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By WAYNE FORD | The Athens Banner-Herald | Published: April 9, 2021 ATHENS, Ga. (Tribune News Service) For two years, a steady effort to find a photograph of a Georgia soldier killed in the Vietnam War failed to provide an image. But recently, a series of conversations between cousins and a former classmate ended the long search. Last week, Janna Hoehn of Hawaii told the Athens Banner-Herald she had received a photo of Fred L. Thomas, a U.S. Army private who died Aug. 15, 1966, on a battlefield in South Vietnam. Hoehn is a volunteer for the Wall of Faces, an online project that links a photo to every name engraved on the black granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
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FROM PAGES PAST: 1921: Shall Liberty St. in Penn Yan be paved for progress?
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The Chronicle-Express
Consolidation, January 1, 1926, of the Yates County Chronicle (1824) and the Penn Yan Express (1866); the Rushville Chronicle (1905) and the Gorham New Age (1902)
The Yates County History Center’s volunteers have gleaned these entries for your enjoyment from their digitized newspapers. You can access them at the free site www.nyshistoricnewspapers.com. For more information about the YCHC, visit www.yatespast.org.
150 Years Ago
March 2, 1871
Seneca Lake But one boat, the “Langdon,” is making trips on our lake at present. She leaves Watkins in the morning, and Geneva at 2.20 p.m. The “Magee” was successfully hauled out at the foot of Castle St. on the 16th inst. and the work of rebuilding her lower works has been commenced under the mechanical supervision of Geo. Codington, the superior ship-builder who made such a fine job in converting the old “Field”
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, March 12, 2021
SEATTLE (AP) - Relatives of Black males who have been shot and killed by law enforcment officers called Friday for the resignation of King County Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht for what they say is “her failure to treat racism with the seriousness it requires in her position.”
The group, which asked King County Executive Dow Constantine and the Metropolitan King County Council to support its demand, also called for the firing of sheriff’s Capt. Todd Miller, who was leading a sting in which a fatal shooting occurred.