Lots of reported sightings, but Tackett still missing
By Isabella Warner - For The Times-Gazette
In this photograph a young Wade Tackett (front, left) is pictured with his parents, Virgil and Mary Tackett, and brother, Aaron Tackett.
Submitted photo
Editor’s note This is the third part of a four-part story about Virgil “Wade” Tackett, who as a 17-year-old left his family’s Hillsboro home in 1986 to find work in Alaska. Three weeks into his stay working for a local cannery, Tackett and a friend went exploring in the Alaskan wilderness near Chicagof Island. Tackett was never heard from again. Between strange sightings and psychic visions, the search for Tackett has turned up more questions than answers. Information for this series comes from author RW Swartz. His book “Cold Water, Cold Hearts” was released last month.
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About 150 properties in Buller have been affected by a council error that wrongly classified them as multi-residential - and saw some facing potential rate increases of up to 300 percent.
Karl Bollinger at his residential property at Blacks Point.
Photo: LDR / Lois Williams
Reefton and Maruia residents raised the alarm last week after opening sample rates
assessments sent out by the Buller District Council to give people an idea of what they would pay under its proposed new rating system.
In the worst example, Blacks Point superannuitants Karl and Riki Bollinger found the rates for their rural riverbank property with only swingbridge access across the Inangahua River, would increase from $2000 to $6000.
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The longtime deputy director of The Athens County Board of Elections died Friday at Ohio Health OâBleness Hospital.
Penny Lynn Brooks, 68, served on the Board of Elections since 1973. The exact cause of her death is unknown, but John Haseley, the Democratic member of the Board of Elections and chair of the Athens County Democratic Party, said she had recently been diagnosed with cancer. He wasnât able to provide further details about her illness.
âHer extended Democratic family is heartbroken,â Haseley said.
Brooks, a Democrat, was previously awarded by the Ohio Senate with having the most years of public service with the Board of Elections, according to her obituary in The Athens Messenger. She was also in the past granted the âlifetime achievementâ award from the Athens County Democratic Party, the Athens County Democratic volunteer of the year, and the Ohio election official volunteer of the year.