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The Legend of C.E.S. Wood, Portland’s Anarchist Founding Father Artist and lawyer, poet and soldier, patrician and anarchist, Portlander Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a jack of all trades and master of quite a few. C.E.S. Wood, photographed by Ansel Adams. By KEITH MOERER In his later years he looked like Zeus, with wild white hair and an untamed beard. Like the Greek god, he had a reputation for womanizing. And, though no deity himself, he was no ordinary mortal. His name was Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and it s unlikely that Portland was ever home to a more colorful or versatile citizen.
Melfort, SK, Canada / CJVR Today s Best Country
Jan 29, 2021 8:00 AM
Hundreds of people are expected to travel through Prince Albert over the next two days to pay their final respects to Ron Michel.
The former Prince Albert Grand Council (PAGC) Grand Chief and Senator passed away Monday night in hospital at the age of 69.
A private service for the family and invited guests will be held Friday afternoon at River Park Funeral Home, followed by a wake service at Senator Allen Bird Memorial Centre, starting at 5 p.m. In accordance with provincial health regulations, only 30 people will be allowed in the gym at one time.
Meet Muskegon Heights’ homegrown and humble new police chief
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
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MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI – In the beginning, it was his height that got Maurice Sain noticed by the Muskegon Heights chief of police.
Sain was playing basketball for Muskegon Community College when he met Chief George Smith. Smith took one look at the 6-foot-5-inch Sain and said, “I need some big guys like you on my police force,” Sain remembers.
The Muskegon Heights Police Department ended up sponsoring Sain’s attendance at the police academy. He’s worked for the department ever since.
Fast forward more than two decades and it’s Sain who’s chief of police – and looking for recruits for the police force.
New Bedford Awarded Grant to Combat Gang Violence
The City of New Bedford has been awarded a grant in the amount of $824,879 to help at-risk youth avoid getting involved in gangs in 2021.
According to a recent press release, New Bedford Shannon (NBS) is a partnership between the New Bedford Police Department and United Way of Greater New Bedford. The program has been awarded $824,879 to continue its multi-pronged approach to address the community’s gang and youth violence issues using five strategy areas: social, intervention, support, opportunity, and provision. The grant value is up slightly this year from $797,438 in 2020.
There was a virtual press conference on Monday, January 25, where Lt. Governor Karyn Polito announced $9 million to be awarded across the state through the 2021 Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative grant. “Since 2006, the Massachusetts Legislature has appropriated funds to support the Shannon Community Safety Initiative in an effort
Parksville, BC, Canada / The Lounge 99.9
Jan 22, 2021 10:39 AM
Tribal biologists have confirmed that chinook and steelhead salmon are spawning in the upper-Columbia River system in Washington state for the first time in 80 years. The discovery of 36 “redds” (where a female salmon deposits her eggs) along a prime eight-mile spawning stretch of a tributary of the Columbia called the Sanpoil River confirmed the Colville Tribe’s suspicions. It’s the culmination of decades of dreaming, and years of work, which one can hear in the words of Crystal Conant, a Colville tribal member of the Arrow Lakes and SanPoil bands, when she spoke to Eli Francovich at Spokesman. “I was shocked at first, then I was just overcome with complete joy…I don’t know that I have the right words to even explain the happiness and the healing,” she said. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville System have been planning and researching how it would be possible to restore salmon populations to the riv