Police Chief Richard Fuller said “it was only fitting” to rename Seawatch.
“Paul was the kind of guy who would drop everything he was doing to help someone,” he said. “He always had a smile on his face and a kind word. This world needs more people like Paul Milone. When Paul passed away in December, we knew right away that we wanted to rename the boat after Paul.”
Fuller said Milone spent months and months designing the boat renamed after him and manufactured last year by Safe Boats International, a Bremerton, Washington State-based firm.
Safe Boats officials stated they worked closely with Milone “…to configure the boat to his exact specifications, and it was fitting to rename the craft in his memory at the beginning of National Police Week.
He said the original complaint from the Merrymount Road neighborhood was about speeding drivers.
“What we saw when we conducted the study was that speed really wasn’t an issue,” Morse said. “Very few cars were actually speeding, but we found the volume of traffic using Merrymount was much more than the other side streets.”
Traffic engineer Owen MacDonald said Morse assigned a speed monitoring trailer to the neighborhood for one month last year. We got the readings, and for the most part, there were not excessive speeds, but a fair amount of (traffic) volume going through there,” he said.
Tompkins County Sheriff Derek Osborne, along with Sue Ellen Holmes, manager of the Milton Meadows apartment complex (located on 42 Auburn Road), met with the Lansing Town Council on March 17 to hold a Q&A with residents on public safety issues in the community.
The decision to host such a session was made based on the recent incident that involved two vehicles chasing and shooting at one another before crashing on Auburn Road on March 13.
There were a variety of thoughts and concerns shared by members of the public at the meeting. Local resident Jessica MacDonald asked because the sheriffâs department has a limited amount of deputies patrolling the county at a given time â Osborne said there are three or four deputies per shift patrolling the county (27 in total) â if it would be worth exploring the establishment of a town police force.
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Tell & See: National Poetry Day 2020 visionary poetry resource
Explore Diamonds by Evelyn Byrne, a commended poem in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019 with the help of shiny fish, and celebrate this year s National Poetry Day, with the theme of Vision. Download
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Explore two National Poetry Competition prize-winning poems that address ecological themes with poet, teacher and former NPC judge Pascale Petit.
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Winter is for hot chocolate, warm fires, and controlling invasive plants.
Yes! It is a great time of year to tackle some of the invasive plants found in our area. Find out which plants you can treat, which you need to wait to treat, and how to do winter control safely and effectively.
You will have the opportunity to ask your questions live to our panel of experts.
Panel Members:
William Hamersky – Blue Ridge PRISM, Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, Master Gardener, & Wildlife Biologist
Jim Hurley – Blue Ridge PRISM, Master Naturalist, Tree Steward, a member of the Virginia Noxious Weed Advisory Committee, and Board Member of the Virginia Native Plant Society