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Last month, Virginia Commonwealth University professor Ryan Cales received a letter from the university informing him that the school’s administration had decided not to renew his contract when it expires next summer.
Cales is one of at least 14 faculty members in the Department of Focused Inquiry who were told they would lose their jobs in 2024 or 2025, two professors said.
The termination of contracts comes after the university announced last month it would need to cut as much as $25 million from its budget and up to 100 or 150 jobs from the payroll. If state legislators come to an agreement on revisions to the state budget and award VCU more funding, the cuts will be less.
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The university issued non-renewable contracts to fewer than 30 of its roughly 1,500 term faculty members, said Michael Porter, a VCU spokesperson.
Removing professors ultimately hurts students, Cales said. “I think this is an egregious mistake.” substantial
VCU is facing new expenses, such as state-mandated raises for employees and higher costs for utilities, totaling almost $60 million. Lower enrollment in recent years has brought in less revenue.
To offset those new costs, VCU raised tuition 3% for the 2023-24 school year.
But the tuition hike does not bring in enough new money to cover all the new expenses. The university will cut $25 million from the budget unless state lawmakers agree to an amended budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that gives VCU more money.
Most of the cuts will come in the form of jobs. The administration notified faculty in the Department of Focused Inquiry, where Cales works, that it would not renew the contracts of 10 to 15 employees.
“This next year will probably not be the easiest year for VCU,” VCU president Michael Rao said in May. “There will be a lot of changes, and they are beginning now.”
Focused Inquiry has roughly 65 full-time, contract employees, a number that is no longer sustainable, provost Fotis Sotiropoulos said in May. Focused Inquiry offers small seminars for first- and second-year students designed to teach communication, problem solving and other skills.
Most VCU professors do not have tenure. The majority of full-time faculty works on contracts of one to three years. Unless a professor receives a bad review, the contract is generally renewed, Cales said.
Cales, who has taught full time in the department for 12 years, has a three-year agreement due to expire next summer. The university gives a one-year notice to employees whose contracts are not renewed.
To reduce its long-term financial commitments, VCU is moving toward offering its professors one-year contracts only.
Cales was never told why he was chosen, he said. Most of the faculty whose contracts were not renewed do not have doctorate degrees. Cales has a master’s degree.
Deans, who lead colleges within VCU, can receive bonuses based on the percentage of their faculty with doctorate degrees, said Kristin Reed, a Focused Inquiry professor. Reed has not received a termination notice.
But it violates university policy to use a certain degree attainment as a requirement for employment, Reed said. The administration previously told the department that if it had to make job cuts in the future, it would determine them based on the employees’ performance.
The cuts made this summer are not merit-based, Reed said, because Cales was promoted last year and recently received two letters of recognition for his work.
Professors in the department do not take home large paychecks — the average salary is about $50,000, professors said. They are not eligible for tenure.
Porter did not respond to a question about how the university selected employees it chose not to renew.
It is unclear how other departments will be affected. Karol Gray, VCU’s chief financial officer, said earlier this year that colleges within VCU that are meeting their enrollment goals will have to make fewer cuts than colleges struggling to fill seats.
If a department has a high number of professors retiring or resigning, the department will have fewer cuts, multiple professors said.
“No other department is facing 14 layoffs of faculty,” Cales said.
Fewer professors will mean larger classes and less one-on-one interaction, the professors said. Currently, Focused Inquiry classes have fewer than 20 students.
Fewer professors also could lead more students to drop out of school, Reed said. Focused Inquiry professors develop close relationships with their students. They have referred hungry students to VCU’s food pantry and contacted administration upon discovering a student was homeless.
Students who take three semesters of Focused Inquiry have a higher retention rate than students who do not, Reed said. VCU retains more first-year students than the national average because VCU uses full-time faculty to teach new students, not just part-time adjuncts, Reed said.
VCU teaches a high percentage of first-generation college students who often need assistance, Reed added. Since the pandemic began, teenagers and young adults have reported higher instances of depression, and college students across the state are seeking mental health support in higher numbers.
“I’m really scared for my students,” she added.
Cales said he will fight the administration’s decision. The department gained 1,300 signatures on a petition earlier this spring. Members of the department hope a campus-wide movement can save their jobs.
“This is a problem for Virginia and for students,” Cales said.
This morning's top headlines: Hunter Biden; Mega Millions; Women's World Cup
Hunter Biden; Mega Millions; Women's World Cup; and more of this morning's top news:
Hunter Biden's plea deal on hold after federal judge raises concerns over the terms of the agreement
The plea deal in Hunter Biden’s criminal case unraveled during a court hearing Wednesday after a federal judge raised concerns about the terms of the agreement that has infuriated Republicans who believe the president’s son is getting preferential treatment. Hunter Biden was charged last month with two misdemeanor crimes of failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018. He had been expected to plead guilty after making an agreement with prosecutors, who were planning to recommend two years of probation.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says Republicans in Congress may launch an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden over unproven allegations of financial wrongdoing. That would be a first step toward bringing articles of impeachment and could go into campaign season. McCarthy first floated the idea Monday on Fox News and spoke to reporters Tuesday at the Capitol. McCarthy is under enormous pressure from Trump allies with his slim GOP majority to elevate their priorities. White House spokesman Ian Sams said in response that the House GOP’s eagerness to go after the president "regardless of the truth is seemingly bottomless.”
The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an estimated $910 million after a drawing without a winner extended a stretch of bad luck dating back to April. The numbers drawn Tuesday night were: 3, 5, 6, 44, 61 and the yellow ball 25. The absence of a winner for Tuesday’s estimated $820 million jackpot means there have been 28 drawings without a big winner. The new $910 million prize for Friday night's drawing is among the largest in U.S. lottery history and follows a $1.08 billion Powerball prize won by a player July 19 in Los Angeles.
A federal judge has blocked a rule that allows immigration authorities to deny asylum to migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through. But the judge on Tuesday delayed his ruling from taking effect immediately to give President Joe Biden’s administration time to appeal. The order from U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California takes away a key enforcement tool set in place by the Biden administration as coronavirus-based restrictions on asylum expired in May. The new rule imposes severe limitations on migrants seeking asylum but includes room for exceptions and does not apply to children traveling alone.
The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate for the 11th time in 17 months as part of its ongoing drive to curb inflation. But it provided little guidance about when — or whether — it might hike rates again. Wednesday’s move raised the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate from roughly 5.1% to 5.3% — its highest level since 2001. Coming on top of its previous hikes, the Fed’s latest action could lead to further increases in the costs of mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and business borrowing. Speaking at a news conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell was noncommittal about any expectations for future rate hikes.
A lawyer for the estate of Michael Jackson argued at a court hearing that employees of corporations owned by the pop star could not be legally obligated to protect children from him. The argument came at hearing Wednesday in a California appeals court. The court is considering whether to revive previously dismissed lawsuits from Wade Robson and James Safechuck. The two men say Jackson sexually abused them when they were boys. They sued two corporations that were owned by Jackson for failing to protect them. The court said in a tentative decision that it was inclined to bring back the lawsuits and send them to trial.
Longtime Phoenix residents know that sweltering Julys are to be expected, but no one could have predicted the brutal heat wave that has enveloped the country’s fifth largest city this summer. Phoenix this month shattered its record for consecutive days in which the temperature reached at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit, standing at 26 days and counting as of Tuesday, when the forecast called for a high of 118. The record was likely to grow Wednesday, with a high of 119 degrees expected. A bit of relief might be on the horizon, though. The National Weather Service says Phoenix is expected to have its first high below 110 degrees on Monday along with some monsoon rains.
Volunteers are working frantically on a second day to save dozens of pilot whales that have stranded themselves on a beach in Western Australia, but more than 50 have already died. Nearly 100 long-finned pilot whales, stranded themselves Tuesday near Cheynes Beach by the city of Albany, on the southern tip of Western Australia, south of Perth. The state environment minister said the scene was utterly heartbreaking and distressing. Wildlife experts said the unusual behavior of the whales could indicate stress or illness within the pod. Pilot whales are social animals that often maintain close relationships with their pods throughout their lives.
The United States and the Netherlands meet again on the Women’s World Cup stage with smaller stakes than the 2019 title game won by the Americans. But the Dutch are collecting injuries at a terrible time of the tournament. The Netherlands will most likely be without forward Lineth Beerensteyn when they play the Americans on Thursday in New Zealand’s capital city of Wellington. She was hurt early in the Netherlands’ 1-0 victory over Portugal to open the tournament. Australia has also been hit by injuries ahead of its match against Nigeria. The victor of the match between Portugal and Vietnam will notch its first ever Women's World Cup win.
Justin Herbert is set to become the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback by annual salary, agreeing to a five-year, $262.5 million extension with the Los Angeles Chargers on Tuesday. Herbert’s total value and $52.5 million average per season surpasses the $260 million, five-year extension Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson signed three months ago. Herbert is getting $218.7 million guaranteed, according to a person close to the negotiations who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Chargers didn't release the financial details. The Chargers are set to have their first training camp practice on Wednesday.
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The Department of Motor Vehicles continues to sell the “Don’t Tread on Me” license plate, even as the symbol has become increasingly co-opted by right-wing American politics.
The design of the plate originates from the Gadsden Flag, a Revolutionary War symbol styled around the rattlesnake. The rattlesnake, which is both deadly and native to the Americas, is coiled, a symbol of America’s pugilistic stance against British rule. It was designed by South Carolina politician Christopher Gadsden, who owned slaves. Several regiments flew versions of the flag in campaigns against the British.
The flag was then co-opted by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Confederates flew a version of the flag with stars underneath to represent slave states in rebellion against the North. Pro-secession leaders flew rattlesnake flags, while Unionists circulated imagery of eagles devouring serpents by way of response.
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In 2017, the flag was flown alongside Nazi and Confederate flags at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. It was flown on Jan. 6, when protestors stormed the U.S. capitol as legislators were voting to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election. And throughout the pandemic, the rattlesnake flag has been flown at anti-vaccination protests, including in Canada.
VCU American history professor Carolyn Eastman said that the symbolism of the flag, and therefore the plate, has shifted in the past decade. Like most symbols, its meaning is malleable. It can change with time, and in the context in which it is flown. Eastman says that the Gadsden Flag has been shifting rightward.
“It’s not yet at the level of a Confederate flag, but it’s on its way there,” Eastman said.
The license plate was introduced in 2011 by Virginia state legislators. In Virginia, license plates are picked up by the DMV after they pass muster in the General Assembly, and then after a requisite 450 citizens apply for the plate.
The “Don’t Tread on Me” plate was introduced by moderate Republican John O’Bannon III, whose district encompassed Henrico County and parts of Richmond at the time.
O’Bannon said that he was proud of his part in the successful story of the plate. He said he had no concerns about seeing it waved at the Unite the Right rally, and that comparing the Gadsden flag to Confederate or Nazi flags was “apples and oranges.”
Since 2011, it is one of the few vanity plates to skyrocket in popularity. In 2014, DMV data show around 38,000 of the plates in circulation. Today, the number is more than 97,000. At a cost of $10 per plate, they generate a gross revenue of $970,000 for the DMV.
Only a handful of states offer the flag as a license plate. Virginia is one of them, alongside Florida, Arizona, Alabama and others. Florida was the most recent to circulate the plate, starting last year.
A spokesperson for the DMV said it is required to sell the plate unless legislators repeal O’Bannon’s 2011 bill, or if it falls out of popularity, which is unlikely.
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For a paltry $10 a year, Virginians can shed the standard white license plate for something snazzier.
They are the DMV’s signature product: “Special Plates,” also known as vanity plates. The department offers more than 250 options for drivers seeking to make a statement.
By contrast, personalized plates in New York state run $60, plus an annual renewal fee. In California, they cost $50, plus the renewal fee.
The vanity plates in Virginia mostly center on parts of Virginia’s history. One example is the ever-popular Jamestown plate. In the past decade, a number of outwardly political plates have grown in popularity, too.
The nakedly political “Choose Life” plate is on more than 3,500 cars, for example. Other plates support the National Rifle Association, Masonic groups and the strange, Jimmy Buffett-inspired environmental group, “Parrot Heads.” The latter is on more than 5,000 Virginia cars and motorcycles.
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Plates in Virginia are introduced into circulation by legislators, who sponsor and pass bills requiring the Department of Motor Vehicles to sell them. After the bills pass the General Assembly, the DMV enters a 30-day window, and only proceeds to make the plates if the department receives at least 450 applications from citizens who want the plate in question.
State Sens. Nathan Dahm, R-Broken Arrow, and Marty Quinn, R-Claremore, have filed legislation to create "Make America Great Again" and "Keep America Great Again" license plates.
Down the line, specialty plates are removed from circulation if fewer than 200 Virginians have them, according to Virginia code.
Some plates also work as donations to nonprofit organizations. For example, Virginia’s “Animal Friendly” license plate costs $25, and the surplus $15 goes toward locality animal shelters to help with the costs of spaying and neutering.
So which plates do Virginian’s sport?
5. The Great Seal
In 1985, legislators put the Great Seal on the table. The plate is a rendition of the Virginia State seal, which displays a Greco-Roman lady “Virtue” slaying an embodiment of “Tyranny.” The seal has been on the Virginia state flag since 1861, when it was adopted at the beginning of the Civil War. But its origins go all the way back to 1776.
4. In God We Trust
Once one of the state’s most popular special plates, “In God We Trust” has dipped down in recent years to fourth place. The plate was introduced in 2011, at the behest of Richard P. Bell, a Republican legislator from Staunton. Bell told the Virginia Pilot in 2011 that it was requested by two conservative groups: the Richmond-based Family Foundation and the Harrisonburg-based Valley Family Forum.
3. Heritage
In 1992, the legislature sponsored the “Heritage” plate. This one features the state bird, the Northern Cardinal, in tandem with the Virginia state flower, the white dogwood. Some 84,000 Virginians have this license plate.
2. Don’t Tread On Me
The iconic “Don’t Tread On Me” is the second-most popular in the state of Virginia. It is also on the way up, having quintupled in popularity since 2014. The plate was introduced in 2011, at the height of political agitation mustered by the Tea Party. The plate was introduced by moderate Henrico County Republican John O’Bannon III, who has since retired. O’Bannon said he was proud of his part in the plate’s success story.
The plate features the Gadsden Flag, a flag designed by a South Carolina revolutionary named Christopher Gadsden. The flag has adopted numerous political meanings throughout American history. Originating as a symbol of limited government, it is now frequently associated with the right wing in American politics. In Charlottesville, the flag was waved side-by-side with Confederate and Nazi flags during the Unite the Right rally in 2017. More than 97,000 of these plates were in circulation in 2022, up from 91,000 in 2018.
1. Scenic Virginia
What may be the most boring plate is also the state’s most popular: Scenic Virginia, a plate that was introduced in 1992 at the same time as the Heritage Plate.
It features Virginia’s varied natural features, moving from Hampton Roads beaches, to farmland, to the Shenandoah mountain range. More than 118,000 Scenic Virginia plates were registered in 2022, although that figure is down from more than 150,000 in 2018.
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A prison officer at the center of an investigation into the death of an inmate is no longer with the corrections department, but officials declined to say whether the sergeant was fired.
Sgt. Anthony Raymond Kelly was “no longer with the department,” Virginia Department of Corrections spokesperson Carla Miles said.
Public personnel records show that Kelly was first demoted and transferred to a new facility after an investigation began into the Feb. 5, 2022, death of Charles Givens, a developmentally disabled inmate, at Marion Correctional Center, a prison for the mentally ill in Southwest Virginia.
On security video from inside the prison, Kelly and his fellow officers are seen escorting Givens from his cell into the off-camera showers of the prison. When they emerge, Givens is seen limp between the guards. Two hours later, Givens was found dead. A medical examiner determined that the death was caused by internal bleeding due to blunt force trauma, but did not rule it a homicide.
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The prison warden, Jeffrey Artrip, told Givens’ sister, Kym Hobbs, that her brother died of “natural causes.”
However, five officers from Marion are now accused of murder in a civil court case that seeks a jury trial and $15 million settlement for what Hobbs says was a “vicious assault ‘’ that led to her brother’s death.
Criminal charges have not been brought against the officers by local or state officials. A local grand jury found that the death was “suspicious,” but chose not to indict the officers, records show, stating that there was not enough evidence for an indictment.
Kelly’s last day with the department occurred six days after Givens’ death was first reported by NPR, which ran a story on June 24th, more than a year after Givens’ death.
The February 2022 death of Charles Givens, who was serving time for murder at the Marion Correctional Treatment Center, is the subject of a federal lawsuit alleging Givens was “sadistically tortured” and beaten.
Meanwhile, four of Kelly’s colleagues remain employed at Marion. One, Joshua Caleb Jackson, has since been promoted to a caseworker position. Lawyers for the defendants have filed documents defending all four corrections officers, and maintaining that Givens died of natural causes.
However, Hobbs and her lawyer allege that Givens, a 52-year-old inmate who had the intellectual ability of a young child, was beaten to death by Kelly and his colleagues. Furthermore, they say that the state prison system actively tried to cover its tracks.
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“Mr. Givens could only rely on some of those VADOC employees to help him,” said Paul Stanley, Hobbs’s lawyer. “Unfortunately, his plight demonstrates an environment at some Virginia prisons that suppresses the reporting of inmate abuse. Although he died at the hands of his caretakers, VADOC has thus far only taken steps to conceal the cause of death and protect the responsible parties.”
The DOC spokesperson, Miles, did not offer a comment on Anthony Kelly’s demotion, transfer and separation from the department. Miles simply said, “As of June 30, 2023 Anthony Raymond Kelly is no longer employed with the Virginia Department of Corrections.”
Miles also said that the department could not comment on personnel matters in response to questions about the other four officers. NPR reported that the officers were suspended.
The lawsuit against the officers alleges that all five participated in Givens’ beating, including by whipping him with wet towels.
The suit also accuses the facility of repeatedly allowing Givens to freeze in his cell, to the extent that he was hospitalized four times for hypothermia within the span of two years.
Stanley says corrections officers did this by opening windows during the winter, and that hospital records substantiate the claim and “tell the story that MCTC staff were afraid to tell.”
Miles said she could not comment on Givens’ case, but suggested that other reasons could account for the hypothermia incidents.
“Without commenting on any particular patient, there are other triggers of hypothermia, including, for instance, anti-psychotic medicines,” said Miles. Hypothermia is a rare side-effect of antipsychotic medication, according to peer-reviewed research published in 2017.
However, yesterday, the Associated Press reported that the FBI is now investigating Givens’ death, which could develop into federal charges from the Department of Justice.
In a statement, Kym Hobbs said she welcomed the news that Kelly was no longer with the Department of Corrections.
“It’s long overdue and not nearly enough for what they did to my brother,” Hobbs said. “It’s appalling that the others are still employed and one has even been promoted.”
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For every $1 spent on hazard mitigation, $6 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Institute of National Building Scientists. Hazard mitigation planning allows a community to reduce or eliminate threats from natural and man-made disasters.
To help guide future hazard mitigation projects, the Cerro Gordo County Emergency Management Agency is undertaking an effort to update its current Hazard Mitigation Plan, last updated in 2018.
Hazard Mitigation Plans are a requirement of the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000, administered by FEMA. Once a community, county, or other eligible jurisdiction is part of an approved plan, they become eligible for up to a 75% cost share for a variety of projects listed in the plan. Hazard Mitigation Plans are required to be updated on a five-year cycle, and Cerro Gordo County’s HMP expired in early 2023.
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A hazard mitigation plan identifies vulnerability to natural disasters such as flood, drought, wildfire, winter storms, tornado/windstorms, hazardous material release, etc. The plan sets goals, establishes mitigation alternatives, and prioritizes projects that may alleviate potential damage to property and provide protection when future disasters occur.
This planning effort is being guided by a planning team consisting of representatives from the Cerro Gordo County Emergency Management Agency. Public input will be gathered through online tools and public meetings.
All taxing authorities including the county, cities, and school districts, are eligible to participate. Other entities such as health care facilities, chambers of commerce, utility providers, businesses, or nonprofits can also provide input.
A public survey to gather local priorities or concerns is available on the project website or can be found at: Cerro Gordo County IA HMP - Public Survey.
Cerro Gordo County has hired JEO Consulting Group to assist with the plan development. For more information, see the project website at https://www.jeo.com/CerroGordoCountyHMP or contact Becky Appleford, JEO project manager, at (402) 392-9915 or rappleford@jeo.com. You can also contact Eric Whipple, Cerro Gordo County emergency management coordinator at (641) 421-3151 or ewhipple@cgcounty.org.
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A Mason City man is facing up to 17 years in prison after allegedly breaking into a residence, destroying a phone and stealing a Keurig coffee machine.
According to court records, 23-year-old Shaun Micheal Wilson has been charged with second-degree burglary, third-degree burglary and third-degree criminal mischief.
The affidavit states that at 4:30 p.m. July 22 Wilson forced open the door at a Mason City residence, knowing the resident was home. He allegedly proceeded to threaten the victim and destroy their phone. He apparently returned at 8 p.m. and stole the coffee machine while the resident was not home.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 2.
This morning's top headlines: Tuesday, July 25
The lead prosecutor in the case against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter says he is willing to testify publicly this fall. The offer by the Justice Department on Monday sets up a clash with House Republicans who have demanded U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware come in soon for a closed-door interview. The department wrote to House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan that “it is strongly in the public interest” for Weiss to appear publicly to provide testimony on whistleblower claims that there was improper interference in the case against the younger Biden. It is unclear if Jordan will accept the offer for a public hearing.
President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments. The new regulations announced Tuesday would require insurers to study whether their customers have equal access to medical and mental health benefits and to take remedial action, if necessary. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act requires that insurers provide the same level of coverage for both mental and physical health care. The rules, if finalized, would force insurers to study patient outcomes to ensure the benefits are administered equally, taking into account their provider network and reimbursement rates and whether prior authorization is required for care.
The Justice Department is suing Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier that the state placed on the Rio Grande to stop migrants from entering the U.S. The lawsuit filed Monday asks a court to force Texas to remove a line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns. The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing and arresting migrants on trespassing charges. Abbott sent President Joe Biden a letter that defended Texas’ right to install the barrier. He accused the president of putting migrants at risk by not doing more to deter them from making the journey to the U.S.
Israel’s parliament on Monday approved the first major law in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system.
The Israeli military says it has killed three Palestinian gunmen in the northern occupied West Bank. Israeli security forces said they opened fire at Palestinian militants who had shot at them from a car in the West Bank city of Nablus. In recent months, the West Bank has witnessed a volatile mix of the rise of local armed Palestinian groups carrying out frequent shooting attacks against Israelis and near-daily Israeli military raids that have increasingly turned deadly. Hamas, the Islamic militant group, claimed the three Palestinians killed Tuesday as members. Palestinian media described the bloodshed as an ambush following the militants’ attempted attack on Israeli forces near a neighborhood that overlooks Nablus
A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across parts of the country following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days. The latest evacuations orders were issued on the islands of Corfu and Evia. A blaze on the island of Rhodes continued to move inland on Tuesday. The flames torched mountainous forest areas including part of a nature reserve. European Union officials blamed climate change for the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires across the European continent. They noted that 2022 was the second-worst year for wildfire damage on record after 2017.
The U.N. atomic watchdog says its monitors at Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant report seeing anti-personnel mines around the site. The report comes as Kyiv pursues a counteroffensive against the Kremlin’s entrenched forces after 17 months of war. The IAEA says having mines at the site is “inconsistent” with safety standards and nuclear security guidance. However, it said late Monday that any detonation of the mines, located in a restricted area off-limits to the plant's Ukrainian staff, should not affect the facility's safety and security systems. The watchdog has repeatedly expressed concern about the war leading to a radiation leak at the facility, which is one of the world's 10 biggest nuclear power plants.
The lawyer for a Colorado police officer who put a handcuffed woman in a parked police car that was hit by a freight train says she didn't know the car was on the tracks. The woman put in the patrol car suffered extensive injuries, including a traumatic brain injury. The lawyer for Officer Jordan Steinke made the comments Monday as the trial began in Greeley, Colorado. She says the tracks were completely flush with the road, not anything to trip over, and there were no illuminated crossing signs or gates in the dark, rural area.
Elon Musk has unveiled a new “X” logo to replace Twitter’s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. The X started appearing at the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday, but the bird was still dominant across the smartphone app. In response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding is done, Musk said they would be called Xs. It’s yet another change that Musk has made since acquiring Twitter that has alienated users and turned off advertisers, leaving the microblogging site vulnerable to new threats, including rival Meta’s new text-based app Threads.
The hazing scandal at Northwestern University has widened to include a volleyball player who has become the first female athlete to sue the university over allegations she was retaliated against for reporting mistreatment and a new lawsuit by former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates. Identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe, the volleyball player says she was physically harmed to the point of requiring medical attention during a hazing incident in 2021. The lawsuit filed on behalf of Yates alleges hazing that includes sexual abuse.
For Emmett Till's family, national monument proclamation cements his inclusion in the American story
President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose abduction, torture and killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped propel the Civil Rights Movement. The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will be located across three sites in Illinois and Mississippi and will be federally protected places. Till’s family and a national organization seeking to preserve Black cultural heritage sites say their work protecting the Till legacy continues after the Democratic president’s signing. They're raising money to restore each of the sites for inclusion in the National Park System. Before the signing, Biden said he marvels at the courage of the Till family to “find faith and purpose in pain.”
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Clear Lake Middle School and Clear Creek Elementary have been recognized as "distinguished schools" by Project Lead The Way.
The nonprofit organization serves millions of preK-12 students and teachers in schools across the U.S. Approximately 12,200 elementary, middle, and high schools in all 50 states and the District of Columbia offer PLTW programs.
According to a press release from the district, the PLTW Distinguished School recognition honors schools committed to increasing student access, engagement, and achievement in PLTW programs. To be eligible for the designation, Clear Lake Middle School had to meet a variety of criteria such as a certain percentage of the student body participating in PLTW programs, offering a designated number of units at each grade level, and having strategies to ensure equitable access to students.
Research shows the middle grades play a pivotal role in influencing high school, college, and career success. During this transitional time, it’s crucial to provide students with access to relevant, engaging, and real-world learning experiences that illuminate the range of career paths and possibilities available to them. Whether designing an automated robotics system or solving a mysterious disease outbreak, PLTW Gateway students engage in critical and creative thinking, build teamwork skills, and develop a passion for and confidence in STEM subjects.
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“We are proud to recognize (Clear Lake Community School District) for their commitment to providing students with exceptional educational experiences while ensuring equitable access to PLTW programs,” said David Dimmett, PLTW president and CEO. "We congratulate them on this achievement and celebrate their important work empowering students with the knowledge and skills to succeed, not only in STEM subjects, but also more generally in life and career."
To be eligible for the designation, Clear Creek Elementary had to have more than 75% of the student body participating in the program and had to offer at least one PLTW Launch module at each grade level during the 2021-22 school year.
Studies show that students decide as early as elementary school whether they like and think they’re good at math and science. Whether designing a car safety belt or building digital animations based on their own short stories, PLTW Launch students engage in critical and creative thinking, build teamwork skills, and develop a passion for and confidence in STEM subjects.
For more information on Clear Lake Middle School’s PLTW Gateway program, contact Emily Hill at (641) 357-6114.
For more information on Project Lead The Way, visit pltw.org.
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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Mason City Community Schools District has opened online registration for students first through 12th grade.
