Maxine Cheshire, Who Chronicled Beltway Scandals, Dies at 90
A star society reporter for The Washington Post, she was the scourge of presidents, foreign operatives and philandering politicians.
Maxine Cheshire in the early 1960s. Her Washington Post society column was required reading across the Beltway and beyond.Credit.The Washington Post, via the Cheshire family
Published Feb. 8, 2021Updated Feb. 11, 2021
The first time Maxine Cheshire encountered Jacqueline Kennedy, then a young senator’s wife, at the Democratic National Convention in 1956, Mrs. Kennedy ran away, setting in motion a pattern that would continue throughout the years that Ms. Cheshire covered her as a star society reporter at The Washington Post.
PROVO The usual hum around the fax machine and celebratory videos from Twitter and Instagram were mooted on National Signing Day at BYU.
The Cougars, who signed 16 players during the early signing period just a few days before playing in the Boca Raton Bowl in December, didn t go out and get a lot of extra high school recruits between then and the traditional signing day Wednesday. That s good, since NCAA rules have marked most of the past year of the pandemic as a unique recruiting dead period, with on-campus visits barred and contact limited to phone calls, text messages, Zoom calls and social media.
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The Office for the Aging is available to help older adults who don t have a way to register for COVID-19 vaccination appointments on their own or have family/friends who can help them. The office is scheduling appointments as they become available at the local pharmacies. There is a wait list and clients are contacted as Kinney Drugs re-opens their appointments.
“Our team is committed to helping older adults through this pandemic and encourage clients to call us if they need any type of assistance,” Office for the Aging Director Andrea Montgomery said in a news release.
Opened Jan. 18, the state-run vaccination center will enter its third week of operation on Monday.
Coming from the hamlet of Plessis in the town of Alexandria Thursday afternoon, James H. Mercer said he was initially doubtful about how organized the site would be. He said he signed up for an appointment about two weeks ago and drove more than 60 miles to St. Lawrence County.
âIt was smooth as hell,â Mr. Mercer said, patting his arm with satisfaction, after a roughly 20-minute process inside SUNY Potsdamâs Maxcy Hall.
Of New Yorkâs 13 state-run points of dispensing, or PODs, seven currently have appointment availability through mid-April. Earlier this week and into Friday morning, only SUNY Potsdam and Plattsburgh International Airport were accepting appointments, but by late Friday afternoon, the stateâs online eligibility and appointment portal updated availability at SUNY Albany, the New York State Fairgrounds, Westchester County Center, SUNY Stony Brook
Maxine Cheshire, Post reporter and columnist with ‘the guts of a cat burglar,’ dies at 90 Matt Schudel Maxine Cheshire applied for her first reporting job in her hometown of Harlan, Ky. “I know everything that goes on in this town,” Ms. Cheshire told the editor during her interview, “and if you give me a job so will you.” Her father was a lawyer in the tough coal-mining town in eastern Kentucky and represented the mineworkers union. Because of repeated assassination attempts, he wore a bulletproof vest to work every day. Her mother kept a gun in the house and had to use it on more than one occasion.