond city mayor Levar Stoney speaks during a news conference on the first day of school at Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond on Monday. Fairfield Court is participating in a pilot program of adding 20 days of instruction to the curriculum to make the school year 200 days.
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“It’s not about test scores. It's about growth,” said Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney. “We want to be able to see on day one versus day 200 whether or not our kids have progressed. ... I'm a firm believer that's exactly what 200 more days will allow for our kids — to grow and progress and be the kids we know that they can be, the best kids in central Virginia.”
The pilot is funded by the division’s allotment of the federal COVID-19 stimulus package.
Safiyah Degale, 9, fist bumps a teacher as she arrives for the first day of school Monday at Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond. Fairfield Court is participating in a pilot program of adding 20 days of instruction to the curriculum to make the school year 200 days.
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Stoney said at a news conference Monday: “I believe every school needs 200 days in the city of Richmond.”
In an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the mayor said the pragmatic approach is to phase-in extended calendars at Richmond’s public schools.
“We will depend upon the City Council or the administration to step up [with funding],” he said. “More than likely it would be a phased-in approach. … I think if it was phased in, I think that the city council and the administration can handle that budgetarily.”
The Times-Dispatch's 'Photo of the Day'
Jan. 1, 2023
Cleveland Browns running back Nick Chubb (24) carries the ball as Washington Commanders cornerback Danny Johnson (36) tries to stop him during the first half of a NFL football game between the Cleveland Browns and the Washington Commanders on Sunday, January 1, 2023 in Landover, MD.
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Jan. 2, 2023
Sharon MacKenzie of Mechanicsville walked with her friend Cindy Nunnally and her golden retriever, Sunny, during a GardenFest for Fidos at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on Jan. 2.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
Jan. 3, 2023
People remember 8-year-old P’Aris Moore during a vigil in Hopewell on Jan. 3. The girl was shot and killed while playing in her neighborhood.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 4, 2023
UR's Jason Nelson presses down court as George Washington's Brendan Adams, left, and Hunter Dean defend in the Robins Center Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.
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Jan. 5, 2023
Manchester's Olivia Wright reaches in on James River's Alisha Whirley at James River Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.
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Jan. 6, 2023
Daron Pearson plays basketball at Smith Peters Park in the Carver neighborhood on Friday, January 6, 2023 in Richmond, Va.
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Jan. 7, 2023
UR's Tyler Burton takes a shot as Duquesne's Joe Reece defends Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023.
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Jan. 8, 2023
Park ranger Bert Dunkerly leads a walking tour of Revolutionary Richmond on the grounds of the Chimborazo Medical Museum in Richmond on Jan. 8. The tour was part of a multiday annual event interpreting Richmond’s Revolutionary history, including the capture of the city by British General Benedict Arnold on Jan. 5, 1781.
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Jan. 10, 2023
Bon Secours Richmond Community Hospital COO Joey Trapani and Richmond City Councilwoman Cynthia Newbille react after cutting the ribbon to commemorate the opening of the East End Medical Office Building on Tuesday. Bon Secours Richmond Market President Mike Lutes (left) and Del. Delores McQuinn, D-Richmond, were also part of the festivities.
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Jan. 11, 2023
Pages are introduced at the Senate chamber during the first day of Virginia General Assembly at Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023.
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Jan. 12, 2023
Sen. Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, worked at his desk at the Virginia State Capitol on Thursday. Above him is a portrait of former Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, now a congressman representing the 8th District in Northern Virginia.
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Jan. 13, 2023
Elizabeth Leggett is photographed with her pup Pallas, 10, in her neighborhood in Richmond's business district on January 13, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Jan. 14, 2023
Aubrey Nguyen, age 5, and Andrew Nguyen, age 8, eye the dragon as it comes by during the Tet celebration at Vien Giac Buddhist Temple Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. Jow Ga Kung Fu, of Virginia Beach, performed the Dragon Dance.
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Jan. 15, 2023
The St. James's West Gallery Choir sings during "Evensong, A Celebration of the Life and Work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." at St. James Episcopal Church Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023.
ALEXA WELCH EDLUND/TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 16, 2023
James "States" Manship of Thornburg came to the gun rights rally at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square on Lobby Day, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, dressed as President George Washington.
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Jan. 17, 2023
Del. Emily Brewer, R-Suffolk, confers with Del. Sam Rasoul, D-Roanoke, at the state Capitol on Jan. 17. Brewer sponsored the bill on state purchasing, House Bill 2385.
EVA RUSSO, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 18, 2023
Aaliyah Rouse, 9, and Jennifer Rouse stand by as Aaron Rouse is sworn in in the Senate by Clerk of the Senate Susan Clarke Schaar during a general assembly session at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Jan. 19, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin talks to the media at George W. Carver Elementary School on Jan. 19.
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Jan. 20, 2023
VCU's fans cheer for the team against Richmond during the second half of the NCAA men's basketball game at University of Richmond, Richmond, Va., on Friday, January 20, 2023.
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Jan. 21, 2023
Jacqueline Dziuba, bottom left, and Steven Godwin, who live in Greenville, N.C., and other visitors check out the exhibits at the Poe Museum in Richmond in January as the museum celebrates Edgar Allan Poe’s 214th birthday and its own 100-year anniversary.
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Jan. 22, 2023
Paul McLean (left), founder of the Virginia Minority Cannabis Coalition, listens alongside Mark Cannady during the “Is Social Equity in Off the Table in 2023?” portion of the program on Sunday on the second full day of the Virginia Cannabis Conference presented by Virginia NORML at Delta Hotels Richmond Downtown. Lobby Day takes place Monday.
SHABAN ATHUMAN photos, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 23, 2023
The flags at the Executive Mansion are at half-staff to honor those killed and injured in Monterey Park, California last weekend. Photo was taken on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.
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Jan. 24, 2023
Sen. Steve Newman, R-Lynchburg, listens to debate during a Senate floor session in the state Capitol on a bill to make Daylight Savings Time year-round.
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Jan. 25, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin listens to George Daniel as he tries some Brunswick stew on Brunswick Stew Day at the Capitol Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Next to Daniel are (L-R) Dylan Pair, stewmaster Kevin Pair and Austin Pair. The yearly event returned to the Capitol for the first time since the pandemic.
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Jan. 26, 2023
Meghan Vandette is photographed with her dogs, Pepper, a deaf mini Australian shepherd, and Finn on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at Ruff Canine Club in Richmond, Virginia.
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Jan. 27, 2023
Three-year-old London Oshinkoya (from left) and 3-year-old twins Messiah and Malkia Finley go through the toys brought by Crystal Holbrook-Gazoni near the Gilpin Resource Center in Richmond on Friday.
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Jan. 28, 2023
Dance instructor Paul Dandridge (foreground) works with youngsters as he teaches a theater dance during the “Genworth Lights Up! Youth Series: On the Road” at the Center for the Arts at Henrico High School on Saturday. The series offers free workshops and performances throughout the year for youth of all ages.
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Jan. 29, 2023
Ronnie Jenkins II of Chesterfield County sits inside a Barefoot Spas hot tub with his 11-year-old son, Connor, and his wife, Amber, during the RVA Home Show at The Meadow Event Park in Caroline County.
Daniel Sangjib Min photos, TIMES-DISPATCH
Jan. 30, 2023
Frank Saucier listens as elected officials give remarks during a vigil for Tyre Nichols on Monday at Abner Clay Park in Richmond. Nichols died from the injuries he sustained after being beaten by police officers in Memphis.
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Jan. 31, 2023
Mayor Levar Stoney gets ready to deliver his State of the City on Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at the Richmond Main Street Station in Richmond, Virginia.
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Feb. 1, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin attends the Virginia March for Life in Richmond, VA on February 1, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 2, 2023
Petersburg High School's basketball standout Chris Fields Jr. on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at the Petersburg High School in Petersburg, Virginia.
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Feb. 3, 2023
Shawnrell Blackwell, left, a Southside Community Development & Housing Corporation homeowner and board member, watches as Dianna Bowser, president and CEO of SCDHC, shares a moment with Suzanne Youngkin during a ceremony at Virginia Housing in Richmond on Friday after Gov. Glenn Youngkin and the first lady presented the first Spirit of Virginia Award of 2023 to the affordable housing nonprofit.
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Feb. 4, 2023
Members of the Break it Down RVA Line Dancing group perform during a Black History Month Celebration at Virginia State University on Feb. 4.
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Feb. 5, 2023
Wide receiver Terry McLaurin (17) of the Washington Commanders, right, look on before the flag football event at the NFL Pro Bowl on Sunday in Las Vegas. With him are, from left, NFC wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown (14) of the Detroit Lions, NFC wide receiver CeeDee Lamb (88) of the Dallas Cowboys and NFC wide receiver Justin Jefferson (18) of the Minnesota Vikings.
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Feb. 6, 2023
(From left) U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, and Sethuraman Panchanathan, Ph.D., director of the National Science Foundation, arrive for a tour of VCU's Nanomaterials Core Characterization Facility with lab director and physics professor Massimo Bertino, Ph.D. (right) on Monday, Feb. 6. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 7, 2023
Sen. Dick Saslaw, D-Fairfax, is seen 4 1/2 hours into Tuesday's crossover session at the state Capitol.
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Feb. 8, 2023
Chef Patrick Phelan works with his staff on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 at Lost Letter in Richmond, Virginia.
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Feb. 9, 2023
Onlookers stand near a shattered window on East Broad Street following a shooting on Thursday. One person was killed and another wounded.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
Feb. 10, 2023
Colonial Williamsburg moves a 260-year-old building, originally called the Bray School, on a truck to a new location a mile away, where it will be put on public display, in Williamsburg, Va., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. The Bray School is believed to be the oldest building in the US dedicated to the education of Black children.
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Feb 11, 2023
Randolph-Macon celebrate after beating Roanoke College during a NCAA Division III Basketball game on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at Randolph Macon Crenshaw Gym in Ashland, Virginia. With today's win, the Yellow Jackets hold the longest home winning steak in NCAA Division III history.
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Feb. 12, 2023
The Science Museum of Virginia hosted a competition for student engineers during a commemoration of Celebrate Engineering Ingenuity Day. A packed crowd watches Sunday as a team of “Bridge Breakers” from the American Society of Civil Engineers puts students’ inventions to the test.
Lyndon German
Feb. 13, 2023
A crew from Walter D. Witt Roofing installs a new roof for Melvin Washington, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, as part of the Owens Corning National Roof Deployment Project in Richmond, VA on February 13, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 14, 2023
Richmond City Council member Cynthia Newbille pulls the winning raffle ticket as Marc Edwards, from InnovAge Virginia PACE, holds the basket during the 9th annual "For the Love of Our Seniors" event at Main Street Station in Richmond, VA on February 14, 2023. The event is a resource fair for senior residents and caregivers in Church Hill. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 15, 2023
A crew from the Richmond-based company Cut Cut installs the new art installation "McLean" by Navine G. Dossos on the façade of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Richmond, VA on February 15, 2023. The installation is part of the exhibit "So it appears" opening February 24th. The vinyl pieces being used are adapted from a series of paintings. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 16, 2023
Giov. Glenn Youngkin meets with the community at Westwood Fountain in Richmond, VA on Thursday, February 16, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 17, 2023
Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Alison Linas, left, and Franklin greet Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Jennifer Guiliano and attorney Alex Clarke at the Henrico County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court building on Friday.
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Feb. 18, 2023
Fans take pictures during the All-alumni Block Party before VCU’s game against Fordham on Saturday.
SHABAN ATHUMAN, TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 19, 2023
Virginia Tech's Georgia Amoore, left, waits for a pass from Elizabeth Kitley (33) during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina State on Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, in Blacksburg.
Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times
Feb. 20, 2023
Richmond resident David Scates filed an appeal with the VEC last summer four days after the state agency notified him that he had been overpaid unemployment benefits after catching COVID-19 and losing his job. Now, Scates is one of almost 17,000 Virginians at risk of having their appeals dismissed because the VEC contends they filed too late.
EVA RUSSO, TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 21, 2023
State Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, greets chief election officer and college friend Sheryl Johnson (right) at the Tabernacle Baptist Church polling station in Richmond, VA on Tuesday, February 21, 2023 as (from left) election workers Katie Johnson and Eric Johnson look on. McClellan is running to succeed Rep. Donald McEachin, D-4th. McClellan would be the first African American woman to represent Virginia in Congress and would give Virginia a record four women in its congressional delegation. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
Feb. 22, 2023
Members of the media tour Fox Elementary School in Richmond, VA after Richmond Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Dana Fox provided an update on construction plans to rebuild the school on Wednesday, February 22. The building, which dates to 1911, was heavily damaged in a three-alarm fire on the night of Feb. 11, 2022. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 23, 2023
Marley Ferraro and her boyfriend, Zack Bannister, both VCU freshmen, spend time together between classes at Monroe Park as Thursday weather reaches around 80s in Richmond, Va., on Feb. 23, 2023.
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Feb. 24, 2023
Sen. Aaron Rouse, left, D-Virginia Beach, talks with Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, before a general assembly session at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023.
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Feb. 25, 2023
Jenna Anderson of Cosby High shows her medal to her dad, Waylon Anderson, after winning the 112-pound weight class during the VHSL Girls State Open Championships at Unity Reed High in Manassas on Saturday.
SHABAN ATHUMAN, TIMES-DISPATCH
Feb. 26, 2023
Contestants in a duathlon race (run-bike-run competition) dash from the starting line in the first event of the West Creek Endurance Festival at the West Creek Business Park in Goochland County on Sunday.
Mark Bowes
Feb. 27, 2023
Eric and Linda Oakes speak to a small crowd before unveiling a plaque and bench dedicated to their son, Adam Oakes, in the VCU Student Commons building near the office of Fraternity and Sorority Life on February 27, 2023. The date marks the two-year anniversary of Oakes' death in a hazing incident, and VCU is calling this an annual hazing prevention day and day of remembrance for Oakes. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
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Feb. 28, 2023
Jess Tanner (center) looks on as her daughters Aubrey (left), 10, and Charleigh, 8, deliver Girl Scout cookies to school counselor Michelle Nothnagel (right) and the other teachers and staff members at Manchester High School on February 28, 2023. With help from groups of retired teachers and others in the community, the girls, who are members of Girl Scout Troop 3654, raised over $1,000 to purchase the cookies for the staff. Jess Tanner, is an art teacher at Manchester and also a co-leader of their troop. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 1, 2023
Shirley Wiest, left, and Wilma Bowman, center, show a blanket for a veteran with the help of Julie Wiest, daughter of Shirley Wiest, at Sunrise of Richmond in Henrico, Va., on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Shirley Wiest and Wilma Bowman sewed over 3000 blankets for people at the VA Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Moments of Hope Outreach among others.
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March 2, 2023
Carl Gupton, president of Greenswell Growers, is shown at the greenhouse of the company in Goochland, Va., on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Greenswell Growers, an automated indoor farming, can produce 28 times more greens per acre than traditional farming. They just sealed a deal with Ukrops and will start selling on Kroger shelves all across the mid-Atlantic.
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March 3, 2023
Highland Springs walks off the court after beating Stone Bridge during the Class 5 boys basketball quarterfinal on Friday, March 3, 2023 at J.R. Tucker High School in Henrico, Virginia.
SHABAN ATHUMAN/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 4, 2023
Nutzy plays with Shane Paris-Kennedy,9, during the Richmond Flying Squirrels Nutzy's Block Party on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at The Diamond in Richmond, Virginia.
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March 5, 2023
Patrons wait in line for Caribbean soul food from Mobile Yum Yum, one of the food trucks participating in Mobile Soul Sunday in Monroe Park. The event kicked off the Richmond Black Restaurant Experience, a weeklong celebration of Richmond’s Black-owned restaurants.
Sean McGoey
March 6, 2023
Henrico County officials celebrate the start of renovations at Cheswick Park in Henrico's Three Chopt District on March 6, 2023. The 24.5-acre park, Henrico's oldest official park, will receive $2.1 million in improvements, including a new open fitness area and upgrades to its trails, playground, restroom facilities, pedestrian bridges, parking lot, main entrance, stormwater management infrastructure and signage. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 7, 2023
Congresswoman-elect Jennifer McClellan heads into the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC for orientation on March 7, 2023 in preparation for her swearing in as the first Black Congresswoman from Virginia. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 8, 2023
Kate Chenery Tweedy shows the exhibition of Secretariat at Ashland Museum in Ashland, Va., on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Kate Chenery Tweedy is spearheading an effort to bring a monument of Secretariat to Ashland.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 9, 2023
John Marano of Top Trumps USA speaks to the media next to Mr. Monopoly at Maggie Walker Plaza in Richmond, Va., on March 9, 2023. Top Trumps USA, under license from HASBRO, will design a Richmond-specific board that highlights the region’s favorite historic landmarks.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 10, 2023
The U.S. Postal Service commemorate the history and romance of train travel with the unveiling of its Railroad Stations Forever stamps during a ceremony at the Main Street Station in Richmond, Va.
Lyndon German
March 11, 2023
Susie Williams of Richmond gets a makeover at the Shamrock the Block Festival in Richmond on Saturday. The festival was relocated to Leigh Street this year.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 12, 2023
A procession of Fifes and Drums moves down Duke of Gloucester Street in Colonial Williamsburg on Sunday. It traveled from old Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse to the Raleigh Tavern, where Thomas Jefferson and other leaders formed a Committee of Correspondence in 1773.
Sean Jones photos, Times-Dispatch
March 13, 2023
Cuong Luu, foreground, a volunteer of Feed More, prepares boxes of meals with other volunteers and staff at the food bank in Richmond, Va., on Monday, March 13, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 14, 2023
Bill Barksdale, technical director of Virginia Video Network, works with Kelli Lemon, director of digital programming, at the video studio of Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va., on March 14, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 15, 2023
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, looks on a portrait after unveiling it as former Speaker of the House at the house chamber of the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Filler-Corn made history as the first woman and first Jewish Speaker in Virginia.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 16, 2023
MIKE KROPF, THE DAILY PROGRESS Virginia's Isaac McKneely (11) becomes emotional after an NCAA Tournament first round game against Furman in Orlando, Fl., Thursday, March 16, 2023.
