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The Washington County Republican Party met Saturday and elected a new slate of officers for the next two years.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Gary Harrell was elected chairman of the party at the reorganizational meeting held at the Jonesborough Middle School. He succeeds Dr. Turney Williams.
Harrell is a Jonesborough native and a 1973 East Tennessee State University ROTC graduate. During his long career in the military, Harrell saw action in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
In 1992, Harrell took command of a squadron of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment, better known as Delta Force, at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He participated in combat operations during the Battle of Mogadishu and he was severely wounded by enemy mortar fire in October 1993.
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“If The Leader Only Knew,” by Hank Willis Thomas, part of the exhibit “Barring Freedom” at the San Jose Museum of Art in San Jose. The exhibit focuses on pieces by 20 artists that makes viewers examine how they see and understand established notions of policing, incarceration, and surveillance. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle
Rahsaan Thomas is a busy man. A writer, community organizer and co-host of “Ear Hustle,” a Pulitzer Prize- and Peabody Award-nominated podcast, he’s also the co-founder of Prison Renaissance, an organization that uses the arts to “end cycles of incarceration” and create connections between the general public and incarcerated people.
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Oakland teen Sarah Schecter wrote one of the seven winning plays in “#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence,” a nationwide playwriting competition for middle and high school students. Photo: Courtesy of Sarah Schecter
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Teen playwrights take firm stand with ‘#Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence’
Some of the most eloquent and powerful voices to emerge in the fight against gun violence come from younger generations the students who’ve grown up not knowing what it’s like to go to class without school shootings as an ever-present threat or headline.