17 Alaska’s transition from winter to spring and the ensuing muddy mess that comes with all that melting snow, is usually abrupt, but this “breakup” as Alaskan’s call it, was fast by any standard.
When Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright were getting ready to go to the field in the Yukon Training Area for an AH-64 Apache helicopter aerial gunnery range, a winter storm dropped nearly two feet of fresh snow on the area.
The weekend before they moved out, temperatures dropped to 29 degrees below zero.
Two days later, as the battalion was setting up a Forward Arming and Refueling Point at Firebird LZ, temperatures soared into the 50s.
But for the Mexico varsity girls swim team, it simply meant there was more time to train.
The Tigers practiced in double sessions throughout the recent spring recess, combining for four hours per day in the pool with some dryland exercises, aiming to utilize every minute of their condensed Fall II season that took months of waiting to commence.
Mexico entered the week with a 3-0 record in dual meets, including the programâs first win over perennial power Jamesville-DeWitt since 2007.
âI think once we finally got in, I think we were all ready to work and show what we can do in the short amount of time that we have,â said junior standout, Carolyn Zedack, one of Mexicoâs four returning state qualifiers from the fall 2019 season.
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Subscriber only ALMOST a decade after turning off his infant son s life support, a Townsville father has pleaded not guilty to the death for the second time. Matthew Riley Baxter came into this world a few days early on September 24, 2011, weighing 2.9kg. At six weeks old, he was rushed to hospital unresponsive and three days later the sweet baby with the mop of black hair died. His father, Nicholas Aaron Baxter, was acquitted of his murder but convicted and jailed in 2017 after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter. This conviction was overturned on appeal. His second trial, which began yesterday in the Townsville Supreme Court, will be decided by a judge sitting alone.
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Subscriber only ALMOST a decade after turning off his infant son s life support, a Townsville father has pleaded not guilty to the death for the second time. Matthew Riley Baxter came into this world a few days early on September 24, 2011, weighing 2.9kg. At six weeks old, he was rushed to hospital unresponsive and three days later the sweet baby with the mop of black hair died. His father, Nicholas Aaron Baxter, was acquitted of his murder but convicted and jailed in 2017 after a jury found him guilty of manslaughter. This conviction was overturned on appeal. His second trial, which began yesterday in the Townsville Supreme Court, will be decided by a judge sitting alone.
Almost a decade after turning off his infant son’s life support, a Townsville father accused of killing his son has pleaded not guilty for the second time.