Norwich The City Council Public Safety Committee started work on a plan to upgrade antiquated fire radio and dispatch system, a top priority in the new fire services study, and voiced support for a controversial idea to create a fire commissioner to oversee all fire departments.
The committee on Wednesday discussed the 194-page report by McGrath Consulting Group, released Feb. 16, for the first time Wednesday and started the process to obtain cost estimates for fire radios and upgrades to the dispatch system.
Committee Chairman Alderman Joseph DeLucia said much of the report will be reviewed methodically rather than as “a snowball running downhill,” noting the fire communications system is an immediate need.
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Derry public encouraged to light a candle for Bloody Sunday victims
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People have been asked to place a candle in their window at the time shooting began on Bloody Sunday.
The Covid lockdown means that Bloody Sunday families cannot hold the usual minute’s silence at the memorial on Rossville Street.
This year the families and Bloody Sunday Trust have asked the public to put a candle in their windows at 4.10pm on Saturday, January 30, to mark the time when the first shots were fired in 1972.
On Sunday, January 31, the Museum of Free Derry will release a video at the time the normal memorial service is held.
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The groundbreaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for half a century. Its willingness to tackle social issues, politics and war made it the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize. Doonesbury has also been censored for some of those same reasons. To celebrate the strip s 50th anniversary, there s a new book that includes a thumb drive with all 15,000 strips. Jon Kalish spoke with its creator and prepared this report.
JON KALISH, BYLINE: Doonesbury started when Garry Trudeau was a junior at Yale. It was originally called Bull Tales, and it caught the attention of a fledgling newspaper syndicate. Trudeau says he was told the drawing and lettering needed work, but it read like dispatches from the front lines of the counterculture.