Mike Kropf
March 17, 2023
Brian Erbe, center, a pipe manager, and other members of Greater Richmond Pipes and Drums perform to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Rosie Connolly's Pub Restaurant in Richmond, Va., on Friday, March 17, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 18, 2023
Virginia Tech's Mekhi Lewis takes down Oklahoma State's Dustin Plott during the consolation semifinals at the NCAA Division I wrestling championships, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Tulsa, Okla. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
Ian Maule
March 19, 2023
Virginia Tech's Kayana Traylor (23) is congratulated by teammates after scoring just before halftime of a second-round college basketball game in the women's NCAA Tournament, Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Blacksburg, Va. (AP Photo/Matt Gentry)
Matt Gentry
March 20, 2023
Hannah and Ty Bilodeau of Lynchburg visit the recently completed Richmond Virginia Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with their children, Blythe, 5, Goldie, 4, and Graham, 2, in Glen Allen in Henrico, Va., on Monday, March 20, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 21, 2023
Doug Ramseur, center left, and Emilee Hasbrouck, center right, defense lawyers for Wavie Jones, one of three Central State Hospital employees , who was charged in death of Irvo Otieno, speak to the media at Dinwiddie Courthouse in Dinwiddie, Va., on Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 22, 2023
WRANGLD's, from left, senior customer success manager Trevor Lee, chief business officer Andy Sitison and CEO Jonathan "JD" Dyke work at their office of the 1717 Innovation Center in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 23, 2023
New Bon Secours Community Health Clinic is open in Manchester, Richmond, Va., on Thursday, March 23, 2023. The clinic will serve scheduled appointments and same day call-in appointments for the uninsured. The 8,000 square foot building is also home to the Bon Secours Care-A-Van, a mobile health clinic.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
March 24, 2023
Liz Kincaid, CEO of RVA Hospitality and owner of Max's On Broad, is photographed at the restaurant in Richmond, VA on March 24, 2023. Max's On Broad will be closing April 1 and will relaunch as a new concept in the summer. Kincaid also owns Tarrant's & Bar Solita. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
March 25, 2023
Henrico County families gather at Deep Run Park & Recreation Center on Saturday to celebrate all things agriculture during the county's second annual Farm Graze event. Children went booth to booth learning about the wonders of agriculture while participating in fun activities and scavenger hunts.
Lyndon German
March 26, 2023
Church Hill resident Alex Gerofsky finishes the Hill Topper 5K at the Church Hill Irish Festival with a time of 20 minutes, 26.8 seconds.
Thad Green
March 27, 2023
Wyatt Kingston, center, conducts a strength training session with Marshall Crenshaw, left, and Kevin Wright at Hickory Hill Community Center in Richmond on March 27.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 28, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney, center, talks about the ongoing housing crisis in the city during a news conference on March 28.
Daniel Sangjib Min, TIMES-DISPATCH
March 29, 2023
From left, Caroline Ouko and Leon Ochieng, mother and older brother of Irvo Otieno, react near the casket during the celebration of life for Irvo Otieno at First Baptist Church of South Richmond in North Chesterfield on March 29.
Eva Russo
March 30, 2023
Senior students in Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center's culinary program presented Taj Mahsala: an Indian fusion menu.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
March 31, 2023
Richmond Police address onlookers Friday, March 31, 2023 at the intersection of North Avenue and Moss Side Avenue, near Washington Park. Richmond police shot a man who was suspected of shooting a woman earlier in the day in the 1100 block of Evergreen Avenue on Richmond's Southside.
April 1, 2023
Sculptor Jocelyn Russell takes photos of the crowd after the unveiling of her statue of Secretariat at Ashland Town Hall Pavilion on Saturday.
Michael Martz photos, TImes-Dispatch
April 2, 2023
Drivers race in the Toyota Owners 400 at the Richmond Raceway in Richmond, VA on April 2, 2023.. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 3, 2023
Dinwiddie County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ann Cabell Baskervill plans to resign from her post to attend graduate school in Paris, where she will start a master’s program in international governance and diplomacy at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, colloquially known as SciencesPo.
EVA RUSSO, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 4, 2023
From left, Judy and Ron Singleton pose for a photo on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
Mike Kropf
April 5, 2023
Beatrix Smith dips her matzah in salt water as she enjoys a Pasover Seder with her classmates (from left) Helen Corallo, Camp Maxwell, and Amara Ellen at the Weinstein JCC Preschool Program in Richmond, VA on April 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 6, 2023
Virginia Community College System Chancellor David Doré speaks with students at Piedmont Virginia Community College on Thursday.
SYDNEY SHULER, THE DAILY PROGRESS
April 7, 2023
A worker pushed water off a tarp on the field at The Diamond Friday, when the Flying Squirrels were scheduled to open their season against Reading.
MIKE KROPF/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 8, 2023
Ember O’Connell-Evans, 1, plays with hula hoops during the Dominion Energy Family Easter event at Maymont on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 9, 2023
Mike Kearney plays an early form of badminton with grandkids Savannah and Ashton on the lawn of Montpelier during “We, the Kids” Day.
ANDRA LANDI, FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REVIEW
April 10, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, center left, tours Richmond Marine Terminal with W. Sheppard Miller III , Virginia Secretary of Transportation , center right, as Stephen A. Edwards, left, Virginia Port Authority CEO, and Christina Saunders, manager of Richmond Marine Terminal, give them the tour on Monday, April 10, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 11, 2023
Inaara Woodards, 5, of Henrico, visits Italian Garden at Maymont with her mother, Victoria Crawley Woodards, and three brothers, Kai, 13, Zion, 12, and Avion Woodards, 11, during their home-school field trip to the park in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. "It’s gorgeous!" Victoria Crawley Woodards said of Tuesday weather. She said it was the perfect weather for the field trip and other activities.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 13, 2023
Clarence Thweatt, right, a lead trainer for Chesterfield Public Schools, works on marking points during a transportation road-e-o event, which is friendly competition of school bus drivers demonstrating their driving skills and knowledge of laws, at Chesterfield County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, April 12, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 14, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at Liberty University.
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April 15, 2023
Tyson Foods workers attend a job fair at Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church on Mechanicsville Turnpike. The Glen Allen plant is closing, displacing about 700 employees.
Em Holter
April 16, 2023
A display of 32 white balloons were raised and a 32-second moment of silence was observed in honor of the victims of the April 16, 2007, tragedy at the start of the 2023 3.2-mile Run in Remembrance on the Virginia Tech campus.
MATT GENTRY, The Roanoke Times
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April 17, 2023
Albert Hill Middle School sixth-grader Drew Sirpis looks for birds during the educational boat trip on the James River on Monday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
April 18, 2023
Richmond Flying Squirrels Luis Matos steals the second base against Erie SeaWolves shortstop Gage Workman in the 3rd inning at The Diamond, Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 19, 2023
Children participate in Little Feet Meets at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield, VA on April 19, 2023. A total of 1,400 Special Olympic athletes from grades PK-5 throughout Chesterfield County Public Schools competed in Little Feet Meets between two dates, April 12 at James River High and April 19 at Matoaca High. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 20, 2023
Mike Blau, center, a line cook, and others work on preparing a soft opening of The Veil's new taproom, located in Scott’s Addition at 1509 Belleville St., on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 21, 2023
(From left) VCU sophomore Caroline May, of Pittsburgh, PA, and senior Lee Finch, of Norfolk, VA carry a coffin with a blow-up Earth ball during a VCU Student Climate Protest in Richmond, VA on April 21, 2023. The small crowd walked from the James Branch Cabell Library, though Monroe Park, to the office of VCU President Michael Rao in a mock funeral procession. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 22, 2023
Anthony Clary gestures as he runs through confetti during the Ukrop's Monument Avenue 10k on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
April 23, 2023
A volunteer picks up an old wooden palate and brings it to a trash pile during Friends of Fonticello Park's community cleanup on Sunday.
Sean Jones, Times-Dispatch
April 24, 2023
Kay Ford spends time with her cat, Patches, at her home in Mechanicsville, VA., on Monday, April 24, 2023. Ford recently adopted Patches, a 40-pound cat, from Richmond Animal Care and Control. The story of Patches went viral after RACC publicized the cat.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 25, 2023
Emily Cover, a project manager with DPR Construction, is shown at Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU, left top, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. DPR is the team that built the hospital.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 26, 2023
Guests tour the Anthropology Lab at the new College of Humanities and Sciences STEM building on West Franklin Street in Richmond, VA on April 26, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 27, 2023
Police tape marks the scene outside George Wythe High School.
ANNA BRYSON/TIMES-DISPATCH
April 28, 2023
Sculptor Kate Raudenbush takes in her finished piece "Breaking Point" in the Flagler Garden Near the Monet Bridge at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden on April 28, 2023. The garden is set to debut "Incanto: An Oasis of Lyrical Sculpture" on Saturday, April 29, 2023. Incanto features five designed, allegorical sculptures, accompanied by poetry, throughout the garden. The exhibition is the work of Raudenbush and poet Sha Michele. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
April 29, 2023
Pharrell Williams performs during the Pharrell's Phriends set at Something in the Water in Virginia Beach on Saturday.
Kendall Warner
May 1, 2023
A man carries a piece of furniture through a neighborhood in Virginia Beach, Va. on Monday May 1, 2023. The City of Virginia Beach declared a state of emergency after a tornado moved through the area and damaged dozens of homes, downed trees and caused gas leaks. (AP Photo/Ben Finley)
Ben Finley
May 2, 2023
Sports Backers Stadium is shown next to The Diamond in this drone photo, in Richmond, VA., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 3, 2023
CAL CARY, THE DAILY PROGRESS UVa cheerleader, Madison DeLoach, in front of other UVa cheerleaders tour the The Avelo Airlines Boeing 737 after landing at Charlottesville Albemarle Airport coming from Orlando on May 3, 2023. Avelo Airlines launched its first Charlottesville to Orlando flight line at the Charlottesville Albemarle Airport on May 3, 2023. The inaugural event consisted of a returning flight from Orlando to Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, a firetruck water salute upon arrival and a tour of the airplane.
Cal Cary
May 4, 2023
(From left) Maryann Macomber, of Mechanicsville, VA, leads a small group prayer with Gloria Randolph, of Richmond, VA, Randolph's great-grandson Xavier Jones, also of Richmond, and John Macomber, of Mechanicsville, during a National Day of Prayer event at the Bell Tower in Capitol Square in Richmond, VA on May 4, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 5, 2023
Steffiun Stanley preps dishes at Birdie's in Richmond, VA on May 5, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 6, 2023
People at the ¿Qué Pasa? Festival sit on the grass and enjoy the weather on Brown’s Island on Saturday.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 7, 2023
Arts in the Park saw thousands pass through Byrd Park over the weekend. The festival is sponsored by the Carilion Civic Association.
Charlotte Rene Woods, Times-Dispatch
May 8, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin shares a quiet moment with Holocaust survivor Halina Zimm on Monday afternoon before ceremonially signing a bill that adds a definition of antisemitism to Virginia law.
David Ress, Times-Dispatch
May 9, 2023
The Molcajete Sinaloa at Mariscos Mazatlan in Henrico, VA on May 9, 2023. Mariscos Mazatlan focuses on traditional Mexican cuisine from the city of Mazatlan and all along the Mexican coast. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 10, 2023
A goose, seen here on May 10, 2023, has built a nest in a median of the parking lot near Dilliards at Short Pump Town Center. The mall has put out orange cones to keep cars away and Jerome Golfman, assistant manager at Fink's Jewelers, said he regularly brings it water, cracked corn and other grains.
Eva Russo, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 11, 2023
Mary Finley-Brook, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Richmond and an expert on American gas infrastructure, says repairing the pipes no longer makes sense as gas prices continue to rise.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 12, 2023
(From left) Sam Amoaka, a freshman at Virginia State University, helps his girlfriend, Tamia Charles, a freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University, move out of her dorm along with her dad, Thomas Charles, of Fredericksburg, VA, in downtown Richmond, VA on May 12, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 13, 2023
Virginia’s Thomas McConvey (left) defends the ball from Richmond’s Jake Kapp during an NCAA Tournament game at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville on Saturday.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 14, 2023
University of Richmond outfielder Christian Beal made a catch on the run during the Friday game of Spiders-VCU series at The Diamond.
MIKE KROPF, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 15, 2023
The flags at Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission building are flown at half-staff on Monday. Governor Youngkin announced that flags would fly half-staff in honor of Peace Officers' Remembrance Day.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
May 16, 2023
Ukrop's crumb cake has been picked up by Kroger and is being sold nationwide. Here, fresh cinnamon crumb cakes are packaged at the Ukrop's bakery in Richmond, VA on May 16, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 17, 2023
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney officially proclaims May as Jewish American Heritage Month during a celebration held in collaboration with the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond and the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) at Richmond City Hall in Richmond, VA on May 17, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 18, 2023
Acting Police Chief Richard Edwards stands by as Penn and Victoria Burke places a flower in honor of Sergeant J. Harvey Burke in the wreath at the memorial stone at the Richmond Police Training Academy in Richmond, VA during the Richmond Police Department Police Officers' Memorial Service on May 18, 2023. The ceremony, which took place during National Police Week, paid homage to Richmond's fallen officers. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 19, 2023
Doumit Bouhaidarat fries falafel balls to order during the St. Anthony Lebanese Food Festival on Friday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 20, 2023
Dogs compete in the Subaru Ultimate Air Dogs — Splash Qualifier #4 event on the second day of Dominion Energy Riverrock on Saturday.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 21, 2023
The Virginia men’s tennis team celebrates after winning the national championship on Sunday in Orlando.
Courtesy UVa athletics photos
May 22, 2023
Vietnam War veteran Stuart Blankenship is photographed at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, VA on Monday, May 22, 2023. Blankenship is one of 50 Vietnam War Veterans from throughout the Commonwealth featured in the exhibit “50 Years Beyond: The Vietnam Veteran Experience” which opened at the Virginia War Memorial on January 28, 2023. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
May 23, 2023
Wilbert Hobson poses for a portrait at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Va, on May 23, 2023. Hobson was part of the 101st Airborne unit of the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war. Hobson is very active in his chapter of the American Legion and helped found the Friends of Dupont, and organization. Graduating from an all-Black high school, Vietnam was Hobson’s first real experience with integration. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
May 24, 2023
Powhatan Owen, shown at the Virginia War Memorial, volunteered for a Burial Honor Guard company in Washington state to commemorate the service of fellow veterans and has further connected with veterans while attending powwows across the U.S.
Eva Russo, Times-Dispatch
May 25, 2023
Madi Mabry laughs with other members of Mango Salon at the 2023 Top Workplaces awards in Richmond on Thursday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
May 26, 2023
A solar cell receives light at the Agecroft Hall and Gardens on May 26, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
May 27, 2023
Julia Hunter, a shawl dancer, participates in the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe’s powwow on Saturday.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
May 28, 2023
Festival organizers Pete LeBlanc, left, and Zavi Harman enjoy the second installation of Daydream Fest in front of the Main Line Brewery stage on Sunday.
Gabriela De Camargo Goncalves
May 30, 2023
Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks during the Commonwealth’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial on Monday.
Margo Wagner, Times-Dispatch
May 31, 2023
Earl Gary, owner of YME Landscape, used a compact tractor to move topsoil for a temporary landscaping at the former site of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's statue on Monument Ave. in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
Daniel Sangjib Min/TIMES-DISPATCH
June 1, 2023
Jorge Figueroa leads tenants and New Virginia Majority organizers in a rally at Southwood Apartments, in Richmond, VA on June 1, 2023 to protest rent increases. EVA RUSSO/TIMES-DISPATCH
Eva Russo
June 2, 2023
This screenshot from the Virginia Department of Transportation's real-time traffic cameras shows multiple southbound lanes of Interstate 95 closed after a crash near the Belvidere Street exit the morning of Friday, June 2, 2023.
Virginia Department of Transportation
June 3, 2023
Richmond Kickers defender Simon Fitch shoots the ball defended by Chattanooga Red Wolves forward Walter Varela at City Stadium on Saturday, June 3.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
June 4, 2023
Mark Whitfield and Ciara Dickson watch Samaya Dickson throw the ceremonial first pitch at the Flying Squirrels game on Sunday.
Gabriela de Camargo Gonçalves, Times-Dispatch
June 5, 2023
People bow their heads before eating as Dr. Stepfanie Ramsey gives the invocation at the 2023 Times-Dispatch/Sports Backer Scholar Athlete Awards Ceremony on June 5, 2023 at the Jefferson Hotel. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
June 6, 2023
A radar measure the speed of passing cars on Main Street on June 6, 2023, in Richmond, Va. MARGO WAGNER/TIMES-DISPATCH
Margo Wagner
June 7, 2023
A piece from a mortar board lays on the ground at the site of a shooting at Huguenot High School's graduation ceremony.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
June 8, 2023
A participant holds a candle during a vigil hosted by Grace & Holy Trinity Church on Thursday to remember Huguenot High School graduate Shawn Jackson and his stepfather, Renzo Smith.
Mike Kropf, TIMES-DISPATCH
June 9, 2023
Louisa softball players celebrate after beating Hanover 5-3 in the Class 4 state semifinals on Friday, June 9.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
June 10, 2023
Riverside lacrosse players and coaches run on the field after defeating Freeman in the Class 5 championship game in Ashburn on Saturday, June 10.
Mike Kropf/TIMES-DISPATCH
June 11, 2023
The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground featured drumming, dancing and music Sunday as visitors gathered for Elegba Folklore Society’s 27th annual Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration, on Sunday.
Katie Castellani, Times-Dispatch
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SCRANTON, Pa. — People are lining up again to get their antlerless deer licenses.
Several people waited in line Monday morning at One Stop Sports shop on Luzerne Street in Scranton.
This is round two of the license process for a chance to get a second doe tag.
The state now gives you two choices: Go to a place that sells licenses or go online.
Some of the people in line said there is a long wait if you use the internet, and standing in line isn't so bad.
"I'm retired, so it doesn't bother me to stand in line," Steve Prendergast said.
Newswatch 16 tried to go online to check out the wait times. There, we had 37,000 people in front of us at 9 a.m.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — The annual Solemn Novena to St. Ann in Scranton draws to a close this week.
The novena at St. Ann's Basilica and Shrine is all about music, prayer, and devotion to St. Ann, the woman Christians believe is the grandmother of Jesus.
But it couldn't happen if it were not for people like Anthony Cicco. The young man from Scranton volunteers, doing a little bit of everything at the novena.
"I grew up here. It's great seeing all the faces, all the people. I love it every year. It's just a great thing to do," Cicco said.
This 19 year old is already a novena veteran. He's been volunteering for eight years.
Francis Bui is another steady novena volunteer.
"I like helping the people at St. Ann's. It's very special and holy for me," Bui said.
People at the novena and all over the world depend on him. Bui is one of the people who make sure the audio and video look good for people who watch the novena online.
Putting on the novena is no small feat. The staff at St. Ann's say that on a typical day, they have about 25 volunteers.
Sue Yanchik of Scranton is a regular. She's been a member of St. Ann's for 33 years. She's been a volunteer for all 33.
"I feel like my life is so blessed," said Yanchik, agreeing that the volunteers get more than they give.
There is a new face in the crowd this year—16-year-old Stephanie Kucharski of Old Forge. This is her first year as a volunteer.
"It's been amazing. So many new friends and experiences I got, and I love having so much in common. We like the church as much as we do."
Stephanie added that she's always wanted to volunteer at St. Ann's Novena, and she is thankful this is the year she's having a chance to do it.