Preschool, kindergarten and the district's new transitional kindergarten programs have been open for students to pre-register online in order for the district to accurately gauge the number of students who will be enrolling in these programs this school year. Students enrolling in TK and kindergarten will still have to complete online registration.
On Aug. 11, the high school will host an open house 8 a.m.-6 p.m. for students to locate their classes and lockers. Similar open houses will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 21 at John Adams Middle School and for Virtual Academy held at the Alternative High School. Harding, Hoover, Jefferson, Roosevelt elementary schools and Lincoln Intermediate school will also have open houses for grades K-6 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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The first day of school for TK-12 is Aug. 23.
The district says school supply lists have been updated and are available upon registration.
An additional open house is scheduled Aug. 31 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and is for 4-year-old preschool and early childhood students, whose first day is Sept. 5.
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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ORLANDO, Fla. — A tropical wave near the coast of Africa is likely to develop as it heads west in the open waters of the Atlantic.
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Another tropical wave in the Bahamas will move across Florida on Friday.
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Police are looking for a 17-year-old for allegedly shooting another teen in Stowe Township on Wednesday.
Delvonte Woodson of McKees Rocks is facing two counts of aggravated assault and gun charges in connection to the assault and robbery of a 15-year-old male just before 7 p.m. near the intersection of Dohrman Street and Woodward Avenue, according to the complaint.
Video surveillance shows Woodson and another male known to them approach the victim when Woodson pulls out what appears to be a black gun. The victim begins removing items from his pockets, including a phone and money, when Woodson strikes him with the barrel of the gun and it goes off, striking the victim in the arm, according to the complaint.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Woodson.
The victim was taken to a local hospital in stable condition, according to police.
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PITTSBURGH — A 17-year-old is dead after being stabbed in Schenley Park.
Brandon Thomas was stabbed below Panther Hollow Bridge around 12:23 a.m. and died around 1:38 a.m. at a local hospital, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Channel 11 saw a person being taken away in an ambulance while several people at the scene were visibly upset near Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.
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With as popular as Florida has become in recent years, migration to the Sunshine State has skyrocketed, leading to higher housing costs in a lot of metro areas.
However, not all areas of Florida are like that. According to New Home Source, some cities in the state are far more affordable than others.
In the list below, you’ll find the top 10 most affordable list of Florida cities based on factors like home-price-to-income ratio, average property taxes and median household income:
No. 10: Pinellas Park
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.12%
- Average Property Tax: $1,392
- Median Household Income: $49,652
With horseback riding, shopping and delicious food nearby, this city has plenty to offer for those wanting a “distinctly southern feel.”
No. 9: Jacksonville
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.17%
- Average Property Tax: $1,628
- Median Household Income: $54,701
This city is a major metro hub for the state, offering plenty of things to do for residents and tourists alike.
No. 8: Deltona
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 2.95%
- Average Property Tax: $1,457
- Median Household Income: $52,616
With plenty of outdoor activities to take advantage of, this small-town area provides a lot of mileage for the people who live there.
No. 7: Lakeland
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.15%
- Average Property Tax: $1,628
- Median Household Income: $54,701
Lakeland has several lakes which locals can use for fishing, boating or bird watching. This gives outdoor lovers plenty of opportunities to enjoy Florida’s greener excursions.
No. 6: Largo
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 2.81%
- Average Property Tax: $1,122
- Median Household Income: $44,323
This relaxed seaside city is placed along the Gulf coast, providing lovely beaches and plenty of golf courses.
No. 5: Sanford
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.32%
- Average Property Tax: $1,378
- Median Household Income: $47,217
Sanford is one of Central Florida’s oldest cities, and its downtown district offers plenty of shopping and community events for those who live nearby.
No. 4: Daytona Beach
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 4.26%
- Average Property Tax: $1,438
- Median Household Income: $35,893
One of Florida’s most-visited cities, Daytona Beach has plenty to do, be it combing the beaches, exploring the boardwalk or visiting the Daytona International Speedway.
No. 3: Lauderdale Lakes
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.37%
- Average Property Tax: $1,849
- Median Household Income: $35,532
This small town can be found along the Atlantic coast in southern Florida, having plenty of nearby lakes that residents can enjoy for swimming or boating.
No. 2: Winter Haven
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.30%
- Average Property Tax: $1,325
- Median Household Income: $46,669
Nestled between Tampa and Orlando, Winter Haven has an abundance of outdoor recreational activities, including fishing and mountain biking.
No. 1: Titusville
- Home Price to Income Ratio: 3.08%
- Average Property Tax: $1,236
- Median Household Income: $46,609
Titusville is found along the Space Coast, and its the site of many famous Florida rocket launches. The local Kennedy Space Center also provides a ton of value for tourists and those looking to learn more about the final frontier.
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Kansas Highway Patrol needs dispatchers. Here's how to experience what it's like
In what is designed as both a recruitment and public awareness opportunity, the Kansas Highway Patrol is inviting a limited number of the public to an open house of its Central Dispatch in Salina next week.
Members of the public will be given the opportunity to tour the secure facility and hear about the career of a communications specialist beginning at 6 p.m. Aug. 3 at the dispatch located within KHP Troop C, 2019 E. Iron Ave.
The open house is available for up to 20 people, who must register beforehand. Lt. Alex Taylor said the reason for limiting the number of people who can attend is due to the space of the facilities.
"We're trying to keep it to where we give opportunity to actually sit down and have a chance to ... listen to radio traffic for the day," Taylor said. "We sit them down, with a dispatcher, for an hour or so (to listen in)."
In addition to seeing and hearing first-hand what the dispatch does, those who attend the open house will also be given an hour-long presentation and discussion about the role of dispatch in law enforcement.
"It's a chance for us to ... inform people about what it is that the dispatchers of the highway patrol do for their part of the efforts to make the state of Kansas safer," Taylor said.
Nearly all state dispatch centralized in Salina
Another reason for having the open house is to make the public aware of just how important the dispatch facility in Salina is.
"People don't realize that the entire state is actually dispatched from here in Salina," Taylor said.
He said with the capabilities of radio communications and advanced technology over the years, KHP centralized its dispatch of all troops, with a few exceptions, to one location in the center of the state.
"The only (troops) that have their own dispatch are the turnpike and the (Kansas) Capitol grounds," Taylor said.
A chance to see a different side of law enforcement
One big reason for having an open house is for recruitment to the highway patrol in a time when employment numbers in law enforcement have been declining nationwide.
"It full-circle effects (dispatch) as well," Taylor said. "We are down quite a bit of staff, so also we use this as an opportunity to present an opportunity for people who are interested in this profession to see exactly what it is before they actually sign up."
While they aren't necessarily the members of KHP that citizens see every day on the road or throughout the state on trooper duties, Taylor said communications specialists are vital members of the highway patrol.
"You're responsible for one troop at a time, but as a dispatcher, you're helping out everyone across the area," Taylor said.
He said dispatchers are the ones who bring together resources in the event of incidents that cross troop boundaries, work to contact outside agencies and are tasked with other duties like assisting with notification of the next of kin for fatalities.
"It's really a wide berth of experience (you can learn) in dispatch," Taylor said.
One benefit of working in dispatch is that it has a lower age requirement, with 18-year-olds able to join and gain knowledge about law enforcement and life before they could potentially move on to become officers, who must be 21, within KHP or move on to other careers.
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Register for the open house now
People interested in attending the open house on Aug. 3 must register on the KHP website at kansashighwaypatrol.org/job/communications-specialist-i-192597/.
Taylor said a brief background check will be conducted on those who register, not only for security reasons, but for privacy purposes as well.
"In the dispatch center, people are exposed to a lot of federally protected data of individuals," Taylor said. "Because of that, we have to make sure that we carefully vet those that are going to be allowed to be exposed to that."
In addition to the background check, attendees will also have to agree not to disclose this protected information.
For more information about the event, Taylor said to contact the communications specialist at the dispatch center, 785-827-4437.
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Kansas Wesleyan's Community Resilience Hub hosts civil discourse courses for public
The Community Resilience Hub at Kansas Wesleyan University is opening its courses on civil discourse to the public.
Alan Yarborough will be the trainer for both the full-day basic course Aug. 8 and the half-day advanced course Aug. 9. The half-day program is designed for those who attended the first training, either Aug. 8 or when it was offered last October.
“This is the second time we're offering the Civil Discourse training as part of our CRH advocacy focus,” said Sabrina Rosario, CRH campus coordinator. “We need to engage in healthy conversations and find common ground to move forward in community.”
CRH brings together agents and researchers to develop solutions for social issues and to build a more resilient community through education, action and advocacy.
Being able to have a conversation with folks you may not have much in common with is a skill that’s much needed in a world that’s so polarized, said Sheila Kjellberg, CRH market coordinator.
Yarborough will train participants to have healthy engagements across differences, improve the ability to dialogue, and build capacity for engagement and to work together to tackle critical issues.
He has six years of advocacy experience with the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations in Washington, D.C. In that role, he oversees policy portfolios on Haiti, voting rights and racial justice issues, and leads weekly trainings and workshops on effective advocacy strategy. He was the primary content developer for “Make Me an Instrument of Peace,” an online civil discourse class, which has been used widely across the Episcopal Church.
Yarborough holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Clemson University in South Carolina and a master's degree in conflict analysis and resolution from the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University.
The full-day course will run from 8 a.m. to noon and 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is $20. The advanced course will run from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 2 p.m. and will cost $10. Registration for both courses costs $25. Lunch is included with the registration.
To find out more and to register, go to www.kwu.edu/about/events/civil-discourse-training/. The deadline to register is Aug. 5.
For more information on the Community Resilience Hub, visit www.kwu.edu/crh.
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Saline County puts federal dollars toward local child care needs. How the money will help
Saline County invested in a local organization that is combating local child care issues, beginning with low wages and limited availability, as part of a big-picture effort to develop the workforce and find long-term solutions.
This week, the county awarded the Salina Area United Way $400,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to be used in their ongoing efforts to address a persistent local need for child care around Salina.
Dedicating some of the ARPA funds toward childcare initiatives has been on the county's radar since the ARPA funding first came available. When the county commission set its framework for how to expend the federal dollars, "child care" was its own category under the workforce development piece.
For a while now, the county has talked about needing partners to achieve something meaningful in this category. The United Way now has an opportunity to do just that.
"We know that child care is a great need in this community and (the county) wanted to be able to devote some of those once-in-a-generation funding to address that child care need," said Phillip Smith-Hanes, the Saline County administrator.
Salina United Way leads efforts in addressing child care needs
In April, the United Way announced the start of its Early Childcare Initiative Fund, which will begin the first phase of the organization's efforts by awarding wage supplement grants to local centers.
"Wages have been pinpointed as the No. 1 critical piece as to why we’re struggling to retain child care workers and keep rooms open at centers,” said Claire Ludes, executive director of the Salina Area United Way.
Last month, the United Way was awarded $1,872,000 by the Kansas Children's Cabinet Child Care Capacity Accelerator grant program to help create 187 new spots in the Salina area.
To build on that success, Salina United Way submitted a proposal to the county for ARPA funds to create an endowment, which would aim to supplement wages of local providers in the future.
The proposal was vetted by ARPA compliance consultants and found to fit federal requirements.
Under the agreement, $75,000 will be provided for staffing and marketing in an initial grant for $37,500, with the remainder available if funding for the endowment is obtained by Dec. 31.
The United Way will have until June 30, 2024, to raise $325,000 to receive a matching grant for their endowment. This schedule aims to incentivize the United Way to fundraise quickly and allow the county to reallocate the funds if the organization cannot meet ARPA obligation deadlines.
The county commission unanimously approved United Way's proposal Tuesday.
“With these funds of $400,000 we will be able to address the current needs of child care and also begin working on sustaining all that is being done in our community to make lasting and impactful changes for child care,” Ludes said.
Quick facts about the local child care desert
There are a great number of needs in the childcare arena, most of which are identified by experts as a cause-and-effect relationship. Here are some of the key facts surrounding childcare needs in Saline County:
- For every one open child care slot, there are 10 children in need of that spot.
- Most child care centers around Salina are paying $4-6 less than the local "livable" wage of $15 per hour.
- Fewer people are entering the child care field.
- Local centers are understaffed.
- Infant care is in the highest demand.
- An estimated 1,052 child care slots are needed this month.
- Employers cite child care as a top challenge when recruiting employees.
More about United Way's effort:A new fund aims to increase child care availability in the Salina community. Here's how
County, United Way discuss the need for sustainable solutions
After some discussion on these key facts and the dire situation local childcare availability has become, commissioners voiced their gratitude to Ludes for her team's efforts, as well as their concerns for the future.
Commissioner Jim Weese said that while he supports the allocation, he can't help but wonder what happens after the ARPA funds are exhausted.
"I fear, like all ARPA funds, that if they don't find their own source of revenue after the ARPA is gone, they would want to come back to the county ... so I'm just raising the red flag now," Weese said. "They have to find their own source of revenue, and I believe that's what they're trying to do."
Commissioner Rodger Sparks asked if Ludes was confident her organization could meet the match requirements through fundraising.
More:The desperate, persistent need for childcare
"We are very close to having our first business contribute and be a piece of the matching at about $75,000," Ludes said. "We're just continuing to have constant conversations with businesses, so I hate to say this, but I don't think it's going to be an issue to get the matching funds. Businesses are very much interested in being a part of this."
Renee Duxler, president and CEO of the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce was in attendance Tuesday and voiced her organization's support of the United Way proposal.
"Our employers are definitely very interested in being invested in childcare in the community," Duxler said. "We really appreciate United Way stepping up to take this on, being an incredible organization to do the work."
Kendrick Calfee has been a reporter with the Salina Journal since 2022, primarily covering government and education. You can reach him at kcalfee@gannett.com or on Twitter @calfee_kc.
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TWIN LAKES — A 40-year-old Twin Lakes man accused of possessing a large amount of illegal drugs and maintaining a drug trafficking place in Kenosha County is now facing numerous criminal charges.
Jason A. Olrich, a convicted felon, was charged Tuesday in Kenosha County Circuit Court with felony possession with intent to deliver over 40 grams of cocaine, maintaining a drug trafficking place and possession with intent to deliver 200 grams or less of THC. He's also charged with misdemeanor bail jumping and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Olrich made an initial appearance at Intake Court on Tuesday where Court Commissioner William Michel imposed a $20,000 cash bond. A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 2 and Olrich remained in custody Wednesday afternoon.
Criminal complaint
Earlier this month, a Kenosha County sheriff's detective received information from a source that Olrich, known by the nickname "Jayo Yayo" was in possession of large amount of narcotics and U.S. currency, according to the criminal complaint.
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The source also reportedly told the detective that Olrich sold narcotics and lived in Twin Lakes.
On July 18, sheriff's deputies set up surveillance around Olrich's residence in the 33700 block of 116th Street in Randall. Deputies, according to the complaint, saw Olrich leave his residence in a sedan and coordinated with patrol deputies to conduct a stop of the vehicle in the 31700 block of County Highway C, about a mile from the house.
The vehicle was searched and, according to the complaint, deputies found a green leafy substance on the driver's floorboard that later tested positive for the presence of THC.
Olrich also reportedly had two cell phones, a Wisconsin Quest card belonging to someone else and about $700.
Olrich, according to the complaint, said he was living at his mother's residence in Randall.
Deputies later conducted a search of that residence and reportedly found found marijuana, cocaine, cocaine residue, drug paraphernalia, another smartphone, a laser, bundles of U.S. currency, several gold, platinum and silver bars, and a digital scale.
The amount of cocaine recovered from the residence was reportedly about 183 grams, worth about $16,000, according to the Midwest HIDTA Drug Price Guide from June of 2023.
Using the same drug price guide, Olrich was reportedly in possession of $80 worth of THC wax and $500 worth of THC.
In 2015, according to court records, Olrich was found guilty of delivering cocaine and illegally possessing a firearm in Kenosha County.
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NORMAL — The Barbara Jean Adkins Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser, titled "He Said, She Said," will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, at the Illinois State University Alumni Center, 1101 N. Main St., Normal.
Tickets are $25 each or $45 for couples and can be purchased at shorturl.at/cdZ69.
Panelists include former Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner, NAACP President Linda Foster, Dr. Thomas Walker, Sheri Strohl, Gregory Hicks, Reland Carter, Art Rodriguez and Jamie Ellis.
The fundraiser was named after Adkins, who worked as a Bloomington police dispatcher and as assistant city manager. She was the first manager of the McLean County Museum of History's Looking for Lincoln/Route 66 Visitor Center. She died in November 2020.
Call 309-287-1954, 309-824-2257 or 309-208-1120 for more information.
56th Annual Convocation & Investiture of Laureates to the Lincoln Academy of Illinois
Martine McHenry with Order of Lincoln honoree Ambassador Donald F. McHenry
Carolyn and Duane Yockey
Joan Stralow, Anita Carney, Marlene Gregor
Electa McHenry, Claire Lempres
Rodney Schilling, Tami Craig Schilling
Kimberly Meenen, Dr. Kim Kidwell
Fran and Angie Hoffman, Peggy Lenz
Committees and sponsors
Larry and Janet Jones
Beth and Jay Mathews
Joan Lovell, Graham Grady
Amaris, Chad and Danna Boore
Dr. Helen Morrison
Wilmer Otto, Dr. Vicki Megginson
Grace Bartlett, Therese Rapp
Kelly Mathy, Julie Emig, Jamie Mathy, Sheila Montney
Joan and George Tuttle, State Rep. Dan Brady
IWU President Georgia Nugent, Mark Brodl, Steve Seibring. Mark Halx
Order of Lincoln honoree Ambassador Donald F. McHenry
Dr. Kathy Bohn, Dr. Tom Nielsen, Jen Seidl
Jeanne and Charles Morris
Jhane and Horace Melton
Doug Collins signing memorabilia for Nate Titus
Paul Romanczuk, Dr. Ramsin Benyamin
Maureen and Larry Lyons
Linda Johnston, Cathy Richards, Aimee Spack
Don Franke, Melissa Muller
Nikita Richards
Larry Lyons, Doug Collins
Myra and George Gordon
Mary Bennett Henrichs and Scott Henrichs
ISU basketball players
Order of Lincoln recipient Ambassador Donald F. McHenry taking a selfie with family
Michael Ruchim, Maureen and Marc Schulman
Order of Lincoln recipient Dr. Robert “Robb” Fraley, James Patrick Connelly III, Robert Jones, University of Illinois Chancellor
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75 years ago: El Paso residents take off work to help with corn
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100 years ago
July 27 1923: Miss Ju'la LeBeau has just received a 4 1/2 octave, Deagan Artists' Special xylophone, and now has a most valuable collection of musical instruments. Miss LeBeau is one of Bloomington's most talented artists in that she plays on so many instruments: violin, guitar, xylophone.
75 years ago
July 27 1948: A "state of emergency" was declared in El Paso by the Chamber of Commerce. Stores closed their doors at noon to allow managers and clerks to detassel hybrid seed corn. Recent rains have left fields so muddy that the huge detasseling rigs that carry workers through the rows were unable to operate.
50 years ago
July 27 1973: Fifty or more of the hundreds of children who have been housed in out-of-state institutions by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services may be at the Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Children's School in Normal. Some 700 to 800 children who are wards of the state are being returned through the initiative of DCFS Director Jerome Miller.
25 years ago
July 27 1998: A Bloomington man has been elected commander of all the Veterans of Foreign Wars posts in Illinois. Donald Porter, a Vietnam veteran, will oversee 428 posts and 98,000 Illinois members. He is also busy making plans for the VFW's 100th anniversary in 1999.
101 years ago: See vintage Pantagraph ads from 1922
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – Crews with the Lynchburg Fire Department are currently battling a fire in the 10 block of Clifton Street.
At this time, drivers are asked to avoid the dead-end section of Clifton Street as firefighters work to put out the blaze.
Fire crews are on the scene of a structure fire in the 10 block of Clifton Street at this hour. The dead end portion of Clifton is blocked to all traffic.
Posted by Lynchburg Fire Department on Thursday, July 27, 2023
Authorities have not released any further details but we have reached out to learn more and will continue to update this article with the latest information.
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DALLAS — Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $683 million.
The Dallas-based company said it had profit of $1.08 per share. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to $1.09 per share.
The results topped Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $1.08 per share.
The airline posted revenue of $7.04 billion in the period, also topping Street forecasts. Nine analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $6.99 billion.
Here is the full statement released by Southwest CEO Bob Jordan on Thursday morning:
"Our People delivered a very smooth and reliable operation in second quarter 2023, despite disruptive weather. We operated a record number of flights and carried a record number of Customers and bags, all while achieving a completion factor of more than 99 percent—our highest second quarter performance in the past 10 years. This solid operating performance has continued into July, where we have been able to minimize cancellations amid continued weather challenges throughout the network.
"I am very proud of, and grateful for, our amazing People and the great progress they made towards our goals in the first half of the year. To name only a few, we have largely restored our network, developed and are on-track with a robust winter operations plan, implemented a new revenue management system, and added necessary staffing to fully utilize our fleet, ahead of schedule, by the end of third quarter.
"Although our network is largely restored, it is not yet optimized. We are working to align our network, fleet plans, and staffing to better reflect the current business environment. While business revenues continue to recover, they are not back to pre-pandemic levels—therefore, we are revamping our 2024 flight schedules to reflect post-pandemic changes to Customer travel patterns. We estimate these meaningful network optimization efforts and the continued maturation of our development markets will contribute roughly $500 million in incremental year-over-year pre-tax profits in 2024, which we believe will support another year of margin expansion. As ever, we are committed to our goals of achieving industry-leading operational and financial performance, boosting our operational resilience, and widening our Customer Service advantage by enhancing our digital Hospitality."
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BIG SPRING, Texas — An Abilene Zoo Ambassador Keeper stopped by the Howard County Library with some of his zoo friends.
Big Spring kids were able to meet some of their favorite animals that they get to read about all the time. These animals included the world's largest gecko, a milk snake, frogs and a chinchilla, which is now considered endangered.
"We just like to bring a lot of different animals," said Abilene Zoo Ambassador Keeper Caylie Hick. "Educate the public on what species may be in their backyards or maybe a species they've never heard of our scene. Just to really broaden their horizons."
Abilene Zoo Ambassador Keepers travel all over the state visiting schools, nursing homes and community centers.
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HSE board approves dress code changes that could be a 'difficult sell' for students, staff
The Hamilton Southeastern School Board voted Wednesday to approve student handbooks for the 2023-24 school year that prohibit hats and hoods from being worn during instructional periods and outfits that bare a student's midsection.
The new hats and hoods rules came over the objections of some school administrators who said it could create a contentious relationship between staff and students.
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Nataki Pettigrew, the district's diversity, equity and inclusion director, said administrators feared board members did not follow due process in making the change, which she characterized as an unnecessary move.
“Going back on this policy sends a confusing message to our students and our staff, and will be a very difficult sell," Pettigrew said at the meeting, saying administrators had shared this concern with her. "Allowing hats and hoods has eliminated unnecessary negative interactions with students. It has given us increased time to concentrate on our core purpose which is learning."
During the revisions process that started in January, Pettigrew said no member of the public, be it parents or educators, brought up hats or hoods as a concern. Nor did head coverings crop up as an issue during the previous school year.
HSE board criticized for lack of transparency
The board discussed many of the changes made at Wednesday's meeting through a Google document circulated among members.
Public access experts criticized the board's action for lack of transparency, with Indiana’s public access counselor saying the use of Google docs walks the line from sharing a written document to breaking the law by holding a virtual meeting without public comment.
Read about that here:HSE school board discussed student handbook changes in a Google Doc. Is that allowed?
The board stamped new measures 5-2 with only members Sarah Donsbach and Sarah Parks-Reese dissenting.
In explaining her vote, Donsbach said that she could not support moving forward because she spoke to school principals, who did not want to see these changes.
Parks-Reese said board members did not honor the traditional process of seeking comment from members of the public before approving the changes.
Board member Tiffany Pascoe, who voted for the handbooks, reiterated a comment she made in the board's virtual document and said she would like to explore a new policy that would require uniforms in HSE schools.
In other school board meetings, board members have said that they view hats and hoods in classrooms as unprofessional attire and not respectful to teachers.
Board members also previously discussed a variety of proposed revisions to the handbooks, including requiring that cell phones be turned off during school hours and that students wear slips or shorts under dresses and skirts. These measures did not pass at Wednesday's meeting.
What else did they consider?:Hamilton Southeastern board members want big dress code changes before new school year
What's different in the 2023-24 handbook?
- Hat and hoods will not be permitted during classroom instruction unless approved by staff.
- Language was added for what's deemed inappropriate in dress, specifically clothing that reveals a student's midsection.
- The school board's C.A.R.E. statement will be displayed on handbook covers. The board passed this statement after removing microaggressions from handbooks in March.
- Handbooks will include language prohibiting running in hallways.
- Lunch visits for parents and family members, which were squashed during the Covid-19 pandemic, will resume, to be managed by each school.
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Will AI take your job? Report says 140K in Indianapolis are in danger
As artificial intelligence becomes a reality in work places, many have begun to worry whether AI will take their jobs.
Last week, ChamberofCommerce.org tried its hand at answering that question for Indianapolis residents. The research website (not to be confused with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) provides product insights for small business owners. Recently, it released a report analyzing which U.S. cities’ labor forces may be the most threatened by the rise of AI in the professional world.
In Indianapolis, the top three declining careers include office support roles, sales representatives and service jobs. Companies are already swapping out these lower-level roles for automated programs. Michael Hicks, a Ball State business and economy professor, said those kinds of jobs are the most at-risk for being pushed out by AI.
Hicks said many people don't need to worry about being entirely replaced by AI; while jobs functions themselves may shift, most people will still maintain a role for themselves. Instead, he thinks the race to implement AI should motivate people to address a larger issue at hand in Indiana: educational attainment. Just over half of young people in the state go on to attend higher education, Hicks said. That puts a huge portion of Indiana youth at a greater risk of losing entry-level, "low-skill" jobs to automation in the future, he said.
"That's another piece in the story," Hicks said. "(AI) should be shaking Indiana awake on its educational attainment problem."
Indianapolis 15th most at risk metro
Indianapolis ranked 15 out of the Top 50 metropolitan areas in the country most at-risk of losing jobs to AI. Of the more than 1 million workers employed in the city, an estimated 140,000 jobs are in danger of being replaced by artificial intelligence, according to the report. That’s slightly more than 13% of Indianapolis’ entire workforce. The World Economic Forum notes that in total, about 83 million jobs worldwide may become automated by 2027.
For laymen, that kind of data may feel hard to conceptualize, or plainly scary. But to local tech aficionados like Dennis Trinkle, the numbers sound about right.
“Probably 15% of jobs over the next several years could be completely changed or eliminated (by AI),” Trinkle said. “(But) the technology is also going to be creating more jobs than it eliminates, and opening up jobs that right now may seem to somebody beyond their capacity."
Trinkle is senior vice president at TechPoint, a nonprofit that connects Indiana tech companies with the employees and resources necessary to build the state's "digital innovation economy." He said while AI will undoubtedly reshape the labor market, it may not be in the drastic ways people assume. Trinkle doesn't see AI leading to overnight layoffs or the end to centuries-old industries. Instead, he thinks AI will compliment people's daily job functions, making labor easier, faster, and better-compensated than ever before.
The best defense against being ousted by AI, he said, is to become familiar with it: learn how to use AI to become better at your job.
