Posted Tuesday, October 15, 2024 12:09 pm ; As election season draws near, the Tri-County Reporter has reached out to get to know the candidates running for local offices. Listed below are their answers to a questionnaire sent in by the responding candidates. Candidates who did not submit a completed questionnaire by press deadline are not listed. Craig Goldman, US Congressional District 12 · Occupation: State representative, HD 97/small businessman · Education: University of Texas, liberal ...
YAKIMA, Wash. – Yakima County is being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union, who claims the county is failing to take action to address the shortage of public defenders throughout Washington. ACLU, who is suing on behalf of people who have been charged of a crime without an attorney assigned to the case, began looking into the issue in mid-May, said David Montes, ACLU Washington Staff Attorney. The investigation took place after Yakima County Prosecutor Joseph Brusic testified about how long people in custody were waiting to receive a p ...
The Tesla that plunged over a cliff in San Mateo County on Jan. 2, 2023. NBC Bay Area San Mateo Superior Court Judge Susan Jakubowski said that Patel was eligible for a mental health...
U.S. Supreme Court refuses to block WA maps ousting Central WA’s first Latina senator ; What’s next for Tri-Cities Latina lawmaker ousted from her WA seat by redistricting? ; Can Newhouse survive Trump’s wrath in WA 4th District primary? Here are early results
News ; Business · Community · Crime · Education · History · Local government · Sports · Area Guide · Calendar · Local events · Entertainment · Food and drink · Outdoor activities · Letters to the editor · Photo galleries · Video galleries · Be a Local Shutterbug! · Place an Obituary · Public & Legal Notices · Submit a Legal Notice · Submit a Public Notice · Place a classified ad · Classifieds · Featured Garage Sales · Best of Azle 2024 · Best of ...
News ; Business · Community · Crime · Education · History · Local government · Sports · Area Guide · Calendar · Local events · Entertainment · Food and drink · Outdoor activities · Letters to the editor · Photo galleries · Video galleries · Place an Obituary · Public & Legal Notices · Submit a Legal Notice · Submit a Public Notice · Place a classified ad · Classifieds · Featured Garage Sales · Best of Azle 2024 · Best of Parker County 2024 · Best of Parker County 2023 · Best of Azle 2023 · Agriculture · Automotive ...
Tri County Clippings- Page Forty Nine ; PINE CITY FLIER CARRIES MAIL IN 1918 JENNY By William A. Garrett Washington (GNS) - "It doesn't bother me. It's just another flight." That's how Leon "Windy" Smith of Pine City, Elmira suburb, feels about the bit of piloting he's doing today. From National Airport here in a reenactment of the first airmail flight from Washington to New York City. Windy, who has been flying for 45 years and has the crinkled, wind-burned face to prove it, wasn't on that first flight, but he started to fly the mail a few months later and stuck to it for two years. In 1919 he established the fist private airport in the nation's capital-right, in fact, at National Airport, then the National Horse Show grounds. Among those at the airport to see him off on his historic flight were Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, who witnessed the first flight from the old Polo Grounds in Potomac Park with her President-husband; Postmaster Gen. Arthur E. Summerfield, and Dr. George L. Connor, retired former deputy assistant postmaster general who organized the first airmail division in the postal service. Also on hand was white-locked James Clark Edgerton, who flew in the first mail to reach her by plane from New York, and acting Postmaster James Clark of Washington, who will deliver pouches bearing 200 pounds of letters, each with a special commemorative cachet, to the Smith plane. It won't be the same plane that Lt. George Boyle of the Army Signal Corps took out of here May 15, 1918, with 150 pounds of mail destined for New York, but it will be the "same model exactly," according to Dr. Connor Smith will fly a 1918 Standard 1 with 1918 Hispano-Suiza engine. The original was a Curtis H with the same type of engine- but actually it never got to New York. Boyle, now dead, got lost in Waldorf, Md. It wasn't unusual for the early pilot, flying by the seat of his pants, to get lost, or worse. Windy himself survived all manner of forcedowns and crackups. Right after Windy gets going, a small granite monument marking the location of Washington's first airmail field will be unveiled. Tonight Smith will fly back-commercially this time-for a dinner put on by the OX-5 Club with Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I "ace of aces" and Summerfield as speakers. The memorial flight is sponsored by the Pioneers of Airmail, of whom, of course, Smith is one. "Have to keep it up," he explained. "to keep my license." But now he's retired. "Don't do much of anything." He said. "Anything except flying," interjected Dr. Connor, a Methodist minister for 36 years after he left the Post Office Department. Windy would admit only to being "over 60." People of all walks and ages were coming to the booth, over which hung a cutout of the strutted biplane Windy was to fly, for his and Edgerton's autographs. Some wanted to chat, and did. Windy didn't mind. (he said his father, the late Dr. Frank Smith of Millerton, Pa., eight miles from Elmira, gave him the nickname). Dr. Connor said he was writing a semi-official history of the airmail service. What part would Smith have in it? "Windy has a very fine record," the doctor declared. "He flew the first