The novena observances conclude on Wednesday, the feast of St. Ann.
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ATLANTIC CITY — A sculptor has donated a statue of Civil Rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer to the city, and it will be installed in Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall.
On Wednesday, City Council passed resolutions to accept the gift from Stockton University professor Patricia Reid-Merritt, to fund its transportation and installation, and to negotiate a loan agreement with the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. The CRDA runs Boardwalk Hall.
Reid-Merritt is the former coordinator for the annual Fannie Lou Hamer Human and Civil Rights Symposium at Stockton. She was also national chairperson for the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Statue Committee, and had been gifted a polished plaster template/cast model, which she is donating to the city, according to one of the resolutions.
Hamer, who died in 1977, was the civil rights activist who brought attention to segregation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention here. Her efforts led to mandatory integrated state delegations later.
She is most famous for a speech she gave to the credential committee in 1964, in which she said she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired."
"By 1968, Hamer’s vision for racial parity in delegations had become a reality and Hamer was a member of Mississippi’s first integrated delegation," according to the National Women's History Museum.
GALLERY: Look back at the the 1964 Democratic Convention at Boardwalk Hall
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August 26, 1964. A demonstration erupts during the nomination of President Johnson during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Convention Hall. Press of Atlantic City file photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 1964. The 1964 Democratic National Convention is in session in Convention Hall in Atlantic City. Photo courtesy of Bob Pergament and taken by Edward Lea/The Press of Atlantic City.
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July 26, 1964. New Jersey Bell Telephone Company workers install cables to handle the huge communications requirements of the 1964 Democratic National Convention. The cables will lead to the company's operating center in the basement of Convention Hall. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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July 26, 1964. New Jersey Bell Telephone Company sets up for the 1964 National Democratic Convention television coverage at Bader FIeld in Atlantic City. NJ Bell has six television transmission 'crash' units, one of which is shown above in operation at Bader Field in Atlantic City. Television pictures taken at the field will be beamed by microwave to antennas on top of Convention Hall communications center during the convention. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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July 26, 1964. Long Lines technicians of the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company make many checks before pictures of the 1964 Democratic National Convention are transmitted into American homes. Technicians above monitor a test picture in the Convention Hall basement center. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 22, 1964. Bill Erskine stands in front of his signs he painted for the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Convention Hall. Erskine and seven others were responsible for painting the signs. Press of Atlantic City file photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 21, 1964. Jack Cathrall, of Stratford, N.J., escorts the telephone girls from their convention posts with the help of security guard Mike Ruane. Cathrall trained the girls for their jobs during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City and selected their uniforms. Press of Atlantic City file photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 26, 1964. Luci Johnson, 17-year-old daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, looks over the gowns modeled by wives of New Jersey congressmen at a fashion show in Convention Hall during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Press of Atlantic City photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 26, 1964. Municipal Judge L. Edison Hedges solves the traffic problem around Convention Hall during the 1964 Democratic National Convention by making rounds on a unicycle. Hedges is a magistrate in Egg Harbor Township. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 26, 1964. Sons of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt get together on the floor of the Convention Hall during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Convention Hall. James Roosevelt is on the left, Elliot, center, and Franklin D. Jr. is on the right. Press of Atlantic City photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 23, 1964. J.L. Reinsch, Convention Hall director, takes the command post during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives.
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AUGUST 22, 1964. Sam Erskine, an employee of the United Exposition Service Company, checks the Arizona sign standard to be used during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. The five-foot-high triangular signs will be fastened to an aluminum pole attached to a steel base. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 1964. First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, left, attends a press conference with Muriel Humphrey, wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and her daughters, Lynda Bird and Luci Baines. They were in Atlantic City for the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Press of Atlantic City photo by Mike Blizzard. Historical photo archives
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August 1964. Photographers and Secret Service agents surround Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of President Lyndon Johnson, as she spashes in the Margate surf at a beach party. The Johnsons were in Atlantic City for the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Press of Atlantic City photo by Mike Blizzard. Historical photo archives
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June 30, 1963. FOR THE DEMOCRATS. Plans were well underway a year before the 1964 Democratic National Convention convened in Atlantic City. The city proposed a 10-foot high podium be built center-stage, with a 65-foot ramp in the rear leading to it. Flanking the podium on both sides would be seats for 1,000 working newsmen. Delegate tables would be centered on the main floor. Box seats for VIPs would be set up along three sides, with bleacher seats along the back for the public. Mall Dodson, city public relations director, stressed the plan is tentative, since the DNC may have its own ideas as to the layout. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 22, 1964. Liz Carpenter, press secretary to First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, and James C. Hagerty, press secretary to former Presdient Dwight D. Eisenhower, discuss life at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue during the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 1964. Delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention stream on to the Atlantic City Boardwalk from Convention Hall. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 1964. Technicians check the teletype machines which will accommodate approximately 1,000 members of the press who will be covering the 1964 Democrataic National Convention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 24, 1964. Adlai Stevenson, a U.S. delegate to the United Nations, talks politics with a reporter at the 1964 Democratic National Ccnvention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo by Mike Blizzard. Historical photo archives
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August 1964. Attorney General Robert Kennedy and his sister, Eunice Shriver, greet guests at a reception held while Democrats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention were selecting their presidential and vice presidential nominees. The DNC was held in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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Programs from the August 1964 Democratic National Convention held in Atlantic City. From collection of Atlantic City Free Public Library Archives.
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August 1964. Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon Johnson, addresses a crowd outdoors at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 22, 1964. One week before the start of the 1964 Democratic National Convention, nuns pause at the John F. Kennedy memorial statue in Kennedy Plaza outside Convention Hall in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 26, 1964. First Lady Lady Bird, center, and her daughters, Lynda Bird, left, and Luci greet fans as they arrive in their box for the third session of the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City photo by UPI Telephoto. Historical photo archives
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August 27, 1964. Baker Paul Jakubowski puts the finishing touches on a birthday cake for President Lyndon Johnson at Convention Hall. Johnson turns 56 on Aug. 27. A birthday celebration is planned on the last day of the Democratic National Convention. Press file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 27, 1964. Crowds surround Attorney General Robert Kennedy on Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City during an impromptu speech. Kennedy is in town for the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Press file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 22, 1964. 75-year-old Mrs. Bess Walker, in Convention Hall, is the chief swithboard operator for the Democratic National Convention. Known as 'mom' by all the politicians, she has attended eight conventions and claims she never talks back to anyone. UPI Telephoto. Historical photo archive
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August 1964. Atlantic City welcomes the 1964 Democratic National Convention with a full-page advertisement in The Atlantic City Press - Sunday Press. Historical photo archive.
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August 1964. Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy greets delegates at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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Lady Bird Johnson, center, on the loggia of the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, with her husband, President Lyndon Johnson, at right, during the Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, in August, 1964. The Johnson's daughters are to their left, Lynda Bird and Luci Baines, and at far right is comedian Danny Thomas. Press of Atlantic City photo by Mike Blizzard. Historical photo archives
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From left, Luci Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, President Lyndon Johnson, and Lynda Bird Johnson, on the stage of the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, during the Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, in August, 1964.
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August 24, 1964. Delegates gather at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in Boardwalk Convention Hall to nominate President Lyndon Johnson as the standard bearer for their party. The theme of the convention is 'Let Us Continue.' Press of Atlantic City file photo by MIke Blizzard
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August 25, 1964. RFK HIDEAWAY as it looked in '64. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , who recently announced he was a candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, stayed at 113 S. Pembroke Ave., Margate, while attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Kennedy . Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archive.
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August 1964. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, arrives in Atlantic City for the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Local officials Senator Frank S. 'Hap' Farley and city Mayor Joseph Altman greet the President. Photo courtesy of Bob Pergament and taken by Edward Lea/The Press of Atlantic City, July 21, 2004.
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RFK HIDEAWAY as it looks today. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , who recently announced he was a candidate for U.S. Senate from New York, stayed at 113 S. Pembroke Ave., Margate, while attending the August 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Kennedy . Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archive.
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August 26, 1964. GOLDWATER FOR PRESIDENT. A new billboard on the Boardwalk greets delegates and visitors to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Workmen said they did not know who ordered the sign. Press of Atlantic City photo by Mike Blizzard. Historical photo archives
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A quote by civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer from the 1964 Democratic National Convention held in Atlantic City, is inscribed in a column at the Atlantic City Civil Rights Garden on Martin Luther King Boulevard. The Press of Atlantic City photo by Michael Ein, Friday, July 23, 2004.
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August 27, 1964. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the late President John F. Kennedy, smiles for those who attended a reception for delegates in the Deauville Hotel. She attended the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, where she listened to memorial speeches for her late husband. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 27, 1964. Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrives at the Deauville Hotel in Atlantic City while a large crowd of spectators looks on. Kennedy flew to the resort for a five-hour convention reception for delegates. She is in Atlantic City for the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 25, 1964. The seafront home of Hess Rosenbloom at 132 S. Delancy Place, Chelsea, as it looked in 1964, was reportedly used by President Lyndon Johnson and his family during the 1964 Democratic Convention. Attorney General and Mrs. Robert Kennedy occupied the home of Rosenbloom's brother, Baltimore Colts owner Carroll Rosenbloom, during the convention. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo
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May 10, 1964. U.S. President Lyndon Johnson speaks to 3,000 dedicated Democrats during Democratic-party dinner in Convention Hall in Atlantic City. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 24, 1964. Washington, D.C. hostess Perle Mesta looks over preparations for a party Sunday in a rented Ventnor mansion. Mesta is planning several affairs for those attending the 1964 Democratic National Convention, including one for President Lyndon Johnson. Press of Atlantic City photo by UPI. Historical photo archives
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August 24, 1964. Local residents stand outside the Ventnor mansion Washington, D.C. hostess Perle Mesta is renting during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. They hope to catch a glimpse of famous Democratic guests as they arrive at a party. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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August 27, 1964. A smiling former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy receives a 14-minute ovation from the delegates at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Press of Atlantic City file photo. Historical photo archives
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After doling out $108 million to more than 17,000 households over two years, Wyoming has officially put its pandemic safety net for renters and landlords to bed.
The Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) was part of a league of federally funded initiatives meant to carry the U.S. through the economic instability of the coronavirus pandemic, alongside measures including temporary expansions to the Child Tax Credit, food stamps and unemployment insurance, among others.
Over the course of two funding cycles, the U.S. government set aside more than $46 billion for states, tribes and territories for the relief program.
While ERAP money backed a wide range of services, it was known best for covering qualifying tenants’ rent for up to 18 months. Renters on ERAP relied on the program to stay housed; and landlords, to stay in business.
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The program launched in Wyoming under the Department of Family Services in spring of 2021, and began the long process of winding down last fall, when it stopped taking new applications.
ERAP asked a lot of Wyoming. It challenged tenants, landlords, social services organizations and the state to work together under unique constraints, at a time when the stakes couldn't be higher. And though the program has no successor, the need it was created to address hasn’t gone away.
The Star-Tribune asked the Department of Family Services to reflect on some of the challenges, successes and lessons learned from ERAP. Here's what it had to say.
What was ERAP?
ERAP garnered a reputation for its bureaucratic hang-ups, especially when it first started. Some of that was simply unavoidable, officials said. The Department of Family Services had never implemented anything like ERAP before, and wasn't given much time to do it, at that.
Gov. Mark Gordon authorized the Department of Family Services to stand up ERAP in March 2021, and the agency officially began accepting applications May 1.
“We really did turn around the program with amazingly fast speed,” Korin Schmidt, the department’s director, told the Star-Tribune in 2022. “The downside is that we probably weren’t as ready as we needed to be in order to handle the load.”
There was considerable demand for ERAP for virtually the entire lifespan of the program. Once late 2021 rolled around, the state was regularly getting around 200 applications for assistance a day, said Corrine Livers, an administrator for the Department of Family Services. And those numbers never really went down.
“I think that we didn't recognize that people needed as much rental assistance as they needed,” Livers said. “Also, that there's not as much housing available as perhaps we thought.”
Wyoming was originally approved to receive about $350 million for ERAP, though officials have said strict federal regulations and a top-down reallocation of the funding by the U.S. Department of the Treasury prevented the state from taking full advantage of that allotment.
That was especially true for the first wave of ERAP funding, which initially earmarked $200 million for Wyoming. But because of cumbersome eligibility requirements, the Department of Family Services only ended up using roughly $30 million of the money. When it became clear the U.S. government wasn’t going to revise the restrictions attached to that first package, the state agency decided to give the remainder of its allocation back and focus its efforts on its second slice of ERAP money.
The federal government relaxed regulations on the second pot of money considerably, and would ultimately give Wyoming another $129.6 million in funding.
While about $108 million went out in the form of direct assistance to tenants and landlords, that figure doesn't capture the money the state also received for things like administrative support and housing stability services.
The Department of Family Services contracted with over 20 social services organizations to support things like employment training, financial counseling, temporary emergency housing to help keep Wyoming residents housed, said Livers. (Though almost all of those contracts have since expired, Legal Aid of Wyoming will still be offering ERAP-funded support for tenants through September.)
Tensions between landlords and tenants also proved to be a difficult obstacle. Tenants could receive ERAP even if their landlords didn't want to participate, but many still ran into problems. Some landlords reported avoiding taking tenants who were on the program, the Star-Tribune reported in 2022.
And even if a tenant and landlord were on board with ERAP, both parties had to make sure to stay on top of their paperwork. Without mutual cooperation, applications could get stuck in the pipeline for weeks.
The department responded to those challenges by contracting with additional case managers to process applications, and providing more channels for people to get help with snags in their applications, among other initiatives.
Still, there were periods of time when the average application could take over a month to process.
ERAP was also initially only available to renters and landlords. It was off-limits to people who were homeless or lacking a permanent residence (say, a family living in a motel).
In fall of 2021, the Department of Family Services implemented a system to pre-approve homeless people for ERAP, which it called its “letter-of-intent” program.
The agency stopped issuing letters of intent in November of 2022 as it prepared for ERAP’s sunset. A total of 2,151 households were able to use letters of intent to find housing, according to the Department of Family Services’ website.
Lessons from ERAP
If the state had to do ERAP all over again — and got more autonomy over how to divvy up the funding — what would it want to change?
After fielding suggestions from her staff, Livers said more comprehensive support for ERAP recipients was a common refrain.
One suggestion was allowing renters to continue to receive some ERAP money as a subsidy after six months of assistance, she said.
"This would result in a 'step down' of benefits to promote self sufficiency at the end of the tenant's eligibility, and would help to prevent a fiscal 'cliff' at the end of the program," Livers wrote in an email to the Star-Tribune.
Staff also proposed extending the program's housing stability services with more stringent eligibility requirements attached, so opportunities for assistance would be more standardized across the state.
Along a similar vein, some also thought it would be a good idea to require all ERAP recipients to receive case management services. The hope would be that, if all clients got individualized support, they'd have a greater shot at long-term housing stability.
"I think what we all have to do on a regular basis is (ask), what can we support the family with as they move to stability?" Livers said.
Staff also suggested developing some sort of programming to help build stronger tenant and landlord relationships.
A final hypothetical was to use the last quarter of ERAP money to build affordable housing and shelters. Wyoming is one of just a few states to not dedicate any of its American Rescue Plan Act relief money toward housing. (The state Legislature earlier this year set aside $5 million for local governments to develop housing infrastructure, albeit with the caveat that it couldn't be used for building housing itself.)
Still need help after ERAP? Livers said the Department of Family Services recommends households reach out to Wyoming 211, which helps connect people to local social services resources. To get in touch, visit wy211.communityos.org or call 307-433-3075.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — In two weeks, the City of Tuscaloosa will begin accepting school supply donations to pay off overtime parking tickets.
Beginning Monday, August 7, and extending until Friday, September 1, Tuscaloosa residents can pay off $18 worth of overtime parking tickets with a donation of school supplies worth $10. School supplies valued at $20 or more will be accepted in place of two $18 parking tickets.
Below is a list of suggested supplies and their estimated values that will be used if a receipt is not provided:
- Heavy Duty Backpacks: $10
- Ream White Copy Paper: $4
- Index Cards: $.50
- Black & Blue Ink Pens: $1
- 16GB Flash Drive: $4
- Scientific Calculators: $9
- Erasers – 3 packs: $1.50
- Standard/College Ruled: $1
- College-Ruled Spiral Notebooks: $.60
- Mechanical or #2 pencils: $1
- Binder Pouches: $6
- Clorox/Lysol Wipes 3 packs: $6.50
- Highlighters 3ct.: $2.10
- Highlighters 10ct.: $6
- Hand Sanitizers: $2
- Box(es) of Kleenex Tissues: $1.60
- Binder Dividers: $1.50
- Box of Crayons: $3
- Kids’ Scissors: $1.50
Any school supplies valued at $10 will be accepted.
School supplies should be brought to the Tuscaloosa Municipal Court at 2122 6th St. For questions, residents can call 311.
All supplies received will be donated to the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education and distributed to local students in need.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Texas could finally be getting its first Texas-themed park attraction! Yee-haw!
A crowd-funded project on Kickstarter has gained some attention after Founder, Lizzy McGee and her team came together to build a “quality, affordable, family-friendly park”, as their Kickstarter project reads.
The creative concept behind, Texas Land USA includes attractions like Bowie’s Lost Silver Mine, Apollo 11, Mission Control and Beyond the Gulf: Bandits on the High Seas.
The park plans to open in the Summer of 2026. You can help donate to their Kickstarter as well as learn more information about the progress of the theme park here.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Summer is officially over, and many parents around the DFW area are getting their kids ready for back to school.
The 2023 Mayor’s Back to School Fair will be held on Aug. 4, helping students and families with free school supplies. This is with a collaborative partnership with Dallas ISD, the City of Dallas, other corporations, nonprofits and volunteers.
To qualify, families must live in Dallas or attend a Dallas ISD school, according to the fundraiser’s website.
Families must present a valid picture ID, proof of residence in the City of Dallas (such as a utility bill, rent statement, or mortgage statement) and documentation that the family income is at or below the federal poverty level as of 2023 for students attending other schools in the City of Dallas, their website stated.
You can pre-register for the event via their website which will be held at Fair Park from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Whataburger is going into its robot tech era, as it prepares for its first digital kitchen.
The San-Antonio based chain will be building its first digital kitchen in Bee Cave, a town just west of Austin.
A first of its kind for the food chain, it will include a kiosk and a digital pick-up line, according to the Austin Business Journal. However, there will not be a dining room, customers instead can order food from their app and pick up the meal from a corresponding “food locker”.
The estimated cost of the digital kitchen is $150,150, 938, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
The location is expected to open soon, keep updated with Whataburger.
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TYLER, Texas — The Texas Fair Defense Project and civil rights lawyer A. Dami Animashaun filed a class action lawsuit against Smith County, alleging the county has illegally detained Texans in the Smith County Jail for days or weeks after their sentences are finished.
