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The structural repairs were a topic of discussion during City Council’s Finance and Personnel Committee meeting. Councilmember Sam Crowl noted money appropriated to the recreation fund for the repairs would be reimbursed through the city’s insurance. City Council moved to pass an emergency ordinance to appropriate $100,000 for the repair to the building. Last month, a 1999 Lexus RX300 driven by Kelsey Auflick, 24, of Nelsonville, was reportedly traveling 50 miles per hour westbound on...

A high-speed pursuit ended in a car ramming into a portion of the ARTS/West building early Monday morning. Around 4 a.m., a 1999 Lexus RX300 driven by Kelsey Auflick, 24, of Nelsonville, was reportedly traveling 50 miles per hour westbound on West State Street while “actively fleeing pursuing officers,” the crash report stated. The vehicle failed to negotiate a turn, which caused it to run off the roadway to the right and strike an underground utility box, the crash report stated. Thi...

Southern California farmers spend their winters watching the snowpack in the Colorado Rockies, and what they see is the climate crisis hitting hard. When it melts, the snow that falls on these peaks will, eventually, make its way into the Colorado River, which connects the Southwest like a great tendon, tying the Continental Divide in Colorado to Southern California’s hayfields, where the Imperial Irrigation District is one of the country’s largest, and pouring from the faucets of urban use...