"A good colleague of mine likes to say that AI might not replace you in the short term, but somebody who knows AI might," Trinkle said.
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Surgeons at Dayton Children’s Hospital separated two five-year-old boys from Guatemala who were born conjoined at the top of the head following a series of surgeries over two years to address the rare condition.
The boys, Pedro and Augusto, came to Dayton Children’s in July 2021 joined at the top of the head with a 90 degree turn, classified as craniopagus O’Connell class III. The condition is rare with an estimated 50 craniopagus twins born every year, with only an estimated 15 of those surviving more than a few months, according to Dayton Children’s.
“While we all fell in love with Pedro and Augusto during their time here. We are excited for them to return to their home country and culture,” said Ben Goodstein, vice president and chief ambulatory officer. “We will continue to keep an eye on them as their recovery process continues and enjoy their bright future ahead.”
The boys were separated over the course of four major surgeries, returning home to their native country of Guatemala in June. Dayton Children’s chronicled the process in a documentary being released today on the hospital system’s YouTube page following a premiere event at the Victoria Theatre held Wednesday evening.
The documentary followed the time surgeons and staff spent preparing and executing the series of separation surgeries for this complex condition. Interviews with doctors in the documentary included explanations into what considerations there were when it came to separating Pedro and Augusto, as well as clips filmed during the boys’ surgeries, like the moment of separation between the two boys.
“There is very little research or practical knowledge in medical literature about how to separate craniopagus twins, especially those who are connected at this angle,” said Dr. Robert Lober, pediatric neurosurgeon for Dayton Children’s. “This documentary shows the real, sometimes overwhelming process of preparation, discovery and decisions that we went through for these boys, hopefully helping others born with this condition in the future.”
“While we prepared diligently, there were still surprises,” said Dr. Christopher Gordon, chief of craniofacial and plastic surgery at Dayton Children’s. “Through it all, the boys were incredibly strong and their safety was our utmost concern.”
Dayton Children’s physicians go on humanitarian trips to share their services with children who don’t have access to the type of care they require. Gordon had previously been working on providing cleft surgeries in Guatemala when one of the directors of the Shriners introduced Gordon to Pedro and Augusto’s case. Gordon then brought the case back to Dayton.
“Pedro and Augusto, they’re connected at the tops of their heads and they’re slightly rotated,” Lober said. “It’s that rotation that makes this so challenging.”
The boys’ condition resulted in functional disabilities, as well as developmental delays. There were imbalances in blood flows, and their bodies were already showing signs of problems in their organs prior to their separation. If they weren’t separated, doctors speculated the twins would have been confined to spending the majority of their lives in a hospital.
“I came for my sons so they can have a better future,” said the boys’ mother, Luisa, speaking Spanish in the documentary. “I know that they have suffered a lot.”
Hospital staff spoke of connecting with the boys and their personalities.
“The boys will steal your heart with their sweet giggles and dance parties,” said Elise Huntley, certified child life specialist. “They were incredibly strong – and sassy!”
Less than a third of craniopagus twins survive the first 30 days of life, according to Dayton Children’s. There have been very few surgeries on this type of connection and very little data available to gauge the likelihood of a successful separation. The boys’ anatomy was distorted from what doctors were used to, Lober said in the documentary.
After extensive testing, study, and review, Lober and Gordon determined separation would be possible in a series of surgeries. These efforts were also aided by Dr. Akil Patel, a neurosurgeon with Kettering Health.
After two years, four surgeries, and help from more than half a dozen organizations, the boys were officially separated at 5:43 a.m. on April 8, 2022. The separation surgery spanned three days.
“Pedro and Augusto are forever in our hearts and will always have a second home in Dayton,” said Deborah A. Feldman, president and CEO for Dayton Children’s.
Dayton Children’s withheld the last names of the two boys and their mother, citing privacy concerns.
How to watch
The documentary was produced and directed by Flyback Productions, a Chicago-based production company. View the documentary at youtube.com/@DaytonChildrens. This documentary contains graphic medical imagery, so viewer discretion is advised. May not be suitable for children under the age of 13.
Conjoined twin fast facts
The type of connection, the degree of connection, the sex of the children and their age at the time of the surgery make the separation of Pedro and Augusto, twins from Guatemala, one of the rarest separation surgeries in the world.
According to Dayton Children’s:
- Only 30% of conjoined twins are male.
- Only one in 200,000 live births are conjoined twins.
- Only an estimated 50 craniopagus conjoined twins are born every year, which is 5% of all conjoined twins. Normally only 15 live longer than a month after birth.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Plastered throughout the Smithfield neighborhood are design modules showcasing what a recently received $50 million grant will go toward.
Aside from rebuilding an estimated 1,100 new affordable housing units, there are plans to revamp the neighborhood and create a social innovation center.
Meagan Holland the Housing Authority Birmingham Division said the process to receive this grant has been in the works for years.
“What you’ll see over the course of the next few years, slated for completion in 2030 and 2031, is the redevelopment of our public housing communities in Smithfield court but then the development of new affordable housing,” Holland said.
After years of being denied funding, the project’s visions are finally being presented to the Smithfield community. According to Holland, this project will take shape under three pillars: Housing, neighborhood and people.
“The generations of families who have lived at Smithfield court have advocated for redevelopment and a new day for their community for years, for decades,” Holland said. “And so this moment, this day and this award just means a lot.”
That’s something some residents tell CBS 42 they’re looking forward to.
“I think it’s a good idea and it’s also better for the neighborhood and for the people here. It’s also better for the city,” said Glenn Hampton, a Smithfield resident of 14 years. “Make it more beautified. It’s time for it, it’s time for a change.”
Developers are hoping to bring in up to $200 million in investment to the area.
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Need school supplies in Alachua County? Here's where to find some local giveaways
School starts on Thursday, August 10 in Alachua County. If your soon-to-be student is still in need of supplies, there are a host of upcoming giveaways where you can find supplies for free.
Here are some of the upcoming events:
Saturday, July 29
Terrace Health and Rehab Back-to-School Backpack Drive
9-11 a.m. at the Terrace Health & Rehab Center - 7207 SW 24th Ave., Gainesville, FL 32608
Backpacks will be handed for free out while supplies last.
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Saturday, August 5
Progressive Orthodontics Associates Newberry Back-to-School Bash
11 a.m.-3 p.m. at 1556 SW SR 45, Suite 2, Newberry FL 32669
This free event will have school supplies, face painting, food vendors and more.
Waldo Community New Vision Coalition Back-to-School Bookbag Giveaway
10 a.m.-2 p.m. at 13550 NE 148th Ave., Waldo, FL 32694
Free clothes and backpacks will be given away.
Willie Mae Stokes Community Center Back-to-School Bash
10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Willie Mae Stokes Community Center - 355 NW Eestalustee Ave., Micanopy, FL 32667
Free backpacks, supplies, food and more will be available at this event.
Williston Back-to-School Drive-Thru Bash
3-6 p.m. at Williston City Hall - 50 NW Main Street, Williston, FL 32696
Backpacks with school supplies, snacks and information will be first come first serve for students from Pre-K to college level. Students must be present to receive a backpack.
Free haircuts will be offered as part of the weekend-long event on Sunday, August 6 from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Williston Middle High School Cafetorium (320 SW 12th Avenue, Williston, FL 32696).
Sunday, August 6
Alachua County Emerging Leaders (ACEL) Back-to-School Supply Drive
2-5 p.m. at 3850 NW 83rd St., Gainesville, FL 32606
An Amazon Wishlist of what they need for the supply drive.
Deeper Purpose Community Complex Community Back to School Bash
9 a.m.-12 p.m. at Deeper Purpose Community Complex - 16779 NW US Highway 441, High Springs, FL 32643
School supplies, backpacks and health and hygiene products will be provided for around 300 to 500 students.
Monday, August 7
High Springs Chamber of Commerce Back 2 School Giveaway
4-6 p.m. at High Springs Civic Center - 330 NW Santa Fe Blvd., High Springs, FL 32643
School supplies, gently used clothing and 500 backpacks will be given away. Free COVID testing and haircuts will also be available.
SW Advocacy Group (SWAG) Back-to-School Backpack Giveaway
Date and time TBD. Registration closes July 27.
Pre-register by bringing proof of address and photo ID to the SWAG Family Resource Center - 807 SW 64th Ter., Gainesville, FL 32607.
Backpacks given out at a later date will be for students in grades k-12 living in SWAG neighborhoods only. More information can be found by calling (352)-505-6823.
Other notable back-to-school events and sales:
Florida Health Alachua County Back-to-School No Cost Vaccines
Mondays through Fridays 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the Florida Department of Health in Alachua County - 224 SE 24th St., Gainesville, FL 32641
Appointments are required and can be made by calling (352)-334-7910.
The Repurpose Project School Supply Sale
July 18-30 at 1920 NE 23rd Ave., Gainesville, FL 32609
Anyone can get 50% school supplies for two weeks, and teachers get an additional 25% off.
People Against Violence Enterprises, Inc. (P.A.V.E.) Stop the Violence Back-to-School Rally
July 29 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at Santa Fe College Gymnasium - 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville, FL 32606
The first 5,000 students in attendance will receive a free backpack with school supplies.
What to expect at this year's event:"#Ceasefire" will be the theme of this year's Stop the Violence Back to School Rally
Just Between Friends Back 2 School Sale
Presale: August 2, Public Sale: Aug. 3-5 at Legacy Park Multipurpose Center - 15400 Peggy Road, Alachua, FL 32615.
Sale hours vary.
Shoppers can save up to 90% on baby and children items at this shopping warehouse. Tickets are required for entry and range from free to $40.
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Who won what?
Here's a list of other winners in each category, by public vote:
ACRYLIC: Cara Huish of Twin Falls was recognized with honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Rick Kuhn, Twin Falls, 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Winona Wong, Bainbridge Island, Washington; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show to Stephanie Talbot, Blackfoot.
CERAMIC: Jessica McGown, of Twin Falls, won honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Malaine Colver of Twin Falls, 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Mayumi Kiefer, of Pittsburg, Kansas; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show went to Jim Woods of Twin Falls.
DIGITAL: Logyn Lortz, of Twin Falls, was recognized with honorable mention and $25; 3rd place and $50 went to Cindi Walton, of Boise; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Nancy Prendergast, MD, of Westfield, New Jersey; and recipient of $500 for best in show went to Matthew Hunt of Twin Falls.
DRAWING: Rosanne Leger of Ormond Beach, Florida, won honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Sharon Higby of Twin Falls; 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Christopher Brown of Hailey; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show went to Allison Bryant of Kimberly.
FIBER: Eileen Lawrence, of Buhl, was recognized with honorable mention and $25; 3rd place and $50 went to Nancy Van Hook, of Sidney, Montana; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Kelly Markle of Sidney, Montana; and recipient of $500 for best in show went to Taura Nelson of Buhl.
GLASS: Edie Martin, of Eagle, honorable mention and $25; 3rd place and $50 went to Suzi Butler of Eagle; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Mary Jo Frazier of Twin Falls; and recipient of $500 for best in show was awarded to Mike Depp of Twin Falls.
MIXED MEDIA: Leslee Reed, of Buhl, was recognized with honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Betsy Horner Morishita of Twin Falls; 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Michael Maris of Twin Falls; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show to Dennis Mitchell, of Buhl.
OIL: William Houston, of Nampa, won honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Paige Weber, of Pocatello; 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Leon Smith of Twin Falls; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show was awarded to Floyd Drown, of Twin Falls.
PASTEL: Jessica Evett, of Boise, honorable mention and $25; 3rd place and $50 went to Tegwin Matenaer, of Kuna; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Jill Storey, of Boise; and recipient of $500 best in show to Marianne Guymon, of Twin Falls.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Terry Halbert, of Twin Falls, won honorable mention and $50; 2nd place and $100 was awarded to Gary Dempsay, of Jerome. There was a tie in this category, and Jan Mittleider, of Twin Falls, and Cathy Wilson, of Buhl, each won $500.
PRINTMAKING: Marne Elmore, of Boise, was recognized with honorable mention and $25; 3rd place and $50 went to Ellie Gonzalez, of Filer; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Jessie Swimeley of Caldwell; and recipient of $500 for best in show was awarded to Laurel Macdonald, of Boise.
QUILT: Tracy Prosen, North Oaks, Minnesota, won honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Cynthia England, Canyon Lake, Texas; 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Blue Prosen, of North Oaks, Minnesota; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show to Carla Harris, of Twin Falls.
SCULPTURE, UNDER 3 FEET: Charles “Chuck” Hanson, of Twin Falls, was recognized with honorable mention and $25; 3rd Place and $50 went to Lori Rieth, of Twin Falls; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Shena Bingham, of Buhl; and recipient of $500 for best in show to John Tatton, Filer.
SCULPTURE, 3 FEET and OVER: Jeff Lohr, of Filer, was recognized with honorable mention and $25; 3rd place and $50 went to Greg Bartlett, Twin Falls; 2nd place and $75 went to Mason Taylor, Kimberly; and recipient of $500 best in show to Daniel Borup, of Shelley.
WATERMEDIA: Leslie Lambert, of Burley, was recognized with honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Kayla Cuellar, of Caldwell; 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Elizabeth LaRowe, of Twin Falls; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show to Beth Trott, of Boise.
WEARABLE: Mike Metzler, of Twin Falls, was recognized with honorable mention and $50; 3rd place and $100 went to Camille Flournoy, of Twin Falls; 2nd place and $150 was awarded to Annie Bingham, of Twin Falls; and recipient of $1,000 for best in show to Aisha Malayamungu, of Twin Falls.
WOODWORK: Russ McAnulty, of Kimberly, won honorable mention and $25; 3rd Place and $50 went to Cheri Henney, of Boise; 2nd place and $75 was awarded to Rex Warren, of Twin Falls; and recipient of $500 for best in show to Robert Jackman, Filer.
Note: Art & Soul of the Magic Valley contest rules accommodate for low entry in categories. The rules stipulate that a $1,000 Best of Show prize will be awarded if 10 or more artists entered that category. Categories with at least five entries were awarded $500.
Best venues
The public voted for their favorite of the 98 venues. The People’s Choice Venue Award (two or fewer artists) honorable mention went to Bull Moose Bicycles and Koto Brewing Co. The winner was Habitat for Humanity ReStore. People’s Choice Venue (three or more artists) honorable mention went to Wabi Sabi Gallery. The winner was Premier Autogroup.
Youth divisions
Elementary Grades K-2 Division: Tied for honorable mention and recipient of $12.50 each are: Everly Bingham, Kimberly, and Jairrehn Bridges, Kimberly; 3rd place winner and recipient of $50: Elliot Roberts, Twin Falls; 2nd Place winner and recipient of $75: Bennett Roberts, Twin Falls; and 1st place winner and recipient of $100: Pius Pierce, Twin Falls.
Elementary Grades 3-5 Division: Honorable mention and recipient of $25: Jack Walker, Kimberly; 3rd place winner and recipient of $50: Liv Rhead, Kimberly; 2nd place winner and recipient of $100: Kenzie Rhead, Kimberly; and 1st place winner and recipient of $200: Dani Rhead, Kimberly.
Middle School Division: Honorable Mention and recipient of $25: Alexis Tse, Twin Falls; 3rd place winner and recipient of $75: Rose Machado, Buhl; 2nd Place winner and recipient of $150: Blair Kelsey, Twin Falls; and 1st place winner and recipient of $300: Emmarae Martinez, Buhl.
High School Division: Honorable mention and recipient of $25: Alexus Forschler, Twin Falls; 3rd place winner and recipient of $75: Clara Goodman, Gooding; 2nd place winner and recipient of $150: Katie Mayer, Twin Falls; and 1st place winner and recipient of $300: Priscilla Folkerts, Twin Falls.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — One of the best ways to enjoy the outdoor beauty of the region is Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium on foot.
“We have over forty miles of hiking and biking trails. In my opinion, some of the best trails in all of East Tennessee can be found right here,” said Bays Mountain Park Chief Ranger Tyler Wicks.
And the best part about hiking at Bays Mountain is there’s a little something for everyone.
“We have easy all the way up to strenuous. We have trails in all different types of habitats around here. You can hike along a nice calm stream you can hike to a nice overlook. You can hike up a mountain. You can climb up a fire tower on top of [a] mountain,” said Wicks.
If adventure on two wheels is more your speed, Bays Mountain offers mountain biking as well.
“We actually just opened a new mountain biking trail in honor of our 50th anniversary called Moonshiners Delight. It’s about a four-mile trail,” said Wicks.
Bays Mountain Park also offers a barge ride and other ways to enjoy the Old Kingsport Reservoir.
“We have canoeing and kayaking on the lake that also comes with a ranger guide to take you around the lake. You bring your own canoe or kayak up here and you go out on our lake which doesn’t have any other boats on it so it’s a really peaceful experience and a unique opportunity that most people don’t get to experience,” said Wicks.
Whether it’s by land or by water, Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium is a great way to enjoy the beauty of our region.
“What we care about is people building an appreciation for the natural world around them”, said Wicks.
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Jackson 2,118 cfs
Palisades 11,770 cfs
Heise 12,257 cfs
Blackfoot 2,809 cfs
American Falls 12,835 cfs
Milner 1,275 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 134 cfs
Jackson Lake is 89% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 81% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 52% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 71% of capacity.
As of Tuesday
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Built in 1971, the Bays Mountain Planetarium was originally not a planetarium at all.
“If you see our two exit doors the outside of those doors they still say auditorium, the original brass plaques because it was supposed to be an auditorium and then before we opened they said “No let’s put a dome in here and have a planetarium,” said Planetarium Director Adam Thanz.
With that simple change, generations of people have the opportunity to see the stars in a state-of-the-art facility.
“This particular theater is special because we are in a small community but we have a world-class facility to help them learn about the night sky,” said Thanz.
The dome seats 98 people and the real secret to its success is the technology starting with the projector that’s been in place since 2009.
“An optical star projector like this can provide pinpoint images for every star in fact a fiber optic and individual fiber optic is used for each individual star on the dome,” said Thanz.
There are six other digital projectors around the theatre for an even more realistic look at the night sky.
“We can take you to any place like being on Mars or flying through a galaxy or whatever it is, it’s a hemispherical projection. It’s bright and colorful,” said Thanz.
All of this is run by massive computers and programs behind the scenes to bring a show to thousands of people every year.
“We can have about four classes in our theatre. We do serve the general public along with countless students across about 45 counties in five states,” said Thanz.
With the addition of a new program coming up, the future of the Bays Mountain Planetarium continues to be bright.
“There is no theater like this in the world. This is the only one like it in the world,” said Thanz.
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A Castleford man faces several felony charges including kidnapping and sex abuse after being suspected of taking a 13-year-old girl to his house, touching her inappropriately and making her sniff a white powder suspected to be methamphetamine, court documents say.
Raul Garcia, 34, made his initial appearance Wednesday in felony magistrate court.
The 13-year-old girl said Garcia, who she was acquainted with, drove her to his house saying she could play with his children, but upon arriving at the home, his children were not home, court documents say.
Garcia, the girl said, took her to his bedroom, locked the door, and began inappropriately touching her over her clothing and made her sniff a white powder, which made her feel dizzy.
She later escaped from the house and alerted patrons at a nearby store, records say.
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The girl underwent a medical exam after the incident and tested positive for methamphetamine, records say.
Charges against Garcia include first-degree kidnapping, lewd conduct with a child under 16, sexual abuse of a minor under 16, and delivery of a controlled substance.
The charge of drug delivery was amended July 20 to include an enhanced penalty because it involved a child under 18, court records say. Being found guilty of that charge would mean a fixed minimum term of at least five years.
Garcia denied the allegations when he was interviewed by law enforcement officers, records say.
He is being held on $500,000 bond per warrant, and a preliminary hearing has been set for Aug. 11.
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A Jerome man was seriously injured Wednesday morning after a head-on collision between a dump truck and a vehicle north of Buhl, police say.
Clyde Schroeder, 70, driving a Hyundai Tucson, was southbound near 4300 N. 1500 E. at about 11:30 a.m. when he was struck by a northbound dump truck that had crossed the centerline, according to the Twin Falls Sheriff’s Office.
A third vehicle, a truck pulling a box trailer, contributed to the crash as the driver took a wide corner, according to a spokesman for the Twin Falls Sheriff’s Office.
The driver of the dump truck, Martin Ayala Martinez, 59, of Buhl, also was treated at a hospital. He was cited for driving without privileges, while the driver of the semi, who was charged with inattentive driving, was Daya Bains, 28, of Indiana, police say.
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More than 177K still in dark after storms, funnel cloud was spotted but didn't touch down
More than 177,000 customers were still without power Thursday morning after a line of strong storms with more than 60 mile per hour winds tore through southeast Michigan Wednesday afternoon, toppling trees and power lines.
A funnel cloud was spotted in the Grosse Pointes late Wednesday afternoon but the National Weather Service said it did not touch down.
"We’ve heard no indication of touchdown," said Andrew Arnold, a meterologist with the National Weather Service's office in White Lake Township. "There was a really good wind surge. From everything we’ve seen so far, there was just a funnel, not a tornadic touchdown."
The storm, which hit the Grosse Pointes especially hard along with the Ann Arbor and Dexter area, uprooted entire trees in some areas. Winds at Detroit Metro Airport clocked 65-70 miles per hour.
As of 7 a.m. Thursday, 154,000 DTE customers were without power while nearly 22,000 Consumers Energy customers were in the dark.
Power will likely not be restored to most DTE customers left in the dark by Wednesday's storms until Saturday, officials said.
At a press conference early Thursday morning at Willow Run Airport, Joe Musallam, DTE's vice president of distribution operations, said the electric utility will have almost then 2,000 line workers in the field around the clock to restore service.
“As the weather system moved through, we lost 165,000 customers of which about 154,000 still remain without power,” he said. “Although 97% of our customers have power, we want the 154,000 customers to know we’re laser-focused on getting their power back.”
He said the Ann Arbor and southwest area and Metro Detroit were all hit particularly hard by the storm. “We will really be loading up on crews in those areas.”
Temperatures, meanwhile, will continue to heat up for the rest of the week and there's a chance for more severe storms on Friday, though the weather service there's still a lot of uncertainty about when they'll hit.
Arnold said Friday will have a heat index of 95 to 100.
"It's going to be hot and humid," he said.
Several communities including Detroit, Dearborn and Westland will have cooling centers open through Friday to help residents avoid the heat.
"We want everyone to take extra caution in hot weather and during the times there is unhealthy air quality," said said Christina Floyd, Detroit's Acting Chief Public Health Officer. "Especially those most vulnerable including children, older adults, and those with chronic medical conditions."
Wednesday's storms hit less than a week after another round of storms that included tennis ball-sized hail that damaged homes, businesses and cars in southeast Michigan.
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FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - The words "Flint Strong" have been painted on the Flint Water Tower, replacing the words "Flint Water Plant."
Mayor Sheldon Neeley says it was done to remind everyone passing by the tower and the city that residents are fighting every day to ensure Flint has safe drinking water.
"We want to make sure that people understand the new philosophy of this community," says Mayor Neeley. "We want them to know that people are strong in this community, that Flint is strong. We want everyone traveling through our community, through our city, to understand who we are as residents of this community. "
The interior of the tower was also cleaned and repaired.
The tower is expected to become operational again in early August.
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Every morning, Jacob Roometua and crew can be found harvesting ripe figs at River Road Farms near Buhl. Their figs outsell all of the fruit that grows in their orchard, Roometua says. For 10 to 12 weeks during the summer, the farm provides fresh figs to about a half-dozen restaurants in Twin Falls and Sun Valley. Across the Snake River, Bonnie Peters grows 1,500 strawberry plants in their greenhouse near Jerome. Rather than growing their strawberries in soil, they grow strawberry plants in water. Peters started growing strawberries last year after her husband became interested in hydroponics. “It was really incredible,” Peters told the Times-News. “It far exceeded my expectations.” Neither Roometua nor Peters are typical farmers and both know their customers are not typical produce shoppers. River Road Farms and Peters Family Farms both provide Kathy McRae, owner of Yellow Brick Cafe in Twin Falls, with healthy food for her dining customers. McRae first began to cook with local produce and products while in Sacramento, California. She now continues to source local foods for her restaurant. “For the general consumer and our clientele here, I don’t know that it’s more about the taste as much as it is feeling empowered by knowing where your food is being grown,” she told the Times-News. “Knowing that it’s not being sprayed with pesticides. Knowing that it’s not being picked underripe and that it’s just chemically ripened. Knowing that we are supporting local people and we are putting money into their pockets rather than large companies.” Since opening Yellow Brick in 2016, McRae has relied on various farms throughout Idaho: Grains from 1000 Springs Mill, trout from Riverence, produce from River Road Farms and Peters Family Farms are a few of the many farms that McRae sources ingredients for her cafe. McRae is part of FARE Idaho, an advocacy organization that fosters relationships between independent producers and sellers to restaurants and retailers. FARE Idaho aids with relieving the difficulty of distributions for Yellow Brick, McRae said. “Distribution is our biggest hurdle to this day,” McRae said. “We’ve been able to sustain those long-standing relationships because we’ve been willing to work with them and because they’ve been willing to work with us. “They know that they can trust us.”
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Every morning, Jacob Roometua and his crew can be found harvesting ripe figs at River Road Farms near Buhl.
Their figs outsell all of the fruit that grows in their orchard, Roometua says.
For 10 to 12 weeks during the summer, the farm provides fresh figs to about a half-dozen restaurants in Twin Falls and Sun Valley.
Across the Snake River, Bonnie Peters grows 1,500 strawberry plants in their greenhouse near Jerome. Rather than growing their strawberries in soil, they grow strawberry plants in water.
Peters started growing strawberries last year after her husband became interested in hydroponics.
“It was really incredible,” Peters told the Times-News. “It far exceeded my expectations.”
Neither Roometua nor Peters are typical farmers and both know their customers are not typical produce shoppers.
River Road Farms and Peters Family Farms both provide Kathy McRae, owner of Yellow Brick Cafe in Twin Falls, with healthy food for her dining customers.
McRae first began to cook with local produce and products while in Sacramento, California. She now continues to source local foods for her restaurant.
“For the general consumer and our clientele here, I don’t know that it’s more about the taste as much as it is feeling empowered by knowing where your food is being grown,” she told the Times-News. “Knowing that it’s not being sprayed with pesticides. Knowing that it’s not being picked underripe and that it’s just chemically ripened. Knowing that we are supporting local people and we are putting money into their pockets rather than large companies.”
Since opening Yellow Brick in 2016, McRae has relied on various farms throughout Idaho: Grains from 1000 Springs Mill, trout from Riverence, produce from River Road Farms and Peters Family Farms are a few of the many farms that McRae sources ingredients for her cafe.
McRae is part of FARE Idaho, an advocacy organization that fosters relationships between independent producers and sellers to restaurants and retailers. FARE Idaho aids with relieving the difficulty of distributions for Yellow Brick, McRae said.
“Distribution is our biggest hurdle to this day,” McRae said. “We’ve been able to sustain those long-standing relationships because we’ve been willing to work with them and because they’ve been willing to work with us.
“They know that they can trust us.”
Peters delivers fresh produce to her customers who are part of a season-long Community Supported Agriculture subscription. The customer pays for a number of weeks of produce and Peters packages the produce she harvests seasonally for the customer to pick up at a designated location.
Along with the strawberries, she plants and harvests a wide range of produce.