“We are aware of the lawsuit, but we do not comment on pending litigation,” Smith County District Attorney Jacob Putman told the Tyler Morning Telegraph last week.
The suit, which was filed on or before July 13, mentions three plaintiffs who were allegedly jailed for eight, 27, and 33 days after their release dates, respectively.
Read more from the Tyler Paper.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Concho Valley Republican Women, along with the Concho Valley Free Masons are hosting a community drive to collect and deliver needed supplies and goods to the U.S. Border Patrol, Del Rio Sector, during July.
Requested items include hand sanitizer, wet wipes, wound wash, snacks, bottled water, sunscreen, insect repellant, Gatorade, Powerade, Liquid IV powder, etc.
Agents work in heavy uniforms and extreme weather conditions.
Donations can be delivered to Shelburne Financial Services, 3177 Executive Drive in San Angelo from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning Friday, June 30.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A small plane crashed into a vacant, two-story home in Georgetown on Sunday morning.
According to the Georgetown Fire Department (GFD), the crash occurred just before noon in the 500 block of Northwood Drive.
The plane had three occupants, all of whom were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Shannon Hayes said she was walking her dog when she saw the plane crash and called 911.
"That boom, that noise that that plane was making beforehand, you knew it wasn't good," Hayes said. "Some of the neighbors ran over. Two people climbed out of the airplane onto the roof and were asking for ladders while I was on the phone with 911."
KVUE obtained audio from the air traffic control tower, which suggests the crash might have been a result of an engine failure.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has started an investigation into what caused the crash to occur. The GFD will assist in the early stages of the investigation.
The NTSB said it did not send an investigator to the scene, as it is working with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as that agency conducts the on-scene examination and documentation of the scene. The FAA will provide the NTSB information for its investigation.
Once the information has been reviewed, the NTSB will issue a preliminary report in about 12 to 15 business days and post it to its website when it is available.
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — A 32-year-old man died Sunday evening after drowning at Lake Nasworthy.
The San Angelo Police Department said officers were dispatched to Mary E. Lee beach at about 6 p.m. Sunday on a drowning call.
Officers got to the beach just as the man was being brought to the shore. CPR was performed on the man until the San Angelo Fire Department arrived to help.
The man was taken to Shannon Medical Center downtown, where police say he was pronounced dead soon after arrival.
SAPD said no drugs or alcohol were suspected to be involved. The department said the initial investigation shows the man was trying to swim to a buoy and "was observed to disappear under the water."
Texas Parks & Wildlife Department lists Lake Nasworthy at 29 feet at its maximum depth. The depth where the drowning occurred is not known at this time.
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TEXAS, USA — Governor Abbott responded Monday to threats by the federal government to take legal action over border buoys he ordered installed along the border in the Rio Grande.
The government gave him a deadline of 1 p.m. Monday to remove them.
This was Governor Greg Abbott’s attempt to limit illegal border crossings. However, critics are calling the move inhumane, saying migrants could get hurt by the buoys. Two weeks ago, the floating barriers were installed along the river.
The 4-foot wide spheres are also located next to newly installed razor wire in the Rio Grande.
Monday, the governor issued a letter saying he has authority to install the barriers. He said in the letter the U.S. Constitution grants Texas sovereign authority to protect its borders. He also claims the Biden Administration is not following federal law.
"To end the risk that migrants will be harmed crossing the border illegally, you must fully enforce the laws of the United States that prohibit illegal immigration between ports of entry," the letter reads. "In the meantime, Texas will fully utilize its constitutional authority to deal with the crisis you have caused. Texas will see you in court, Mr. President.”
Last Thursday, the Department of Justice sent a letter to the governor saying his actions to install buoys near Eagle Pass "violate federal law".
The governor responded the next day with a tweet saying Texas has "sovereign authority" to defend its border.
Some lawmakers are criticizing the barriers. Others say addressing immigration reform is the best route forward.
"It's barbaric treatment , it's extreme cruelty, there's no need for that kind of cruelty, that's something you would expect to see in a country like North Korea," said Congressman Castro.
"I would be happy to host the President of the United States in Eagle Pass and walk through this situation," said Congressman Tony Gonzales. "To me, congress has to solve this because we've been waiting on a president for decades to solve this, and it's not gonna be solved."
In response to the border crisis, Congressman Tony Gonzales introduced an act which he says would focus on legal immigration and has bi-partisan support.
The governor has until 1 p.m. to remove the barriers.
We will keep you updated on this developing story.
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BOISE, Idaho — The families of two transgender teens in Idaho have filed a new motion in a suit over an Idaho law that would ban gender-affirming care for minors, asking the court to stop the ban from going into effect while the lawsuit is ongoing.
House Bill 71, a law passed by the Idaho Legislature and later signed by Gov. Brad Little, would ban transgender teens from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy. The law also includes a penalty of up to 10 years in prison for physicians if they offer gender-affirming care to minors. It is set to go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024.
Two families who have transgender teens, ages 15 and 16, filed a lawsuit over the ban in June. According to the suit, their children are currently receiving medical care that would be banned under the new law. The plaintiffs asked the court on Friday to issue a preliminary injunction in the matter in order to halt the law while the suit is settled.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are also using the last names Poe and Doe to protect their identities. The defendants include Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts, Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and employees in the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office.
Being forced to stop hormone treatment or puberty-delaying treatment to alleviate gender dysphoria can have a major impact on mental health, the complaint states. Pam Poe, one of the plaintiffs, said in the complaint that she came to the realization she was transgender in middle school and began experimenting with feminine clothing and makeup. However, she was still struggling with depression and anxiety, so she saw a counselor. Poe was later diagnosed with gender dysphoria after spending a week in a residential treatment facility, the complaint says.
A year later, Poe began using puberty blockers and her mental health improved -- she then started hormone therapy in 2023, according to the complaint.
"Pam is scared that losing access to her medication will mean that her body will undergo unwanted, permanent changes that are inconsistent with her gender identity. Pam and her parents worry about the severe stress and anxiety associated with Pam’s gender dysphoria returning if she is forced to stop gender-affirming medical care," the suit says. It claims Little signed the bill in the name of "protecting minors," but that he and other lawmakers ignored hours of testimony in House and Senate committees from transgender teens begging them to refrain from passing the bill.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – As one of the fastest-growing communities in the metro area, Hillsboro is attracting more business development and opportunities for community members to gather.
The city is redeveloping a former U.S. Bank building — which closed during the pandemic — into Main Street Commons — which will include several local restaurant favorites such as Grand Central Bakery, Sizzle Pie and Backwoods Brewing.
“It’s been revitalized and the response from our community and even outside Hillsboro, to this area and this project has just been phenomenal,” Hillsboro Mayor Steve Callaway said.
“We have a cultural arts district in our downtown and that’s why you’ll also see the murals on the side of the building because public art is a part of our goals and priorities but it’s also part of the developer’s as well,” The mayor added. “It’s just a beautiful project inside and out.”
Additionally, the city opened a new food cart plaza at Hillsboro Downtown Station, featuring about two dozen food carts and represents the cultural diversity of the community, Callaway said.
“What I love is this is a Vietnamese developer, and you walk in and one of your first food carts is a woman from Germany. Next to her is a woman from Russia, you have people from Mexico, South America, you have people from Korea,” Callaway said. “This is authentic food, and it is truly just reflective of the diversity of our city, diversity of Washington County, but also, I think it honors the fact that hard work, good ideas really can help you be successful here in Hillsboro and around the states.”
Callaway highlighted the importance of bringing the community together, whether it’s at a Hillsboro Hops game, Tuesday Market or Pix in the Park.
“It’s so fun just to get together. Post-pandemic, we underestimate how important it is for us to gather together again and we see that every event,” Callaway said. “Thousands of people are gathering just to enjoy being out and about with each other.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Washington County Fair has officially kicked off over the weekend and will continue through Sunday, July 30.
The fairgrounds are packed with carnival rides, games, food and concerts – and the best part? Admission is free.
The fair opens each day at 5 p.m. and closes at midnight through Friday, July 28. On Saturday, July 29, the grounds will open at 10 a.m. and close at midnight. On Sunday, July 30, the fair will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
KOIN 6 reporter Kohr Harlan explored the Hillsboro fairgrounds to feature some of the unique attractions attendees will find this year. It may even include some magic.
For more information, visit the The Washington County Fair website.
Watch the video above to get a glimpse of what to expect when you attend.
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Come and hear stories from the "Scarboro 85" on integrating Oak Ridge Schools
Free public meeting at the New Hope Center Thursday afternoon
Y-12 National Security Complex managing and operating contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security, in partnership with the Scarboro Community Alumni Association, is offering an opportunity for the public to hear stories about the historic integration of Oak Ridge Schools.
Y-12 will host a panel discussion with members of the "Scarboro 85," the black students who desegregated Oak Ridge High School and Robertsville Junior High School in the fall of 1955. These individuals were the first students in the Southeast to participate in desegregation following the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, according to a CNS news release.
Oak Ridge was still operated by the government at the time. In August 1956, 12 students from Clinton integrated Clinton High School, making the students known now as the "Clinton 12," as the first students in the South to integrate a public school.
The public is invited to attend this discussion on Thursday, July 27, from 4-5 p.m. in the Zach Wamp Auditorium at New Hope Center, which is located at 602 Scarboro Road in Oak Ridge. The panel discussion will be moderated by WATE-TV news anchor Tearsa Smith. The audience will also have the opportunity to ask questions of the panel.
Additionally, attendees will learn more about the effort to place a Scarboro 85 Monument at A.K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge, recognizing and celebrating the former students and their historic achievement.
The event kicks off the 2023 Scarboro Reunion. More information on this will appear in The Oak Ridger later this week.
According to a news release from the alumni association, "Scarboro 85" students who have agreed to share their experiences and respond to questions from Smith and the audience are:
- Shirley Hawkins Lawrence, Class of 1956
- Archie Lee, Class of 1957, the first Black student inducted into the National Honor Society at Oak Ridge High School
- L.C. Gipson, Class of 1959
- Eugene Hawkins, Class of 1960, who was a student at Robertsville Junior High School
- Ernestine Avery, a student at Robertsville Junior High School
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BROOKSTON, Texas — An AMBER Alert has been issued for a 15-year-old girl allegedly abducted by a 22-year-old man, according to the Red River County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office says Erika Anderson, who may also identify as Erika McCarver, was allegedly taken by Jonathan Ramirez and was last seen at 11000 U.S. 82 West in Brookston, Texas at about 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 23.
Police said the suspect, Ramirez, is driving a green and beige 2009 Toyota Camry with Texas license plate number RWW6625.
Anderson is described as a white female standing at 5’4” and weighing about 115 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Police said she was last seen wearing a gray hoodie.
Ramirez is described as a white male standing at 5’8” and weighing about 148 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
Police said the two may be heading to Watauga, Texas.
If you know of their location, please call the Red River County Sheriff’s Office at 903-427-3838 or 911 immediately. Police said Anderson may be in grave or immediate danger.
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ALLEN, Texas — Portillo's was - and still is - a hit when it opened in The Colony earlier this year, bringing its Chicago-inspired Italian beef and hot dogs to North Texas.
Now the company is gearing up for a second location here. Literally.
Portillo's will bring its "Beef Bus" to Allen on Tuesday, July 25, through Aug. 12. The bus, which will offer customers a sneak preview of the Portillo's menu, will be located at The Hampton Inn at 830 West Stacy Road.
The bus will be promoting the Portillo's Allen location, which is set to open sometime this year, just south of the Allen outlet mall.
The bus will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The menu will include Portillo's Chicago-style hot dogs, a mini version of its Italian beef sandwich, Italian and Maxwell Street Polish sausages and Portillo's crinkle-cut fries.
And if you're interested in working at Portillo's Allen location, the bus will host job interviews, which include a voucher for a free meal.
Portillo's debuted in North Texas when it opened in The Colony on Jan. 18. And North Texans took to it quickly, as the 7,900-square-foot location raked in $48,000 of revenue per day, on average, according to the company's first-quarter earnings call.
Portillo's is a publicly-traded company ($PTLO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
The Colony location was Portillo's top location in the country when it opened to much fanfare in January.
"This means it's been matching the volumes of restaurants in Chicago that have been open for decades," Portillo's CEO Michael Osanloo said on the March 2 earnings call. "Specifically, The Colony has averaged $48,000 in sales per day since the grand opening. Now, that annualizes to $17 million per year; and that's a crazy number, so please don't model that. It's definitely coming down. But we feel really good that this restaurant will significantly exceed our underwriting expectations and sets us up for further success in Texas as we continued to expand."
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The Pennsylvania State Police are investigating after a 5-year-old boy was killed in, what officials referred to as, a "farm accident" on Monday morning.
According to police, the boy sustained serious injuries in an incident at a farm along the 100 block of Fulton Britain Road in Little Britain Township in Lancaster County, at about 10:20 a.m.
While officials have not detailed the nature of the incident, they said that first responders to the scene attempted life saving measures, but they were unable to save the boy.
Law enforcement officials said that preliminary investigation believes the boy's death was the result of an accident.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials met with residents at the Parkrose School District Office over the weekend to address concerns about asbestos in debris that landed in the neighborhood during last week's Kmart fire, and they had some good news: the contamination now appears to be less widespread than initially feared.
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality announced that asbestos had been found in debris at Luuwit View Park last week and warned neighbors to avoid contact with all ash and debris from the fire until crews could do further testing and cleanup.
Every chair was filled at the meeting, and more neighbors joined online and in an overflow room down the street, all wanting to know what their families were exposed to and what to do about it.
After testing more samples in the past few days, the state officials said the asbestos is not as widespread as they once thought.
“There’s not nearly as much asbestos as we feared after that first sample came back from the park," said David Farrer from the Oregon Health Authority. "That’s good news.”
The state and county are still running tests and the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to map out how far the debris spread.
“The EPA has hired a contractor that is conducting that assessment to identify how far away from the burned building debris has been found," said Audrey O'Brien from the DEQ.
The meeting lasted about two hours, but residents said they walked away with many of their questions still unanswered.
“There was no information about other particles or other contaminates we may be exposed to," said Annie Paulson, a resident of Parkrose Heights.
“If we could have been provided with at least some type of map on telling us ‘Hey, this is the radius of what we think the contaminants are’," added Ben Batti, another Parkrose resident.
Both said they felt the city and county's response came too late.
“The city’s response was slow. Here we are five days later and I’m getting a trash bag and some gloves saying 'Hey, it's fine just wet it down'," Betti said.
Residents were offered plastic gloves, trash bags and masks on their way out.
Despite the unknowns, the state officials said it is safe to clean up the debris. The Oregon Health Authority suggested watering down any ashy material before bagging it up. The DEQ said its staff are still trying to find answers.
“We’re not done identifying who’s going to do what. So, I want to take these questions back to our emergency response folks for answering,” said O'Brien.
Both Luuwit View and Knott parks are back open, but John Luby Park is still closed for cleaning.
The former Kmart building is leased by a company called Prologis, which is paying for the emergency response, according to state officials.
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SEATTLE — Taylor Swift fans from all over the country came to Seattle for the ‘Eras Tour’ as complete strangers are now lifelong friends.
It’s a lot of work to bring 24 strangers together, but not for Swifties, or Sarah Andrews.
“We tried to get tickets and like everybody else we really couldn't,” said Andrews, a Swift fan from Coeur D’Alene.
For three months post surgery, Andrews was stuck in bed and what got her through was watching TikToks of Taylor Swift concerts and she knew she had to get to one.
“I saw TikTok, and it said, can you imagine trusting 24 Strangers enough to buy a suite at a stadium? And it kind of panned on all these people that looked happy and I thought, yeah, I think I could do that,” Andrews said.
Andrews called Lumen Field about a suite. There was one available for $40,000. Andrews said her husband gave her the green light and pulled the money out of savings knowing she’d get it back in 24 hours.
She then got to work to find other Swifties on Facebook.
“It was about midnight, when I saw this random post in a Swiftie Facebook group and I said, if anybody is looking for tickets, would you be interested in the suite? and I thought, this is fake. this is so fake.
Turned out, it wasn’t and Katie Lorton is one of 24 strangers that took a leap of faith.
“I felt like this is it. This is the one time I'm gonna get to see her, so let's just go for it,” Lorton said.
“This friendship that we've created where a lot of my friends aren't Swifties the way I am. So it's been nice to geek out and just be able to be excited about something just thoroughly excited,” said Lorton.
Meghan and Hannah Habel saw the same post. They also took the chance.
“Everyone is so nice and it's so fun to bond over something that's really important,” Habel said.
The twin sisters have been to several Swift concerts together, and with them now living in different states, the Eras Tour is bringing strangers and sisters together.
“When we saw Red together it was right before we each separated for the first time to go to college so it was kind of a really meaningful experience for both of us,” Habel said.
Complete strangers now meeting in Seattle Saturday for the first time.
“None of these people knew each other this morning and they were having drinks together and staying together, it's cool to see life long friendships being made,” Andrews said.
The group is prepping to see Taylor Sunday with friendship bracelets and repping their favorite era, but Andrews said it’s much bigger than that.
“There isn't one person that can't relate to something she has to say in her song, or something that she embodies. I feel like this is the first thing in a really long time that has really brought a ton of people together,” Andrews said.
Andrews also said what started out as a way to get through surgery recovery now became life changing.
“I do think the group will continue way past the concert. I do think we are hopefully friends for life,” Andrews said.
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SEATTLE — Taylor Swift does two surprise songs that aren't on the Eras Tour setlist at every concert. Here's what Swift played for a sold-out crowd at Lumen Field in Seattle on Saturday and Sunday nights.
Swift treated fans to an acoustic performance of "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" from her album "Reputation" and "Everything Has Changed" from her album "Red" on the first night of the Eras Tour concerts in Seattle.
On Sunday night, Swift performed "Message In A Bottle" from the "Red" album and "Tied Together With A Smile" from the "Taylor Swift" album.
Another change to the setlist in addition to the surprise songs was "No Body, No Crime," which Swift played with opener Haim who are featured on the song off of Swift's album "Evermore."
For those headed to Sunday's concert, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Who's opening for Taylor Swift in Seattle?
Swift's special guests at her Seattle concerts will be HAIM and Gracie Abrams.
Can I tailgate outside for Taylor Swift in Seattle?
According to the venue's website, Lumen Field does not allow tailgating at its onsite parking lots.
When can I purchase Taylor Swift merch?
At every stop on the tour, a merchandise truck has set up outside the stadium but be prepared for hundreds of fans lined up to buy merch. Fans in most cities have waited hours to make a purchase.
The truck opens for sales at noon on both concert days. The merch trucks will also be open the day before the concerts on Friday.
The merch trucks will be located outside the northwest and southwest corners of Lumen Field.
What will traffic be like in SODO for Taylor Swift?
