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The man described as a âgentle soulâ arrived in black body armor. Accessorized to the hilt with tactical gear obtained in an unbridled shopping spree, he bore both a 12-gauge shotgun and an AR-type rifle. He was loaded with high-caliber ammunition designed to pierce Kevlar, shoot through walls, and create âdevastatingâ wound cavities in the bodies of big game animals like elk and wild boar.
He knew that this place, which until two weeks prior he had called home, was a secure facility. So, with deadly premeditation, he contrived a plan to pay an innocent-seeming visit 24 hours earlier and leave propped open a neglected basement door.
St. Helena attorney and Napa Valley College Trustee Rafael Rios III and Yountville Mayor John Dunbar are the fifth and sixth people to announce they are running for Diane Dillonâs seat on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.
Rios and Dunbar join a growing field of contenders also made up of St. Helena City Councilmember Anna Chouteau, Napa County Planning Commissioner Anne Cottrell, grapegrower Cio Perez, and Napa Valley College Trustee Ines DeLuna.
Dillon announced in January that she would not run for a sixth term after representing the vast District 3 since 2002.
Rafael Rios
Rios came to the Napa Valley from Mexico in 1968 after his family was granted permanent residency based on a petition from his father, who was working in California under the Bracero Program. He graduated from St. Helena High School and earned a bachelorâs degree in landscape architecture at UC Davis, a law degree from Santa Clara University, and an MBA in wine business from Sonoma State Univers
BARABOO (WKOW) A labor of love from the Baraboo community is now open to help those without a home. People s lives are beginning to be changed the way that we ve hoped from the beginning of this, said Rev. Dave Mowers, as he prepared to welcome the first guests to Pathway Home on Tuesday afternoon. To finally be in the spot where we re open, we re here, there are clients that are around in the building, it s a really great feeling.
Mowers launched the nonprofit Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter in late 2018 and has since raised nearly $250,000 and rallied together hundreds of volunteers to help in the effort.
Opioid Task Force holds third annual Sober Housing Summit
Modified: 12/11/2020 4:39:50 PM
As the Opioid Task Force of Franklin County and North Quabbin’s third annual Sober Housing Summit came to an end Friday at noon, Sheriff Christopher Donelan suggested to Shawn Hayden that they take a ride up the Mohawk Trail sometime soon to look at old or abandoned motels that might be the answer to the lack of sober housing in Franklin County.
Hayden, chief operating officer of GAAMHA Inc., better known as Pathway House, a self-help group home in Gardner, said the task force made a lot of progress this year, but housing is still a huge barrier to people in recovery. He said sober housing is a regional problem that makes a lasting impact, and there needs to be more collaboration and a unified vision on how to solve it.