“Probably the biggest challenge for what I do is that, compared to commercially farming, I am planting and harvesting continually,” Peters said. “There is no end.”
She continues farming for her customers because of “their gratitude and their excitement over new stuff when they open their boxes because they don’t know each week what they are going to get,” Peters said.
“You really have to have the people who are like-minded. They are the ones who are going to stay.”
Living the dream
Nothing beats a homemade chicken salad wrap with freshly baked pita bread, newly grown lettuce from your garden, pickled onions, and goat cheese from your parents’ farm next door.
“I’m literally living the dream,” Emily Knowles told the Times-News.
The Itty Bitty Farm is a greenhouse operation, started by Emily and Landon Knowles in 2017, that specializes in microgreens, herbs, salad greens, and other veggies. The farm in Carey serves communities all the way to Ketchum by selling at the Wood River Farmer’s Markets and delivering to restaurants such as Cafe Della and Nourishme.
The pair, alongside their five kids, didn’t always have this goal in mind though.
With an overflow of veggies and microgreens in their backyard, the Itty Bitty Farm decided it was time for the Carey community to have its own farmer’s market, a year after they started their farm.
“There’s lots of people in town that have little businesses or little things that they do to make money on the side,” Emily Knowles said. “It was one of the best things we could’ve done.”
The Carey Farmer’s Market has had at least 10 to 12 vendors every year and is held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Friday from June 2 to Aug. 18. Knowles said by having the farmers market on Friday evenings, they treat it more as an opportunity for an “outing” since it’s such a small community.
“We provide dinner and sometimes sell taco salads, sometimes pizza,” she said. “It’s a farmer’s market, but it’s also a party.”
Because of the close relationships they built in the community and a successful year at the Carey Farmer’s Market, the Knowles, in 2018, migrated their fresh crops to the Wood River Farmers Market. Not long after, they began delivering to Direct From Farmer, Gretchen’s, Kraay’s Market & Garden, NourishMe, The Ram, Tundra, and their main provider, Cafe Della/Della Provisions.
Daniel Landerson, co-owner of Cafe Della, said Itty Bitty Farms has continued to align with their values and ambitions by “selling food he would want to feed his family and kids.”
Landerson added that Itty Bitty Farm always has fresh greens and veggies ready for the restaurant. When the farm doesn’t have enough, they always make sure they are being taken care of.
“Landon Knowles came in not too long ago because we buy a lot of their microgreens for our salads, but they didn’t have enough. He then went out to his truck and when he came back, he came with the soil and put it on the table,” Landerson said with a laugh. “Instead of ‘farm-to-table’ it was ‘farm on the table.’
“We were able to just have that and cut the microgreens fresh once they grew.”
Emily Knowles told the Times-News that her parents’ farm, Silver Oaks — a small-scale farm that focuses on sustainably grown produce, goat yogurt, eggs, and honey — also sells to Cafe Della and at Itty Bitty Farm, creating a variety of foods for the community to choose from.
“I just want to reiterate that we’re all so lucky to be doing what we’re doing,” she said. “We really could not be doing all of this without the support and cooperation of the community that we have been so fortunate to have in this area.
“Plus, it’s fun to have family altogether.”
‘Fresh food just tastes so sweet’
Jackie Turner made her way from stall to stall at the Magic Valley Farmers Market, a bulging grocery bag in one hand, carrot greens bursting out the top.
Turner said the food tastes better when it comes from nearby.
“Fresh food just tastes so sweet,” Turner told the Times-News. “These carrots will be roasted, and they’ll be delicious.”
Although she often has a garden of her own, Turner said she’s been coming to the farmers market for over 10 years to supplement what she grows.
As an added bonus, Turner said she likes to give business to local growers.
“I like to support people in the area with their ventures,” Turner said.
One of several farmers markets in the region, the Magic Valley Farmer’s Market was started over 20 years ago, and for years was in the College of Southern Idaho parking lot. The market moved to the parking lot of the Magic Valley Mall during the COVID-19 pandemic, where it has been running every Saturday since 2020.
Leon Overton and his wife Sally have been bringing produce to the farmer’s market for around 20 years. Leon told the Times-News that, aside from the new location, a few things have changed over the years.
“The biggest adjustment here was raising things when the market wasn’t that big,” Overton said. “Back 20 years ago, there was no market like there is today. It’s grown, with all the people coming in, and it’s gotten bigger. And it makes a difference.”
Now, with the addition of other markets in places like Gooding and Buhl, Overton uses seven cold-frame greenhouses on just a few acres to grow the products he sells directly to customers.
One of Overton’s specialties is roasted green chilis, made famous in places such as Hatch, New Mexico.
“I figured people here need to have peppers like that, too,” Overton told the Times-News.
Toward the end of July, Overton said, tomatoes, melons and peppers — the big sellers of the summer — should all start coming in.
Rain or Shine
The tables and shelves at the Rain or Shine Farm booth are lined with huge onions, bulging beets, and bags of shelling peas arranged in baskets.
Rain or Shine owner Andrew Pospichal grew up in a farming family, his father farmed on a fairly large scale, like most farmers in the area.
After high school, Pospichal went to college, then started a career. But farming had been calling him back that whole time, he said.
“The further I got away from it, the more I realized, that’s what I want to do,” Pospichal told the Times-News.
To make the vision work out economically — and fit in around full-time jobs — he said he opted to farm on a smaller scale instead of running a bigger operation.
“The farmers market just made more sense for me,” Pospichal said.
They keep records of what they sell to help with planning for next year. Pospichal said they are always adjusting, always matching their products with what consumers are looking for.
“You have to be able to see what works and what doesn’t work,” Pospichal said. “We’re always trying to make it better, and provide what’s selling, what people want.”
For the love of honey
How much do people love local honey?
Heidi Tubbs of Tubbs Berry Farm west of Twin Falls answers it this way: When a customer first purchases a jar of the farm’s honey, they might look for breads and muffins to drizzle it on.
But don’t be surprised if not long afterward, they are eating spoonfuls of the golden, sticky delight right out of the jar.
For one, it is not commercially processed — it’s simply been taken out of the hives, strained and bottled. It isn’t heated and retains its unique taste, including the popular pumpkin raspberry blossom honey.
Tubbs says the art of detecting the subtle differences in honey flavors is like wine tasting.
It’s easy to see why Tubbs and her husband Kirk take pride in their raw honey, but it is just one part of their business. After all, they sell mounds of produce, from garlic and pumpkins to u-pick berries.
And in the fall, the farm is buzzing, not just with bees but with children and adults during their holiday festival, where children and adults taste its famous pumpkin chili or are seen navigating the farm’s huge straw maze.
But bees and honey are important and, in addition to honey, the farm sells bees and beekeeping supplies.
“We needed them as pollinators,” Kirk Tubbs gave as the reason for obtaining his first hives, explaining that the farm’s raspberries weren’t being fully pollinated, leaving white spots on the berries.
His wife jokes that it was more of an excuse for him because of his love of bees.
Those first bees didn’t do well, but Kirk got more and now has about 25 thriving hives. He says the addition of those bees has made a difference.
The amount of honey produced out of those hives varies widely each year, but there is usually enough to get them through the year, selling it to customers, either for the great taste or people who believe consuming the local honey alleviates their allergies.
The farm began selling honey about 12 years ago and harvests the honey in September.
You won’t find the Tubbses’ honey in a farmer’s market. Instead, Tubbs Berry Farm is open from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursdays at 1150 South Park Ave. W. for customers to peruse their produce or purchase a jar of honey.
Honey isn’t cheap but Kirk Tubbs just tries to cover costs, he said.
“We tell people straight up if you are looking for cheap honey, don’t get a beehive,” Heidi Tubbs said, “but if you want really good honey and to have a lot of fun, definitely get a beehive.”
The Tubbses point out that some of the honey sold at grocery stores isn’t pure honey, but has had fillers such as corn syrup added. In fact, officials estimate that about three-quarters of the honey sold in the U.S. isn’t 100% pure.
Southern Idaho isn’t a bee-heavy region, Kirk said, and people starting the beekeeping business can’t expect gobs of honey the first year. A hive can hold between 20,000 and 60,000 bees, and even with that, people should expect between zero and 80 pounds of honey, especially during the first year.
To keep bees in the spotlight, Tubbs Berry Farm holds a Bee Day in the spring, where beekeepers or prospective beekeepers gather to learn about the business, and how to be responsible to their bees.
And those who don’t have bees can still help, Heidi Tubbs said, by not spraying pesticides haphazardly.
“Think before you spray,” said advised.
In addition to pesticides, bee colonies throughout the country have been decimated by mites. It can make it tough for beekeepers nationwide.
Despite the obstacles, the love of bees is alive at Tubbs Berry Farm, and the sight of bees hard at work delights the couple.
Just seeing the bees swarm around the farm’s pumpkin blossoms in the morning is enough to put on a smile.
“That makes me happy,” Kirk Tubbs said.
Mychel Matthews is the managing editor at the Times-News. Contact Matthews at mmatthews@magicvalley.com or 208-735-3233.
Mychel Matthews is the managing editor at the Times-News. Contact Matthews at mmatthews@magicvalley.com or 208-735-3233.
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Oxford shooter's hearing to decide if life in prison is fair begins today
Pontiac — An Oakland County judge is scheduled to hear evidence starting Thursday morning to help him decide whether the teen who killed four students and injured six others and a teacher in November 2021 at Oxford High School should be sentenced to prison without the chance of parole.
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald's office is seeking a sentence of life without parole for shooter Ethan Crumbley after he pleaded guilty in October to 24 felonies, including terrorism causing death and four counts of first-degree murder. They plan to call up to 12 unidentified Oxford students and a former teacher who was injured in the shooting to testify, as well as showing potentially graphic photos of the shooting's aftermath.
The shooter's attorney Paulette Loftin plans to rebut the prosecution's arguments by presenting testimony from experts, text messages from the teen and a video of him falling at work and hitting his head to try to persuade the judge against imprisoning him for life for his role in the November 2021 mass shooting.
Because shooter Ethan Crumbley was 15 at the time of the crime but is charged as an adult, he has to have a Miller hearing so Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Kwame Rowe can determine if it would be appropriate to sentence him to life without parole in prison.
Watch the live stream of the hearing online.
A Miller hearing is a constitutional requirement for juveniles charged as adults with crimes that could land them in prison for life without the chance of parole. During the hearing, the judge will determine whether it is constitutional and appropriate to sentence the shooter to life in prison without parole.
During the Miller hearing, the teen's attorneys will present mitigating factors against life in prison, including his age, his family and home environment, the circumstances of the crime, factors associated with his youth and the possibility of rehabilitation.
If Rowe decides life without parole is not appropriate for Ethan, he must sentence him to a number of years in prison. Life with parole is not an option for murder cases under Michigan law.
Rowe's sentence must be a minimum of 25 to 40 years and a maximum of at least 60 years. So if the judge decides the shooter's crime does not warrant life without parole, the absolute minimum Ethan would serve in prison before being allowed to ask the parole board for release is 25 years.
Rowe will not make an immediate decision at the hearing's end. He instead will set two dates — one to announce his decision and one for the sentencing.
The shooter pleaded guilty in October to terrorism causing death, four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of attempted murder and 12 counts of felony firearm. He killed Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, 17.
His parents, Jennifer and James Crumbley, are also charged in connection with the shooting. Both face four counts of involuntary manslaughter. The case is pending in the Michigan Supreme Court after the Crumbley's attorneys appealed a district court judge's decision to bind the parents over for trial in Oakland County Circuit Court.
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FRIDAY Street dance
Send off the Twin Falls Public Library’s 2023’s Summer Reading Program with a bang. Join us from 6 to 8 p.m. on Hanson Street between the library and City Park for a free community street dance. There will be music, dancing, snacks, crafts, games and more.
Digital art class
Unleash your creativity and learn the basics of digital art at a free digital art class from 4 to 5 p.m. at the Twin Falls Public Library. This class is meant for anyone looking to explore the world of digital art. Learn the basics of digital painting and drawing, and learn the tools and techniques you need to create stunning digital art.
FRIDAY—SATURDAY Magic Valley Folk Festival
Gala performances of this international folk festival are set for 7 p.m. each night at the King Fine Arts Center at Burley High School. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. International performers will take the stage to share their love of performing and their love of their respective country’s cultures. Purchase tickets at magicvalleyfolkfestival.com or at the door.
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Supervillain adventure
Children are invited to help take back the Wilson Theatre in Rupert during superhero-themed activities. See www.historicwilsontheatre.com for details.
Street art classes
This is the last of four classes that dive into the world of street art, graffiti, mural painting and DIY art. Classes are from 2 to 4 p.m. and take place at the Lamphouse Theatre, 223 Fifth Ave. S., Twin Falls.
The classes are free, but a donation is required to hold your spot.
SATURDAY Botanical garden tour
Orton Botanical Garden Guided Tours take place at 10 a.m. Saturdays. The tour highlights plants in bloom and native Idaho species, and guides will answer questions on how to successfully incorporate drought-tolerant plants in your home landscaping. Free of charge. The botanical garden is at 867 Filer Ave. W., Twin Falls
Movie matinee/Twin Falls
The Twin Falls Public Library hosts free family movie matinees at 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Grab a calendar from the Twin Falls Public Library, or give the library a call at 208-7733-2964 ext. 2 to find out what’s playing.
Canyon Rim Trail Parkrun
Join us at the Twin Falls Visitors Center at 7:50 a.m. for an 8 a.m. start time. Canyon Rim Trail parkrun is a free weekly 5k event for runners and walkers of all abilities.
SUNDAY
Farmers market and fair
Check out the July Farmers Markets & Fair on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1071 E. 2900 S., Hagerman. Live music, wine tasting, food from The Butcher Shop, a great variety of vendors, and impromptu car and motorcycle shows.
TUESDAY National Night Out
National Night Out 2023 is coming to Twin Falls City Park from 5 to 8 p.m. Meet with your local law enforcement officers, see the SWAT team, bomb squad, Crime Scene Unit, detectives, K9s and more.
National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make neighborhoods safer and more caring places to live.
Genealogy workshop
A Genealogy Workshop will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Twin Falls Public Library. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced researcher, this class is for you. Each month, learn a new skill or tool you can use while researching your family tree. This month, learn how to power search using unique keywords and phrases to optimize your research.
WEDNESDAY Tech class
Gather at the Twin Falls Public the first two Wednesdays of every month at 4:30 p.m. for Tech Class. Each month, we’ll teach you a new skill, tool, or tech concept. This month, learn the basics of robotics.
AUGUST 3 Hiring event
The Idaho Department of Labor is hosting an All-Industry Hiring Event on Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Twin Falls Reformed Church, 1631 Grandview Drive N.
Employers will provide general information about their industry as well as current job openings and the skills necessary for different occupations. Job seekers are encouraged to bring their resumes and be prepared for an on-site interview.
Teen program: Writing Q&ATeens are invited to join local authors Rebecca Bischoff, Genelea Barker and Theresa Pocock at 6 p.m. at the Twin Falls Public Library for a panel discussion about the writing process and getting published.
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DESOTO COUNTY, Fla. — Two big-name chains are making their way to rural DeSoto County. Wawa and Culver’s are both under construction.
“It’s very exciting. We’re really kind of at the crossroads of the state: east-west right here on 70, then north-south on U.S. 17, so it’s an ideal location. Businesses are noticing and they want to be here,” Sondra Guffey said, economic development director.
She said more than 32,000 cars travel U.S. 70 daily.
“We’re within an hour’s drive of a million people.”
Right now, food options in town are slim.
“We definitely have Publix, which is my favorite,” Erica Baker said. “And we have a lot of chicken places.”
The variety is so low that some people are driving out of town just to eat.
“We spend a lot of time driving to Sarasota right now for suppers,” Douglas O’Dell said.
Planet Fitness, Take 5 and other restaurants are also in the works for DeSoto County. You can keep up with all the new economic development here.
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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — Florida Highway Patrol said a 43-year-old man from Palm Coast died Wednesday night in a crash on Interstate 95.
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Troopers shut down the northbound lanes of I-95 near Flagler Beach around 10:30 p.m.
Crash investigators determined that a van rear-ended a tractor-trailer that was stopped for traffic in the area of mile marker 282.
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Troopers said the driver of the van was not wearing a seatbelt and died at the crash site.
FHP did not release his name.
Two men in the truck, both from South Florida, were not hurt.
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Troopers reopened the roadway Thursday morning.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Rain and storm chances will be going up over the next few days in Central Florida.
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A tropical wave in the Bahamas is forecast to move over Florida on Friday.
The system will help bring our rain and storm chances up to 50% Thursday and 60% Friday.
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All the rain activity will help keep our temperatures cooler Thursday.
The high temperature in Orlando should reach around 85 degrees Thursday afternoon.
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- Thirteen cars of a Milwaukee Road train derailed yesterday afternoon about 7 miles south of Superior just off County Road C. The derailment forced Amtrak to cancel the North Star run scheduled to depart Duluth for the Twin Cities at 6 p.m.
- Under a ruling yesterday, Douglas County can proceed with consolidating its rural ambulance service at a new central station. Five townships in southern Douglas County had filed a civil suit last month to block the county's consolidation plan.
News Tribune, July 27, 1923
- The advance guard for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has already reached Duluth to prepare for tomorrow's arrival of the circus. There will be performances tomorrow at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the old circus grounds on 31st Avenue West.
- The Virginia City Council will vote tomorrow on the establishment of a Better Films Commission for the city. The plan calls for a commission which would have for its purpose the approval of films brought to town to be shown in moving-picture houses.
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Twenty-two attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject a proposed $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially dangerous chemicals, saying it lets manufacturer 3M Co. off too easily.
The deal announced in June doesn’t give individual water suppliers enough time to determine how much money they would get and whether it would cover their costs of removing the compounds known collectively as PFAS, said the officials with 19 states, Washington, D.C., and two territories. In some cases the agreement could shift liability from the company to providers, they said.
“While I appreciate the effort that went into it, the proposed settlement in its current form does not adequately account for the pernicious damage that 3M has done in so many of our communities,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leader of the multistate coalition.
3M spokesman Sean Lynch said the agreement “will benefit U.S.-based public water systems nationwide that provide drinking water to a vast majority of Americans” without further litigation.
“It is not unusual for there to be objections regarding significant settlement agreements,” Lynch said. “We will continue to work cooperatively to address questions about the terms of the resolution.”
The company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, manufactures per- and polyfluorinated substances — a broad class of chemicals used in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products such as clothing and cookware, as well as some firefighting foams.
Described as “forever chemicals” because they don’t degrade naturally in the environment, PFAS have been linked to a variety of health problems, including liver and immune-system damage and some cancers.
3M has said it plans to stop making them by the end of 2025.
Some 300 communities have sued 3M and other companies over water pollution from the compounds. A number of states, airports, firefighter training facilities and private well owners also have pending cases.
They have been consolidated in U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, where the proposed settlement was filed last month.
Although the company put its value at $10.3 billion, an attorney for the water providers said it could reach as high as $12.5 billion, depending on how many detect PFAS during testing the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered over the next three years.
The law firm representing the water providers did not immediately respond Wednesday to messages seeking comment.
EPA in March proposed strict limits on two common types, PFOA and PFOS, and said it wanted to regulate four others.
In addition to California, states urging Judge Richard Gergel to reject the deal included Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin. Also opposed were Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
In a court filing, the attorneys general said it would force nearly all public water providers nationwide to participate unless they withdraw individually — even those that haven’t filed suits or tested for PFAS.
“Troublingly, they would have to make their opt-out decisions without knowing how much they would actually receive and, in many cases, before knowing the extent of contamination in their water supplies and the cost of remediating it,” the officials said in a statement.
A provision in the proposed deal would shift liability from 3M to water suppliers that don’t opt out, the statement said. That could enable the company to seek compensation from providers if sued over cancer or other illnesses in PFAS-affected communities, it said.
“As such, the proposed settlement is worth far less than the advertised $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion,” the attorneys general said.
The attorneys general did not take a position on a separate $1.18 billion deal to resolve PFAS complaints against DuPont de Nemours Inc. and spinoffs Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc.
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Titusville and Brevard County firefighters on Wednesday evening put out a fire that was burning a garage-turned-workshop, reporting a cat was found dead at the scene.
Crews were sent to 4365 Carlysle Ave. just after 7 p.m., containing the fire to the garage and quickly extinguishing it, according to a Facebook post from the Titusville Fire Department. The fire began in the enclosed workshop, the post states.
The garage was left heavily damaged, firefighters said, noting smoke damage throughout the adjoining home.
All occupants of the home were able to get out and no injuries were reported, the post states.
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The state fire marshal is investigating.
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After a long, winding road and a challenging permitting process, Reviresco Coffee Co. at 710 Lafayette St. in Richmond’s Malvern Gardens neighborhood has set an opening date.
The new coffee shop plans to open on Monday.
The shop is the brainchild of two teachers-turned-coffee-roasters: Steven and Melissa Dalton, along with their friend and coffee connoisseur, Tim Bynum.
When the pandemic hit and forced the Daltons to teach online while caring for their children, now ages 11 and 8, at home, they began to rethink their future.
“We asked ourselves, ‘what can we do if this ever happens again? How can we plan for our family and have a little more control over our circumstances?’” Steven Dalton said.
In 2021, Steven Dalton started roasting coffee as a side business and launched Reviresco Coffee Co. online. Reviresco started in a shared space on Lakeside Ave., but as the coffee business grew, Reviresco outgrew the space and Steven Dalton started looking for his own spot.
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Steven and Melissa Dalton chose the name “Reviresco,” from the Latin word meaning “to flourish again,” to reflect their decision to launch a new career.
Reviresco is a micro coffee roaster, crafting small batches of coffee with Richmond-specific names like the Carytown blend, the Fan blend and the Manchester blend. Most of the coffees are blends of beans from Central and South America, Africa and Asia.
The couple fell in love with a small, white building at 710 Lafayette St. in Richmond’s West End.
“We started meeting the neighbors and the neighborhood kept saying, ‘We want a coffee shop. Can you please do a coffee shop?’” Steven Dalton said. “We decided, ‘let’s go all in and do the dream and do the coffee shop.’”
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But unbeknownst to them, the building had numerous zoning variances that required them to pursue a special use permit, they said, that took months and cost thousands of dollars they were not expecting to spend.
They spent the last several months renovating the 1,200-square-foot space. They were finally granted their special use permit and are now ready to open.
“We’ve always dreamed of owning a coffee shop,” Steven Dalton, who will serve as head roaster, said.
Reviresco will be serving simple, classic espresso-based beverages, such as cappuccinos and lattes, hot and iced, as well as seasonal beverages.
The shop is partnering with Claudia’s Bakeshop in Carytown, which will provide baked goods for sale. There will also be grab-and-go sandwiches and salads from Seasoned Delight, a new food vendor that recently opened in Hatch Kitchen. Seasoned Delight will be preparing two custom sandwiches and two custom salads for Reviresco.
Reviresco will be roasting in the space. Reviresco uses a Yoshan 6 kilo coffee roaster and roasts 10 pound batches. “We’re a true micro-roastery,” Dalton said.
“My goal is to make craft coffee that’s approachable to the everyday drinker,” Dalton said.
“All of our coffees are named for Richmond neighborhoods. The Fan blend was one of the first blends I came up with. To this day, it’s my favorite. A couple asked us to make it for their honeymoon,” Steven Dalton said.
The Manchester blend is his second favorite, named after a friend who asked for a special blend to send to her father on Father’s Day. “At the time, she was living in Manchester. All of our blends have a personal aspect to them,” Steven Dalton said.
Reviresco Coffee is packaged in bright pastel colors, such as pink for the Fan blend and bright yellow for the River Road blend. “We try to be very simple and approachable. We want to be where everyone feels welcome,” Dalton said.
Inside the coffee shop, there will be limited seating for eight to 10 people. Reviresco will add al fresco seating in the side yard. “This neighborhood is so walkable, there are always dog walkers and bikers going by. We want to take advantage of the space,” Steven Dalton said.
After months of waiting and working, Reviresco is eagerly anticipating opening its doors on Monday.
“I’m excited. I love the coffee roasting side of things, but I am thrilled to get to the customer facing side of things. Being able to open our doors and actually interact with people in the neighborhood, build those relationships and serve some coffee,” Steven Dalton said.
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Two men were hospitalized as more than two dozen shots were fired in West Philadelphia late Wednesday night.
The shooting happened at shortly after 11:30 p.m. Wednesday on near the intersection of Salford and Filbert streets, Philadelphia Police Cpt. Anthony Mirabella Jr. said.
Police received a 911 call for numerous gunshots in the area, Mirabella said. When officers arrived both men were found shot numerous times.
Police officers rushed both men to the hospital where they were listed in critical condition, police said.
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"The scene itself has 26 fired shell casings and six projectiles," Mirabella said. "There's also numerous blood stains on the highway."
No arrests were immediately made.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here.
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The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months, a streak of hikes that are intended to curb inflation but that also carry the risk of going too far and triggering a recession. The move lifted the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate from roughly 5.1% to …
VALPARAISO — A 59-year-old Porter County man, who was shot by police attempting to take him into custody in a child molesting case, has pleaded guilty to the sex crime, court records show.
James Filby, of Porter Township, pleaded guilty this week to felony counts of vicarious sexual gratification, attempted sexual battery and sexual battery, according to the court of Porter Circuit Judge Mary DeBoer.
The proposed plea agreement calls for four and a half years of formal probation, and for Filby to register as a sex offender and undergo sex offender treatment, records show.
DeBoer took the proposed plea under consideration and will decide Sept. 26 whether to accept it and carry out sentencing.
The case had been set to go to trial Aug. 30.
Filby was shot Nov. 3, 2021 by police after officers arrived at his home to serve a warrant in the sex case and Filby allegedly met them outside and produced a handgun, state police have said. Filby and an officer exchanged gunfire.
"She asked if my dog (K9 partner) could come out and said 'cus he's not a dog,' " police said.
Filby was injured in the shooting and airlifted to a Chicago hospital where he was initially listed in critical condition, police had said.
Porter County Prosecutor Gary Germann later announced that the shooting was justified and that the officer would not be charged.
One of the alleged victims in the sex case, who was 21 at the time Filby was arrested in December 2021, told police that Filby was inappropriate with her twice, including in 2013 or 2014 when he exposed himself.
"Filby zipped his pants and stated, 'I'm not going to hurt you, maybe next time when you come over then,'" the girl told police.
The allegations against Filby were raised in March 2021 when a mother of two came forward claiming he had been inappropriate with her and her two daughters in the Valparaiso area, according to a court document.
The accused looked back at the police vehicle at one point, and also weaved between other vehicles and disregarded a stop sign.
She described Filby as a heavy drinker, who spends most of his time drinking in a pole barn on his property and likes to drive around his 15 acres in a golf cart, police said.
The woman said during a visit to the site in March or April 2020, Filby sexually attacked her in the pole barn, according to investigators. The woman said she did not initially tell anyone because she did not want to cause division.
The woman's daughter said she was at Filby's home in 2013 when he touched her inappropriately while watching a movie. The same young woman also claims Filby exposed himself to her while at his residence in 2013 or 2014, records show.
The young woman's sister told police that in the summer of 2014, she was at Filby's residence with friends to ride four-wheelers when he walked in on her in the shower. He made several attempts to touch her inappropriately, police said.
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AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Crime scene tape blocked off a home along Rose Street Wednesday as Auburndale Police Department officers conducted a warranted search. Police wouldn't say why they were there.
