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Share Candidates File For Area City And School Board Positions Many area cities and schools will not need elections after the filing period for the Saturday, May 1, election date ended recently, while a few others will need elections to fill spots. The City of Hillsboro will be canceling its election after all incumbents filed to keep their seats and were uncontested. Mayor Andy Smith and council members Eric Fleming (Precinct 1), Dana Robinson (Precinct 3) and Leann Richmond (Precinct 5) all...

Sam Pierce started lockdown hoping to complete a car restoration but things haven't gone to plan.

Stafford Street, Timaru, is almost deserted on a Friday afternoon in April 2020 during lockdown. April was all about life in lockdown, but the rules didn’t sit well with everyone. In the fourth instalment in our series looking back on the year that was, Doug Sail remembers a month of long days – which for many were spent entirely at home. One in 10 people spoken to by police in early April were ignoring self-isolation rules in South Canterbury, Aoraki area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin r...

They want to get on to college. when the class of 2010 walks across the stage, sam pierce wont be with them because she overslept for her class one time, just one time. >> honor student and wasaki high school senior sam pierce joins us this morning. its disturbing, its the moments youve been waiting for. your parent have been waiting for you to walk up and pick up that diploma. you might not be able to walk in graduation, why? >> well, because i overslept and according to the no tolerance policy...

What do your parents have to say about this? >> my mom is extremely upset. shes been fighting the school board about this, but they dont want to bend the rules at all, but their policy clearly states no unexcused absences and the last time i checked a tardy isnt an absence. >> so im sorry, you ended up going to school then later in the day? >> yes, i did. >> yeah, got to school about ten oclock. whats disturbing to me, youre an honor student. so, youve put in all the hard work, youve attended cl...

Yeah, schools out. youre ready to move on with your life, go to college, but you dont get that crucial rite of passage which is to walk across the stage at graduation. and one wisconsin high school honor student not going to get a chance to do that, it appears. >> it appears. and its just because, get this, she overslept one morning. and i will tell you, i did that many more times than one morning. >> in high school? >> and in college. >> as long as you didnt do it this morning, were okay. >> th...

Miles away from his home was selling drugs while two monitors were clamped to his ankles. >> this really got to me. were taking a stand here so a senior can walk with her class on graduation day. sam pierce is an honor student at wasaki high school in wisconsin. back in february, she says her alarm didnt work. she overslept, but still went to school and was honest about it. >> i could have said anything. i went in there not thinking that i wasnt going to be able to walk for graduation and say i ...

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