If you’re headed to SODO for the concert, expect crowds and heavy traffic. Other events, including a Mariners game Sunday afternoon, are expected to bring additional people to the area. Traffic is expected to be heaviest when Mariners fans leave T-Mobile Park after the game, which begin at 1:10 p.m. Concertgoers are urged to arrive before or after the game ends to avoid overlapping traffic.
Several road closures could further impact concertgoers. State Route 520 will be closed from Seattle to Bellevue the weekend of the concert. State Route 18 will also be closed between Issaquah Hobart Road and I-90 from Friday night through Sunday at noon.
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VALPARAISO — A 22-year-old man has been nabbed and is behind bars three and a half years after being charged with having sex with two underage girls, including one he allegedly picked up from a local middle school prior to one of the encounters, according to court records.
Dylan Sadlofsky, who has Valparaiso and Portage addresses listed, is scheduled to appear Tuesday morning before Porter Circuit Court Judge Mary DeBoer for an initial hearing on one felony count of child molesting and two felony counts of sexual misconduct with a minor, records show.
The charges were filed Dec. 11, 2019 and there has been no action listed in court records until he was booked into the Porter County Jail on Wednesday.
The accusations came to light in late June 2019 when one of the alleged victims told her mother following a medical appointment that she had sex with Sadlofsky, police said.
The girl reportedly told police at the time she met Sadlofsky through mutual friends and he would occasionally pick her up from school. She said Sadlofsky knew she was 13 and she believed him to be 18.
She was unaware of Sadlofsky's correct last name, police said.
The accused was located a short distance away, during which time police said they found him in possession of the THC vape pen.
The alleged acts occurred between April 1, 2019 and June 27, 2019, according to a charging document.
The second alleged victim told police in August 2019 that she met Sadlofsky at a Valparaiso High School football game and he later pressured her to have sex when she was 14 and he was 18, according to a charging document.
She said the two were never involved in a romantic relationship, according to police.
"I think what he did was wrong," the girl reportedly said at the time.
The allegations involving the second girl stem back to June 1, 2010 to Aug. 31, 2019, police say.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
Aaron Walters
Arrest date: July 21, 2023
Age: 31
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2303052
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Steven Kruse
Arrest date: July 21, 2023
Age: 31
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number: 2303053
Charges: Habitual traffic offender, felony
Alexis Manis
Arrest date: July 21, 2023
Age: 42
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2303046
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Luis Cepeda
Arrest date: July 21, 2023
Age: 56
Residence: Bridgeport, CT
Booking Number: 2303047
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Nickolas Gutierrez
Arrest date: July 21, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2303056
Charges: Theft, felony
Latravier Barry
Arrest date: July 21, 2023
Age: 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2303045
Charges: Possession or use of legend drug or precursor, felony
Crystal Schroeder
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 36
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2303032
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
William Tiller
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 42
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2303017
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
James Huspek-Hein
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 27
Residence: Wanatah, IN
Booking Number: 2303030
Charges: Auto theft, felony
John Mays
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 69
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2303042
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Amy Neuliep
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 39
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number: 2303018
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Spencer Rosenberger
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 33
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2303038
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Juan Gonzalez
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 44
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2303021
Charges: Obstruction of justice, felony
Christopher Allen
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 37
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number: 2303035
Charges: Battery, felony
Donald Cowan
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 67
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2303041
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Robert Davis
Arrest date: July 20, 2023
Age: 44
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number: 2303022
Charges: Strangulation, felony
Dylan Sadlofsky
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 22
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2303003
Charges: Child molestation, felony
Daniel Walker
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 48
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2303012
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Noah Powell
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 20
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number: 2303000
Charges: Battery, felony
Sabrina Rodriguez
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302999
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Alexander Okleshen
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 45
Residence: Olympia Fields, IL
Booking Number: 2303010
Charges: Battery, felony
Bradley Pikula
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 46
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2303008
Charges: Residential entry, felony
Joseph Lawson
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 42
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2302998
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Mark Dineen
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 68
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number: 2303001
Charges: Theft, felony
Haley Knight
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 27
Residence: Maryville, TN
Booking Number: 2302996
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Christopher Branda
Arrest date: July 19, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2303006
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
John Vann
Arrest date: July 18, 2023
Age: 28
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302992
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
David Santana
Arrest date: July 18, 2023
Age: 27
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302981
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Mario Garcia
Arrest date: July 18, 2023
Age: 44
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number: 2302984
Charges: Auto Theft, felony
Jonathan Motley
Arrest date: July 18, 2023
Age: 36
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302987
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Drew Ellian
Arrest date: July 18, 2023
Age: 24
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302986
Charges: Battery, felony
Steven Toliver
Arrest date: July 17, 2023
Age: 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number: 2302977
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Leidy Rodriguez
Arrest date: July 17, 2023
Age: 36
Residence: Romeoville, IL
Booking Number: 2302971
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Oscar Santana
Arrest date: July 17, 2023
Age: 34
Residence: Romeoville, IL
Booking Number: 2302970
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Krisy Epiceno
Arrest date: July 17, 2023
Age: 33
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2302967
Charges: OWI, felony
Allen Jones
Arrest date: July 17, 2023
Age: 59
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302966
Charges: OWI, felony
Adrian Bustos
Arrest date: July 17, 2023
Age: 35
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2302969
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Damon Thomas
Arrest date: July 16, 2023
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302960
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jonathan Racine
Arrest date: July 16, 2023
Age: 28
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302959
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Erica Sigle
Arrest date: July 16, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number: 2302962
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Skylair Cornett
Arrest date: July 16, 2023
Age: 26
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2302964
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Leslie Bryant
Arrest date: July 16, 2023
Age: 43
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302961
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Cheryl Tietz
Arrest date: July 15, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302955
Charges: Theft, felony
Stefen Psomadelis
Arrest date: July 15, 2023
Age: 24
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302953
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Abby Masco
Arrest date: July 15, 2023
Age: 39
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302950
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Hailee McCann
Arrest date: July 15, 2023
Age: 30
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number: 2302958
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Santiago Mejia-Almazan
Arrest date: July 15, 2023
Age: 29
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2302949
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Ryan McKinnon
Arrest date: July 14, 2023
Age: 48
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2302947
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Patrick Kerlew
Arrest date: July 15, 2023
Age: 75
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number: 2302951
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Simone Clark
Arrest date: July 14, 2023
Age: 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2302948
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
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GARY — A shooting last week of a 38-year-old Gary man has been ruled a homicide, according to the Lake County Coroner's Office.
Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus in Gary is pictured.
The deceased was identified by the office as Othello Harris.
Officials said they were called out late Friday night to Methodist Hospitals Northlake Campus in Gary where Harris was identified by family members.
"I think what he did was wrong," the girl reportedly said at the time.
Harris was reportedly shot in the 2500 block of Monroe Street in Gary, which is also listed as his residence, the coroner's office said.
An autopsy was to be performed Monday.
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In 1984, when Andrew Bader was 5, his parents took him on a cross-country train from California to New York. It was a special trip, one of the last experiences Bader shared with both parents before they split up. Decades later, in 2021, Bader decided to reenact a portion of the trip with his father and 6-year-old son. The plan was for the three generations of Baders to take Amtrak's Coast Starlight train from the San Francisco Bay Area to Seattle, a 22-hour journey, and then catch a Seattle Mariners game at T-Mobile Park.
"I got from my father a love for baseball, and I was trying to connect that between generations," said Bader, a Bay Area public school teacher. If all went well, he hoped to repeat the trip every summer, as a new family tradition.
Bader bought the Amtrak tickets in early May 2021, with a plan to travel in late July. But in early July, he found out that a wildfire had damaged a bridge on the train's path, interrupting the Coast Starlight route. When he got a refund for his canceled tickets, Bader remembers wondering, "Is this something we're going to have to worry about every summer?" The Coast Starlight, one of Amtrak's most scenic routes, was disrupted for a month as the bridge was repaired. Amtrak canceled some trains altogether, while other trips were altered so that passengers transferred to a bus for a portion of the route.
In July 2022, Bader and his son finally got to make the trip they'd planned more than a year earlier. But Bader's father wasn't with them — he'd passed away from cancer just a few weeks earlier. Instead of a new family tradition, the trip turned out to be a memorial. Bader lamented the opportunity he'd lost because of the wildfire. "You just feel incredibly frustrated that you'll never have an opportunity to do those things again," he said.
For Amtrak riders, canceled trains have become a familiar side effect of the extreme weather fueled by climate change. Earlier this year, historic flooding in California disrupted the Coast Starlight again, for nearly a month, along with other Amtrak routes in the Golden State. In the past couple of years, wildfires, coastal erosion, heat waves, and mudslides have closed or altered routes around the country for days, weeks, or months at a time. The federally chartered passenger rail operator tallied more than 450 disruptions from climate shocks between 2006 and 2019, costing the company $127 million in revenue from 1.3 million lost customers. Last year, Amtrak projected that it would sustain another $220 million in climate-fueled losses over the coming decade.
This is a much bigger problem than the frequent headaches and occasional heartbreak that come with canceled trips. If the United States is going to slash its carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050, as President Joe Biden has proposed, it will require a transformation of the country's largest source of greenhouse gases: transportation. And that transformation is far less likely if passenger rail, one of the climate-friendliest travel options, isn't able to withstand the extreme weather its widespread adoption could help prevent.
A recent federal report on decarbonizing the transportation sector said that America will have to "[f]ully leverage the potential for efficient travel modes like rail" to meet its climate goals: On average, Amtrak is 34 percent more energy-efficient than flying for every mile a passenger travels, and 46 percent more energy-efficient than driving. The precise carbon savings vary by route, and depend on whether a train runs on electricity or diesel fuel, but taking Amtrak can be half as carbon intensive as flying. As climate change worsens, Amtrak will be in a unique position to help reduce transportation emissions. But that will require it to figure out a way to guarantee reliable service across the country in the face of mounting disasters, while also expanding service to win over drivers and airline customers who today see passenger rail as either a curiosity or a last resort. And Amtrak will have to do all that without owning most of the tracks it operates on.
"We want to grow passenger rail in America," said Adie Tomer, who leads the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank. "Rail is cleaner. But the adaptation need is here right now."
Amtrak has been thinking about climate change since at least 2014, when it set up a Climate Resilience Task Group "to explore potential climate risks and respond with recommendations." To prepare for intensifying weather threats, Amtrak identified measures to reduce its vulnerability to sea-level rise, precipitation, extreme temperatures, and wind. They include relocating buildings and equipment outside of floodplains, raising or flood-proofing buildings, and constructing barriers to keep rising waters away from tracks and rail yards. Bridges could be raised, and stones strategically placed to prevent floating debris from damaging their foundations. Culverts, the tunnels that carry water beneath railroads, could be widened to handle climate-fueled floods, and tracks painted white to lower their temperature and prevent them from buckling during heat waves.
However, Amtrak is hamstrung in its ability to implement these types of changes, as it owns just 3 percent of the tracks it operates on. It can only update infrastructure in the Northeast Corridor: the network of tracks that stretch between Washington, D.C., and Boston, the only major chunk of Amtrak's rail network that the company actually owns. Not coincidentally, it's also the only major chunk of the rail network where Amtrak runs its high-speed Acela service — which is faster than regular Amtrak trains, though not so fast by international standards — and where Amtrak effectively competes with flying. The rest of the network is primarily owned by freight companies that move consumer goods and industrial materials from point A to point B, like Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, and CSX.
"While weather events on the National Network impact Amtrak services and operations, we do not own most of the assets affected outside of the Northeast Corridor, and therefore would plan and assess vulnerabilities differently," Olivia Irvin, an Amtrak spokesperson, told Grist.
Amtrak is planning to conduct a national climate vulnerability assessment this fiscal year, to "help us identify prominent climate-related risks by region, evaluate how our operations may be impacted, and identify business practices that position us for greater resilience," Irvin said. It doesn't have much room to maneuver: In a 2022 report, the company admitted that it "has limited ability to implement climate adaptation measures on host rail." The report concluded that attempting diplomacy with the freight companies was its best bet: "Collaboration with partners, as well as the ability to communicate the financial benefit of resilient infrastructure through estimating losses avoided over time, is essential for managing use of externally-owned and shared assets."
Amtrak's lack of control over most of the tracks on its routes isn't just a problem for planning for future climate changes. It's also a problem for responding to the climate impacts that are happening today. When fires, mudslides, or flooding damage tracks outside of the Northeast, Amtrak is at the mercy of freight train companies to get its trains up and running again. P.S. Sriraj, the director of the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois Chicago, says that the importance of a route to the freight company dictates how quickly tracks get repaired.
Union Pacific, the freight company that owns the Northern California bridge damaged in the wildfire in 2021, rushed to repair it, since Union Pacific considers the route "vital." But if the damaged track is a section that the freight company leases to Amtrak but doesn't use for its own trains, then it may balk at the cost of repairs or ask the government to take on the burden of fixing it.
"It's very easy to say, 'Oh, the freight railroad owns the track, and so they should be responsible for fixing it,'" Sriraj told Grist. "That really depends on how the lease agreements are drawn up." After Hurricane Katrina disrupted Amtrak's Gulf Coast service in 2005, CSX and Norfolk Southern tried to get Amtrak to pay for $440 million of infrastructure upgrades as a condition of restoring service. (The companies eventually reached a confidential settlement allowing passenger rail service to return.)
A spokesperson for the Association of American Railroads, an industry trade group, said that restoring and repairing tracks after disasters is "essential" and pointed out that freight rail companies "collectively invest more than $20 billion annually to maintain and enhance the rail network." While "[e]ach host-tenant relationship is unique and subject to its own agreement," the spokesperson said, "freight railroads collectively take substantial steps to increase infrastructure resilience and quickly restore service following a natural disaster." The industry has also installed seismic, wind, and water detectors along high-risk tracks, the spokesperson added, and replaced wooden bridges with concrete and steel alternatives.
When your flight gets canceled because of bad weather, you can usually book another one within a few hours or days. When a road gets damaged by mudslides, you can generally find an alternate route to get where you're going. But Amtrak doesn't have that kind of redundancy built into its system. It operates on a measly 21,400 miles of track around the country, compared to 4 million miles of roads. When parts of that track network go down, the passenger rail company has to either cancel its scheduled service or pile passengers onto buses. That's what happened when rising sea levels forced the emergency closure of a section of Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner — the coastal route that carries 3 million passengers annually between San Luis Obispo and San Diego in Southern California — last September, and again following a landslide in April. For more than half a year, Pacific Surfliner passengers have had to transfer from the train to a bus, and then onto a different train, in the middle of their trip.
The patchwork nature of Amtrak's network means that making the rail operator more climate resilient while also helping it attract more passengers is no simple matter. The bipartisan infrastructure law that President Joe Biden signed in 2021 could help, indirectly. The $550 billion in spending didn't include any dedicated funding to make railroads more climate resilient, though it did contain $22 billion in grants for Amtrak repairs and some $44 billion in other rail funding. This funding will be largely disbursed by the Federal Railroad Administration, or FRA, an agency within the Department of Transportation.
Michael Johnsen, the Federal Railroad Administration's senior advisor on climate and sustainability, says the agency will be looking to invest that money in projects designed to handle a warmer world. "FRA wants to make sure that when we build something, we build it to last 100 years," he told Grist. The Biden administration announced in January that funding from the law will go toward two train tunnel improvement projects in the Northeast, and Johnsen said his agency wants to make sure "those are being built to withstand projected climate impacts."
The bipartisan infrastructure law also contains funding for a broader strategy that the experts Grist spoke to said is essential both for driving up ridership and for setting resilience priorities: shoring up intercity rail service in corridors that connect urban centers with an economic connection to one another, often thanks to shared industries. The "sweet spot," said Robert Puentes, the president and CEO of Eno Center for Transportation, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C., is "about 400 to 500 miles, where it's too short to fly, too long to drive." Chicago, Columbus, and Pittsburgh fit the bill, for instance, as do Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Investments in such corridors could allow Amtrak to attract more riders with frequent, reliable service, and would also help the company and policymakers target climate resilience efforts effectively. Amtrak has proposed expanding service along many of these corridors and hopes to use some funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law to do so; some smaller, private passenger rail companies have also proposed service filling in these gaps.
"It's important that we designate actual priority corridors where we expect to have significant service," Tomer said. "Those then become the rail corridors to have the utmost environmental protection."
Of course, there's still the problem of Amtrak not controlling the tracks it runs trains on. The solution there, Tomer and Puentes said, is for state governments to step in to play a more active role in resolving conflicts between passenger and freight companies — and, if necessary, buy up the tracks in the public interest. This approach has already seen enormous success in North Carolina and Virginia, both of which have taken active roles in expanding their rail networks. The states saw train ridership reach all-time highs last year, even as national Amtrak ridership was still flagging from the pandemic. Virginia's two-decade effort to shore up train service has "transcended any partisanship," a rail advocate told the Washington Post in 2021, since lawmakers on both sides of the aisle "wanted to bring better rail service to their communities." The state's strategy has included taking over hundreds of miles of tracks.
"If the freight rail companies cannot collaborate in terms of capital investments with the public sector to build corridors that can allow trains to move at international high speed rail standards, then the government needs to do it itself," Tomer said. Rail workers have called for nationalization of the railroads, and many observers have argued that publicly owned tracks could reduce the likelihood of environmental and public health disasters like the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
Ultimately, it will take not just federal funding, but also ambition from states to help Amtrak reach its full potential as a disaster-resilient climate solution — and to attract passengers who might not even consider it as an option today. Right now, Sriraj said, Amtrak is "for those that really do not have any other option, and then it's for those that yearn for the nostalgia of train trips. So it becomes a very exclusive, very small segment of the population that looks towards Amtrak as opposed to that being in the public consciousness."
For Bader, the Bay Area school teacher, nostalgia played a big role in the train trip he planned with his son and father. But he says that when he's planning trips and pulls up Google Maps, the first thing he does is check to see if taking the train is possible.
"I would embrace any sort of train option over any sort of long car ride," Bader said. "I would love to take trains over great distances to places that right now flying is the only option."
This story was produced by Grist and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media.
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The NIACC STEM Careers camp just wrapped up a week's worth of hands-on learning on a wide swath of subjects and how they can be applied to various careers.
Ben Boyer will be a seventh grader at Newman Catholic this fall; this was his second year of attending the camp, and he also participated in the "Mind Mania" camp held earlier this summer.
This summer program teaches STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) concepts and puts them to the test while demonstrating the importance of teamwork and planning. Campers were taught skills related to design thinking, 3D design and printing, entrepreneurship and more; made easy and accessible to the sixth through eighth graders by utilizing emerging technologies available on the NIACC campus.
Describing his experience as a summer camper at NIACC, Boyer said, "They know how to bring in the fun, we were learning but we were launching rockets, doing the egg drop, other fun stuff like that."