However, the man who lives in the house, Jake Rudy, said police showed up at his home after his girlfriend told them the couple saw Tonya Whipp back on June 6.
Whipp, 38, has been missing since May. Her family says May 26 was the last time they were in contact with her. In late June, Auburndale police officially started investigating Whipp's disappearance as a missing person case.
Rudy tells 10 Tampa Bay Whipp lived at his house 12 years ago. He's been friends with her for more than a decade and said it is not like her to disappear like this.
Rudy says police showed up around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at his home. Equipped with K-9s, police reportedly wanted to search the house.
Rudy says he welcomed the police inside, adding authorities were searching for what appeared to be evidence linked to Whipp and/or her disappearance. He says he doesn't know where she is and isn't linked to her disappearance.
Rudy said there isn't anything in his home that would make him a person of interest in Whipp's disappearance case. He said police were going through his things inside his house and were digging in his backyard. He said at some point police came back with a search warrant for the Rose Street home and kicked him out.
"There is nothing in my house, in my yard, that indicates anything to Tonya Whipp," Rudy stated.
The Auburndale Police Chief wouldn't comment on why they were searching Rudy's house. Chief Terry Storie said, "There will be more information forthcoming."
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COSTILLA COUNTY, Colo. — Property owners in Colorado sent in a record number of property value appeals this year. The hope was to convince their county assessors to reduce the value of their home and shrink the increase they received on their property tax bill.
There's one little problem, though. Appealing your property tax value could also put you at risk of getting an even higher bill.
"This carpet is 23 years old," said Thomas Larson sitting inside his home in Fort Garland, in Costilla County. "No, no, I haven’t touched it. One thing, I’m too old. The other, I can’t afford it."
Larson built the home himself. He says he hasn't added any square footage to the home or done any major renovations since he moved in to the house in 2000.
And yet, his property valuation went up higher than he could have ever imagined this year.
"$640,017," Larson said looking at his property valuation document. "That blew me away."
That's a lot, considering just last year the assessed value was under $140,000. Then, Larson got a card in the mail a couple of months ago telling him it went up to more than $300,000. He appealed to try and get it lowered.
The county assessor has the power to increase values after someone appeals. Higher property values mean higher taxes. When Larson got back his appeal, the assessor said his home was worth more than $640,000.
"They doubled it. So, I feel like I might have been better not to say anything," said Larson. "Appealing was probably a really stupid decision."
If you're considering taking your appeal to the next level, we should warn you that your property valuation could keep increasing with each appeal.
You didn't know that? Yeah, we didn't either.
Turns out the state doesn't require assessors to warn you before you decide to appeal.
"It makes me feel like I am being victimized by the county government. That’s exactly how I feel," said Tom Phillips, Larson's neighbor who lives down the street.
His value also skyrocketed. Now they’re fighting back.
"We’re starting to band together," said Phillips. "We actually had some meetings down at the community hall and that’s where we found out that we’re not alone."
Together, they appeal yet again.
In front of county commissioners and the deputy county assessor at the Board of Equalization meeting, Larson pleaded his case on Wednesday. Hundreds more are signed up to do the same over the coming days in Costilla County.
"Why would you do that?" Larson asked the assessor who increased his home value. "I have not even done any improvements on it. It’s the same that it was when I built it."
In less than 15 minutes, the deputy county assessor, Ronda Lobato, decides she’s reducing the assessed property value of Larson's home from $640,000 to $350,000. She gave no explanation on why, how she came to that conclusion, or why it was ever valued so high.
9NEWS has been trying to talk to anyone in the county assessors office in Costilla County for the last couple of days. We sent them multiple emails. We finally had a conversation in person with Lobato on Wednesday in San Luis.
She told us she saw our emails, but didn’t have time to talk to us or respond to our questions.
Despite these cases, there are some success stories in Colorado.
We told you about Breck Larson in May. He's an Arapahoe County homeowner who appealed after his property value increased 81%.
He went above and beyond to show off the worst aspects of his home, submitting 49 pages worth of documents and photos of his 1970s fixtures, a retro turquoise bathroom and asbestos. His appeal convinced the assessor to come down about 10% on his valuation, but not the 30% decrease he wanted.
"I'm kind of looking at this as the 10% off my property value isn't really helpful, because it only knocks $1,100 off my taxes and my taxes are pretty hefty considering how high they valued my property," Breck Larson said. "Ten percent off feels like a restaurant coupon."
Like the homeowners in southern Colorado, he said he's also considering taking his appeal to the county board of equalization for a second opinion.
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SAN ANTONIO — Federal lawmakers are set to debate a bill aimed at protecting children online. The Kids Online Safety Act would limit harmful content minors could be exposed to on social media.
Its also legislation that is being spearheaded by an Alamo Heights mother. The hearing is a closed door session so we won’t know until afterward if it will move forward.
This also isn’t the first time a version of the bill has been debated by lawmakers. However, its sponsors are confident this time it will be well received.
It’s also an important day for Alamo Heights mom Maurine Molak, whose son David Molak died by suicide in 2016 after harmful cyberbullying.
His death lead to the creation of “David’s Legacy," a foundation committed to eliminating cyberbullying.
She says this bill will give parents and young people protections when it comes to social media.
Highlights of the bill include:
- options to protect the information of minors
- disable addictive product features
- create dedicated channel to report harm to kids on a social platform
Right now, the bill has 40 co-sponsors.
That’s more than the last time this bill was up for consideration, giving Molak some hope.
Again, it will go before a committee hearing Thursday.
We will keep you updated on the outcome.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man is fighting for his life this morning after he got hit on a southside street late Wednesday night.
It happened around 11:15 p.m. in the 2600 block of Commercial Avenue near West Harding Blvd.
Police say the victim was acting erratic and running in and out of traffic when he got hit. The driver who hit him stopped and called police.
The man was rushed to the hospital with severe life-threatening injuries.
The driver isn't expected to face any charges.
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CONVERSE, Texas — A man had to be treated for smoke inhalation after his oxygen tank caught fire and spread to his home, officials say.
It happened around 6 a.m. Thursday on the 7500 block of Myrtle Trail in Converse on the northeast side of town.
Fire crews say the man, in his 60s, had to be rescued from his home by first responders.
The fire spread to the living room and kitchen before melting away the smoke detector inside of the hallway.
The man was taken to a nearby hospital where he is being treated for smoke inhalation.
Officials are not sure what caused the fire to begin with.
This is a developing story.
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SAN ANTONIO — A homeless man was cut overnight because he didn't want to buy any drugs, police say.
It happened near an Exxon gas station on SW Loop 410 just after 10 p.m. Wednesday.
A sergeant on the scene says a man approached the victim asking if he wanted to buy some drugs. He declined and told the drug dealer to go away.
That's when the dealer cut him in the armpit, shoulder and uppper back before running away.
The victim ran to the Exxon for help.
He was taken to University Hospital in stable condition.
Police are investigating the incident, but no suspect has been located.
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Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
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CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — The Circleville police officer who unleashed his K9 at a surrendering truck driver following a chase earlier this month has been fired.
Officer Ryan Speakman was terminated two days after being placed on administrative leave. "Officer Speakman did not meet the standards and expectations we hold for our police officers," the Circleville Police Department said in a statement.
The Circleville Police Department fired Speakman despite the fact that the city’s Police Use of Force Review Board concluded that he followed department policy when he set the K9 officer on 23-year-old Jadarrius Rose, despite other officers’ requests not to. The department adds that its review board does not have the authority to recommend discipline.
In its statement, Circleville police added that the Pennsylvania-based police service dog facility that trained the K9 involved in the incident "affirmed that its training protocols were followed."
The lengthy pursuit on July 4 and the ensuing attack were captured on a police body camera. The chase began on state highway 35, when state troopers tried to stop a commercial semitruck that was missing a mudflap and failed to halt for an inspection, according to a Ohio State Highway Patrol incident report made available to The Associated Press.
The nearby Circleville Police Department was called in to assist, including a K9 police dog, authorities said. The truck driver, Jadarrius Rose, 23, of Memphis, Tennessee, who is Black, initially refused to get out of the truck and later defied instructions to get on the ground, according to the Highway Patrol incident report and the body cam video.
"The suspect failed to stop for marked patrol units with lights and sirens activated," the report said. Rose eventually got on his knees and raised his hands in the air.
The body camera video shows Speakman holding back the K9, and a trooper can be heard off-camera repeatedly yelling, "Do not release the dog with his hands up!" However, Speakman deploys the dog, and it can be seen in the video attacking Rose.
WARNING: The content in this video may be hard for some to watch.
The trooper can be heard yelling: "Get the dog off of him!" Rose appears to be in pain and yells "Get it off! Please! Please!" before the attack ends. Rose was treated at a hospital for dog bites.
Rose was charged with failure to comply.
Audio recordings of 911 calls that were released by the Ross County Sheriff's Office show Rose told emergency dispatchers that the officers pursuing him were "trying to kill" him and he didn't feel safe pulling over. He also said he was confused about why the officers were trying to stop him and why they had their guns drawn after he briefly stopped the truck before driving away.
The dispatcher repeatedly told Rose he should stop and comply with police, and also told him the officers were not trying to harm him.
Ross County Prosecutor Jeffrey Marks said Monday that Rose was charged there "based on the events that happened" in the county. Marks' office is now reviewing materials in the case and will ultimately decide whether any charges should be brought before a county grand jury. However, Marks said his office has no say in whether the Circleville officer is charged since that episode didn't happen in Ross County.
On Tuesday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was asked for his reaction to what happened in Circleville. He stated that the incident “should be a lesson, a wake-up call to everyone, that police training in the state of Ohio is not equal.” DeWine added that he plans to propose the construction of a scenario-based training facility that will be available to every law enforcement agency in Ohio.
"While we certainly respect Gov. DeWine's views and are always ready to discuss how to improve police training, Circleville's canine teams of dogs and officers are trained and certified to meet current Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission-recognized standards," Circleville police added in its statement firing Speakman.
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SAN MARCOS, Texas — A San Marcos resident is $1 million richer after claiming a winning Powerball ticket.
The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, matched all five of the white ball numbers but not the red Powerball number in a Quick Pick ticket. This ticket was purchased at the Risen N Stop #2 off of North State Highway 123.
There were three other winners across Texas who also took home $1 million. Those winners were in Houston, Pleasanton and Forney.
After someone wins the jackpot, the Powerball is rolled back to $20 million and continues to grow until another winner is announced.
Powerball drawings are held each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 10:12 p.m. CT.
Since the first ticket was sold in 1992, Texas Lottery has generated $37.3 billion in revenue. The Texas Lottery has given $31.4 billion to the Foundation School Fund, which helps public education in the state.
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SAN ANTONIO — Police still have lots of questions after a shooting on the west side early Thursday morning.
SAPD was called out to the 4200 block of W Commerce around 2:45 a.m. for reports of a shooting in progress.
Officers arrived to find a teen who had been grazed by a bullet in the leg.
Police searched area around the Elmendorf Lake Park pool nearby and did find evidence of the shooting, but officers say that the victim is refusing to cooperate with investigators. His description of where the shooting actually occurred was vague.
The teen was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.
Police are still investigating the incident, and say that they have no suspect in custody at this point.
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Area parks host free outdoor movie nights through the summer.
“Movie Nights in the Park” takes place Fridays at dusk in Petrifying Springs Park, Area No. 1 (next to the Biergarten), 5555 Seventh St. in Somers.
Movies scheduled this summer are:
- “Thor: Love and Thunder” (July 28). The 2022 sequel to "Thor: Ragnarok" brings back Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson and Taika Waititi (who also co-wrote the script). Joining the star-studded cast are Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Jaimie Alexander. In this installment, retirement for Thor (Hemsworth) is disturbed by Gorr the God Butcher (Bale). Thor embarks on an adventure to stop the villain with a little help from his friends King Valkyrie (Thompson), Korg (Waititi) and Jane Foster (Portman).
- “Jurassic World” (Aug. 4)
- “Mitchells vs. the Machines” (Aug. 11)
- “Back to the Future” (Aug. 18)
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To find out which movie is playing, “like” Kenosha County Parks on Facebook for weekly movie listings.
- Waterford shows family friendly movies in Village Hall Park, 123 N. River St., on these Thursdays: Aug. 3 and 17. Audience members should bring a chair and blankets to enjoy the outdoor movies next to the Fox River. Beverages and snacks will be sold.
Note: All movie nights are free to attend and are subject to cancellation due to weather conditions.
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It’s July 27, which means you only have a precious few days left to enjoy Ice Cream Month. We suggest you indulge in the frozen treat at every opportunity! Remember, ice cream goes great with a warm apple pie, and nothing complements a brownie better than vanilla ice cream.
Taste of Wisconsin opens today in HarborPark. The three-day festival features 30-plus food and beverage vendors, plus live music on four stages. The festival is open 3 to 10 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday along the harbor, at 54th Street and Calabria Way (formerly Ring Road). Admission and parking are free. For more about the festival, including the music lineup, see our story in today’s Get Out & About entertainment section.
The 21st season of Peanut Butter and Jam concerts continues today with Libido Funk Circus. There are two free concerts on July 27: an acoustic show from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and the full band playing from 6 to 8 p.m. In Veterans Memorial Park, located at 54th Street and Sixth Avenue on Kenosha’s harbor. Admission is free.
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The new Rhythm on the Lake Concert Series continues it summer season of weekly free concerts in Old Settlers Park, 24100 75th St. in Paddock Lake. Concerts are 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, each week through Aug. 17, on the new band shell in the park, overlooking the lake. The group Kat and the Hurricane performs on July 27. Bring lawn chairs and/or blankets. Concessions will be available for purchase, including alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages from a pop-up beer garden. For more details, go to parks.kenoshacounty.org.
The Kenosha Public Museum, 5500 First Ave., is hosting the Transparent Watercolor Society’s annual exhibit, showcasing paintings from the top transparent watercolor artists in the country. Admission is free. For more about the show, see our story in today’s Get Out & About entertainment section.
Play ball! The Kenosha Kingfish return to Simmons Field tonight, taking on the Traverse City Pit Spitters. The team is giving fans a free replica of the historic ballpark. The game starts at 6:35 p.m. Gates open at 5:35 p.m., and the Simmons Field giveaway applies to the first 1,000 fans. For tickets and more information, go to Kingfishbaseball.com, call 262-653-0900, or go to the ticket office at Simmons Field, 7817 Sheridan Road.
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What: Kenosha Pops Concert Band's season finale program
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 2
Where: The band shell in Pennoyer Park, at Seventh Avenue and 35th Street on Kenosha's lakefront
Cost: Free
Note: Bench seating is provided. Audience members also brings lawn chairs and/or blankets.
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KENOSHA — The Kenosha Pops Concert Band wraps up its 101st season Wednesday night with a program of favorite tunes from the summer concerts.
Of the 2023 season, Craig Gall, the band’s musical director, said, “We were happy to welcome enthusiastic crowds back to Pennoyer Park."
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The band’s musicians, he added, “make this possible to do each summer. We all pull it together.”
This season also marked the second summer for Kathy Ripley as the band’s assistant conductor.
Her second season in that role, she said, "was much easier to get ready for than the first season, now that I knew what to expect,” Ripley said.
She also plays flute with the band.
The season finale traditionally features songs from the band’s summer concerts, and this concert will probably also include several tunes from the band's “Kinderkonzert: Pops on Safari” program that was slated for July 12.
The concert was canceled due to heavy rain that day.
Selections on that program were aimed at "the entire family," Gall said. "The audience was invited to join us on a musical safari through the animal kingdom, celebrating all creatures great and small” he said. Selections included the “Pink Panther” and “Jurassic Park” themes and other animal-related tunes.
Other themes from this summer include: “Pops in Technicolor,” featuring songs with color-related titles; “Pops by the Numbers,” with numbers-related tunes; “Stately Splendor,” which Gall calls "a musical travelogue of the United States,” with songs such as a medley from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma”; patriotic programs for July 4, with traditional marches and other favorites; “A Century of Warner Brothers,” with tunes from the iconic Hollywood studio, including “As Time Goes By” from “Casablanca”; and the band's indoor concert, “A Tribute to Frank Germinaro.”
That concert "featured selections that were programmed frequently by our late musical director,” Gall said of Germinaro, who first started playing with the band in the 1960s and was a huge part of the group until his death in January.
Songs on that program included “Begin the Beguine,” “Night Flight to Madrid” and several Italian music selections.
The final program each summer also features “Old Scottish Melody” — better known as “Auld Lang Syne.” That traditional piece, sung by the band’s master of ceremonies Greg Berg, has become the band’s signature sign-off each season.
“We had another great summer of music making, despite two consecutive rainouts, on July 5 and 12,” Gall said. “We had fun concerts and continued support from our audiences, which we appreciate. And, as always, we thank the City of Kenosha for all its support, too.
“It’s always sad to see the summer season end,” he added, “but we’ll see everyone in December at Carthage College for our Christmas concert.”
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KENOSHA — The 21st season of Peanut Butter and Jam concerts continues today with a performance by Libido Funk Circus.
The group dates back to 1996, when a group of guys from Chicago decided to throw a disco party for close friends, concert organizers said.
There are two free concerts today, July 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.
The weekly performances take place in Veterans Memorial Park, located at 54th Street and Sixth Avenue on Kenosha’s harbor.
At the afternoon show, audiences get “a sneak preview” of the evening performance, as members of that week’s band perform an acoustic show.
The full band then takes the stage for the evening show.
The lineup for the evening performances includes:
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- Aug. 3: Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones. The high energy act performs Rock and Roll hits of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s as well as Surf, Rock-a-billy and original songs.
- Aug. 10: Unity. An award-winning original roots band based in Wisconsin, Unity treats fans to old Roots, Rock, and Reggae favorites along with original music.
- Aug. 17: Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers, featuring music for everyone.
- Aug. 24: Jonny Lyons & the Pride. Jonathan put together his dream five-piece show band and has been entertaining folks all over the Midwest ever since.
- Aug. 31: Infinity. Formed in 1985, Infinity grew from being not only a Journey Tribute band, but one of the top drawing cover bands in the Midwest.
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Spotlight on : German Fest in Milwaukee
When: Friday-Sunday, July 28 to 30
Where: Henry W. Maier Festival Park, 200 N. Harbor Drive in Milwaukee
Stick around for: Fireworks on Friday and Saturday night.
Admission: $5 on Friday only. Adults are $18 at the gate ($15 in advance). Senior citizens (60 and older) and students (with ID) get in for $7. Free for children age 12 and younger, with an adult. Everyone gets in free from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday, at the South Gate only, by donating three cans of healthy fruits or vegetables, for the Hunger Task Force.
More information: germanfest.com
About the fest: The festival's motto is "Gemütlichkeit!" ... also known as, “Yes, we have your brats, beer and potato pancakes!”
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However you translate it, German Fest returns this weekend to Milwaukee's lakefront, bringing with it all that bratwurst, beer and potato pancakes. You’ll also find plenty of oompah-pah bands and the annual Dachshund Derby (on Sunday).
The festival — billed as “Milwakee’s Original Haus Party” — showcases German traditions, entertainment, music and food, with a variety of authentic German cuisine from well-known German restaurants and food services from southeast Wisconsin.
During the festival, more than five tons of potatoes are used to keep up with the demand for potato pancakes, and more than 20,000 brats are consumed with another 10,000 pounds of sauerkraut. A plethora of desserts also can be found at German Fest, including Bavarian chocolate torte, bienenstich — also known as “bee sting cake” — and German chocolate cake, among about 35,000 pieces of pastries, tortes, strudels and kuchen.
Road trips
Thinking of a short road trip? There are plenty of summer season celebrations along the I-94 corridor from Milwaukee to Chicago:
ONGOING
Jazz in the Park
When: Thursdays, through Aug. 31. The music starts at 5 p.m.
Where: Cathedral Square Park, 520 E. Wells St. in Milwaukee
Known for: The outdoor concert series, established in 1991, attracts more than 5,000 concertgoers each week and offers a variety of food and beverage options from local vendors. Concerts feature a diverse lineup of performers. The opening concert showcases Kavon Cortez Jones and The Next Paperback Hero, playing the “funkiest jazz on the planet.” This year’s concert series wraps up with Kenosha’s own Kal Bergendahl Project.
Admission: Free
More information: easttown.com
Cathedral Square Marketplace
When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 27
Where: Cathedral Square Park, 520 E. Wells St. in Milwaukee
Known for: Fresh produce from more than 100 Wisconsin farmers, locally made crafts, live local entertainment (starting at 10:30 a.m.), crafters, bakers and chefs, plus a free outdoor yoga class (starting at 9 a.m.).
Admission: Free
More information: easttown.com
Concerts in the Gardens
When: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 31
Where: Boerner Botanical Gardens, 9400 Boerner Drive in Hales Corners
Known for: The summer concert series “invites music lovers to pack a picnic along with their blankets and lawn chairs.”
Admission: Free for the concerts (and Boerner Botanical Gardens) after 6 p.m. on concert dates.
More information: boernerbotanical gardens.org
JULY
Music in the Park
When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mondays through Aug. 28 and 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 16
Where: Lake Park Summer Stage, 2975 N. Lake Park Road in Milwaukee
Known for: Musical Mondays features a diverse lineup. The Wednesday performances are geared toward children and families. Note: Concerts move inside if the weather is bad.
Admission: Free
Note: bring your own chairs, blankets, food and beverages.
Special opening concert: The series kicks off with a 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, performance by the Florentine Opera: Mozart in the park, featuring scenes from Mozart’s most beloved operas. No knowledge of opera required. It’s billed as “fun for the whole family.”
More information: lakeparkfriends.org
Brady Street Festival
When: Saturday, July 29, from noon to 11 p.m.
Where: Brady Street, between Van Buren Street and Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee
Known for: Five stages featuring local bands performing.
Admission: Free
More information: bradystreet.org
AUGUST
Milwaukee Night Market
When: 5 to 10 p.m. on two Wednesdays: Aug. 16 and Sept. 13
Where: In Downtown Milwaukee on West Wisconsin Avenue between Second Street and Vel R. Phillips Avenue.
Known for: Featuring vendors, performances and artists. Or, as organizers describe it: “The Milwaukee Night Market transforms the heart of downtown into an exciting fusion of all the city has to offer.”
Admission: Free
More information: mkenightmarket.com
Chicago Air and Water Show
When: Saturday-Sunday, Aug. 19 to 20. Open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.
Where: North Avenue Beach, 1600 N. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
Known for: Thrilling formation flying and water stunts — and enormous crowds. There’s a reason this is billed as “the largest spectator event in the United States.”
Admission: Free
More information: cityofchicago.org
Mexican Fiesta
When: Friday-Sunday, Aug. 25 to 27. Open noon to midnight daily.
Where: Henry W. Maier Festival Park, 200 N. Harbor Drive in Milwaukee
Known for: Since it began in 1973 as a south side street festival to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, Mexican Fiesta has evolved into one of Wisconsin’s largest Mexican festivals and a showcase for the Wisconsin Hispanic Scholarship Foundation, which sponsors the event in an effort to award scholarships for young Hispanic men and women.
Admission: $24 at the gate ($19 in advance). Free for children age 8 and younger. Free admission to everyone from noon to 3 p.m. on Friday. Also, free admission from noon to 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday for senior citizens (65 and older), people with disabilities, military active duty personnel and veterans (with ID).
More information: mexicanfiesta.org
Chicago Jazz Festival
When: Thursday-Sunday, Aug. 31 to Sept. 3. Open
Where: Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph St. in Chicago
Known for: The festival “promotes all forms of jazz through free, high-quality music programming. The festival showcases Chicago’s local talent alongside national and international artists,” according to organizers.
Admission: Free
More information: cityofchicago.org
SEPTEMBER
PetFest
When: Saturday, Sept. 23. Open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: The Summerfest Grounds in downtown Milwaukee at the lakefront
Known for: A variety of pet-focused attractions and activities, including dock diving, agility and lure courses, main stage presentations including training and trick clinics and a pet-themed marketplace. A highlight is the pet costume contest.
Admission: Free
Information: petfestmke.com
Festa Italiana
When: Friday to Sunday, Sept. 8-10. Open 4 to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.
Where: Italian Community Center grounds, 631 E. Chicago Ave. in Milwaukee
Known for: Food, a mass and procession, a bocce tournament and live music all weekend.
More information: iccmilwaukee.com/festa-italiana
Taste of Chicago
When: Friday-Sunday, Sept. 8 to 10
Where: Grant Park, 337 E. Randolph St. in Chicago
Known for: An enormous variety of food, plus entertainment.
Admission: Free
More information: cityofchicago.org
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KENOSHA — The Taste of Wisconsin Festival returns to Downtown Kenosha today, running for three days.
But for a while, it looked like there wouldn't be another Taste of Wisconsin in Kenosha.
The 2022 festival was slated to be the finale to more than a decade of celebrating good food and good entertainment, with Kiwanis Club of Western Kenosha organizers saying they lacked the volunteers necessary to continue running the event.
But after last year’s overwhelming success, organizers pushed ahead with a 2023 edition.
Candy Eisenhauer, an event organizer with the Kiwanis Club, said about 75,000 visitors attended the 2022 three-day festival — some 10,000 more than in previous years.
“The patrons who came last year were so generous with donations,” Eisenhauer said. “We probably had the best year for our charities we’ve ever had.”
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This year’s Taste of Wisconsin is expected to be in line with last year’s in terms of size and scale.
Eisenhauer said many people expressed their disappointment last year when they learned the event was ending.
“What made us feel so good was the response from everyone,” Eisenhauer said. “It’s a great feeling. It was awesome to find out from so many people how amazing Taste of Wisconsin was.”
The Taste of Wisconsin festival started in 2009, with this year marking the 14th annual event after skipping two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The free event boasts a wide selection of food and entertainment, with vendors from across the Midwest.
Festival facts
The festival is open Thursday through Saturday, July 27-29.
Festival hours are 3 to 10 p.m. Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday in HarborPark.
Admission and parking are free.
The festival features 30-plus food and beverage vendors, offering specialty foods and favorites like roasted corn on the cob.
Also, live music takes place on four stages, with a full schedule of local acts donating their time to the event.
The event is produced by the Kiwanis Club of Western Kenosha, which uses the event as its major fundraiser for the year. Proceeds are used to support the club’s charitable activities including scholarships, youth programs and donations to local charities.
The festival takes place at Celebration Place at Kenosha’s harbor, at 54th Street and Calabria Way (formerly Ring Road). This is east of The Civil War Museum and Kenosha Public Museum. For more details, go to tasteofwi.com.
Live music
Performers at Taste of Wisconsin include:
- Thursday, July 27:
Rock Stage:
3 p.m.: Pat Garrett and Dead Dog Creek
4:30 p.m.: Midnight Crow
6 p.m.: Loud Library
7:30 p.m.: Venganza
9 p.m.: The Masquerade
Acoustic Stage:
3 p.m.: King, Johnson and St. John
4:20 p.m.: Zaldo Cruz
5:40 p.m.: Ronnie Nyles
7 p.m.: Brittany Lumley
8:30 p.m.: Violet Wilder
Main Stage:
3 p.m.: Meeker
4:20 p.m.: Spirit Shakers
5:40 p.m.: Mitch the Lip and Side Hustle
7 p.m.: Would You Kindly
8:30 p.m. Ivy Ford
Jazz Stage:
3 p.m.: Evening Breeze
4:30 p.m.: Jill Plaisted Band
6 p.m.: Flynn and Flores
7:30 p.m. Celtic Gypsies
9 p.m.: Yves Francois
- Friday, July 28:
Rock Stage:
11 a.m.: Ryan Lindsey
12:20 p.m.: You'll Love me Tomorrow
2 p.m.: Hindsight
3:30 p.m.: Floral Gin
5 p.m.: The First Rule
6:30 p.m.: 89 Mojo
8 p.m. The Unusual Suspects
9:30 p.m.: Saint Tragedy
Acoustic Stage:
11 a.m.: Emilie Grunfelder
12:20 p.m.: Eugene Gruber
1:40 p.m.: Matt Mifflin
3 p.m.: Jamey Buencamino
4:20 p.m.: Nicole Kelley
5:40 p.m.: Ghost in Color
7 p.m.: K. Spitzer & Diane V.
