SOMERSET A former candidate for Somerset School Committee was arraigned in Fall River District Court for allegedly violating a harassment prevention order granted to a political rival last summer.
Jessica Machado, 44, was ordered to appear before a District Court judge last Friday and was released on personal recognizance with a plea of not guilty.
As a condition of her bail, Machado must abide by the harassment prevention order against her by Shauna Geary, the town’s director of the Somerset Council on Aging and highest vote recipient in the K-grade 8 School Committee election held on June 13, 2020.
Out of a slate of four candidates, Machado received the least number of votes.
Rain and high water create problems across Kentucky
High water impacts communities across the state
By: Web Staff
and last updated 2021-02-28 23:44:00-05
Steady rain throughout the day and night on Sunday caused issues across Kentucky.
High water flooded creeks and rivers and made some roads impassable.
We sent crews across affected areas of central and eastern Kentucky including Menifee, Scott, and Madison Counties.
The rainâs really coming down in Richmond tonight. Police have shut down roads in the area of East Main and East Irvine due to rising water. Be careful out there. @LEX18Newspic.twitter.com/ZfKSCB11Lh Mike Valente (@ValenteLEX18) March 1, 2021
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s Office of Highway Safety released its preliminary report for last year’s road fatalities, and while the state’s numbers are up from 2019’s, local numbers appear to
SOMERSET American humorist Josh Billings once wrote: “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” Thanks to the efforts of Jeffrey Schoonover, Superintendent of Somerset Public Schools and Somerset Berkley Regional High School and School Resource Officer Brendan Hague, the students at Somerset schools will soon understand just what Billings meant.
Hague first learned of the benefits of comfort dogs through a news article he encountered back in 2019, which highlighted the emergence of this resource throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Boonefield Labradors, located in New Hampshire, has donated 11 dogs to police departments throughout New England, according to its website. It is this breeder that will donate a young Labrador retriever to Hague and the Somerset Police Department.