ROCHESTER Mayor Caroline McCarley and other city officials didn’t return requests for information Tuesday about whether City Councilor Doug Lachance has resigned from his post.
Lachance, 56, is under investigation for allegedly grooming and sexually abusing teenage boys while he was mayor roughly 20 years ago. The Ward 1 councilor, who couldn t be reached for comment, has denied the allegations and hadn’t been charged with any crimes as of Tuesday.
Lachance had informed McCarley he would resign Monday, according to communications multiple city councilors said they received from McCarley over the weekend. Some said McCarley called them to inform them of the news, while Ward 2 Councilor Palana Belken said McCarley informed her in an email early Monday morning.
Written and recorded in-between lockdowns in 2020, New Zealand-born but London-based punks DESPERATE MEASURES managed to escape the COVID-19 madness for some cathartic writing and recording sessions and the first taste of those gatherings arrives today with ‘The Rich-Tual’, a bullet of classic punk reloaded for the pandemic generation that rips from the speakers screaming ‘fuck the system, before the system fucks you!’
Recorded at The Brook Studios in South London by Andy Brook, ‘The Rich-Tual’ is taken from a forthcoming mini-album that will be released this summer by British rock n’ roll label Easy Action (home to and in good company with Iggy and the Stooges, The Damned’s Brian James, Marc Bolan and T-Rex and Lords Of The New Church).
Vive Le Rock! a sneaky peak!
The band are the brainchild of singer/guitarist Nick Hughes, whose impressive work record has included stints with THE YO-YOS, TERRORVISION and DUNCAN REID & THE BIG HEADS
Written over the course of a year, Hughes went into the studio before lockdown with longtime friend and STATUS QUO drummer Leon Cave, producer Andy Brook and various friends and miscreants to lay down the album. Trailed by three well-received singles – ‘Heroine Heights’, ‘Rat Star’ and ‘B.A. Baby’, the aptly-titled
Issue 1 is now ready to see the light of day.
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Issue 1 is an epic collection of our biggest influences all rammed in to 45 minutes of gloriously unashamed singalong pop-rock anthems,” says Hughes. “The whole point of this album is both to provide a means of escapism from the shit that we all have to deal with right now and an excuse to stick a load of make-up on and be unashamed as we place ourselves in a different reality where we’re free to sin
Sarah Townsend
The council is to acquire properties from Sandway Homes, the housing development company it set up in January 2019, as part of a drive to re-enter the social housing market for the first time in almost 15 years.
Sefton Council completed a social housing stock transfer in 2006 so that the development and management of homes was overseen at arms’ length.
However, it now wishes to re-enter the market, beginning with the acquisition of nine under-development apartments on the planned 70-unit Sefton Grange scheme at Buckley Hill Lane from Sandway Homes.
The council will then need to register with the Regulator of Social Housing as a social housing provider and become an accredited investment partner of government agency Homes England, which funds new affordable housing in the country.
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hat Sharon Millstein is one of Taos most colorful characters, goes without saying. This mother, grandmother, artist, homesteader, gourmet cook and mystic mama came here almost 40 years ago, after having lived in NYC, Woodstock and on the California coast. Like so many, she was drawn here by the light, the landscape and the vibe, and she has lived here ever since, for many years as a single mother.
Few know that before all of her travels West, she at one time had a theatrical, cabaret alter ego who once performed with Tiny Tim.
This flair for the dramatic has stood her in good stead; Millstein has garnered acclaim worldwide for her numerological readings, which she does mostly over the phone at the best of times, making her service pandemic-perfect.