8:30 p.m.: Liggett & Sell
Main Stage:
11 a.m.: Gold Label
12:20 p.m.: Impulse 66
2 p.m.: Another Shade of Gray
3:30 p.m.: Electric Haze
5 p.m.: Patch of Blues
6:30 p.m.: Betsy Ade and the Well-Known Strangers
8 p.m.: Conviction
9:30 p.m. Boys and Toys
Jazz Stage:
11 a.m.: Flat Creek Hwy
12:20 p.m.: Copacabana
1:30 p.m.: K-9 demonstration
2 p.m.: The StanDard Jazz Band
3 p.m.: K-9 demonstration
3:30 p.m.: Cy's Piano Jam
5 p.m.: Bone Appetit
6:30 p.m.: Twang Shui
8 p.m.: Here for the Summer
10 p.m.: Pat Crawford Trio
- Saturday, July 29:
Rock Stage:
11 a.m.: Nuke Plant Chickens
12:20 p.m.: Benjamin Trick
2 p.m.: Rat Fink
3:30 p.m.: Mean Gene
5 p.m.: Project X
6:30 p.m.: Rokken Dokken
8 p.m. Stradlin' Rose
9:30 p.m.: Joey Belotti & Sonic Freedom
Acoustic Stage:
11 a.m.: Joey Halbur
12:20 p.m.: Sipos & Young
1:40 p.m.: Passion & Fury
3 p.m.: Cash & Carrie
4:20 p.m.: Roxie Beane
5:40 p.m.: Haley Klinkhammer
7 p.m.: Pierce Vendetta & Rick
8:30 p.m.: Ben Mulwana
Main Stage:
11 a.m.: Blackwater Duo
12:30 p.m.: Roger That
2 p.m.: Joey Belotti & Sonic Freedom
3:30 p.m.: Acoustic Soul
5 p.m.: Empty Bottle Boys and One Shot Jane
6:30 p.m.: The Lisa Weyerhauser Band
8 p.m.: Dropping Daisies
9:30 p.m. Trip
Jazz Stage:
11 a.m.: The Kitchen Boys
12:30 p.m.: Swing House Big Band
1:30 p.m.: K-9 demonstration
2 p.m.: Bill's Little Big Band
3 p.m.: K-9 demonstration
3:30 p.m.: Jazz Wave Big Band
5 p.m.: Pat Garrett
6:30 p.m.: Dave Braun Trio
8 p.m.: John Crawford Jazz band
9:30 p.m.: Jim Yorgan Sextet
Beverage sales
Beer and wine is sold at four beverage gardens, located inside the festival's music tents.
You must be 21 or older to purchase and consume alcohol. With proper ID, a wristband will be issued to people wanting to purchase beer and/or wine.
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KENOSHA — “Tuesdays at the Shell” continues its season at the Pennoyer Park band shell with an Aug. 1 performance by Vinyl Remix.
The band is made up of Frank Parise on guitar and vocals, Tom Belotti on bass and vocals, Scott Christman on drums and vocals, Dave Belotti on guitar and vocals and Joey Belotti on keyboard and vocals.
Vinyl Remix performs at several local festivals and other venues and is an offshoot of the veteran band The New Vinyls. Audience members should expect to hear a lot of classic rock favorites.
The free concert starts at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the park, on Seventh Avenue at 35th Street on Kenosha’s lakefront.
The 2023 line up of performers will also include:
- Aug. 8: Yesterday’s Children
- Aug. 15: Midnight Crow
- Aug. 22: Sean McKee Band
- Aug. 29: Boys and Toys
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Audiences members should bring a lawn chair. Bench seating is also available in the park. Food and soft drinks are available for purchase.
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RACINE — The Racine Concert Band’s 101st season continues with a free performance Sunday, July 30, at the Racine Zoo, 2131 N. Main St.
The concert starts at 7:30 p.m.
Jeanie Hatfield is the guest vocalist. Band members Paul Taylor and Bryan Voss are featured soloists.
Mark Eichner, celebrating his 21st season as the band’s music director, will conduct the program.
Don Rosen, a professional radio broadcaster for 50-plus years, is the master of ceremonies.
Audience favorite Hatfield was the 1986 Miss Racine and 1988 Miss Wisconsin. She also sang on a USO tour to entertain U.S. troops in the Far East and is currently the vocalist in the Eric Look Band.
A retired kindergarten teacher in Racine, Hatfield is now one of the owners and operators of The Trophy Shoppe.
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Hatfield will sing four numbers: "All of You" by Cole Porter, "Moon River" by Henry Mancini, "All the Things You Are" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and Burt Bacharach's "The Look of Love."
Taylor — a now-retired Kenosha Unified music educator for 34 years at Bradford High School and Lance Middle School — is the euphonium soloist on “Canzonetta” by Aldo Forte. Alto saxophone player Voss is featured on "Cinema Paradiso" by Ennio and Andrea Morricone.
Other pieces on Sunday’s program include two pieces by Australian composer Percy Grainger: “Handel In the Strand” and "Shepherd's Hey."
Of his "Handel" piece, Grainger said: "My title was originally ‘Clog Dance.’ But my dear friend William Gair Rathbone (to whom the piece is dedicated) suggested the title ‘Handel in the Strand’ because the music seemed to reflect both Handel and English musical comedy (the Strand, a street in London, is the home of London musical comedy) as if jovial old Handel were careening down the Strand to the strains of modern English popular music.”
The concert also features a medley of tunes called “Irving Berlin Showstoppers” and the "Sigurd Jorsalfer Suite" by Edvard Grieg.
Marches on the program are “Amparito Roca,” a Spanish march by Jaime Texidor; and "Corcoran Cadets" by John Philip Sousa.
Audience members should bring lawn chairs or blankets. There is very little fixed seating at the concert venue.
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New numbers from the DEA shed light on just how far the opioid epidemic reaches in the United States. The DEA has seized enough fentanyl this year to kill every single person in the U.S.
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Three people have died of suspected overdoses in less than a week as Kenosha County continues to feel the effects of an epidemic that has killed thousands nationwide.
The three deaths have been reported since July 21 and involved people over the age of 50, Medical Examiner Patrice Hall said Wednesday.
“This tragic series of deaths illuminates the fact that the overdose crisis is affecting all sectors of the community — all ages, all ethnicities, all geographical parts of Kenosha County,” Hall said in a news release. “No demographic group is immune to the dangers of using illegal drugs or misusing prescription medications.”
In 2021, the most recent year for which finalized data is available, the 36-45 age group made up the largest share of the confirmed toxicity deaths, or 18, in Kenosha County. The second largest share was in the 46-55 age range with 16 deaths. A total 53 toxicity deaths were reported in 2021. Comprising the fatalities were 33 men and 20 women. Broken down by race or ethnicity, 44 were white; five, Black, three, Hispanic and one Asian.
The specific cause of the most recent suspected overdose deaths — as well as many other pending cases this year and from 2022 — will not be confirmed until toxicology results become available, according to the release.
Currently, 57 deaths have been confirmed due to toxicity in 2022, tying the record that was set in 2017. The total for that year is likely to increase as several additional cases are still pending, Hall said.
A similar spate of drug overdoses involving three fatalities also occurred in the course of a week at the end of June. Two deaths occurred in Kenosha and the other in an undisclosed Kenosha County municipality.
Drug use a top health concern
According to the county’s recently released community health assessment for 2022, drug overdose deaths are high across the U.S. and 75% of drug overdose fatalities involved an opioid.
The 2022 community health survey included in the assessment ranks drugs and alcohol use third of 10 health concerns, with 32% of nearly 1,000 responding. Affordable housing (44%) and access to affordable health care (45%) ranked second and first, respectively.
According to the report, from 2019-2021, there were 36 opioid-related deaths per 100,000 people per year in Kenosha County. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services describes opioids as “a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription," such as, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine and morphine, among others.
Data compiled from the county medical examiner’s office in the health assessment report reflects the steep rise in opioid deaths with the majority involving fentanyl-related fatalities in 2021. By comparison, in 2014, of the opioid-related deaths, none involve fentanyl, and half were heroin overdoses.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine and a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the U.S.
More than 106,000 people in the U.S. died from drug-related overdoses in 2021, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids, according to the latest data available from the CDC.
Kenosha County agencies continue to offer numerous prevention resources, including Narcan and fentanyl test strips.
People who are seeking help for themselves or for a loved one struggling with substance use are encouraged to contact the Kenosha County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Resource Center at 262-764-8555.
A package of NARCAN (Naloxone) nasal spray sits on the counter at a Walgreens pharmacy in New York City.
Upcoming Narcan training
The following Narcan training events* are open to the public and staffed by Kenosha County Public Health and Kenosha County Behavioral Health Services:
• 5 to 7 p.m., Aug. 1: National Night Out events at various locations
• 3 to 6 p.m., Aug. 10 : Brass Community School, 6400 15th Ave., Kenosha
• Aug. 16-20: Kenosha County Fair, 30820 111th St., Wilmot
• 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 19, Sept. 23 and Oct. 14: Human Services on the Go stops at the Kenosha Public Market, outside the Kenosha Municipal Building, 625 52nd St.
*Schedule subject to change
Additional resources
• Narcan, a life-saving medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, is available at no cost from Kenosha County Public Health. More information about this program is available at https://narcantrainedkenosha.com, by calling 262-605-6741, or by sending an email to narcan@kenoshacounty.org.
• Fentanyl test strips are also available from Kenosha County Public Health and are offered to people who receive Narcan. The strips can be used to detect the presence of fentanyl in other substances. Strips may be picked up from 8:30 to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday at the Kenosha County Public Health Job Center Clinic, 8600 Sheridan Road, and Kenosha. For more information, call 262-605-6775. They are also available from Vivent Health-Kenosha, which may be reached at 262-657-6644 or online at https://viventhealth.org/locations/kenosha/.
• The Kenosha County Mental Health and Substance Abuse Resource Center, which links people with substance use disorder resources, may be reached from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 262-764-8555. More details, including a newly updated Kenosha County Behavioral Health Community Resources Guide, are available at https://www.kenoshacounty.org/2242/Behavioral-Health-Community-Resources.
• The Kenosha County Crisis Hotline, operated by Kenosha Human Development Services, is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at 262-657-7188.
While Narcan can reverse opioid overdoses in the short term, these two treatments can help patients overcome addiction altogether
While Narcan can reverse opioid overdoses in the short term, these two treatments can help patients overcome addiction altogether
Methadone has been in use decades longer than buprenorphine
While both are effective, the overdose risk of buprenorphine does not increase with higher doses
While methadone is more tightly regulated, buprenorphine can be prescribed for at-home use
Beth Jenkins, left, and Kari Foss talk after a Narcan training event Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, at Rettungs-Haus Shepherds, Inc. The event, hosted by Standing Against Addiction and Sarah’s Hope & Recovery Foundation, gave out free Narcan to attendees.
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BLOOMINGTON — Ambient music is anything but boring.
It can vastly move your emotions and spirit. You’ve likely felt it at the movies during a climactic scene, when goosebumps begin to rise on your arms.
Bloomington’s Stephen Holliger crafts experimental ambient audio works under the stage name Swim Ignorant Fire, and has witnessed his audiences being moved. On Friday, he will help local nonprofit arts organization pt.fwd ring in its fifth birthday at a free Connie Link Amphitheatre show in Normal. During Holliger’s set, he will be joined by Stefen Robinson of Yea Big; other show performers include Soft Coup, V8 Vast Change and Creatian/Heap.
The 38-year-old audio engineer for State Farm, who grew up in Danvers, told me in a Wednesday telephone interview that he’s seen his friends moved to tears at his shows.
“The music itself is very vulnerable,” he said, noting that can be tricky to perform in bar venues.
“I’ve noticed at more non-alcohol-based venues, there’s a little more intentional listening,” said Holliger. There, he said people are encouraged to sit down, close their eyes and “get lost.”
Holliger said one key word describing a solid listening room experience is “immersion.” That’s just like how people go to movie theaters to immerse themselves in a story, and get lost.
“I do like the lack of vocals (in ambient music), because keeps it subjective as an art piece would,” Holliger said. “Everyone is going through different things, probably simultaneously.”
Holding on
Holliger’s history with ambient music has marked moments of much focus and healing.
“It almost enhanced monotonous, daily things,” he said, adding ambient music has provided a personal soundtrack, or an escape, ever since college.
He said his friends were shedding tears at a recent show in Chicago because they knew where his music was coming from.
He said he moved back to the Twin Cities area from Chicago about three years ago to be with his grandmother, Rose Thacker, after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. She died Feb. 22.
“The universe was bringing me closer to her on the last chapters of her life,” he said, noting around the same time, he started collaborating with Nate Hahn, of the band Ohtis, adding layers of pedal steel guitar to his ambient music.
Since June, Holliger has released on Bandcamp two extended-play cassette tapes: “I Don’t Know How Much Longer I Can Hold This” and “Smeared.” Stock is limited for both editions, available from Twin Cities’ art label No Below Editions.
In the former EP released July 14, he said the opening track samples tape recordings of organ music, and sermons from his grandfather, Ron Thacker, who was a pastor for Danvers Baptist Church.
The album art on that cassette displayed a double-headed rose, which he said refers to his grandmother. The title, he said, is part reference to the “Terminator 2” movie. While Holliger is a big fan of the sci-fi action series, he said the EP title also nods to his grandmother getting older.
“I think the most heartbreaking thing of making this was seeing … my main maternity queen withering away and seeing the family react, or not react to that, and what kind of toll that does to the family,” he said.
He remembers Rose as very faithful woman, but said she also “cracked me up.”
“I never met someone who was so ready to die,” said Holliger. “In the best sense, she was ready to pass on …. she would talk about it so casually with me, which is why I knew she was content and ready.”
More specifically, he termed the EP’s namesake as a way of Rose saying: “I don’t know how much longer I can hold being away from you.”
Summer nights
Being backed up on a lot of music for release, Holliger said this year will be more prolific for him as an artist. He plans to start a new journey into fatherhood around the year’s end.
He said there’s a special place his cousin owns, and it’s where he proposed to his wife, Britt. He called it their “small resort outside Atlanta, Illinois.”
It was also the campsite where Holliger did field recordings of a canoe being dragged with an underwater contact microphone, which introduces the listener on the opening track of “Smeared,” called “Tidal Grief.”
“I was trying to connect a memory with a sonic that would be odd to place,” he said of his experimental sampling method that had more of a summertime vibe.
In a sense, Holliger felt he was finally relaxed, or “beached,” he said of a canoe parked on the creek’s shore. Other audible elements of the track, like the sizzling sounds of crickets and bugs, can be heard too.
In the EP’s Bandcamp description, he wrote the birds “talked” to them as they camped out the night.
“For me, it’s all just motifs of a good summer night,” he said.
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BLOOMINGTON — The BTS Basketball Academy in Bloomington will host a back to school clinic from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 12.
The academy is located inside the Four Seasons Health Club at 904 Four Seasons Road in Bloomington.
The clinic is for boys and girls in grades three through eight and focuses on developing fundamental skills, including dribbling, passing, shooting and defense with an emphasis on speed and agility.
Parents and guardians can sign up their child at btsbloom.com up to the day of the clinic. Registration is $60.
Everyone who signs up will receive a free one-hour basketball training class.
The academy is a nationwide year-round basketball program in partnership with NBA players Bobby Jackson, Larry Hughes and Chris Paul.
Contact Jasmine Brooks at 314-324-0120 or manager@btsbloom.com for more information.
Photos: Bloomington at Normal West boys basketball.
Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Senior Night at Normal West.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Normal West starters introduced.
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Normal West's Logan Sluder.
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Normal West's Nate Moore.
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Normal West's Gavin Camp.
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Bloomington's Adam Beasley drives.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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Bloomington on Tuesday in the first quarter at Normal West boys basketball.
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CHENOA — The Chenoa Public Library will present "Guitars and Art on Green Street" on Saturday, Aug. 5.
Musician David Berchtold will host a free guitar clinic from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. followed by a free concert at 8 p.m. He performs Piedmont finger-picking infused blues, folk, roots and rock with some original songs.
There will also be an art show showcasing the work of local artists. The artwork will be on display for the entire month of August at the library.
Chenoa librarian Sheryl Siebert, right, talks with longtime patron Viola Atkins near the library's small multimedia area. The library owns several state-of-the-art computers but can only have six available due to space.
Pat Witte, chairman of the Chenoa Public Library board, is hoping to open the doors on a new $1.1 million facility that includes a community room as well as adequate space for a modern library.
There are more than 13,000 volumes in the library's catalogue but due to space considerations some must be stored in the basement, which is prone to flooding.
Chenoa Librarian Sheryl Sieberts helps patron Viola Atkins with an eReader. At 98 years old, Atkins has stayed up with current technology to keep reading.
While it's home more than 150 years has served it well, librarians at the Chenoa Public Library are looking to construct a new building that will serve the city into the next century.
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The Chenoa library building is located in a structure that's more than 150 years old and was moved to its present location at 211 S. Division St.
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While a sweeping staircase to the Chenoa library's second floor stacks looks pleasing, accessibility for disabled persons is virtually impossible.
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Chenoa librarian Sheryl Siebert, right, talks with longtime patron Viola Atkins near the library's small multimedia area. The library owns several state-of-the-art computers but can only have six available due to space.
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Pat Witte, chairman of the Chenoa Public Library board, is hoping to open the doors on a new $1.1 million facility that includes a community room as well as adequate space for a modern library.
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Chenoa Assistant Librarian Ellen Odum works in cramped conditions.
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There are more than 13,000 volumes in the library's catalogue but due to space considerations some must be stored in the basement, which is prone to flooding.
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Chenoa Librarian Sheryl Sieberts helps patron Viola Atkins with an eReader. At 98 years old, Atkins has stayed up with current technology to keep reading.
Contact Olivia Jacobs at 309-820-3352. Follow Olivia on Twitter: @olivia___jacobs
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My interest in Gladwell “Toney” Richardson began in 2006 when I was working for the National Park Service as a seasonal ranger.
One day, Beth Heil Wilson from Modesto, California, and her extended family came into the office inquiring about the location of the John Elden homestead, the 1887 murder of 6-year-old Johnny Elden and the location of his grave.
Beth is the great-great-granddaughter of Flagstaff pioneer John Elden and his wife Susan. We stayed in touch over the years, and in 2015 I began research into the murder. The terrible slaying had been described in several local history books and numerous newspaper articles, but there were still unanswered questions.
Johnny's grave is located about 100 yards west of the former Elden homestead at the base of Elden Mountain. Elden Spring, adjacent to the homestead site, still seeps. The easiest route to the site is a 400-yard walk beginning at the Environmental Study Area trailhead at the top of the North Lugano Way cul-de-sac.
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As noted in last week's Ask a Ranger column, the murder tale can be traced to Dan Miles, an employee at the Babbitt brothers' Mt. Elden Silver Fox Farm, located close to the north end of today’s North Fanning Drive. Miles probably discovered the small grave adjacent to the farm in the 1930s.
Miles, like Richardson, was an inveterate storyteller. He enjoyed spreading several versions of a youngster’s death around town. Richardson took one of these tales and conveniently anchored the story with allusions to real Flagstaff folk like Miles and prominent rancher/merchant (and Miles’ fishing pal) Roy Fanning, the namesake of North Fanning Drive. Richardson even included historic Flagstaff photos.
Richardson published his article, “The Dead Sleep Lonely,” in the January 1967 issue of Golden West: True Stories of the Old West magazine, using one of his many pen names, Maurice Kildare.
Fortunately, however, there was no such murder. In fact, there was not even a 6-year-old Johnny Elden.
There probably is, however, a small (and likely nameless) body in the grave that has had rocks piled on top over the decades. John and Susan Elden lost a baby shortly after birth in November 1884 as they tended another child sick with pneumonia.
In short, Richardson’s tall tale is about 98% entertainment and 2% fact.
A few nuggets of truth can be panned from Richardson’s tale. First, it helped provide a paycheck for his family. Second, it provided Western entertainment to Golden West readers. And, finally, it increased interest in the Flagstaff area, as did his other tall tales of the frontier town.
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For example, “Rogers Lake Loot,” (True Treasure magazine, fall 1967, Maurice Kildare) lured one gold digger to the lake with a backhoe to seek the supposed buried treasure. Others came equipped with metal detectors, and one Florida scuba diver called to inquire about Rogers Lake's depth.
The essence of Richardson’s body of literary work is apparent when we examine his Johnny Elden murder story. Richardson passed off “The Dead Sleep Lonely” as factual. But as Arizona author and poet Michael Coyote Peach noted in Leave Your Big Behavior in Your Home Corral, Richardson should never have been published in magazines like True West or Real West because his work “was neither true nor real.”
Nor was it "Golden."
Yet this was Richardson's way, what he practiced in the large majority of the 1,000-plus Western magazine articles that he penned. Even Richardson's autobiography, Navajo Trader, includes occasional tall tales masquerading as actual occurrences.
In the third part of this series, I will propose some suggestions about what can be done in the present day to rectify damages done to the historical record, or indeed whether the record should be rectified. But for now, ponder the sadness in Beth Wilson’s extended family over the years as they tried to make sense of the brutal execution of their distant relative at such a young age, a crime that in fact never happened.
John Westerlund is a retired Army officer, author and former NPS seasonal ranger. Copies of his Journal of Arizona History article “Flagstaff Pioneer John Elden: Murder and Mystery — Myth and History” are available at Riordan Mansion State Historic Park. All proceeds from the article are donated to the park.
The NPS/USFS Roving Rangers volunteer through a unique agreement between the Flagstaff Area National Monuments and the Coconino National Forest to provide interpretive ranger walks and talks in the Flagstaff area each summer.
Submit questions for the Ask a Ranger weekly column to askaranger@gmail.com.
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Local artist Eric Kruse is partnering with Culture Connection AZ, a nonprofit organization located in downtown Flagstaff and dedicated to connecting people of different cultures, backgrounds and lived experiences, to present The Faces of Flagstaff. The exhibition will feature community leaders and those who have shaped Flagstaff through their commitment to making a positive impact in our community.
When asked about his inspiration, Kruse said, "The idea for Faces of Flagstaff sprang forth from my desire to immerse myself in the rich tapestry of local personalities. Through my hand carved wooden art portraits, I aim to honor and celebrate these extraordinary individuals."
Culture Connection AZ’s Executive Director Audra Travelbee said, “I was so excited when Eric approached me and shared his idea for this exhibition. It matches perfectly with our organization’s mission to uplift the community through meaningful connection. There are so many 'unsung heroes' who dedicate countless hours to making Flagstaff a great place, and we hope to honor that work through this exhibition.”
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The Faces of Flagstaff will open with a reception on July 28th and will be viewable through the end of August during regular business hours at the Historic Ice House, located at 201 E Birch Ave in downtown Flagstaff. The exhibition will feature 18 honorees, including artist Shonto Begay, photographer Jake Bacon and former Flagstaff mayor Coral Evans.
The opening reception will take place Friday, July 28th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Culture Connection AZ at The Historic Ice House, 201 E Birch Ave, in downtown Flagstaff. The event will feature live music from 69 Hippies, beverages from Mother Road Brewery, and food from Pita Jungle. Entrance is free, with a $10 suggested donation. All proceeds go to supporting Culture Connection AZ’s efforts to continue providing opportunities to local artists and other members of the community.
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In the cool darkness of a recent summer morning, I stared in wonder at the bright faces looking back at me.
Each flower (Helianthus annuus) in my young sunflower grove was standing like a soldier waiting to salute the rising sun. During the previous day their leaves and flowers tracked the sun as it made its daily voyage from east to west across the sky. And then, under the cover of nightfall they rotated their stems back to greet the sun again.
This remarkable ability of sunflowers to track the sun’s movement is called heliotropism. New research on the subject has found that solar tracking is caused by different sides of the plant’s stem elongating at alternate rates throughout the day and night. In order to track the sun’s movements during the day, the growth rates on the east side of the stem are higher while the increased growth rates at night on west side allow sunflower stocks to turn and greet the dawn. This daily elongation maximizes growth and is why sunflowers planted from tiny seeds in spring can reach over 10 feet tall by summer’s end!
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Once the plants mature, sunflowers will predominantly face east so that the warming sun will heat the flowers. This is thought to better attract pollinators.
As sunflowers grow and mature a whole community of organisms emerges high above the ground. Take a moment each day to observe all the lives that are carried out on sunflowers. Turn over the leaves and you will discover multiple species of aphids, ants and lady bugs. Peer into the crevices of the flowers and you will happen upon goldenrod crab spiders. These fascinating creatures camouflage themselves by changing their body color to yellow or white depending on the species of plants they are living on! Once disguised among the petals they prey upon unsuspecting bees or wasps.
At the same time, daddy long leg spiders and earwigs seem to wait patiently to feed on insects and plant juices while leaf miners make iridescent tunnels through sunflower leaves. As the flowers open, honey bees comb the pollen-laden florets, gathering the golden powder on their hind legs before journeying home to their hive.
In autumn, as sunflower seeds ripen and their leaves brown along the stem, the heavy flower heads droop, looking to the ground as if deciding where to plant their seeds to start the cycle again next year. The drooping, though, is no match for the most agile song birds like goldfinches, house sparrows, and warblers who pick away at nature’s most natural bird feeders.
In order to bring these wonders of the sunflower to your garden, they should be planted from seed in spring. Sunflowers thrive in sunny locations, in almost any garden soil but need regular water to achieve a good bloom. Try planting them intentionally to the back of a flower bed or vegetable garden in order to provide shade to smaller, heat-intolerant plants later in the season.
In terms of varieties to try, here are some of my favorite heirlooms whose stories and characteristics add to the wonder of sunflowers.
- ‘Irish Eyes’ is good for containers as they produce dwarf plants loaded with multiple blooms that have pointed golden petals and green centers.
- ‘Lemon Queen’ grows 10 feet tall with large lemon-yellow petals and dark chocolate centers.
- ‘Teddy Bear’ has double golden-yellow flowers on dwarf plants that only grow 18-24 inches, making them a favorite for children.
- ‘Tarahumara White Seeded’ is well-adapted to a variety of conditions. The Tarahumara tribe of Mexico grows them for their edible ivory-colored seeds.
- ‘Hopi Black Dye’ is traditionally grown for the blue/black seed hull to make a wool and basket dye.
- For something different, try ‘Autumn Beauty’ for their dark burgundy to bicolor flowers.
All these varieties can be purchased from nonprofits dedicated to preserving heirloom seeds including Seed Savers Exchange (www.seedsavers.org) and Tucson, Arizona based Native Seed SEARCH (www.nativeseeds.org). Happy sunflower gardening!