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Instructor Anthony Riesen said the Innovation Workspace at the NIACC's Pappajohn Center robotics lab plays a big part in the camp's activities, and his work with the campers this week has been all about sharing his passion for creating and hands-on learning with the students.
Learning to write code to instruct robots to do various tasks is, "...an easy, fun way to get in the mindset of coding while keeping things pretty simple and having reactions in the real world from the robot," Riesen said. "If you plug the motor in backwards, [the robot] moves backwards, so we had to do a little bit of problem solving and troubleshooting."
The camp used to be co-sponsored through the college with outside businesses, but NIACC took over the curriculum in 2022 to include more career-focused learning.
"This year, we had the chance to design the camp ourselves. All of the folks involved in the camp the last couple weeks have all gotten their input and put an exciting spin on the activities," said Riesen.
Boyer shares that he wants to work with animals someday, and knows that he'll have to pay attention in science class. "It's my favorite subject," he says. "I want to work at the Miami Zoo."
He shares what he learned this week: a new type of snake, the ball python. "I liked learning about all different types of animals, I liked the agriculture part of it where we got to go out and see the livestock at NIACC."
While no pythons are in captivity at NIACC's farm labs, he did learn how animal husbandry and medicine can be linked, such as how a squid's ink contains antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and other healing properties.
"I didn't know that a squid's blood is blue, now I do. I didn't know that people and animals have different blood types, even though my dad works at MercyOne, I never learned that in school," Boyer said. "Now that I know that, I could maybe someday break a big science discovery about, like, an animal's blood or something. Science discoveries will keep changing the world."
Alexander Schmidt is an Education/General Assignment Reporter for the Globe Gazette. You can reach him at alexander.schmidt@globegazette.com or at 641-421-0527.
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The Mega Millions jackpot has grown to an estimated $820 million for Monday night’s drawing, the fifth highest in the game's history. So what would you win if you actually won?
If a sole player picks all five numbers plus the Mega Ball, they have the option of taking the annuitized $820 million prize in 30 annual increments or a one-time lump sum payment of $422 million.
A sole winner in Texas who took the cash option would take home just under $321 million after paying 24% ($101 million) in federal taxes. There is no additional state tax on lottery winnings in Texas.
If the player took the annuity, they would receive 30 payments over 29 years with the disbursement increasing at a rate of 5% per year. With an $820 million prize, the first payment would be about $12 million, of which approximately $3 would go toward taxes -- leaving them with a net of about $9 million. Because Mega Millions annuity payments increase every year, the final payment would be about $51 million with about $12 million owed in taxes -- leaving them with a final net payment of about $38 million.
Over the term, the player who took the annuity would receive about $623 million after taxes -- or about $302 million more than the player who took the cash option.
“This week has been nothing short of exhilarating, as Texas Lottery players have been caught up in the frenzy of jackpot fever,” said Gary Grief, executive director of the Texas Lottery. “While the staggering $1.08 billion Powerball jackpot was hit in another jurisdiction on Wednesday night, hope remains for Texas Lottery players looking for a chance to win a huge jackpot prize, as tonight’s Mega Millions jackpot ranks as the fifth largest in game history. When jackpot prizes reach exciting levels, we see an increase in sales, which creates much-needed revenue for public education in Texas. We realize playing for a jackpot like this is a great thrill for our players, so we want to remind everyone to play responsibly. It only takes one ticket to win.”
Texas has had 13 Mega Millions jackpot prize winners since it joined the game in 2003. Its most recent winner came in September 2019 when a Leander resident won an estimated annuitized $227 million prize. The claimant chose the cash value option and received $157,091,592 before taxes; the largest prize ever paid out to a single Texas Lottery player.
Since the start of 2023, six Texas Lottery players have won second-tier Mega Millions prizes of $1 million or larger, including three during the current jackpot run. Most recently, a Dallas resident claimed a $1 million second-tier prize for the June 30 drawing; the ticket was sold in Austin. Prior to that, a Houston resident claimed a $3 million prize for the June 16 drawing and a Corpus Christi resident claimed a $1 million prize for the drawing held on May 9.
Despite the game’s long odds of 1 in 302.6 million, players continue to purchase tickets as the size of the grand prize grows. Tickets are sold in Texas until 9 p.m. on the day of the drawing, about 1 hour and 12 minutes before the draw takes place.
The last time a Mega Millions player hit the top prize was April 18.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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THE JURY IS DELIBERATING THE SENTENCE. LIVE VIDEO WILL RETURN WHEN A VERDICT IS DECIDED
Sentencing continues Monday for Timothy George Simpkins, a man found guilty of attempted capital murder last week after he shot three people at Mansfield ISD's Timberview High School in October 2021.
Opening statements in the sentencing phase of the trial began just before 9 a.m. Friday with testimony from Simpkins immediately following. He did not testify in his defense during the trial last week and this is the first time the public has heard any sort of statement from Simpkins since the shooting.
For nearly two hours, Simpkins fielded questions about the shooting from both the defense and prosecution about why he carried a gun and his history with illegal drugs.
Simpkins was emotional in court, telling jurors he is not the ruthless person the prosecution is portraying him to be.
"I understand what I did was wrong. I'm truly sorry. I'm just asking for another chance," he said through tears. "I wish everyday I could take it back but I can't."
Simpkins repeatedly told the courtroom he carried the gun to defend himself and that he was scared. Throughout the testimony, he also continued to apologize for what happened.
"I'm sorry for my actions. I know it was wrong and horrible. I'm sorry to everyone I hurt, physically and mentally. There's nothing I can say to justify my actions. I'm sorry," he said.
When asked why he brought a gun to school, he replied, "I didn't know what was going to happen to my life, so I was just scared."
His attorneys continue to argue that Simpkins was bullied and attacked in confrontations that led to the shooting on campus during a fight in October 2021. Two students and a teacher were shot.
Testimony ended around 11 a.m. The court went into recess until noon, followed by closing remarks by the prosecution and defense. The jury was given the possible sentences so they could begin deliberations.
Simpkins was convicted last Thursday on three counts of attempted capital murder. Prosecutors proved in October 2021 Simpkins carried a gun into Timberview High School and shot three people, 15-year-old Zac Selby, a teacher and a student. Moments before the shooting, a video showed Selby attacking and beating Simpkins in a classroom. Simpkins then pulled the gun from his waistband and began shooting.
The same jury that decided the criminal verdict will consider his punishment in the case. According to his charges, the jury can sentence Simpkins to between five years to life in prison.
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CARLISLE, Pa. — A Cumberland County man will serve up to eight years in state prison for delivering fentanyl to a victim who later died of an overdose, Middlesex Township Police said Monday.
Eric M. Garvey, 27, pleaded guilty to unlawful delivery of fentanyl and involuntary manslaughter prior to his sentencing, which occurred at a hearing on July 11.
Garvey will serve a prison term of 2-8 years, according to police.
Garvey admitted to supplying fentanyl to the victim, who died of an accidental overdose in Middlesex Township in 2020.
After a two-year police investigation, Garvey was developed as a suspect and interviewed by Middlesex Township Police Detectives. Garvey confessed to being responsible for providing the fatal illegal controlled substance to the victim, according to police.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Swatara Township Police are searching for a suspect accused of crashing his car into a police vehicle while fleeing from a traffic stop last Friday.
Arthur William Carter Jr., 44, is charged with aggravated assault, fleeing or attempting to elude police, flight to avoid apprehension, accidents involving damage to attended vehicle, driving under a suspended license, and related summary traffic violations in connection to the alleged incident, which occurred on the 2900 block of Paxton Street on July 21, police said.
According to police, the alleged incident began when an officer tried to stop Carter's vehicle for a suspected traffic violation. Carter allegedly refused to stop his vehicle and fled into a dead-end roadway, where he made a U-turn and crashed into the pursuing police vehicle. He then continued to flee from the scene and was not apprehended, police said.
Police obtained a warrant for Carter's arrest and are attempting to locate him. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact Swatara Township Police at (717) 564-2550, Dauphin County Communications at (717) 558-6900 or submit a tip online at SwataraPolice.org.
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — State police say a 5-year-old child died Monday morning after a farm accident.
Police and first responders were called to the 100 block of Fulton Britain Road, in Little Britain Township around 10:20 a.m. for a farm accident reported with serious injuries.
First responders tried to save the boy, but ultimately he succumbed to his injuries and died.
Police and the county coroner continue investigating.
More information to follow.
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SAN ANTONIO — The City of San Antonio is suing the state of Texas over a bill that they say puts major limits on local regulation.
House Bill 2127 bars cities and counties from passing regulations — and overturn existing ones- that go further than state law in a broad swath of areas. including labor, agriculture, natural resources and finance.
The bill’s backers argued it was needed to combat what they call a growing patchwork of local regulations that make it difficult for business owners to operate and harm the state’s economy.
“We want those small-business owners creating new jobs and providing for their families, not trying to navigate a byzantine array of local regulations that twist and turn every time” they cross city limits, said state Rep. Dustin Burrows, the Lubbock Republican who carried the bill in the House.
City staff said the bill will prevent them from taking several necessary local actions. Staff said HB 2127 would prevent Texas cities from adopting or enforcing ordinances related to matters already regulated by the State Agriculture code, Business and Commerce code, Finance code, Labor code, and more.
"This will jeopardize tenants' rights. It will jeopardize our responsible bidder ordinance, noise mitigation which we have taken up recently, heat related illness (water break ordinance) that we were planning to take up, and then the proactive apartment inspections. Those are just a few of the ones that are really critical," Councilwoman Rocha Garcia said back in May.
The City of Houston has already taken legal action to the block the law earlier in July.
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Beach City receives state grant to replace water meters
BEACH CITY – The village will receive a $194,612 state grant to replace water meters in residential and commercial buildings, as well as provide required software and computer upgrades to read the meters.
It is one of 90 water infrastructure projects in 64 counties sharing $135 million in grants, which are part of the fifth round of the Ohio BUILDS (Broadband, Utilities, and Infrastructure for Local Development Success) water infrastructure program. The program has provided nearly $500 million to support 343 water projects across the state.
“Having a strong water infrastructure not only safeguards the health and well-being of our residents, but it makes our neighborhoods more resilient and better prepares local leaders for sustainable economic growth,” Gov. Mike DeWine said in a prepared statement.
Beach City has roughly five different makes and models of meters, which all require different manners to read, creating issues accurately charging residents and business owners for water service, the state said. Replacing the meters will decrease the number of inaccurate readings and aid the village in reducing water loss.
The project is expected to benefit 981 people.
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CARROLL COUNTY, Md. — A gas line was struck in Carroll County causing closures in both directions of MD 140 near MD 97.
There is no word on when the lanes will reopen according to the Maryland State Highway Administration.
UPDATE - Carroll County: Utility issue (gas line struck) closes BOTH directions of MD 140 near MD 97 in Westminster. No ETA on lane openings. #MDtraffic cg
— MD State Highway Adm (@MDSHA) July 24, 2023
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RICHLAND, Wash. — Energy Northwest announced a partnership last week to build up to a dozen small nuclear reactors in central Washington.
X-Energy Reactor Company and Energy Northwest have agreed to develop as many as 12 Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors at a site near Richland, which houses the only commercial nuclear energy facility in the region.
Energy Northwest expects the first reactor to be online by 2030, and the total project could generate up to 960 megawatts of carbon-free electricity.
“Energy Northwest’s mission is to provide the region with clean, reliable and affordable electricity, and X-energy’s innovative advanced reactor technology will be a valuable addition to our existing portfolio of carbon-free electric generating resources,” said Bob Schuetz, CEO of Energy Northwest. “As the Northwest region of the United States pursues a future clean energy grid, it is clear it will need new sources of dependable, carbon-free power. X-energy’s Xe-100 advanced reactor technology possesses many attributes ideally suited to a carbon-constrained electric system, and this agreement reflects our determination to deliver the technologies to meet growing clean energy needs.”
Each module could provide up to 80 megawatts of full-time electricity or 200 megawatts of high-temperature steam.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, one megawatt of energy capacity could produce enough electricity to equal the amount typically consumed by between 400-900 homes in a year.
The release also states that Energy Northwest and X-energy have "engaged extensively" in talks about building an XE-100 facility in central Washington since 2020.
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Dead body found in car on I-96 near Joy Road
Myesha Johnson
The Detroit News
Michigan State Police are investigating a dead body found by the Michigan Department of Transportation on I-96 Monday afternoon.
According to a tweet from the Michigan State Police's Second District, a vehicle from the transportation department pulled behind a vehicle when they observed a dead body in a car on eastbound I-96 near Joy Road. No further details were available.
All lanes of eastbound I-96 at Livernois are currently closed. The investigation is ongoing.
Come back to The Detroit News for more on this developing story.
mjohnson@detroitnews.com
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Lead levels in Benton Harbor's drinking water hit a new low
Lead levels in Benton Harbor's drinking water fell below state and federal action levels for the fourth time in two years after they had exceeded them for three straight years starting in 2018, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy said Monday.
The state's results showed that 90% of 69 residential test locations had a lead level of one part per billion (ppb) or lower in the six month period between Jan. 1 and June 30, less than the 15 ppb requirement under Michigan's Lead and Copper Rule. This is the city's lowest recorded lead reading in more than five years.
High lead levels exceeding state and federal standards were first discovered in Benton Harbor's drinking water in 2018, which prompted a state advisory and more frequent testing in the majority Black city of roughly 10,000 people. After hitting 27 ppb in 2018, the city was still registering above 25 ppb during two separate testing periods in 2019.
The Detroit News reported in 2021 that state environmental and city officials were slow to deal with the lead contamination crisis by not warning residents that the drinking water was unsafe and that its corrosion control measures hadn't worked.
The state in late September 2021 began providing free bottled water and water filters for tap faucets after a group of concerned residents, safe water advocates and environmentalists filed an emergency petition seeking federal intervention to restore safe drinking water in Benton Harbor.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency criticized state and city officials for being slow to respond to the public health crisis and warn residents about unsafe drinking water in 2021. Federal officials also ordered Benton Harbor to fix its drinking water system.
All of the city's lead service lines in the city were replaced by June 2023 following an executive directive issued by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2021, according to the EPA. About 99.8% of Benton Harbor's assumed 4,506 lead lines have been removed, according to the state's dashboard. The federal agency released the city from its order last month.
EGLE officials credited the city's drop in lead levels to the lead service line replacement effort.
"The success in driving lead levels to near zero in Benton Harbor shows that investment in infrastructure coupled with intergovernmental cooperation can lead to dramatic improvements in people’s drinking water," EGLE’s Drinking Water and Environmental Health Division Director Eric Oswald said in a statement. "Although some of this rapid progress can be attributed to the fact that we only had 4,500 service lines to replace in Benton Harbor, EGLE believes this model of cooperation can be scaled up to work in larger communities."
Federal and state action levels measure the effectiveness of corrosion control measures and dictate when communities must take corrective action. Lead is a neurotoxin, and no level of exposure is safe for humans.
hmackay@detroitnews.com
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UM gets $7.5M in federal aid to research nuclear energy projects
The University of Michigan announced Monday it had received a surge of federal grant funding to support a slew of nuclear energy research projects.
UM received $7.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, which in June funded 68 nuclear energy projects with grants totaling more than $56 million. The projects support the development of nuclear technology, early career faculty research and student research at universities and a national laboratory.
The federal department's investment in nuclear power mirrors Michigan lawmakers' recent interest in nuclear energy — and the possible resurrection of the Palisades nuclear energy plant in west Michigan — as a path toward meeting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's climate goals.
"These awards are a crucial investment in our nation’s nuclear energy technologies, universities, and next generation of researchers and scientists," Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Kathryn Huff said in a press release about the federal grant awards. "The funding will help ensure researchers and educators have the resources they need to keep making a difference."
The largest award to UM was $3 million for a integrated research project to accelerate the licensing and deployment of advanced reactors.
The project aims to build a predictive tool that will allow companies to demonstrate how their reactor will operate for 20 years, which is required for design approval, the university said in the release. The tool will include shooting atomic nuclei at material, which will show how well core materials can withstand decades' worth of radiation damage.
The process "is not only faster, in terms of days vs. years, and cheaper — thousands vs. millions of dollars — it also does not require special handling or disposal issues, and advances in ion irradiation techniques and simulation and modeling have established the technique as a viable substitution for reactor irradiation," said UM's Gary Was, project leader and professor emeritus of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.
Other awards to the university include:
- $1 million for research and development of an instrumentation and control mechanism to test for impurities in some reactors.
- $1 million for a project to "engage diverse New Mexican communities" to develop an equitable approach for siting advanced nuclear reactors and build a tool to assess public sentiment. The project will guide the potential for siting reactors on already blighted or contaminated areas.
- $1 million for a research and development project to make a quick and cost-effective method to test materials under stresses like radiation, pressure and heat.
- $1 million for a research and development project to develop an advanced ultrasonic imaging tool to look for defects in 3D printed nuclear reactor parts.
- $500,000 for a nuclear reactor physics project on a quantum computer.
- A $625,000 distinguished early career award to Majdi Radaideh, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering's Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences department, for a project to modernize nuclear engineering education.
No other Michigan universities were awarded projects through the Department of Energy's recent $56 million in awards, according to the federal agency's lists of award recipients.
The DOE touts the awards as a step toward achieving the Biden administration's goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Nuclear energy is a divisive issue in the environmental movement. Some say nuclear power isn't worth the potential risks of environmental disaster, while others say it is the key to reducing carbon emissions and avoiding the worst effects of climate change.
Michigan Democrats are advancing a clean energy plan that would require utilities to meet a 100% clean energy standard by 2030, with nuclear electricity and renewables among the sources described as "clean."
Michigan has two operating nuclear plants: Fermi 2 Power Plant in Monroe County and the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Berrien County. It also has Palisades, which recently was decommissioned.
Palisades owner Holtec International is pursuing plans to revive the shuttered plant. The company has applied for federal funding to support that effort and, if successful, will also receive $150 million from the state government. The company has said it needs support from the federal and state government and a purchase agreement with a utility customer in order to finance the plant's continued operation.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — All Orange County Public Schools students will receive free meals this upcoming school year, the district announced Monday.
“We believe every student deserves access to healthy and nutritious meals regardless of socioeconomic status,” the district said in a statement.
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The district said all existing OCPS schools will implement the “Community Eligibility Provision,” which means all students will receive all their school meals at no charge.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a non-pricing meal service option for schools and school districts in low-income areas.
Read: Orlando leaders, Hertz and OCPS collaborate to expand electric vehicles in the community
The USDA says CEP allows the nation’s highest-poverty schools and districts to provide meals without collecting household applications.
The district said parents and guardians will still be able to add funds to their students’ accounts for them to purchase a la carte “Smart Snacks.”
Read: A local district looks to ban students using cellphones entirely during school hours
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While those who produce the CenterPoint Energy Dayton Air Show said they could not provide precise attendance numbers Monday for this past weekend’s two-day show, they expressed confidence that attendance may equal or even exceed last year’s record attendance mark of about 83,000.
