YAKIMA, Washington â Two major creditors Wednesday, July 14, dropped their opposition to the sale of Easterday farms, clearing the way for the Mormon church to buy an Eastern Washington family farm brought down by debt and fraud.
Prudential Insurance Co. and Equitable Life Insurance agreed to withdraw their objections during a mid-hearing break in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Yakima. In return, they are guaranteed to receive most, if not all, of the millions of dollars owed them by Cody Easterday, his wife, mother and their companies.
The parties, returning from the closed conference, outlined the agreement to Judge Whitman Holt, settling a dispute that had threatened to block the $209 million acquisition by Farmland Reserve Inc., affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
DANBURY At its regular meeting Monday night, the Stokes County Board of Education again spent much discussion time talking about grades, attendance and remote learning.
This debate came amid related news from Raleigh. North Carolina Republican lawmakers introduced a bill on Monday that would require school districts in the state to offer at least partial in-person instruction for all K-12 public school students. Senate Bill 37 would still allow parents to utilize an online-only option for their child. Then on Tuesday, Gov. Roy Cooper, the state secretary of health and a bipartisan pair of top education officials pressed school systems to reopen for in-person learning. “It’s time to get our children back into the classroom,” Cooper said during a briefing on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Neill Caldwell neill.caldwell@thestokesnews.com
Mark Thorpe, a 25-year veteran of the City of King Fire Department, is teaching the first course of the county schools’ new Fire Academy.
Thorpe instructs his Public Safety I students at South Stokes High School.
DANBURY When students went back to school last week after their Christmas break, it also meant the start of something pretty important: The Stokes County School System’s new Fire Academy, something that’s been dreamed about for quite a while.
Twenty-nine students have signed up for the program. Classes are being taught at South and North Stokes high schools by Mark Thorpe, who has been with the City of King Fire Department as a firefighter since 1996.