Nate O’Meara is the Executive Director of the Arboretum at Flagstaff (www.thearb.org) and has worked as an ethnobotanist and horticulturist. This article was adapted from his blog www.omearagardens.com.
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Special survey vehicles will begin driving all across Coconino County this week collecting data on the condition of over 300 miles of paved roads that are maintained by the county.
The work, being done by Austin, Texas-based Roadway Asset Services (RAS), will help the county’s Public Works Engineering Division determine the overall condition of paved roads, and prioritize future maintenance and capital improvement projects.
Officials say the data gathered will also be invaluable toward determining optimal treatments to cost-effectively extend the service life of paved county roads.
Using high-resolution digital cameras and other precision instrumentation, RAS vehicles will collect imagery on all pavement and above-ground transportation-related assets located within county right-of-way. In order to ensure the highest quality of data and imagery, the vehicles will only collect data during daylight hours.
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The project is expected to last approximately one month; however, this is subject to change due to weather or other unforeseen factors.
If residents have any questions or need additional information regarding the data collection vehicles, project or process, they are encouraged to contact Coconino County Public Works at (928) 679-8300.
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At about 8 a.m. Tuesday, the sun hadn’t yet started to scorch the dry landscape in the shadow of Gray Mountain. Under a non-working windmill, Paul Lincoln crouched to examine hoof prints on the dusty earth.
“Notice no two hoof prints are the same," he said. "They’re like human palms. See that ridge that looks like an arrowhead? We call it that, the arrowhead. It’s sacred to us. The horses are like thunder and lightning. They are sacred to us.”
Lincoln is a former Navajo police officer who lives in Tuba City. Every morning in the summer he and his partner Glinda get in their truck, drive to Cameron to pick up a water trailer, and haul water to a series of tanks and troughs in Gray Mountain.
Those tanks are a critical water source for the nearby population of wild horses.
Gray Mountain is situated at a lower elevation than Flagstaff -- about 5,000 feet -- and in the past few weeks temperatures have climbed to a sweltering 109 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Lincoln. Horses come down from the mountain dragging their heads, he said, starving and dehydrated.
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“It’s a desolate area. The vegetation is dry. There’s no water, no place to get out of the sun,” he said, gesturing widely over the rocky soil to the open sky.
In the fall, the horses are largely self-sufficient, but Lincoln knows that under the summer sun, they need a little help.
That’s why in 2018 he decided to start hauling water and bringing hay to the foot of the windmill. Initially, Lincoln lived in Gray Mountain and noticed the horses were desperate for water. He started filling kiddie pools and water bottles, trying his best to bring some hydration to the herd.
That same year, close to 200 horses died of dehydration in the Gray Mountain area.
Posts on Facebook started to spread about the dire condition of the animals, mobilizing people such as Eileen Taggart and Beth Buchanen to help Lincoln in his simple cause of bringing life-saving water to wild horses.
“I saw a post from another realtor named Billy McGraw that said these horses at Gray Mountain were starving and dehydrating. It was this amazing, emotional, really heartfelt post. There were people on the ground trying to help,” Taggart said. “I drove out and it was amazing. I met Paul and Glinda. Paul started making me laugh; I felt like I’d known him my whole life. It was a magical thing for me. It was something that filled a need to be with nature and help my feeling of helplessness. I saw the horses and I knew we could help them.”
Soon, a grassroots effort sprung up, and a new Facebook page called Gray Mountain Horse Heroes was published.
Meanwhile, the growing group of interested people connected with a Gilbert-based nonprofit that had helped equines in Arizona since 1995. Wildhorse Ranch Rescue, a 501(c)(3) organization, proved to be a valuable partner.
The nonprofit helped raise funds for Lincoln and his volunteers, first to purchase infrastructure -- water tanks and troughs -- then the water to fill it.
The tanks themselves hold about 1,100 gallons of water. It costs more than $750 a week to keep them full.
“The way we framed this is the wild horses bring the gift of water to Gray Mountain for everyone,” said Kimberly Meagher, the founder of Wilhorse Ranch Rescue.
The water can be used by wildlife, horses, cattle and local people who need it, Meagher said, so long as the horses themselves have a place to safely drink.
The spot beneath the windmill, where the tanks are located, is accessible via a mostly paved road, and it’s frequented by the area’s equine population.
“This is where it all began,” Lincoln said. “At the time the windmill wasn’t running. Then, just last year we got it going through the Navajo tribe. It lasted for so long and then, after that, it just stopped pumping water. I’m working on that, too. We’re trying to get Navajo Nation to help us.”
Via Facebook, Gray Mountain Horse Heroes has gained international attention.
According to Buchanan, donors from France, Canada, the UK, Australia and Italy have rallied to buy water and feed for the Gray Mountain horses. One generous horse lover in Texas helped raise $1,000 for the cause.
Guided by his heart for the area’s wild horses, Lincoln came out regularly, keeping an eye on the herd’s well-being to get them through the grueling summers.
“It just started out like that. Trying to help them out kind of gives me that inspiration, helping animals like people. Advocates. Mine is horses,” Lincoln said.
Five years on, Lincoln said the horses recognize his truck and usually come down for a fresh drink and and Bermuda hay breakfast while he’s on site.
“I actually have been able to touch them. After a while they trust you, they know the vehicles and stuff like that,” he said. “They have character … I keep an eye on them, I look through the herd when they get here. There’s one foal I’m looking at, he or she is really small, too.”
The animals are not tame, but they are thirsty, now more than ever. Water in the area is scarce even during years with heavy monsoons. The sure-footed wild horses that cautiously come down from the mountain to drink have been leaving the tanks drained dry in recent weeks.
On Tuesday, Elise Wilson hauled water to Gray Mountain and loaded a few bales of hay in the bed of her pick-up truck for the animals. She donated the water she hauled herself, filling up at a water stand in Flagstaff.
“I know it’s tough out here on the reservation for the horses and for the people. Most of us have horses, and our hearts are in this. We want to help as much as we can at least through the summer. It’s where our hearts are,” she said.
Sometimes horses don’t make it through the harsh summers; foals in particular struggle to survive.
“I’m sure there are foals who didn’t make it out there,” Lincoln said. “The foals, the strong ones, will make it out here [for water]."
Lincoln said he’s found orphaned foals who stayed by the water tanks and didn’t survive. But he’s been instrumental in saving some.
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Wildhorse Ranch takes in orphaned foals from Gray Mountain and uses donations to cover the cost of medical care. Volunteers are still needed to get the colts and fillies from Gray Mountain to the Valley to see the vet and find more permanent sanctuary.
One foal, lovingly named Ash, Lincoln found in dire straits. Wilson ended up loading the baby horse in the back seat of her car to take him to Wildhorse Ranch.
“I’ve been around horses forever and I never thought about putting one in my truck. When we came I had my horse trailer ready, but there’s no way he would have made it in the trailer,” Wilson said.
The drive takes about four hours under the best conditions, but Wilson said Ash’s trip was especially eventful. On his journey, Wilson was passed by law enforcement officers engaged in hot pursuit with another vehicle. The high speed chase further delayed their journey.
Ultimately, Ash arrived in Gilbert and needed thousands of dollars' worth of veterinary care.
“Baby Ash was in the hospital for 11 days. He’s a $7,000 baby horse,” Meagher said.
Because Gray Mountain Horse Heroes work as an informal, grassroots group, they don’t take donations directly. Instead, they receive dollars through Wildhorse Ranch. Donations are what supported baby Ash in his recovery.
“When we go get babies up at Gray Mountain, it's Paul and Glinda who find them, keep them safe, give them milk. We couldn’t do it without them,” Meagher said.
Not long after Ash was found, another orphan was spotted in Gray Mountain. The high temperatures in Gilbert, along with the critical nature of the dark bay baby’s condition, meant he needed a foster in Flagstaff.
Enter recent California transplant and Gray Mountain Horse Hero volunteer Barbara Hill.
Hill took in the days-old colt. The first time he saw the veterinarian, he needed a name for record-keeping purposes. At the time Hill said she was chatting with the vet’s daughter about the animated movie "Spirit." In the film, which follows a wild horse on adventures from his birth, the horse is a buckskin.
Despite his darker coloring, the name stuck. Hill said she’s realized the little guy has a lot of spirit.
She’s since decided to adopt him permanently.
The young horses that do end up in Gilbert are kept in a barn with commercial-grade misters, otherwise the heat would be too brutal to bear there, too.
Meagher said one day she hopes to have a fully air conditioned barn, but in the meantime every effort to save wild horses matters.
“What’s really important for people to remember is that wild horses have a place in our society. They’re important, they’re spiritual. It’s important for them to be safe along with everyone else,” Meagher said.
She believes the horses should be allowed to live in their family bands, with the exception of orphaned foals that wouldn’t make it otherwise.
“We believe they’re wild, we understand the population issues. We are in talks about doing birth control for the mares. It’s not like we just think there should be 10 million horses at Gray Mountain, but there shouldn’t be zero,” Meagher said.
That’s why after five years, Lincoln and his partner still work hard to get the Gray Mountain herd through the summer.
A few paces from one of the 300-gallon water tanks the horses rely on, Lincoln has stacked stones in the shape of a turtle.
Every time he stops to water the horses, he takes an orange lid off of a tote on his water trailer and dips it carefully into the tank. Then, he carries the water to his turtle, and with a steady hand, gently pours water onto the backs of the rocks.
It’s a prayer for rain, he explained.
Rain is always needed in Gray Mountain. When it rains, the horses don’t have to rely on humans to bring in water. When it rains, there is relief.
When it doesn’t, Lincoln is there, diligently caring for the animals he considers sacred.
Wildhorse Ranch accepts donations for the Water For Horses program and for veterinary care for the Gray Mountain Foals on its website at wildhorseranchrescue.com, and by mail at Wildhorse, ATTN: Gray Mountain Horse Heroes, PO Box 3080, Gilbert, AZ 85299.
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WEISER, Idaho — Editor's note: KTVB intern Daisy Bautista covered this story regarding the Weiser Labor Camp. Alfonso Gutierrez, who is her grandfather, was interviewed as he had experienced a labor camp in Marsing, Idaho.
Many of those from Mexico who migrated to Idaho, began their American dream by starting their work careers in agricultural work.
Historian Kathleen Rubinow Hodges and community leader Ana Maria Nevarez Schachtell presented research at the historic train depot center in Weiser. They compiled the history of Weiser’s camp to preserve the story of the camp that once housed farmworkers.
Their research shows in the 1940s, Weiser’s newspapers were frequently putting out stories on the need for agricultural labor. As many farmers needed help with their crops during the midst of World War II.
Desperate for help within the times of war, the federal government intervened to keep Americans fed.
To address the issue, President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the Bracero program in 1943. The program brought farm workers from Mexico to areas of the United States where farm labor was needed. The government aided these workers by providing not only train fare, but also accommodating these workers with housing.
These workers provided agricultural labor in the field works of: potatoes, corn, and onions during World War II.
“Most people from Mexico, I could say they come and do jobs that a lot of the time people don’t want, and so one of those jobs is being an agricultural worker,” Schachtell said.
Even after the war was over, the Bracero program continued to fund agricultural labor until 1965. Families continued to arrive, as the need for farm workers was needed in the state of Idaho. With no federal funding, camps throughout Idaho continued to provide affordable housing for farmworkers from Mexico. It was continued through private ownership.
Alfonso Gutierrez migrated to Idaho in the 1970’s when he was in his 20’s. He had heard there was an opportunity for work that provided affordable housing in Marsing.
“Without knowing where Idaho was, I didn't even know where it was,” Gutierrez said. “I took a risk and came and got to work in the fields. There I began picking cherries, apples, peaches, and cleaning beets.”
This is how the beginning of the American dream started for many like Gutierrez. With trying to find a job that could also provide housing.
“The houses of the labor camp were normal. It had a bathroom, one bathroom just the toilet and the shower to bathe," Gutierrez said. “Some of us slept in the bed, others we slept on the floor and the thing is that we had a kitchen, refrigerator stove and well learning to cook oneself and survive. Well, we came to the land of dreams, looking for the dollars. Well, I say we achieved it, thanks to God.”
Gutierrez, who is now a successful business owner in Idaho, has expressed nothing but gratitude for his time in the camps. Regardless of the congested housing, and low wages.
“For me it is something very important and I give importance to all those people who made that sacrifice to come to the camps,” he said.
Hodges and Schachtell saw the need to highlight the history of farmworker families and the Weiser camp that no longer exists. They discovered that many people from Idaho were unaware that the labor camps in Idaho housed migrant families for generations.
The Latino and Hispanic community continues to grow in Weiser. From 1990-2010 the population grew to 10%.
“I think it's very important for the community to know and for us Latinos and our future generations to know that the Mexican, Latinos, Hispanic helped make a great contribution to the development of our state” Schachtell said. "From the cultural part, to the economic part, the work has always been there to support.”
The Weiser camp was officially sold off to Haun Onion Packing in 2004. Some of the housing was donated to locals who once resided and lived in the camp. It was given as a gift, a thanks to all their work.
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HANOVER — A unique experience for the whole family this weekend at Arundel Mills.
'Cirque Italia' is bringing its death defying acts and astounding acrobatics to Hanover.
The show is about a 1950s obsessed adolescent who falls asleep and dreams of living in the that era.
The show features performers from Argentina, Brazil, Romania, and many other countries. You can see master jugglers, low wire fanatics, dazzling contortion, wild trampoline antics, and even a wheel of death!
The show takes place in the Arundel Mills parking lot under the white and blue big top tent.
They'll perform seven shows this weekend.
July 27: Thursday: 7:30pm
July 28: Friday: 7:30pm
July 29: Saturday: 1:30pm, 4:30pm, & 7:30pm
July 30: Sunday: 1:30pm & 4:30pm
For more information, including how to get tickets click here.
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Mayflies have been hatching along the Susquehanna River, and the Route 462 lights are off
Mayflies have been hatching along the Susquehanna River, and the lights on the Route 462 bridge have been shut off for more than a month now to help keep their carcasses off the structure.
Several hatches have been seen this year, said Mark Stivers, Columbia borough manager. A recent one left the mayfly carcasses an inch and half deep at Columbia Crossings.
When mayflies closed the bridge
It has been eight years since officials had to close the Veterans Memorial Bridge because swarms of mayflies caused crashes on the structure.
The insects are attracted to the lights on the bridge, and piles of bug carcasses littered the structure.
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When will the lights come back on?
For years now, Columbia has shut off the lights on the historic bridge to prevent problems when the mayflies hatch.
It will remain unlit until officials know the mayfly hatches are over, Stivers said. Then the lights will be turned back on.
No trucks allowed:Why PennDOT has placed a weight limit on the Route 462 bridge over the Susquehanna River
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Hurry, hurry, hurry: How to score free admission and free rides at the York Fair today
Free admission as well as rides are being offered for 100 minutes at the York State Fair today.
It's being done to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of James E. Strates Shows, which provides the midway for the fair. This is the 43rd time the company has provided amusement rides for the York State Fair, according to a news release.
This is one of the last remaining promotional days at the York State Fair, which ends on Sunday.
How to get in free today at the York State Fair
Free admission is being offered for the first 100 minutes that the fair opens.
The gates open at noon.
How to catch a free ride on the midway at the York State Fair
Wishing you could ride on the double-decker carousel or another amusement ride?
The rides on the midway open at 2 p.m., and they will be free for the first 100 minutes.
Top 10 rides at the York State Fair
Debating what to ride at the York State Fair?
The company recently released the list of the top 10 rides that fairgoers took a spin on last year based on individual wristband and FunCard ticket scans.
Here is the list, and the company's descriptions of them:
- Giant Wheel – Truly the “King of the Midway!” At 105 feet in height, Strates Shows majestic Giant Wheel dominates the fairgrounds and the surround community. A spectacular sight day or night, the Giant Wheel comes alive when the sun goes down with an all-new display of LED lighting. It is the best ride to take an awesome selfie with friends as you’ll have a one-of-a-kind view behind you! (48" minimum unless accompanied by an adult.)
- Pirate: Ahoy, Mateys! Welcome aboard the biggest ship on the midway. But look out, as there are rough seas head! This is not a kiddy cruise, but a trilling experience for mature family members. The ride’s up and down, swinging pendulum movement will provide plenty of zero gravity thrills at the 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock positions. (48" minimum, 39" - 48" may ride with an adult on an inside seat)
- Venetian Double Carousel: For over three decades, Strates Shows signature merry-go-round has been a memory maker for fairgoers of all ages. This unique two-story, handpainted carousel is a timeless favorite on the midway and has become one of the “first” midway rides ever enjoyed by thousands of children and their parents. (42" minimum unless accompanied by an adult)
- Scooter/Bumper Cars: Driver’s license NOT required! There is no way better to get your traffic jam frustrations out than a ride on this carnival classic. These bumper cars let riders travel over the floor bumping, dodging, and crashing into other cars along the way. (4 8" minimum to drive, 42" minimum to ride)
- Sky Flyer: High-altitude fun! This 98-foot-high vertical swing can be seen “dancing in the sky” above the Strates Shows carnival. As 24 riders slowly rise to the top, the tower begins to rotate and centrifugal force kicks in! The Sky Flyer offers adventure thrills as well as a panoramic view of the midway. Fairgoers on the ground will be sure to have their cameras out to capture the Sky Flyers’ dazzling array of LED lighting. (48” minimum, 79” maximum)
- Musik Express: Music, lights, and sounds – Get ready for spinning action as the up-anddown motion of the ride keeps you rocking and rolling (52" minimum and age 8, 78” maximum)
- Wave Swinger: This ornately decorated giant swing set takes riders flying above the carnival crowds below. Riders are seated in one of the ride’s many suspended basket seats. As the Wave Swinger starts up, the whole structure rises and begins to rotate clockwise. When it reaches it maximum height, the ride tilted to provide an added thrill! (42" minimum, 230 lb. maximum)
- Dream Wheel: Enjoy a panoramic view of the midway from 72 feet above the ground high while riding in a family sized gondola. At night, the Dream Wheel’s translucent tub absorb the multiple colors of the super spectacular LED lighting. (40” minimum, 40” to 56” must be accompanied by a responsible patron)
- The Claw: Experience the ultimate sensation of speed, rotation and swing on ONE ride! As its large arm lifts into the air, those daring enough to ride from one of its suspended seats will get a 360-degree view of the surroundings…but only if they can keep their eyes open! (48” minimum, 77” maximum, 220 lb. maximum)
- The Wacky Worm: The perfect “first coaster” for young riders. This colorful caterpillar will have all ages laughing with delight as it weaves its way along gentle slopes and winding track. (42" minimum, 36" to 42” may ride with an adult)
How to stay cool in the heatwave at the York State Fair
Today is expected to be a scorcher as central Pennsylvania is experiencing a heatwave.
A heat advisory is in effect from noon today until 8 p.m. Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
Step inside one of the air-conditioned buildings or tents on the fairgrounds or cool off in one of the misting tents.
Patrons also are encouraged to stay hydrated, spokeswoman Montgomery Stambaugh said recently. Water fountains are available in the buildings, and vendors sell drinks as well.
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Police in DeKalb County are investigating a pair of crashes that left five people with injuries Wednesday.
Officers said they arrived at the Indiana 101 and Indiana 8 intersection where a Chevrolet Silverado pickup and Chevrolet Uplander minivan collided about 6 p.m.
A 45-year-old Butler man said he lost control of the truck when its accelerator malfunctioned, police said. They said the vehicles crashed, leaving the minivan driver, a 71-year-old Newville man, with head injuries.
A 59-year-old passenger inside the pickup, also from Newville, suffered cuts to the head, back pain and other scrapes, officers said.
The Butler man complained of rib pain and had a gash on his upper right arm.
Less than a half-hour later, police were called to the County Road 327 and County Road 68 intersection in Garrett where a Dodge Ram pickup and Nissan Sentra collided.
Officers said they found the truck on top of the car after the pickup went into Sentra's path. The crash's impact caused the pickup to spin and flip onto the car, police said.
A 17-year-old Wolcottville female was behind the wheel of the pickup and suffered a possible neck injury. The car's driver, a 32-year-old Three Rivers, Michigan, woman, has a possible back injury, police said.
Both victims were taken to hospitals.
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Potawatomi encouraging members to eat more traditionally for better health
As Forest County Potawatomi Community health administrator, Tom Boelter sees a high rate of patients with Type 2 diabetes and diet-related health issues.
“Before integrating with the West, clearly there was no diabetes among our people,” he said. “And there weren’t as many health issues.”
Today, tribal officials are helping members incorporate traditional diets and ways of thinking of food as medicine into their lives.
Boelter said it’s a matter of thinking about what relatives ate in the past versus what people are eating today.
Heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes are some of the top killers of Indigenous peoples. Medical professionals point to highly processed food products and poor diets as the main culprit.
Heart disease and cancer each caused 20% of Indigenous deaths in Wisconsin, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Indigenous people in Wisconsin are also more than three times likely to die from Type 2 diabetes than the white population, according to the state agency.
Food sovereignty has been a goal for many tribes since the 1800s, when the U.S. government forced Indigenous peoples onto reservations in places considered poor for farming.
Some tribes, such as the Potawatomi in Wisconsin, are using advanced farming techniques to produce crops in meaningful quantities for members even in far northern Wisconsin.
Now, tribal officials are working to steer tribal members away from their Western diets toward more traditional, Indigenous and healthy foods.
One recent free event held on Potawatomi tribal land in Forest County was led by Dr. Martin Reinhardt, an Ojibwe professor from Michigan who taught about his Decolonizing Diet Project.
He talked about making tortillas from wild rice, an important traditional staple food for Indigenous peoples in Wisconsin.
Reinhardt also served bison liver pate, which some were hesitant to try at first, but found to be quite palatable.
“They think it’s chip dip,” he said.
Reinhardt has personally tried his decolonizing diet plan in 2010, eating only traditional foods that his ancestors ate, and found he lost weight and felt very healthy.
“It's about reestablishing that relationship between humans and native foods, those beings we call food, in the Great Lakes region,” he said.
Reinhardt also took tribal members foraging in the area to teach traditional ecological knowledge about what parts of common plants can be made edible.
“The Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) had so many different teas to drink on a daily basis as food or medicine,” he said. “White pine tea has 10 times more vitamin C than orange juice. And it’s free.”
Plants thought of as weeds can treat certain ailments, such nettles for arthritis and ragweed for skin infections.
Reinhardt is an Ojibwe citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians from Michigan and teaches Native American Studies at Northern Michigan University. His research focuses on revitalizing relationships between humans and Indigenous plants and animals of the Great Lakes Region.
Frank Vaisvilas is a former Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact him at fvaisvilas@gannett.com or 815-260-2262. Follow him on Twitter at @vaisvilas_frank.
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EUSTIS, Fla. — Police in Eustis are planning to share new details Thursday on a deadly shooting that happened in January.
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It’s been nearly six months since 39-year-old Wseni Laguerre was found shot on Palm Avenue.
He later died at the hospital.
See: Florida police release artist’s rendition of victim whose remains were found in suitcases
Back then, investigators said there was a confrontation between the victim and another person before the shooting.
Police said they have been talking to witnesses and following leads ever since.
Read: ‘Terrifying ‘: Allegiant plane avoids near-collision at 23,000 feet
Eustis police are set to hold a news conference at 11 a.m.
Channel 9 will have a crew at the updates and will provide more information on Eyewitness News.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The legal battle between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to play out in court this week.
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Disney sued back in April, accusing the governor of illegal political retaliation when the state repealed Reedy Creek.
The governor’s attorneys filed to dismiss that suit in June, claiming he had “legislative immunity.”
Disney responded to the governor’s motion Wednesday, saying he is trying to, “evade responsibility for his actions.”
Meanwhile, the board overseeing Disney’s special district is going after the deputies hired to protect theme-park guests.
Read: Disney CEO Bob Iger: DeSantis’ claim that company is sexualizing children is ‘preposterous’
In a meeting Wednesday, the board said it’s cutting $8 million that the old board used to pay law enforcement for off-duty shifts.
It said legal fees tied to fighting Disney in court have forced it to find money elsewhere.
Read: Disney-DeSantis feud heats up at annual shareholders’ meeting
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ORLANDO, Fla. — This morning, UCF football fans will be gathering in Downtown Orlando.
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City leaders are celebrating the school joining the Big 12 Conference.
Mayor Buddy Dyer will join head coach Gus Malzahn, the UCF cheer team, and school mascot Knightro for an official proclamation.
READ: Central Florida community reacts to UCF joining Big 12
They’ll also raise UCF’s flag over Orlando City Hall.
The celebration starts at 10 o’clock this morning at 400 South Orange Avenue in Orlando.
READ: Big 12 signage popping up on UCF’s campus
Channel 9 will be on hand for the event.
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A 1-year-old who was rushed to the hospital after nearly drowning in Etna earlier this month has died.
The baby boy died early Thursday morning, according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner.
At around 3:40 p.m. on July 13, first responders were called to Sycamore Street, where the baby was found unresponsive.
They performed lifesaving measures and the child was taken to a local hospital in critical condition.
Allegheny County police, who investigated the incident, said it appeared as though the drowning was accidental.
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PITTSBURGH — A man suspected in a fatal October shooting has been arrested after DNA evidence found on a Gatorade bottle the shooter drank from connected him to the scene.
In October, Perry Bagley, 47, was found shot in the stomach on Maddock Place at Ft. Duquesne Blvd. He later died.
On July 26, Lawrence White was arrested for Bagley’s death. He is facing criminal homicide and two firearm charges.
According to court documents, DNA found on a Gatorade bottle the shooter drank from and left at the scene matched White’s DNA.
The court documents allege White was dealing drugs when approached by Bagley and during the interaction, he fired a single fatal shot. The shooting was caught on camera, and White was also seen on surveillance video at 7-Eleven before the crime.
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Law enforcement officers on Wednesday released a rendering of a woman whose remains were found in several suitcases in Florida.
The Delray Beach Police Department shared an artist rendering of the victim, whose body was found in the Intracoastal Waterway.
Police said the woman’s body was found in three suitcases, including two “unique pieces of luggage.”
Detectives believe the woman was killed sometime from July 17 to July 20.
The victim was determined to be a 5-foot-4 white or Hispanic middle-aged woman with brown hair. She possibly had tattooed eyebrows and was wearing a floral tank top with a black undershirt and black mid-thigh shorts.
“The brand for the floral top is ‘Betzabe’ which from what we can tell is a Brazilian company. It’s important for the public to know that these reconstructed images are not an exact likeness of the victim or her clothing and are simply the interpretation of the artist,” police wrote on Facebook.
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Why NBA assistant coach Elston Turner returns every year to his Knoxville basketball camp
After a long season of catching flights and working as an assistant coach of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, Elston Turner loves to come back to his hometown and do what he does best − coach.
And he has done so for 30 years.
Turner's roots dig back to Austin-East High School, where he spent a lot of his time playing basketball and winning a state title in 1977. However, while Turner was there in the 1970s, he didn't get a lot of the resources needed to grow as an athlete.
"I wanted to give back a few things that I didn't get," the 64-year-old Turner told Knox News during a break Wednesday from his annual basketball camp at A-E. "We had access to camps but they weren't taught by NBA professionals. When I was these kid's ages, I was wanting information, advice, somebody to tell me what to do, what not to do, somebody that's been there before and we never had that."
The 6-foot-5 Turner went on to have a stellar career at Ole Miss from 1977-81, leading the Rebels to the NCAA Tournament for the first time his senior season. He was later selected by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round of the 1981 NBA Draft. He played eight seasons in the NBA before becoming a nomad with stops in the CBA, Spain, Italy, and Greece before retiring as a player in 1995.
