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BENNINGTON â Two doctors said Tuesday that retrying Leonard Forte would endanger his already poor health â statements that the case victim heard during her first time back in a Bennington courtroom since Forteâs original trial in 1988.
Dr. Robert Lobel, a cardiologist with the University of Vermont Medical Center, said itâs âan incredibly bad ideaâ to ask 79-year-old Forte to travel back here from Florida given his various heart ailments.
Forte is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Landgrove in 1987 after he retired as an investigator with New Yorkâs Suffolk County District Attorneyâs Office.
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We ve always done well when we ve listened, Susan McManus, president of Champions For Learning, said. I think that was what came across this year.
McManus said the foundation could not just proceed with their typical program this year; they needed to hear from educators like in every other year.
Foundation staff spoke to Collier school leaders about what teachers were feeling about the unprecedented year and how they might celebrate innovation and hard work in classrooms, McManus said. The principals and the selection committee taking the time to be on the phone and talk through all this, you know, it s inspired us. It s encouraged us, McManus said. I m so glad we did it. I can t even imagine right now trying to go through the motions of that, that same process or celebration.
We know that her legacy will live on. Naples philanthropist Lavern Norris Gaynor gave to community Harriet Howard Heithaus, Naples Daily News
Most people would call installing a camera on the Naples Pier a brilliant marketing tool, luring 2 million annual visits to its panorama of billowing surf, wood-planked jetty and pearly beaches.
But Lavern Norris Gaynor, driving force behind putting the pier online, had a different motivation.
She wanted to bring that view into the homes of the aging Naples population who could no longer walk their city pier. They could glimpse the waves, see the happy beachgoers and watch the sunset from their wheelchairs or sickbeds.
But Lavern Norris Gaynor, driving force behind putting the pier online, had a different motivation.
She wanted to bring that view into the homes of the aging Naples population who could no longer walk their city pier. They could glimpse the waves, see the happy beachgoers and watch the sunset from their wheelchairs or sickbeds.
Gaynor, who died April 12, at age 97, had that kind of mind and heart, said Judy Bishop, director of Naples Backyard History. I have never met a more giving, caring kind person in my life. And it s not because she’s given a lot of money, even though she has supported causes generously. She lives it. She s been very conscientious in everything she supports, said Bishop, who met the woman everyone knew as Lal, 12 years ago.