The Most Haunted Town in America! Alton, Illinois
Spooks call this place home, and they have the potential of appearing at any time, to any person, at any location. It is said that limestone, a building material used in many Alton dwellings because of its supply nearby, holds psychic energy. The Illini Indians once dominated this place, along with the nearby convergence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. All this makes for a great ghostly paradise!
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Woods Hole is a census-designated place in the town of Falmouth in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. It lies at the extreme southwest corner of Cape Cod, near Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands. The population was 781 at the 2010 census.
It is the site of several famous marine science institutions, including Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Woods Hole Research Center, NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center, a USGS coastal and marine geology center, and the home campus of the Sea Education Association. It is also the site of United States Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England, the Nobska Light lighthouse, and the terminus of the Steamship Authority ferry route between Cape Cod and the island of Martha's Vineyard.
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Driver crashed new 2018 pickup truck into cement wall in Hyannis
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HN VIDEO: Driver crashed new 2018 pickup truck into cement wall in Hyannis...
HYANNIS – As you will see in the following HN Video, Barnstable Police are investigating what caused a new 2018 Ford pickup truck to leave the roadway and slam into a cement block retaining wall.
At about 3:30 pm, Hyannis FD Rescue responded to evaluate at least one patient. Nobody was transported to the hospital...
A resident in the area heard the loud crash and came out to see what had happened. He said he heard the driver may have been trying to avoid striking a dog, but that information has not yet been officially confirmed.
Pitchers Way was completely shut down for a brief period of time as police took photos and documented the scene.
No further details available at the time of this report.
The following HN Video highlights the scene.
STATIES “Self admitted drug dealer” arrested last month for trafficking heroin, out and arrested
STATIES: Self admitted “drug dealer” arrested last month trafficking heroin, out and arrested again on additional drug charges, including driving under influence of drugs... [HN VIDEO]
HYANNIS – The trooper who arrested Nicholas Hubbard Tuesday morning had recently dealt with him before.
As a matter of fact, HN was there this past June 28th, 2018 when Trooper Edward Alldredge arrested Nicholas A. Hubbard, age 37, of Centerville, for Trafficking Heroin over 100 grams...
CLICK HERE TO SEE HN VIDEO AND COVERAGE FROM THAT CRIME SCENE...
And as you will see in the following HN Video, Trooper Alldredge arrested Hubbard again. This time it was for – you guessed it – drug charges again! Including allegedly endangering everyone else on the roadways by Operating Under the Influence of DRUGS.
The following are copies of Trooper Alldredge's report narrative and criminal complaint.
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The following HN Video highlights the scene of the arrest shortly after midnight on Main Street in Hyannis...
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2017 Riverside County Spelling Bee
Coverage of the 2017 Riverside County Spelling Bee, including interviews with winning students.
Tail Mail with Weeki Wachee Mermaid Crystal from Scarlet in Frankenmuth, MI
Tail Mail is a literacy program designed for kids, encouraging them to use their handwriting skills by writing a letter to their favorite mermaid. For more information about sending Tail Mail, visit our web site at weekiwachee.com.
A Tribute to Sargent Shriver
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum hosts a special tribute to Sargent Shriver. Family members and close associates honor Ambassador Shriver with a forum to discuss the many contributions he has made to the United States from the Peace Corps to the War on Poverty.
African American Doctors of World War I
Historians W. Douglas Fisher and Joann H. Buckley discuss their book, African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers. Inspired by his grandfather's diaries and letters, Fisher and Buckley share the stories of the doctors who cared for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army's only black combat units.They bring to light a significant yet overlooked story of African American achievements in World War I. The book was also inspired by the biographical research the authors did for Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s African American National Biography. In addition to their meticulous research in newspapers and military records, Fisher and Buckley interviewed the doctors' descendants and examined family letters and keepsakes.
The doctors began their war service with their assignment to the Medical Officers Training Camp (Colored) at Ft. Des Moines, Iowa--the only one in U.S. history and formed July 1917. From there, they were assigned to one of two divisions. The 92nd Buffalo Division fought under American command, primarily as support troops; soldiers of the 93rd served with France's 4th Army, where they experienced a relative lack of racism for the first time in their lives. Some of the doctors profiled rose to prominence after the war; others died young or later succumbed to the economic and social challenges of the times. In addition to being physicians, many became community and civil rights activists. Fisher and Buckley provide an historical and personal account of the lives of these American heroes.
For transcript and more information, visit
Livestream: 2017 Day of Remembrance - University Commemoration
A university-wide commemoration event will be held on the Drillfield at the April 16 Memorial. The program will recognize the 32 students and faculty who lost their lives on April 16, 2007.
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Peace and Justice Summit: Activism
Changing How We Think About Activism with Brittany Packnett, Senator Cory Booker, and Common, moderated by Jacqueline Woodson.
