Anchorage police will stop using Nixle text messages for public alerts starting next week
Print article The Anchorage Police Department will no longer send out public safety and crime alerts via text message starting next week. The department is switching to notifications through email or the Everbridge Mobile app starting Monday, April 12, police said in a statement. Everbridge is the company behind Nixle alerts, which Anchorage police began using in 2014 as a way to get information to the public. Anchorage residents must subscribe to the free service to receive the alerts, which were previously sent out by text and email.
A struggle ensued, that continued outside the suspect’s car. It moved just outside the view of the dashcam video Lord shared with NBC Connecticut Investigates. That’s when Lord shot the suspect multiple times, according to investigators.
Lord explained, “He was behind me, choking me from behind. So I reached back under my left armpit and fired several shots.”
He said the PTSD from the incident lasted years.
“It’s a tie between the incident itself and my visit to the attorney’s office, where I was told, pending the investigation I could be arrested for manslaughter. And that I was potentially, the perpetrator, in this situation.”
In ‘Unsolaced,’ a writer returns with alarm about the present and future
By Gretel Ehrlich. Pantheon Books, 2021. 237 pages. $26.95. ’Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is, ’ by Gretel Ehrlich It’s been 37 years since “The Solace of Open Spaces,” Gretel Ehrlich’s well-known and loved classic book about her life in Wyoming, was published. After a dozen more books of lyrical writing about her life, travel, and inquiry into the fate of the world, she’s returned with what she calls a “bookend” to that early book. The essays in “Unsolaced,” some incorporating material from previous books and essays, form a sober recollection and reflection, not just of the author’s Wyoming years, but in response to her travels in Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, California and Alaska and the fragility of life on our planet. Throughout, Ehrlich, now in her 70s, struggles with the idea of finding solace in wide-open nature or anywhere at all, and redefines for herse
Dear Wayne and Wanda: After a string of dating misadventures during COVID (some dramatically awful, some OK but non-starters), I finally met a guy on one of the dating apps who’s really sweet and kind to me and amazing, and it really has been a magical courtship like the movies. We even agreed to get off the apps and just see each other. He’s from another country where arranged marriage is common, and hasn’t ever dated a Western girl before, or really anyone. He told me from the beginning that the relationship couldn’t go anywhere because his company is pulling him back to work in a different state this summer. And now it looks like it might be even sooner back in his home country.
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