They also were pleased with how traffic and parking were handled this year.
The show hopes to have exact attendance numbers later this week, said Kevin Franklin, the show’s executive director and president of Wright Aero Inc.
“We sold tickets all the way up to the day of the show,” Franklin said at a press conference Monday. “We sold tickets on Sunday.”
While those organizing the show know how many tickets were sold on its web site, tickets sold by Kroger are still being counted. One show spokesman said he wouldn’t be surprised if attendance figures for this year’s show hit and surpass 85,000.
“I think we exceeded it,” said Scott Buchanan, chairman of the U.S. Air and Trade Show, referring to last year’s record.
Attendance of about 85,000 “would be a pretty good number, for sure,” Franklin said.
Franklin joined Buchanan in saying parking and traffic presented fewer problems this year than the 2022 show, when Interstate 75 around the Northwoods Boulevard exit became a temporary parking lot.
Two changes may have made the difference there. First, the show required patrons to buy parking vouchers in advance and, second, the show invested “tens of thousands” in a three-lane, half-mile gravel road leading from Northwoods and Engel Road, offering a new entrance to general admission parking for vehicles leaving I-75 at the Northwoods exit.
“We listened,” Franklin said. “We heard what everyone talked about last year.”
Both Franklin and Buchanan said they were looking forward to the 50th Dayton Air Show, scheduled for June 22 and 23, 2024, to be headlined by the Navy’s Blue Angels.
Widely regarded as one of the nation’s best air shows, the Dayton Air Show reliably enjoys either the Air Force Thunderbirds or the Navy Blue Angels every year as headline performers.
Franklin said the goal will be to produce a 50th anniversary show that is “bigger, better and faster.”
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
Among the most difficult addictions to witness at San Francisco general hospital’s drug clinic is methamphetamine, which leaves users tearing at their skin and unable to eat, sleep or sign up for help.
The worst part: The clinic workers largely are powerless because unlike with opioid addiction, for which doctors prescribe medications such as methadone, there is no medicine for stimulant use disorder.
“We live day in and day out watching people suffer in a way that’s hard to imagine,” said Dr. Brad Shapiro, medical director of the Opiate Treatment Outpatient Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. “They’re just dying in front of us.”
Faced with that immense suffering, California will try a new approach to stimulant addiction: Paying people with gift cards to reward them for staying sober.
This model, known as “contingency management,” rewards people with financial incentives each time their drug tests are negative for stimulants. It’s been shown to have success in clinical trials — and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been using it for more than a decade — but it hasn’t taken off in California. Medicaid previously wouldn’t cover it, so there was no funding to expand its use.
To Shapiro, that’s inexcusable.
“It’s actually, in my opinion, really quite criminal that we’ve gone decades knowing this is an effective treatment and the powers that be have failed to make a pathway for treatment for people,” he said.
The program is expanding now, thanks to a recent waiver by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that allows the agency to cover its costs. California was the first state in the nation to win approval for a contingency management program under Medicaid. The Golden State is launching pilot programs in 24 counties, including San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Costs for what collectively is called the Recovery Incentives Program will be reimbursed by CalAIM – the state’s recent expansion of Medi-Cal services.
“All of a sudden we have money to provide this incredibly effective intervention,” said Shapiro, whose clinic is launching one of three pilot programs coming to San Francisco. “So it makes a huge difference.”
Fighting meth with gift cards
Shapiro’s clinic focuses primarily on opioid addiction, but more than half of their patients also have a stimulant use disorder, he said.
While the deadly opioid fentanyl gets most of the attention in the drug epidemic in California and across the country, experts say stimulant use is a major — and growing — concern. In 2021, 65% of drug-related deaths in California involved cocaine, methamphetamine or other stimulants — up from 22% in 2011, according to the California Department of Health Care Services. Nationally, there were 15,489 overdose deaths involving stimulants other than cocaine (largely methamphetamine) in 2019, up 180% from 2015, according to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
And with California in the midst of a dire homelessness crisis, stimulants are wreaking havoc on the state’s unhoused community. Among unhoused residents who use drugs, amphetamines are by far the most common choice, according to a recent study by the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Nearly one-third of people surveyed reported using amphetamines three or more times a week, compared to just 11% who used opioids with the same frequency. Some people who live on the street reported using stimulants to stay alert at night, when they fear being attacked if they fall asleep.
To combat stimulant addiction among its patients, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital recently launched a six-month contingency management program as part of the statewide pilot. The hospital opened enrollment on July 17, and staff hope ultimately to serve about 50 people. Clinicians will test participants for stimulants once or twice a week. Each time patients test negative, they’ll get a $10 gift card to Walmart or another retailer. The amount of the gift card gradually will increase, for a maximum of $26.50 per test. If they test positive, they get nothing.
Participants can earn a maximum of $599 over the course of the program. That’s because payments of $600 or more must be reported to the Internal Revenue Service.
Santa Clara County hopes to launch a similar program within the next few weeks. So far this year, 70% of the 120 drug deaths recorded in the county involved methamphetamine, according to the Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner.
“We’re all excited to try it and see if it does help retain people in treatment for longer periods of time so they are more successful,” said Tammy Ramsey, program manager for the Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System in the county’s behavioral health department.
Contingency management works
Other programs in counties throughout California — including Alameda, Fresno, Nevada, Sacramento and Los Angeles — will follow the same model.
If the trials are successful, Shapiro hopes the state will allow them to expand and serve everyone on Medi-Cal.
The model already has proven effective for the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to Dominick DePhilippis, the department’s deputy national mental health director for substance use disorders. The VA started using contingency management in 2011, and as of the beginning of July, the program has treated more than 6,300 veterans. Those veterans have attended about half of their appointments and produced nearly 82,000 urine samples – of which more than 92% were negative for the targeted drug, DePhilippis said.
It’s not just the VA. Of 22 studies testing contingency management’s impact on stimulant addiction, 82% reported “significant increases” in participants’ abstinence, according to a 2021 meta-analysis published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Shapiro believes the model works because it replaces the reward a patient’s brain craves (the drug) with a different type of prize.
“It’s a little bit like winning something,” Shapiro said. “It triggers that reward place in the brain that otherwise they would be turning to the drug for.”
But Tom Wolf, who has battled addiction and homelessness himself and now advocates for drug policy reform, said he worries using Medi-Cal to fund contingency management will create bureaucratic hurdles to treatment as patients wait for the state to decide if they are eligible. Still, he said, the program is worth a shot.
“At this point I’m willing to try it, basically because we have such a dearth of options for people that are struggling with addictions in California,” he said.
Because of how difficult it is to treat his patients that use stimulants — many of them use methamphetamine every day — Shapiro would be happy if even a quarter of participants significantly reduced or stopped using. There is also concern, as with any type of treatment, that patients will relapse once the program is over, he said. To help prevent that, the hospital will provide six additional months of counseling after the contingency management program ends.
It’s not a perfect solution
Rewarding people for staying sober doesn’t work for everyone. Even before it was covered by Medi-Cal, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital was experimenting with the model in small programs.
One of the participants in those programs, 54-year-old J.W., ended up in the emergency room with heart failure after two decades of methamphetamine use. After his hospital stay, he enrolled in a 12-week program called Heart Plus, which caters to cardiac patients with a history of stimulant use. Every time J.W. did something positive, such as show up to an appointment, take his medication or get a negative drug test, he got to draw a Safeway gift card out of a hat. The cards’ value ranged from $5 to the “elusive” $20, and J.W. — who asked to go by his initials out of fear of being stigmatized for his drug use — estimates he earned about $180 throughout the entire program. He wasn’t working at the time, so the cards helped him get treats such as deli sandwiches and fancy bottles of kombucha.
“It was definitely something to look forward to,” he said. “And it was something fun to spend.”
But it wasn’t enough to get J.W. off drugs. Now that the program has ended, he’s still using methamphetamine — sometimes as often as three times a day — though he says he’s taking smaller doses. And he said he feels much healthier than when he showed up in the emergency room last year, out of breath after the slightest amount of exertion.
J.W. isn’t sure why he didn’t quit using during the program. But methamphetamine has become an entrenched routine in his daily life. He uses upon waking up, in a ritual he compares to having a morning cup of coffee.
“I still kick myself wondering why I didn’t quit altogether,” he said. “There’s no better opportunity.”
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
The community college system is falling short of one of its most important benchmarks: the number of students who transfer to a four-year college or university. It remains well below the system’s own goal, and lawmakers have taken notice.
“Although most students intend to transfer to a four-year university, few do,” wrote a group of state legislators this year as they asked the state to audit community college performance.
Set in 2017, the goal was to increase the annual number of community college students who transfer to the University of California and California State University from nearly 89,000 to more than 120,000 by 2022. In the 2020-21 academic year, the most recent data available, nearly 99,000 community college students transferred to a UC or Cal State.
The Community College Chancellor’s Office responded to questions regarding the transfer goal by forwarding a letter that former interim Chancellor Daisy Gonzales wrote to legislators in March as part of an internal negotiation regarding the audit. In it, she wrote that the goal “has not been fully achieved.”
She wrote that the UC and Cal State system rejected nearly 30,000 eligible community college applicants in fall 2020 — more than enough transfers to meet the community colleges system’s goal. She wrote there was “insufficient capacity” at the UC and Cal State campuses and asked the auditors to include equal scrutiny of those systems, since everyone is mutually responsible for coordinating successful transfers.
However, there are many ways to measure transfer. To get a clearer picture, CalMatters looked beyond the chancellor’s office goal and analyzed the raw number of students who transferred every year, which includes but is not limited to those who transfer to a UC or Cal State. Those numbers are reported by four-year institutions across the country and analyzed by the California Community College Chancellor’s Office. Undocumented students are not counted because they lack a Social Security number. It’s the methodology that most closely aligns with the state’s funding formula, which pegs the transfer numbers to the amount of money a college receives.
CalMatters then compared those numbers to the total number of students who, upon starting community college, said they eventually wanted to get an associate degree or transfer.
Of the students enrolled in a community college in California who said they wanted to transfer to a four-year university, an average of 9.9% went on to enroll at a four-year institution in 2021, the most recent data available.
There are many reasons why students never transfer. The state’s roughly 1.8 million community college students are predominantly low-income, first-generation students of color. Many students, especially older students, must juggle work, children, and for some, even homelessness while attending school.
But certain populations and colleges have a harder time with transfer than others. CalMatters found:
- Students at rural community colleges are less likely to transfer to a four-year university than students who attend school in affluent parts of Ventura County, Orange County, the San Fernando Valley, and Bay Area suburbs like San Bruno, Pleasant Hill, and Redwood City.
- Colleges separated by only a few miles show stark contrasts in transfer rates. In 2021, the most recent year available, the transfer rate at Irvine Valley College was 16.7%, but just 10 miles away, at Santa Ana College, the rate was 5.4%.
- Younger community college students were most likely to transfer, and the rates drop off the older a student gets. In 2021, students over the age of 50 were more than four times less likely to transfer than their peers between ages 20 and 24.
Rural, unprepared students face biggest hurdles
Lassen College has one of the lowest transfer rates in the state — 4.5% in 2021. It’s more than 10 percentage points below the highest performer, Irvine Valley College.
The reason is easy to see, said Roxanna Hayes, the vice president of student services at Lassen College in Susanville: The nearest four-year institution is over 80 miles away at the University of Nevada in Reno.
“It feels like we’re 2 hours from anything…when you come up to Susanville and you look around, there’s no other educational institution besides us.”
“We don’t have the sort of income that other counties have,” Hayes said. “It’s not just getting accepted to school: I’ve also got to live there and afford it.”
Among the community colleges with the lowest transfer rates, 60 percent are rural, and some are hours away from the nearest four-year institution.
Because of its proximity to numerous four-year institutions like UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton, students at Irvine Valley College come to school already familiar with their transfer options, and most students don’t have to move if they want to pursue a bachelor’s degree, said Loris Fagioli, the director of research at Irvine Valley College.
The rural-urban divide is part of the problem, but it can’t explain everything, said Darla Cooper, the executive director of the Research and Planning Group of the California Community Colleges, a separate nonprofit organization that is funded in part by the chancellor’s office. The income of the student body, the focus and “culture” of the school, and even the economics of the surrounding town or city impact the transfer rate at any community college.
In the 2014-15 academic year, Los Angeles community colleges had some of the lowest transfer rates in the state, but that’s because many of its students were coming to community college unprepared, said Maury Peal, the community college district’s associate vice chancellor for institutional effectiveness.
The colleges enrolled those students in remedial courses, which can take years to complete and can reduce the likelihood of graduation. Backed by research that shows remedial classes to be ineffective, a law passed in 2017 and another in 2022 asked colleges to start placing students directly in college-level courses. Pearl said these reforms, plus other efforts like special degrees that guarantee a transfer to a Cal State or UC, have led to an uptick in transfer rates across the L.A. colleges.
West Los Angeles College, for instance, had a 5.4% transfer rate in 2015, among the lowest in the state. But by 2021, it was up to 12.3%, well above the statewide average.
“The fact that it’s improved is something we’re proud of, but it’s still not where we want to get to,” said Jeff Archibald, vice president of academic affairs for West Los Angeles College.
‘Swirl,’ prisons, and ‘transfer-oriented culture’ set schools on different paths
Unlike four-year institutions, which are often singularly focused on bachelor’s degrees for young adults, community colleges offer a range of educational opportunities depending on the demographics in the surrounding towns or cities, which can make it hard to compare one community college to another.
Located in Blythe, a rural town near the Arizona border, Palo Verde College has consistently had the lowest transfer rate of any community college. In 2021, just 1.1% of Palo Verde College students who indicated they wanted to transfer succeeded in doing so — but roughly half of the college’s students are in prison. Other rural colleges with low transfer rates, including Lassen College and Feather River College, also enroll a high percentage of incarcerated students relative to other schools.
Rural areas also come with different job opportunities, especially compared to the state’s highly educated coastal cities, Cooper said.
“Do the jobs where you’re located require a bachelor’s degree?” she said. “Because if they don’t, you’re probably not going to have a lot of transfer.”
In dense urban areas like Los Angeles, students tend to take classes at multiple community colleges, creating a “swirl” in the data that can mask some long-term outcomes, Archibald said.
But disparities still persist, even within the same city. Los Angeles Pierce College and Los Angeles Valley College, which are located in the San Fernando Valley, consistently outperform other Los Angeles community colleges.
Pearl said Pierce and Valley College have developed a reputation for preparing students for four-year colleges or universities. He pointed to other Los Angeles community colleges, such as Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, which are geared towards career and technical training.
A 2008 Research and Planning Group report found that a “transfer-oriented culture” was a recurring reason why certain community colleges had higher-than-expected transfer rates. The report also said those colleges had close relationships with local high schools and four-year institutions, along with support services for students.
Although the report was done 15 years ago, the transfer rate patterns have persisted. Many of those schools profiled by the Research and Planning Group in 2008, such as Irvine Valley College, continue to outperform their peers today, according to the CalMatters analysis of recent data.
Community colleges in wealthy areas or those with high-performing high schools have higher transfer rates, too. “We know this with almost all educational outcomes, there is an economic or socio-economic driver behind it,” Faglioli said.
Pearl said Los Angeles Pierce and Valley colleges benefit from “high-performing” charter schools nearby, which can boost transfer rates if community college students start school better prepared.
Why transfer still matters
To encourage colleges to meet the system’s goal of increasing transfers to a UC and Cal State, community college officials put forward a new formula that pegged a portion of a community college’s funding to its outcomes. One of those outcomes is the number of people who transfer to a four-year institution.
But Lizette Navarette, interim deputy chancellor of the community college system, said that community colleges with low transfer rates are not getting penalized.
That’s because the new funding formula also takes into account the percentage of low-income students who meet certain benchmarks for success and the number of students who complete career-oriented programs. Navarette said rural colleges and other schools with low transfer rates have the opportunity to make up any potential gaps in state funding.
Lassen College, for example, received nearly $3 million more dollars last year than it would have under the previous funding formula, despite having some of the lowest transfer rates in the system.
However, the greatest impact of low transfer rates is not on the community college but on the student, Cooper said.
“For most people of color, most people who are low-income, community college is their only way into higher ed,” she said. “Even if what they want to pursue requires a bachelor’s degree, not everyone can go straight to a university.”
Four-year colleges and universities are selective and can be expensive, she said. While some community college students can earn more with a certificate or an associate degree than those with a bachelor’s degree, she said those students are the exception, not the norm.
“Everybody wants to bring out Bill Gates,” Cooper said. “He didn’t graduate college….If you can be that, awesome, great, fantastic. But for most people, it’s beneficial for life.”
In the internal letter to the state auditors, former interim Chancellor Gonzales pointed to areas where the community college system has seen significant gains toward its 2017 goals. More students are completing their courses and gaining degrees, for instance.
In general, more students are transferring to a four-year college, according to the CalMatters analysis, which includes upticks in the number of students transferring to a UC or Cal State. But the progress remains less than third of the goal that the chancellor’s office set out to accomplish by 2022.
A spokesperson for the Community College Chancellor’s Office said the system will deliver a new transfer goal “in the coming weeks.”
Data reporter Jeremia Kimelman contributed to the reporting for this story.
Adam Echelman covers California’s community colleges in partnership with Open Campus, a nonprofit newsroom focused on higher education.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — Police are investigating a death Monday near Kaiser South Sacramento, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Officers responded to the area near the 6000 block of Bruceville Road.
There is no other information about the death or investigation.
This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Police Department is investigating after a woman was hit and killed in North Sacramento Sunday night.
Police say the accident happened around 9 p.m. at Marysville Boulevard and Sonoma Avenue.
Upon arrival, they found a woman with major injuries and she later died at a hospital. The driver stayed at the scene of the crash.
It’s unclear why the woman was in the road at the time of the crash.
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Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez was in critical condition Monday after shooting himself in an apparent suicide attempt near Tampa, according to multiple officials and news reports.
Ramirez, 52, who had traveled to Tampa for a meeting of the Florida Sheriffs Association, was in his car with his wife on I-75 south of Tampa when he pulled over and shot himself in the head, law enforcement sources told WFOR.
Ramirez was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where doctors performed surgery on the law enforcement veteran. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava traveled to Tampa to be with Ramirez and his family in the hospital, according to her office.
"Following a critical injury in Tampa yesterday, Chief Ramirez is hospitalized and in critical but stable condition," Levine Cava said in a written statement. "All that matters right now is Chief Ramirez's wellbeing, and I join his family, his loved ones, and all his Miami-Dade Police Department and Miami-Dade County family in praying for his swift recovery."
The Miami-Dade Police Department issued a statement early Monday saying that police in the Tampa area had informed them that Ramirez suffered a "critical injury."
“We ask you to please keep him in your prayers,” the department said.