He was a player-coach in 1994 for the Chicago Rockers of the CBA and started another odyssey. After one season with Quad City of the CBA in 1995, Turner has worked as an assistant with six NBA teams (two stints apiece with the Sacramento Kings and Houston Rockets), including the past two seasons with the Timberwolves.
But being a coach means always being on the road, long hours and late nights. His camp in his hometown helps him escape that life and come back to what comforts him.
"I'm at home," said Turner. "I picture myself out there, I see myself in some of these kids and that's why I come home to recharge and know where I came from. When I first left here, I promised I was not coming back, I've seen what it's like, what else is in other states and other cities. But you got to come back. I had to come back and I'm still doing, I left in 1977 but have been coming back ever since."
And even though coaching is a lot about what the camp is about, it doesn't just stop there. Turner and others make sure about it.
"After we have our breaks, we have our person come and give a 10 or 15-minute Bible study or lesson about Christ," said long-time volunteer Sanford Miller Sr. "So we incorporate all that together. Even during timeouts, water breaks. We have kids come up and ask us questions and things of that nature, so we share during those periods but we also share throughout the day."
Teachings like this make Turner feel he is doing more than just helping kids understand the game of basketball, he is making them into members of society.
Life isn't always easy for some of the children at his camp. Making a difference in their life is a priority for Turner.
"We do way more than basketball," said Turner. "We do tell them about life skills, try to teach them life skills. Always have a good attitude, never be afraid of hard work because whether you're in school, or working when you graduate a job is gonna be hard and you're going to stay strong mentally."
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Life in general, you're gonna have some rain one day, everything is not gonna be easy. You have to have mental toughness which you have to have in sports. You're gonna have to have it in life. The ultimate goal is to live your life like your autograph is wanted and not your fingerprints."
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Arizona teen owned his first gun at 13. Now he's facing 20 year sentence in fatal drive-by
Kevontay Myers pled guilty in connection with the 2020 drive-by shooting death of ASU student Carlos Garcia.
An 18-year-old has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2020 drive-by shooting death of Arizona State University student Carlos Garcia.
Kevontay Myers, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, pled guilty to second-degree murder and assisting a criminal street gang. In Arizona, anyone 15 years or older accused of certain felony crimes must be charged as an adult.
The shooting took place outside a Kwik Korner convenience store in south Phoenix on the night of July 2, 2020. Garcia, 19, was hit while waiting in line for the walk-up window. Shots were fired from a gray Chevy Impala.
Police said that though Myers was only 15, he had a history of gang involvement. According to court records, the intended target of the shooting was a member of a rival gang, who was present at the scene.
Garcia was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
In a probation report, a Phoenix police detective said the case's focus narrowed to Myers when his social media profiles surfaced. The detective said that Myers' posts often featured weapons and contained allusions to gang affiliations.
But defense lawyers argued that Myers' life has been shaped by neglect and violence, including the fatal shooting of his teenage brother. They said they intended to explain the events that led up to the Kwik Korner shooting, not to minimize Garcia's death.
The case against Kevontay Myers has raised questions about police and prosecutor conduct. It also came to exemplify conflicting views on juvenile offenders with a history of gang activity.
Who was Carlos Garcia?
Garcia was a junior majoring in computer science. His mother, Christina Garcia, said that Carlos Garcia hoped to enlist in the Air Force after graduation. Having spent time in Germany after high school, he wanted to be stationed there as an officer. He would have been the second in his family to graduate from college.
That night, Garcia had wrapped up a shift at a Chipotle restaurant before going to the Kwik Korner. He told his mother that he was picking up an energy drink and something to eat, planning to spend the night working on a summer course.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. Another witness said that he "felt Carlos Garcia's last breath."
Police said that the gray Impala was captured by convenience store surveillance footage. According to court documents, investigators identified the vehicle and questioned the driver. The driver, also a minor at the time of the shooting, became a state witness, to whom prosecutors granted immunity.
According to court documents, police matched fingerprints taken from the car to Myers.
Myers was indicted on Dec. 20, 2020, and arrested the next month. He was charged with nine counts, including first-degree murder, drive-by shooting, and assisting a criminal street gang.
This year on May 19, Myers agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder and assisting a criminal street gang. The sentencing range was 18 to 22 years.
Sentencing moves forward despite misconduct allegations
The sentencing hearing had initially been set for June 19. But at 5:10 p.m. on June 15, one business day before the hearing, prosecutors emailed defense lawyers with instructions to come to their office with a large USB drive.
According to court documents, prosecutors said they “erroneously” neglected to disclose a year of jail calls. Deputy County Attorney Heather Livingstone said that she planned to use some of those calls in her sentencing memo to justify seeking the maximum prison term of 22 years.
The new materials included thousands of calls made by Myers from Maricopa County Jail, including video visits. Collins said that there was no time to review such a volume of material.
In an email sent to Maricopa County Superior Court Judge William Wingard, Collins characterized the last-minute disclosure of evidence as an "emergency." He said that prosecutors had engaged in a "pattern of discovery violations," including concerns about police misconduct brought up by an unrelated homicide case.
The court agreed to omit the jail calls from sentencing considerations and set a new hearing for July. The judge declined a June 22 motion to dismiss the case.
In that motion, Collins included exhibits related to both the late discovery and possible police misconduct that had surfaced in an unrelated case.
In the court's response, Judge Wingard indicated that Myers could withdraw from the plea agreement to pursue the dismissal. But Myers wanted to move forward with the sentencing.
In an interview with the Arizona Republic, Collins said that withdrawing from the plea was "taking a huge risk" with a possible life sentence for Myers.
"We shouldn't have been put in that position in the first place," Collins said, referring to how prosecution had dealt with disclosing evidence.
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Ahead of the July 21 sentencing hearing, prosecutors submitted a new memo, citing recordings that had been disclosed earlier this year.Prosecutors used them as they had wanted to use the recordings that had been thrown out: to characterize Myers as a hardened criminal without remorse for his actions.
During the hearing, Collins argued that the excerpts were "cherry-picked" by prosecutors and that Myers had matured in the two years since the recordings were taken.
As part of its report, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office submitted a series of screenshots from Myers’ Facebook and Instagram accounts, posted before his arrest.
Livingstone wrote that Myers is “proud to be a gang member” and has little regard for the justice system. She pointed to Myers’ 14 previous referrals to juvenile court, though only two were misdemeanors – one for property damage and one for disorderly conduct. The rest were probation violations.
Defense lawyers painted a more nuanced portrait of Kevontay Myers, one they say contextualizes his actions at the south Phoenix Kwik Korner.
In their sentencing memorandum, lawyers for Myers said that he did not expect to encounter the rival gang member at the convenience store. Myers described seeing that person reach for what he thought was a gun.
At that moment, the filing said, Myers “[realized] he was going to die.”
A fraught sentencing hearing
At the July 21 sentencing hearing, prosecutors said there was little evidence for this interpretation of events. But defense lawyers believed that Myers' personal history explains why he may have instinctively turned towards violence at the Kwik Korner.
The defense's sentencing memo laid out Myers' path towards the "vicious cycle of retaliatory shootings that has plagued south Phoenix."
Myers, the youngest of eight children, grew up in a tumultuous household. At the sentencing hearing, his sister described a childhood rife with instability. She recalled sleeping in cars and brushing her teeth in gas station restrooms.
The defense’s sentencing memorandum characterized Myers’ father as violent and his mother as neglectful. Myers has a documented history of serious intellectual and psychological challenges, which went untreated.
The defense described Myers’ foray into gang activity as a survival tactic. According to court documents, his mother “instructed [Myers] in the necessity of gang protection.”
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According to the report, Myers fired his first gun at 12. By 13, he had his own gun, which he kept under his pillow while he slept.
Myers’ older brother, Kenyon Myers, was killed at 17 in a gang-related shooting in south Phoenix on April 20, 2020. Kevontay Myers was present, and his brother passed out in his arms before dying the next day. The murder was never solved.
During the sentencing hearing, Myers apologized to the Garcia family. He described the aftermath of his brother’s death and how it changed him.
“I never meant to make another family feel the same pain,” Myers said.
Myers' older sister said that she hoped, one day, the Garcia family might forgive her brother.
Friends and family of Carlos Garcia asked the judge for the maximum sentence of 22 years.
The state's sentencing memo included several letters written by some of Garcia's cousins, who described their extended family as tight knit.
"Why can this cruel, selfish individual still get to live out his adulthood while my cousin an innocent soul never got to live his," one read.
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A downtown Gilbert project is back on the books nearly 2 years after the council rejected it
A downtown Gilbert project that was rejected in 2021 by the Town Council after residents and business owners objected is back with revisions.
The infill projected called The Brundrett Building is planned along Gilbert Road sandwiched between The Farmhouse Restaurant and Norwood Furniture. The initial plans caused controversy within the community for its deviations from the town’s zoning and design standards for the area.
This project isn't the first to be revised following residential scrutiny. It shows that developers are listening to residents' concerns. A group of residents recently worked with developers for months to find a middle ground for The Ranch development.
Developers on July 19 presented their revised plans to the town’s Redevelopment Commission, a board that oversees downtown projects to make sure it's in line with the area’s plan.
The proposed development will be a 55-foot four-story building with a rooftop bar.
Since the town passed its plan in 2018, redevelopment of downtown Heritage District has been a priority.
Why initial plan was rejected: The pushback arose because the developers were requesting a zoning change to allow a 68-foot four-story building, which is 13 feet higher than allowed there.
Other downtown business owners said during a public hearing they were excited to see activity on the site but opposed such a tall building in the downtown core and that would affect the vision for the Heritage District. One resident, at a 2021 public hearing meeting, was concerned it would block the view of Gilbert’s iconic water tower.
The Town Council was on board with locals' concerns and voted to continue the project. Developers later pulled it in January 2022 to restart the process.
What’s new: Developers took cue of the height concurs of the building and now propose to build it to the maximum height allowed of 55-feet.
The four story building is envisioned to have the following:
- The ground floor as a full service restaurant, café or bar.
- The second and third floors as office space.
- The fourth floor as a rooftop bar.
A portion of the rooftop will have a mechanical enclosure that would add an extra 5 feet to the height of the building, which is allowed in the land development code. The landscape architect has also proposed to add trees to the rooftop patio. The commission urged caution on choosing trees that wouldn't add too much extra height to the building
The developer clarified in the meeting the trees will be planted in boxes which will limit how tall they can grow.
What’s next: Residents can expect a formal public hearing with the commission sometime in September or October, said Kristen Devine, a town planner.
Property owners and residents within a certain distance will receive a notice for the public hearing 15 days in advance. This time around the applicant won’t need the Town Council’s approval because its isn’t seeking a rezone request for the height deviation, Devin confirmed.
"The application this time around is a design review because they are not requesting any deviations and have modified their design to meet all development standards that are permitted within the Heritage District," she said.
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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Expansion plans at Arizona Grand Resort propose apartments, 'Mexican-style' food hall and more
The Arizona Grand Resort in southeast Phoenix is working on plans for a major expansion that could add apartment units, additional hotel rooms and new conference space to the resort’s sprawling grounds.
The resort’s owners submitted plans to Phoenix to develop some of the vacant portions of the resort, potentially adding residential rentals to the mix of uses on the site.
The Arizona Grand property is about 60 acres total, on the south side of Baseline Road west of Interstate 10. The property includes several large, vacant pieces and parking lots around the perimeter of the resort, including one piece that is in Tempe, along Baseline, north of the hotel.
“It is now time to develop portions of the site that are effectively infill sites because they have never been developed and update other portions of the property/facilities to ensure Arizona Grand Resort can continue to provide modern amenities for the area’s residents and visitors,” the resort’s leadership team wrote in a proposal to Phoenix to begin the approval process for the project.
The redevelopment plan calls for apartments along the northern portion, which is in Tempe. South of the apartments is proposed as a food and beverage facility with indoor and outdoor dining, described as a “Mexican-style food hall, event and entertainment destination,” with chef-driven restaurants and live events. New ballrooms and conference space are planned to the southeast of the food hall.
On the southwestern side of the property, west of the resort’s water park, the application proposes either a new hotel or a new apartment complex along Pointe Parkway. On the eastern side of the property, two-story “golf cottage” units are proposed facing the golf course and South Mountain Preserve.
The new additions could grow the resort from 640 rooms to a maximum of 1,100. The apartment could add a maximum of 190 residential units, according to the application.
An executive with the resort said the redevelopment plan is in the very early stages and said they will provide more details as the project moves through the city’s hearing process.
Reach the reporter at cvanek@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter @CorinaVanek.
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Forest officials seek public comment for proposed Wildlife crossings in northern Arizona
FLAGSTAFF — Coconino and Kaibab National Forest officials are seeking public input about potentially installing up to three elevated wildlife highway crossings in northern Arizona, pending funding availability.
The proposed crossings would be located on Interstate 17 south of Kachina Village, on I-17 north of the Willard Springs exit and on Interstate 40 west of Parks.
The proposal, brought forward by the Arizona Game and Fish Department in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Transportation, is based on years of study, forest officials said in a news release.
These crossings would "reduce potential vehicle-wildlife collisions and increase wildlife population connectivity across the landscape," they said. "Over the long-term, the crossings would benefit local wildlife, decrease the potential for vehicle collisions, and reduce costs to Arizona taxpayers."
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Construction for each crossing would take around six to eight months sometime over the next several years based on funding availability and would be done so to minimize impacts to highway traffic.
Forest officials are accepting public comment until Aug. 29.
You can reach them in multiple ways:
- E-mail: send to comments-southwestern-coconino@usda.gov (include “NAZ Crossings” in the subject line).
- Regular mail: send to the Coconino Forest Service, Attention: Mike Dechter, 1824 South Thompson St., Flagstaff, AZ 86001.
- Fax: send to 928-527-3620; Attention: Mike Dechter, NAZ Crossings.
- In person: at Coconino's Supervisor’s Office, 1824 South Thompson St., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.
Reach the reporter at LLatch@gannett.com.
The Republic’s coverage of northern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report for America. To support regional Arizona news coverage like this, make a tax-deductible donation at supportjournalism.azcentral.com.
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Tucson to receive $50 million to redevelop historic building into mixed-income housing
Tucson is slated to receive a $50 million grant to redevelop a struggling historic building that was turned into public housing near downtown.
The grant will be used to redevelop the historic 17-story Tucson House, which was a luxury high-rise apartment building in the 1960s and is currently a public housing development primarily serving older adults and people with disabilities.
This project is part of the Thrive in the 05, a neighborhood initiative that focuses on revitalizing a 2.3-square mile area less than 2 miles from downtown in the Oracle Road and Miracle Mile area.
According to Thrive in the 05, revitalizing the Tucson House and reintegrating it into the surrounding neighborhood is the cornerstone of the initiative.
Tucson House represents 27% of the city’s total public housing inventory. The building is considered “severely distressed” and needs major redevelopment, according to Thrive in the 05. Residents have reported feeling isolated from the rest of the neighborhood.
“The city of Tucson has created a comprehensive plan that prioritizes the neighborhood remains affordable, sustainable and resilient as well as honors the shared history and cultural identity of those who call it home,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who supported securing federal funds for the project.
Grijalva urged the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to change its eligibility criteria for Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grants, which excluded housing sites dedicated to elderly and disabled residents.
Tucson's $50 million grant is a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant, which funds projects to transform distressed neighborhoods and public housing into mixed-income neighborhoods.
The historic Miracle Mile corridor, where the Tucson House is located, used to be a booming area. From the 1920s to early 1960s, automotive-centered businesses flourished in the area, as the corridor connected the city to highways.
However, once other highways were built, the area began to decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Thrive in the 05 is trying to change that.
Senators Mark Kelly and Krysten Sinema also announced their support for the funding.
“Far too many of my fellow Tucsonans lack access to the safe and affordable housing they need. This funding will spur investment and improve the quality of life for hardworking families living in our most underserved neighborhoods,” Kelly said, in a press release.
Reach the reporter at sarah.lapidus@gannett.com. The Republic’s coverage of southern Arizona is funded, in part, with a grant from Report for America. Support Arizona news coverage with a tax-deductible donation at supportjournalism.azcentral.com.
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Phoenix bilingual domestic violence shelter helps survivors keep their furry family members
While AR was in a relationship with her ex-husband, she felt she had no control. She could not imagine that their marriage in 2019 would begin a cycle of abuse.
“I was closed off from my friends,” AR shared with The Arizona Republic. “I couldn’t have contact with my family, with my mom. I was working before and he made me quit my job. He controlled the food that we ate. He managed my entire life.”
The Republic is using initials for the woman to safeguard her identity and that of her children.
The first time AR sought help from a domestic violence shelter in 2020, she found a temporary solution. A shelter — Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse in Tucson — helped set her up with a house where she could reside with her five children. In her mind, she was safe and even got two dogs — a Chihuahua named Bella and a German Shepherd and Husky mix named Oso.
But the abuse from her now ex-husband continued and only got worse when she asked for a divorce in 2022. He wouldn’t leave her alone, AR said.
“He was obsessed,” she said.
He would stake out her house early in the mornings, pound on the doors to the point of knocking them down and would threaten her, her children and her dogs' lives.
In February 2023 she knew she had to leave once again.
Her two dogs are like her children. She could not imagine leaving them behind — especially after her ex-husband had a pattern of violence.
According to research from the Animal Welfare Institute, 48% of domestic violence victims delay leaving a dangerous situation out of concern for their pet’s safety.
Desperately making calls and searching for resources to try to find a space for her and her family, she found Chicanos Por La Causa De Colores, a bilingual shelter in Phoenix which recently began allowing pets. The shelter provided a space where she could stay with both her pets and her five children, whose ages range from 9 to 21.
AR has been at the shelter for two months and says she now feels truly calm and protected.
“I now have to start from zero,” AR said. "I can’t say that I regret my decision or that I’m struggling because (the shelter) has supported me and is always on the lookout to make sure (my pets') needs are met.”
Chicanos Por La Causa De Colores, a place to 'heal together'
“The hallmarks of (domestic violence) are not violence, but rather coercion and control,” said Jenna Panas, chief executive officer for the AZ Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. “A domestic violence relationship is one in which one party is seeking to essentially control the other party through coercion, violence, abuse, etc. And so one of the mechanisms that can be used to control someone is a pet.”
A 2022 report by the coalition showed that in 2022 there were a total of 101 known domestic violence-related fatalities across Arizona. Of those deaths, 69 were in Maricopa County.
The numbers are projected to stay consistent for 2023, Panas said.
According to Esperanza United, a national network that mobilizes Latino communities to end gender-based violence, about 1 in 3 Latinas experience some form of domestic violence, and often, due to language barriers and cultural expectations, they find it harder to seek help.
Chicanos Por La Causa De Colores was founded in 1986 to give Spanish-speaking domestic violence survivors a space to receive services in their language. Offering a variety of services — avoiding family separations, legal aid, and court preparation — with a completely bilingual staff, the shelter recently opened a space for residents to bring in their pets.
“Pets are a source of comfort and happiness, but pet safety is a barrier preventing people experiencing abuse to seek help,” shelter program manager Mayani Jinel said in a statement.
The CPLC De Colores program provides resources to an average of 500 to 600 survivors of sexual and domestic abuse annually, according to the shelter. There are 88 beds in the shelter.
Jinel said she has seen an increase in the number of residents since they started accepting pets. She noted residents and their pets can “heal together” now that they can seek safety with their companion animals.
The shelter decided to begin accepting pets two years ago. At first, residents would need to carefully walk their pets outside, often fearing being seen, Jinel described.
Through Chicanos Por La Causa's partnership with Assured Engineering Concepts, a locally owned business that provides professional engineering design services, De Colores received enough support to open a pet park this year within the walls of the shelter. “Our efforts with the pet park aims to encourage survivors to take action without worrying about leaving their pet behind," Jinel said.
The shelter provides all of the necessities for pets ranging from food, toys and other pet essentials. So far, De Colores has seen mostly dogs, but they have had a share of cats, hamsters and fish.
“For a lot of people, pets are a part of their family,” Jinel said. “I see the impact of the shelter. I see how happy they are. I see how having their pets with them makes them feel secure."
CPLC De Colores, however, can only help so many people. With a limited amount of resources and space for survivors, AR notes that more needs to be done to help others in her situation.
"I wish there were more opportunities, more programs, more resources for them to help us; (the shelter) does what they can but sometimes there are obstacles," AR said. "There need to be more resources, not just for the De Colores shelter, but also for any program that supports people like us."
Resources for Arizonans experiencing domestic violence
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233)
- Phoenix.gov/DomesticViolence
- Chrysalis: 602-944-4999, noabuse.org.
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual & Domestic Violence: 602-279-2980
In Arizona, people can call the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, 602-279-2900 or 1-800-782-6400 or visit its website, acesdv.org/helpline.
The Phoenix police website, www.phoenix.gov/domesticviolence, has a list of places people can contact in Maricopa County.
The Arizona Republic's Season for Sharing campaign awarded Chicanos Por La Causa a $25,000 last year to support families living at De Colores. Read the full list of 158 grantees here.
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Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray surprises south Phoenix students with shopping spree
Four south Phoenix students were surprised Monday night by Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray, who took them on a shopping spree at Dick's Sporting Goods in Scottsdale.
“We really didn’t believe it because we got to get whatever we wanted," said Kayci Griffen, 10.
The event was organized by Dana Burns, who founded the nonprofit A Permanent Voice in 2018 to help kids and seniors in south Phoenix. Murray wanted to surprise a handful of kids who had been "going through some challenges lately," she said.
Burns's goal, she said, was to "bring some joy and peace of mind" to the children.
Kayci said she and the three other kids on the spree "literally had no clue" where they were going.
"At first, we thought that we were going to a museum," she said.
After they arrived and were surprised by Murray, who told them they could get whatever they wanted, she picked out a backpack, a lunch box, shoes, water bottles, three jackets, shirts and a "whole bunch of shorts," which will prove useful as she prepares for her first day of fifth grade and her school's basketball tryouts.
Murray was accompanied by his parents on the shopping trip, and Kayci said she spent the spree with Murray's mom.
Meanwhile, Tori Yancy, 12, discovered he and Murray had "a lot in common."
"We love sports. We love to draw," Tori said. "Me and him love math." Tori plays basketball and football, in addition to being an "A" student and having perfect attendance since kindergarten, he said.
Chrishawn Thomas, 11, said the first thing he did when he arrived was pick out a football and a jersey for Murray to sign. After that, Murray took him to the shoe aisle.
"He just said bring every shoe in my size out," Chrishawn said. Then, Murray bought all of them.
Chrishawn left with 10 pairs of shoes. His favorites, he said, are a pair of colorful Jordans and white Air Force 1s.
Chrishawn's mom, Nydea Richards, said she hopes the event inspires her son, "seeing that another Black male is successful ... and not only being successful but giving back."
"I kind of tell my kids it's better to give than receive," Richards said.
"We had a lot of fun," Tori said. "I thank God every day for that wonderful experience."
Madeleine Parrish covers K-12 education. Reach her at mparrish@arizonarepublic.com.
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ELK GROVE, Calif. — The Elk Grove Police Department is investigating a deadly, single-vehicle crash in Elk Grove Thursday.
Westbound Elk Grove Boulevard reopened around 5 a.m. between Ginther Drive and Bruceville Road after being closed for a few hours overnight.
It's unclear how the crash happened.
Watch more on ABC10
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https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/elk-grove-deadly-single-vehicle-crash/103-5902596a-0251-43dd-98a7-ea77d64533f5
| 2023-07-27T14:30:51
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — Officials with the Glendale Police Department said Wednesday that Alicia Navarro, a teenage girl who was reported missing by her family in 2019, has been found safe.
Police said during a press conference that Navarro was discovered in a Montana town near the Canadian border and has been reunited with her family. She had visited a local police department and identified herself as Navarro.
Police still have many unanswered questions regarding the case and are continuing to investigate what happened to Navarro over the last few years. Police said Navarro is cooperating with their investigators.
It's not clear if she's been with anyone over the last four years. She was 14 when she disappeared.
Glendale police said Navarro was healthy and did not appear injured when she made contact with police. When asked by investigators if anyone hurt her, Navarro responded, "No, no one hurt me."
Navarro's family had gone to great lengths to find the missing teen by repeatedly spreading her story in the local media. The "Unsolved Mysteries" podcast published an episode about Navarro's disappearance earlier this year.
In a video message posted on the "Finding Alicia" Facebook page, Navarro's mother said she does not yet know all the details about what happened to her daughter.
"The important thing is that she is alive," the mother said in the video.
>> This is a breaking news story and will be updated as more information becomes available
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https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/police-missing-glendale-girl-has-been-found-nearly-4-years-later/75-2e51d1fd-f8ad-414f-b1d7-a7a6ca7d083d
| 2023-07-27T14:30:57
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ARDEN-ARCADE, Calif. — Fire officials said there were no injuries after a fire at a vacant medical building in Arden-Arcade Thursday.
The fire was on Professional Drive. When crews with the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District arrived, they found a fire in the back raise of the building. Based on the early investigation, fire officials said someone was living near where the fire started.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Watch more on ABC10
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https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/fire-vacant-medical-building-in-arden-arcade/103-736704c7-51e6-4554-881c-4b9b72d8ce4a
| 2023-07-27T14:31:03
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STOCKTON, Calif — A car crashed into a fence and fire hydrant after a chase in Stockton, the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
The crash happened near Mission Road and De Ovan Avenue. The roads in the area reopened around 3 a.m. after being closed for several hours overnight.
There was no information about the pursuit. The crash is under investigation.
Watch more on ABC10
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https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/stockton-car-crashes-fence-fire-hydrant-chase/103-5eb89e25-93c3-4052-9a46-1436ab71c685
| 2023-07-27T14:31:10
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ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. — The coroner was called to the scene of a crash this morning, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
Emergency responders went to the scene in the 100 block of Goldenville Road just before 7 a.m., Adams County 911 Dispatch said.
PSP says only one vehicle was involved. Troopers are investigating.
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https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/adams-county/coroner-goldenville-road-adams-county-crash/521-29039923-1ed7-4738-a313-ac68d073e589
| 2023-07-27T14:34:10
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https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/adams-county/coroner-goldenville-road-adams-county-crash/521-29039923-1ed7-4738-a313-ac68d073e589
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LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster woman and her juvenile son have been charged with attacking and stabbing a man Tuesday night, police said this week.
Lashanda Nunn, 43, and her son allegedly attacked the victim outside his home on the 600 block of First Street at about 10 p.m., according to Lancaster Police.
Prior to the attack, police claim, Nunn sent the man messages on Facebook that indicated she and her son were coming to assault him.
When they arrived, police said, Nunn and the juvenile pulled the victim out of the house through the front door and began a physical altercation.
During the fight, the juvenile allegedly stabbed the victim in the back with an "unidentified object," according to police. The victim sustained a one-inch puncture wound in the stabbing, police said.
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment, according to police.
Nunn is charged with aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, police said.
Her son was charged with the same offenses before Lancaster Juvenile Probation, according to police.
Nunn was arraigned on the charges and is free after posting $5,000 bail, according to court records.
A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 3, court records show.
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https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/lashanda-nunn-arrest-lancaster-aggravated-assault-conspiracy/521-38cbd779-fe86-4bae-93a3-2b66ba31cb35
| 2023-07-27T14:34:28
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