Wreaths Across America honors veterans buried at Conroe s Oakwood Cemetery
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Johnathan Serrano, with Boy Scouts Troop 491, partakes in a moment of silence after placing a wreath at a veterans gravesite during the 2nd annual Wreaths Across America event held at Oakwood Cemetery, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, in Conroe. Wreaths are placed at the graves of veterans to honor their service during the holiday season.Gustavo Huerta, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Theresa Grimm, location coordinator for Wreaths Across America, asks for a moment of silence during the 2nd annual Wreaths Across America event held at Oakwood Cemetery, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, in Conroe. Wreaths are placed at the graves of veterans to honor their service during the holiday season.Gustavo Huerta, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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State Police Collect Nearly 1,400 Toys this Holiday Season
Back in November, the New York State Police along with the United States Marine Corps and the Dutchess County Chapter of Toys for Tots teamed up to collect children s toys.
The three joined forces to collect toys as part of the national Toys for Tots program this holiday season. Between November 25 and December 18 toys were collected. People were asked to drop off new, unwrapped toys at the Troop K Headquarters, SP Poughkeepsie, located at 2541 Route 44 in Salt Point, or any of the local Troop K barracks.
Representatives of the Marine Corps will pick up the toys on December 21, 2020, for distribution to area children. This year, State Police personnel were able to collect 1,329 toys for the 2020 Toys for Tots campaign.
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ECS, a leader in advanced technology, science, and engineering solutions, has been awarded a five-year, $28.8 million contract by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Department of Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA). ECS will provide M&RA with information technology service and support (ITSS), enabling the department to efficiently manage and expand their human resources initiatives across all active and reserve members of the USMC.
Through this firm-fixed-price (FFP) recompete contract, ECS will build on previous work helping USMC develop agile resource and manpower allocation systems. Through application development, information technology service management (ITSM), program management, and information assurance (IA), ECS will provide post-deployment software support to the department’s Manpower Information Portal (MIP), which contains all web content and applications managed by M&RA. ECS will also
A Mount Holly man accused of shooting and killing a police officer last week will remain in jail without bond.
Joshua Funk, 24, made his first public appearance Friday morning since the shooting death of Mount Holly Police Officer Tyler Herndon last week. Investigators believe Funk shot and wounded Herndon with a handgun during an early morning shooting on Dec. 11. Herndon died at the hospital later that morning.
A Gaston County grand jury indicted Funk on first-degree murder Monday morning.
Mount Holly Police Chief Don Roper, Deputy Chief Brian Reagan and seven other Mount Holly Police officers walked into the courthouse together and sat quietly in the courtroom pews ahead of Funk’s arraignment Friday morning.
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