According to multiple news reports, the self-inflicted shooting happened while Ramirez was traveling with his wife for the law enforcement conference, which began Sunday at Tampa’s JW Marriot Hotel.
The couple left the conference’s welcome reception around 6:30 p.m. and went outside the hotel where an argument allegedly ensued, WFOR reported.
A source told the station a passerby claimed to have seen Ramirez threatening to kill himself, prompting them to make an anonymous 911 call to police.
"A citizen saw him take out his gun and put it in his mouth," the source said.
When Tampa police questioned Ramirez and his wife, both denied that Ramirez had threatened to kill himself, the station reported.
With only an anonymous call to go on, and no eyewitnesses willing to speak with them, Tampa police decided not to arrest Ramirez or to use the state's Baker Act to detain him, the station reported.
Under the law, police could have involuntarily committed Ramirez to a mental health facility for 72 hours if they had evidence he was a risk to himself or others.
"There wasn't enough evidence to do anything," the source told WFOR.
According to the source, when Ramirez and his wife returned to their room at the Marriot, hotel officials told them they were no longer welcome to stay there and asked them to leave.
The couple left the hotel around 9 p.m. Sunday and were driving back to Miami when Ramirez pulled over alongside I-75 in the Riverview section of Tampa and shot himself, WFOR reported.
Sources told WPLG Ramirez shot himself in the right temple and the bullet exited through his right eye.
Ramirez is expected to survive, a source told WFOR.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Florida Highway Patrol are investigating the incident, according to FDLE.
In 2015, Miami-Dade County’s first Black police director, Robert Parker, killed himself six years after retiring.
Several Florida officials shared statements on Twitter after news broke of Ramirez's injury.
"To many of us he is not just a colleague, but a friend. Please keep Freddy & his family in your thoughts & prayers," Miami-Dade County Commission Chairman Oliver G. Gilbert III wrote.
Community activist and founder of Mothers Fighting for Justice, Romania Dukes, posted, “Anyone who knows me know how much they mean to me. Say a prayer for my friend, my brother [Ramirez] … I’m hurting … my heart can’t take no more.”
Ramirez, who directs the largest police agency in the southeastern U.S., serves in a dual role under Levine Cava’s administration as Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department and Chief of Safety and Emergency Response.
According to Ramirez’s Miami-Dade County biography, he is responsible for oversight of both the Miami-Dade Police Department and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department.
"Director Ramirez’ top priorities continue to be keeping the community and his officers safe, arduously addressing gun violence, homicide reduction, building community engagement; thus, enhancing community relations, trust, and transparency, while emphasizing officer wellness," the biography states.
In May of this year, Ramirez announced his candidacy for the newly created Miami-Dade Sheriff post.
Patch.com contributed to this report.
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Circuit Florida, with condos and a private racetrack, is opening this year in Auburndale
With a racetrack nearing completion, the team at Circuit Florida hopes race car enthusiasts will be seeing checkered flags by December at the Auburndale luxury racetrack resort.
The site along Interstate 4, buffered on two sides by warehouses including an Amazon distribution center, is a unique private club for racing aficionados that is jockeying for position in a growing market for private racetrack clubs across the country.
“They actually have residential zoning, which is a little unusual for a racetrack,” said Circuit Florida’s sales director, Jarrett Novack, of the racing club’s niche in the market. “There's only about two other racetrack properties in the country that actually have residential zoning alongside the racetrack. So it’s a very novel concept.”
There are two other private racing club facilities in Florida, one in Tampa and another in the Miami area. But having condos for sale along the track is the unique selling proposition for the club in Auburndale, he said. The Tampa facility is called The Motor Enclave, and the one in Miami is called The Concours Club. Out West, there is The Thermal Club near Palm Springs and the Spring Mountain Motor Sports and Country Club in Las Vegas.
Circuit Florida has plans for 75 residential townhome-style condominiums that offer plenty of garage space below the living area upstairs. Up to three condo buildings will be nearing completion by August.
The racetrack is a 1.7-mile circuit on 52 acres.
“It’s going to be like a high-end motor sports resort – a place where people can house and use their exotic sports cars or purpose-built race cars,” said Novack, who sells the condominiums and memberships at Circuit Florida, among other duties.
The club founder and CEO is Paul Scarpello, who has a background in construction management, the cellular tower industry and a personal car collection, including a 1988 Corvette with a 4+3 transmission with only 234 miles on the odometer and his dream car as a teenager, the Circuit Florida website said.
The main office is already open on the property, complete with a 10-bay garage – five bays for service and five for storage.
A three-story clubhouse will come next year, including a large atrium downstairs for car manufacturers to showcase new models and a meeting area for drivers before going onto the track. The second floor will have a restaurant and bar with a deck overlooking the pit area.
In the member-only area, the club’s top floor will have a hot tub and pool with a vista overlooking the racetrack. Other exclusive comforts will include a gym, game room and cigar lounge.
The condominiums range in price from a studio unit with one-car garage at $475,000 to four bedroom units with four-car garage for nearly $1.8 million, Novack said. A dozen condos are moving toward a contract, now that Florida has approved Circuit Florida’s application for a condominium association.
There will also be public events at the club geared toward people who want to attend a driving school to get a race car driver's license accredited by the Sports Car Club of America or Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile.
They also plan exotic-car driving experiences where the public can drive several laps along the track in a Ferrari, for example, to give theme park visitors in Central Florida another diversion. And car manufacturers are anticipated to host new car launches.
Because of its proximity to Daytona Beach and Sebring, the Circuit Florida group expects professional racing teams to use the track throughout the season.
“We expect a lot of pro teams coming out here as well,” Novack said.
Julie Fife, community development director for Auburndale, applauded the use of the property along I-4, which gained approval with a special planned development application filed about two years ago, as the city did not have existing zoning for racetracks.
“When it comes to development, they picked a piece of property that would otherwise not really have anything except for maybe a warehouse or industrial use on it and found a really incredible use,” Fife said.
“They used the current buildings and infrastructure that's in place on both sides as a barrier,” she said. “And so I think it's a really good testament of looking at land in a different way.”
Regarding noise, Auburndale requires the state standard be used. Novack said the facility is designed to not exceed 95 decibels at 50 feet from the track’s edge.
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Fife also said the fencing and other barriers at the property boundaries are anticipated to incorporate sound-absorbing materials.
To help explain the finished project, Novack said a loose comparison would be to a golf course resort or fly-in community, only instead of fairways, greens or a runway, there is a racetrack.
As of Wednesday, the racetrack has been graded and a base material had been placed on about 70% of the track.
“Asphalt is coming in October, and I can't wait,” Novack said, adding that curbing and striping will go next so that racing can start Dec. 16.
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Florida Poly president plans to resign next year, move into faculty position
Randy Avent, the only leader Florida Polytechnic University has ever known, intends to resign next summer, though he won’t be leaving campus permanently.
Avent, who has served as president of the Lakeland institution since it opened in 2014, shared his plans in an announcement released Monday morning. He said he plans to rejoin Florida Poly’s faculty following a “brief sabbatical” after leaving his current role.
Florida Poly, the 12th member of Florida’s State University System, originated as a satellite campus of the University of South Florida. Former Florida Sen. J.D. Alexander, a Lake Wales Republican, engineered legislation in 2012 to establish Florida Poly instead as a standalone university, the state’s only one focused entirely on STEM — science, technology, engineering and math.
“Leading the University from its infancy to the strong campus we have today has been the privilege of my lifetime,” Avent wrote in a message to “the Florida Poly family.” “I never imagined that I would be part of establishing a brand-new STEM university and molding the way it would serve students, industry, and the entire state.”
Avent, 64, wrote that he wishes to see a seamless transition and will continue as president “until my successor is solidly in place.” The State University System’s Board of Governors voted in February to give Avent a one-year contract extension through July 6, 2024. He receives an annual salary of about $478,000.
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Florida Poly is the second-smallest member of the State University System, with about 1,540 students. The university has 73 professors and a staff of 154, according to a fact sheet on its website. The average entering freshman has an SAT score of 1342 and a high school grade-point average of 4.25, the school reports.
The school offers undergraduate degrees in such subjects as applied mathematics, computer science, cybersecurity engineering and data science. It also has graduate programs in four areas.
Avent has presided over the growth of the student population, which numbered just 540 in the school’s first year. Florida Poly opened its second academic building, the Applied Research Center, last year. The school has built two student residences on campus, and a third is now under construction.
Last year, Florida Poly reported an increase of 30% in applications at a time when undergraduate enrollment was declining nationally.
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“Watching Florida Poly rise from its inception to its current standing as a recognized institution of excellence in core STEM education has been nothing short of inspiring,” Avent wrote in his announcement.
He added: “It has been an honor to serve as your founding president and work alongside such dedicated and talented individuals. Our faculty, staff, and students are among the best I have ever worked with. The commitment and passion shown by all has shaped our unique identity.”
Under Avent’s tenure, Florida Poly attained accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges in 2017. Two years later, the school achieved accreditation from ABET for four of its degree programs.
Florida Poly gained recognition in 2021 as the highest-rated regional institution in the South, according to U.S. News & World Report.
The Tampa Bay Business Journal has named Avent in recent years to its Power 100, a list of the most influential businesspeople in the Tampa Bay area.
Florida Poly did receive some bad news this summer when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $11.2 million from the state budget for a Student Achievement Center. That center would house career and internship services, with study spaces, an auditorium and a collaborative multimedia space, the school said.
The building remains a priority, and Florida Poly leaders will continue to seek state funding for it, spokesperson Lydia Guzman said.
Avent came to Florida Poly from North Carolina State University, where he served as associate vice chancellor of research and a professor of computer science. Before that, he worked as chief scientist in the Defense Department’s Office of Basic Research, according to his official Florida Poly biography.
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From 1986 to 2006, Avent worked in Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory, holding several roles, including associate chief technology officer.
Avent has led efforts to promote an “innovation district” around the Florida Poly campus, modeled on the Research Triangle in North Carolina. The concept, encouraged through partnerships with Polk County, Auburndale and Lakeland, has so far remained mostly theoretical.
Florida Poly has forged partnerships with corporate entities. Last fall, the school announced plans to build the Citrus Innovation Center, a 30,000-square-foot research facility to be occupied by International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc., a Fortune 500 company.
The school operates the Advanced Mobility Institute, which received a $350,000 combined grant in 2021 to create a simulation facility on campus to develop technology for autonomous vehicles.
The Lakeland school has established links outside the country, as well, such as Fulbright Commission agreements with Spain and Italy to provide educational opportunities between Florida Poly and scholars in those countries.
Florida Poly’s administration has faced some bumps, particularly in its dealings with the faculty union. In 2019, the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission ordered the school to reinstate two employees whose jobs had been eliminated and to renew the contract of a professor.
The following year, Florida Poly settled a federal lawsuit, agreeing to pay $250,000 to that professor, Christina Drake. A leader of the faculty union, Drake alleged that the administration had violated her right to free speech by not renewing her contract.
Also in 2020, the Florida PERC upheld a hearing officer’s conclusions that the university erred in its discipline of Melissa Morris, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
Gary White can be reached at gary.white@theledger.com or 863-802-7518. Follow on Twitter @garywhite13.
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Closed since May, Polk County Clerk of Court will reopen Lakeland office on Aug. 1
The Lakeland office of the Polk County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller will reopen Aug. 1.
The office in the Government Center at 930 E. Parker St. will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the Clerk’s office said in a news release. The office closed temporarily in May because of staffing shortages.
Services available at the Lakeland office include alimony printouts; child support printouts; county criminal and civil court services; court fine payments; family law court services; jury trials; marriage licenses and wedding ceremonies; passports; recording of deeds, mortgages, liens and notices of commencement; and traffic ticket payments. Many of those services are also available online.
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“I am thrilled to reopen the office,” Clerk of Court Stacy Butterfield said in the news release. “We did everything we could to expedite the reopening, and I am glad we were able to accomplish that. I thank everyone for their patience during the closure. We look forward to serving our Lakeland customers.”
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Winter Haven business seeks supplies, hygiene items and food vouchers for school drive
Lakeland Ledger
Ray’s Auto Works in Winter Haven will hold a “Race to Success Back to School Drive” on Aug. 6 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Owner Raymond Glesil and the business plan to offer school clothing and after-school meals to combat childhood hunger. The business is short of its goal of filling 100 backpacks and is seeking donations of school supplies, hygiene items and food vouchers.
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Ray’s Auto Works located at 501 Ave. C SW in Winter Haven.
For more information, call 863-618-6834.
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INDIANAPOLIS — After months of training, IMPD’s new therapy dog, Gus, was sworn into the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) to begin his tour around all IMPD districts to meet and greet officers.
"We are absolutely thrilled to add another four-legged member to the IMPD family. Starting today, Officer Gus will bring a furry and friendly face to comfort our officers during times of stress and hardship,” Chief Deputy Valerie Cunningham said.
Gus, an Australian mini labradoodle, was born Sept. 19, 2022. The 10-month-old is hypoallergenic and doesn’t trigger any allergies or respiratory reactions.
Gus had been training with Ultimate Canine since November 2022. Since then, he has gone through three levels of rigorous training that include over 30 obedience commands, environmental exposure, socialization, specialty therapy commands, and even training around gunfire, the sounds of sirens and in high-stress situations.
"Officer Gus is far from your ordinary canine companion. He possesses exceptional empathy and a natural ability to read and respond to human emotions," said Beth Johnson, from Ultimate Canine. "With a wagging tail and a warm heart, he will be a symbol of comfort, compassion, and understanding for IMPD officers."
His primary handler, Officer Nicole Juday, completed the therapy dog handler training course. As a certified handler, she will work closely with Gus to apply their skills to the work of the department.
The canine officer's primary duties are to provide peer support to other officers.
As a therapy dog, he will play a crucial role in assisting officers in times of crisis, providing a much-needed sense of relief and connection.
Studies show a well-trained therapy dog can have a tremendously positive effect on an individual's wellness following a traumatic event. The American Kennel Cub says visits from a therapy dog can lower blood pressure and heart rate, reduce patient anxiety, and increase levels of endorphins and oxytocin.
The IMPD Office of Professional Development and Wellness was created in 2010 and connects officers with professional services and resources. The wellness department serves more than 1,500 officers, reserves and civilians that are on staff, as well as their families.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa — What bills itself as “the world's longest, largest and oldest recreational bicycle touring event” was more like the world's biggest traffic jam Sunday as riders, packed together in a sinewy stream of brightly colored jerseys and shorts, churned across the Loess Hills on the western edge of Iowa.
It's called RAGBRAI — the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa — and it promised to be bigger than ever this year, as the brainchild of two writers from The Des Moines Register celebrated its golden anniversary with a route similar to its first.
That meant a start in Sioux City, where ambitious riders ceremonially dipped their rear tires in the Missouri River, and a finish for those with the legs and the temerity to last that long seven days later in Davenport on the Mississippi River.
Along the way there is plenty of pie, more than enough beer, and countless spaghetti dinners served in church basements in tiny towns that dot the heartland. There are riders on bikes that cost the equivalent of a down payment on a house, others on hand-me-downs that announce their arrival with every creaking pedal stroke. The riders themselves come from all corners of the globe, including one intrepid group from Australia, and represent just about every U.S. state.
“Participating in RAGBRAI is an extraordinary experience. It’s truly a source of pride for many of us in the cycling community, especially if you call anywhere in Iowa home,” said Lisa Carponelli, who along with business partner Kim Hopkins used the ride in 2015 to help launch their business, Velorosa, which produces cycling gear for women.
“You’ll meet countless interesting people in every town and along every stretch of pavement," she said. "Everyone is participating in a great outdoor activity, and you’ll always have something to talk about: the weather, the hills — don’t think it’s only flat here — the scenery, bike issues, and where to find the best food and the coldest beer in every town.”
Oh, and Carponelli promises it will be hot. Temperatures during this year's 500-mile journey could hit triple digits.
So what exactly is the allure? Why has such a ride in Iowa, of all places, become an event that cuts across generations?
Mostly it boils down to the people.
Two of them, to start: John Karras, an avid cyclist and features writer for The Des Moines Register, and Don Kaul, who wrote a column called “Over The Coffee.” Karras thought it would be fun for Kaul to write his column as he crossed the state, so the two got the support of their editors and set off that first year — on August 26, 1973 — with about 300 people tagging along.
“The early years were great because they were freewheeling, so to speak. It was new. It was fun. It was unique,” said Bob Molsberry, who watched that first ride go through Iowa City as a college student and joined in the following year.
He will be riding part of RAGBRAI for the 30th time this year with his daughter and two grandchildren.
“Even Kaul and Karras were surprised at the response,” Molsberry said. “They had a couple of hundred show up that first year and didn't have hotels or anything. People just showed up. The second year they had a truck that carried our gear, but people were just kind of on their own. Then it grew up gradually as the bicycling craze caught on.”
The ride really took off during the 1980s, when Greg LeMond put American cycling on the map with his three triumphs at the Tour de France, and the 1990s, when Lance Armstrong — a frequent RAGBRAI rider — was wearing the yellow jersey.
Some of the quaintness of the ride has been lost, of course, as commercialism took root along the route. Some of the dedicated charters these days carry gear from town to town, cook food each night and even set up riders' tents before their arrival.
The charm of the ride still exists, though.
It was evident in the man pulling his kid in a wagon down the road, and the youngster doling out fruit snacks (two for a dollar) and granola bars to other weary riders. Or the riders that stopped just outside Sioux City to help a stranded rider helplessly holding his broken chain. Or the myriad teams that continue to rip the seats out of old school buses, paint them in often garish colors, pack them full of refreshments and set off down the road for a week in the Iowa sun.
The charm is evident in Victor Fassano, a retired sheet metal worker from New York, who decided he wanted to start doing “epic adventures” at this stage of his life. He was on his way to the start when the transmission in his group's car blew up. But rather than stew over the crater it just put in their wallets, the group's first thought was: How do I get to Iowa now?
After some frantic hours, they managed to rent a pickup truck with a hitch for their bike racks and were on their way.
“For me,” Fassano says, “as a kid having a bicycle was freedom. I wanted to get that feeling back as an adult. I ride in groups, which is so much fun, and every once in a while just heading out by yourself to clear my head is the best.”
There is no heading out by yourself this week.
There are 20,000 registered weeklong riders, and another 9,000 that have secured day passes. But they are joined by thousands more who crash the ride, which means there could be more than 50,000 on the road some days this week.
Get ready for more traffic jams.
Or just go slowly and enjoy the ride.
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Dave Skretta is a Kansas City, Missouri-based AP Sports Writer who also has covered pro cycling since the 2012 Summer Olympics. Skretta grew up in Decorah, Iowa, and has ridden RAGBRAI many times, though this will be his first time putting in 80-mile days and then writing about it. He is providing periodic updates from the road. His total mileage on Day 1: 75.
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