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A former Cathedral City police officer and Palm Springs Unified School District patrol officer who was arrested on Inauguration Day pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge of illegally owning an assault rifle discovered during a search of his home as part of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation of domestic extremism.
Alfredo Luna Jr., 41, was working as a patrol officer for Palm Springs Unified School District at the time of his arrest. Luna was put on paid administrative leave soon after, but no longer works for that department as of April 7.
Luna submitted his plea to Judge James Hawkins at the Larson Justice Center in Indio, and requested that his bail be reduced from $250,000 to $35,000. The request was not ruled on during Monday s hearing and he is due in court again to discuss the matter on June 18.
I feel the need to call particular attention to what we re seeing, which is the first majority person of color committee in our town where, if I m counting right, five out of six of those people of color will not be continuing the work, Nicoll said. I hope this forces our town to reckon with its past, its present, what we re doing. I know it s calling me to reckon with my work in this committee, and I hope to God it s calling leadership in this town to reckon with what has happened and where we need to go. I don t want to hear excuses from people about why this is happening. I think it is clear, and we ve got to stop hiding from it.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. As it nears the end of its inaugural year and faces the first departure of a founding member, the town s diversity committee Monday reflected on the importance of the discussions it has had and the perspectives it has centered in the town s conversation. One of the things I hope this year has started to plant the seeds of is whatever our backgrounds, whatever our races, whatever our identities, these are all issues that aren t about non-Black people helping Black people, Aruna D Souza said. They aren t about non-POC helping [people of color]. They re really about everyone coming together to build the community that they want themselves and their kids to grow up in.
Ashland selectmen hear update on power outage
February 17, 2021ASHLAND At their Feb. 15 regular meeting, the Ashland selectmen learned about the Feb. 9 electric outage, discussed the audit and utility billing with the Finance Officer, and held a public hearing on the income from the Library s copier and fax machine. Public Works Director Craig Moore explained that technicians had been working all that day testing the transformers and related equipment at the town substation behind the Town Garage, trying to determine what caused the town wide power outage on the morning of Feb. 9. The technicians still had more testing to do, and were scheduled to return two days later to complete that job. They will make a formal report on the problems they discovered. But, their preliminary findings were that the outage was caused by two factors. The settings on one of the two transformers were incorrect and