New York - to - Chicago mail, too." Windy recalled that his plane once caught fire on this run, and he came down in Sharon, Pa. DeHavilland "flying coffins", obtained from the Signal Corps, were on airmail duty then, too. Smith spoke about giving his Standard its first test, by him. He'd have to land it on grass rather than a paved runway, he said. On a hard surface it might ground-loop or blow a tire. "Probably" the latter, Windy added. On its New York flight, the plane will have 200 pounds of mail in the front cockpit. At his side Windy will have a portable two-way radio, just in case. "It's the worst route in the country," he said, telling about the fog and stuff that rolls in from the ocean. "I was darned near lost on it half a dozen times. The Lord has been good to me." Still Windy "always has wanted to fly this run again." It was the first in the world to have a continuous airmail schedule, Dr. Connor noted. When Dr. Connor mentioned Edgerton's feats,Smith turned to Edgerton and asked, smiling:"Why don't you take it (the flight)?" Edgerton, a World War II lieutenant colonel, grinned: "Sorry, Windy, my ticker failed long ago." He hasn't flown since 1945. Smith remembered that he was paid $3,600 a year as an airmail pilot. That was big money for the time - and equal to about $10,000, Dr. Connor estimated, of today's puffed-up currency. Windy said he also "made a lot of money" at National Airport, before it was that, and "cleaned up" with an aerial circus. Windy said that when he went to National to check his plane, he kidded the manager: "What do you mean, taking my airport without asking me?" The facility now is federally owned and operated by the civil Aeronautics Administration. "The plane looks funny, to see those big wheels on it," Windy said. And, if Windy has his way, it will take off for New York whatever to in his airmail days. Windy, who has a commercial rating but not for instrument flying, "wouldn't fly in bad weather"-but "if I have a 300-foot ceiling I could see to get through." CAA's minimum is 500 feet, but the old-timers got by with much less. When it's all over, windy will be glad to get back to his wife and the Elmira area. "It's a very friendly town," he twinkled. ; Seeley Creek in the Town of Southport was a raging stream during the morning as it burst from its banks and spread over farm areas. The Southern Tier Trailer Court on Route 14 at Bulkhead was a beehive of activity as volunteers worked to save trailers from damage. Waters from the nearby creek damaged several trailers but the majority of the mobile homes were moved to high ground. Members of the Southport Fire Department, Civil Defense auxiliary police and other volunteers used wreckers, cars and manpower to shove the trailers from the north to south side of Route 14 and safety. The Pine City Rd. was covered with water below the Rustic Garden Restaurant and the Cornish farm was under water. Concern was felt for some time this morning about the safety of a bridge over Dry Run Creek on the Pine City Rd., at Pine City. The State Highway Department posted a guard at the bridge and allowed traffic to proceed slowly. Two families residing on the east side of the Pine City Rd. near Shappee's Bridge were thought for a time to be marooned and possibly in danger of drowning. However, members of the Pine City Fire Department learned they were safe on high ground. (handwritten on article Oct 14, 1955.) Twenty six members of the Class of 1954 received cap exercises last week at the Arnot-Ogden Hospital. They were Charlotte J. Ackerman of Wellsburg, Myra Thomas of Lowman, Barbara J. Dann of Horseheads, Eileen M (can't read) of Canton, Hazel D. Martin of Lowman, Mary Ann Shay, June R. Keck of Wellsboro, Ruth A. Maynard of Corning, Janet M. Weston of Endicott, Joyce L. Kiser of Horseheads, Eleanor J. Rundell of Elmira, Julia A. Woodhouse of Painted Post, Joanne M. Rocco of Corning, Harriette E. Neal of Elmira Heights, Emma G. Young of Genesee, Pa., Phoebe H. Berdanier, Mary C. Myers of Williamsport, Ann McClenahan who portrayed Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth A. Snyder of Olean, Vivian Cavera of Olean, Linda I. Burley of Corning, Loueve H. (can't read) Dushore, Loranea C. Gillette of Hornell, Joan L. Hollands (can't read) Josephine C. Convey of Olean, Maxine L. Calhoun of (can't read), Pa., Lois J. Hymes of Tioga, Pa. 62 GIVEN DEGREES AT COMMENCEMENT ; BOYS CLOSE 4-H CAMP SEASON
Benton County Commissioners approved a lawsuit against Governor Jay Inslee for lessening restrictions on the Horse Heaven Hills Wind Farm project. ; Both the county and Tri-Cities CARES are against the governor’s decision and county commissioners unanimously voted to move forward with the lawsuit on Tuesday. ; Tri-Cities CARES released statements recently about their stance on the situation and have been waiting for the county and Yakama Nation to go public before submitting a petition to the state.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION D.A.a minor, by... Maloney TRI COUNTY AREA SCHOOLS,et al., ) Defendants. ) ) AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING...
Posted Friday, September 20, 2024 12:00 am ; LAKE WORTH —On Aug. 12, the Lake Worth Farmer’s Market announced on its Instagram page it will temporarily close while it searches for a new location because of a lack of customers and vendors. The old market location was next to the Lake Worth senior center and the public library. Farmer’s Market Coordinator/Community Engagement Whitney Berry said the construction of the new pickleball courts made the market hard to spot, and once the courts were up, it became impossible for people to see the ...