Peace and Justice Opening
April 26-27, 2018
Montgomery, Alabama
Adam Reich ─ Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart
Join co-author Adam Reich for a discussion of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart.
Walmart is the largest employer in the world. It encompasses nearly 1 percent of the entire American workforce—young adults, parents, formerly incarcerated people, retirees. Walmart also presents one possible future of work—Walmartism—in which the arbitrary authority of managers mixes with a hyperrationalized, centrally controlled bureaucracy in ways that curtail workers’ ability to control their working conditions and their lives.
In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor. As a part of the project, Reich and Bearman matched student activists with a nascent association of current and former Walmart associates: the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart). They follow the efforts of this new partnership, considering the formation of collective identity and the relationship between social ties and social change. They show why traditional unions have been unable to organize service-sector workers in places like Walmart and offer provocative suggestions for new strategies and directions. Drawing on a wide array of methods, including participant-observation, oral history, big data, and the analysis of social networks, Working for Respect is a sophisticated reconsideration of the modern workplace that makes important contributions to debates on labor and inequality and the centrality of the experience of work in a fair economy.
Adam Reich is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Hidden Truth: The Young Men Navigating Lives in and out of Juvenile Prison (2010); With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers’ Rights in a Catholic Hospital (2012); and Selling Our Souls: The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States (2014).
Nashville 101: A brief history (3/4)
Coverage from April 18, 2019 Dr. Carole Bucy covers the period from 1812-1846 in part three of her four part series Nashville 101
Assisi, Italy: Basilica of St. Francis
More info about travel to Assisi: Italy's Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi rises where St. Francis was buried in 1230. For eight centuries it's been one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in all of Christendom.
At you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.
Boulder Planning Board Meeting 7-25-19
Leon County - Rural Economic Forum
Thursday, April 18, 2019 Leon County Government hosted a Rural Economic Development Forum. The event featured short presentations followed by a discussion of a panel of experts who share their unique perspectives on a variety of topics ranging from the economic impact of the Red Hills conservation lands in Leon County, allowable development in Rural lands with a specific emphasis on regulations concerning agritourism, the unique qualities of the Big Bend Scenic Byway, and the importance of canopy roads to the character and economy of Leon County.
FCPS Retirement Ceremony - May 9, 2017
Dissertation Proposal Defense: Merri Davis
Abstract:
While deadly violence linked to historic interpretations of Confederate symbols may occur infrequently, it appears to be a factor in the August 2017 murder of Heather Heyer; the mass murder of nine African Americans by Dylan Roof in 2015; and the murder of Michael Westerman who drove a Confederate battle flag waving pickup truck through Guthrie, Tennessee the night of his death in 1998 (Horwitz, 1998). Non-deadly incidents of violence or communal conflict surrounding historic interpretations of Confederate symbols are more common, serving as reminders that memories of the Civil War continue to contribute to polarization in America along racial and political lines. According to the Boston Globe, in 2017 alone thirty-five Confederate monuments were defaced or removed, not just in the Southern region of America, but in states from California to New York and Wisconsin. Structural or institutional forms of violence emanating from historic interpretations of Confederate symbols must also be recognized, particularly as symbols or memorials are used to intimidate or consolidate power against historically marginalized groups. Using the cases of Charlottesville and Danville, Virginia I propose to investigate whether trauma may be a factor in violent conflict over the Confederate symbols. Over the last two decades, violence and trauma have increasingly been linked. Trauma has been identified as not only a result of but a cause of direct and structural violence, contributing to entrenched cycles of social conflict. In a dual causality, trauma’s deleterious effects go beyond individual harm to collective degradation; groups, communities, and even nations, increasing propensity for violence. Linked not only to psychological, physical, and spiritual degradation, trauma is now included in models of aggression. This proposal focuses on the dual causality of trauma as resulting from and triggering violence in current social conflicts surrounding historic interpretations of Confederate symbols and memorials.
School Board Meeting June 12, 2019 Part 1
Seattle Public Schools
Virginia Currents: Survive an Active Shooter Situation; Richmond Police K-9 Training Center (#2802)
Virginia Currents gets important information on how to survive an active shooter situation at the workplace and how we can talk to our children about these tragedies. Find out some possible warning signs of violence and what we can do if we think someone needs help.
Take a look at the high-level training done by the 4-legged public servants at the Richmond Police K-9 Training Center.
And everyone can be a conductor at the Richmond Railroad Museum - find out why!
Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation 2020 with Lynn Rainville
Lynn Rainville, Washington and Lee University’s director of institutional history, will be the featured speaker at W&L’s Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation on Jan. 21 at 5 p.m. in Lee Chapel. The title of her talk, which is free and open to the public is, “Untold Stories of Founders, Leaders and Other Visionaries at W&L.”
Founders Day is the formal convocation of Washington and Lee’s winter academic term, and a time at which Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society founded at W&L in 1914, annually inducts new members.