A little more than a year after opening the Rocky Mountain Chuck Wagon at the Quality Inn and Suites, owner Bobby Howard made the difficult decision to close the restaurant’s doors this week, citing an inability to retain staffing and provide quality service to its customers.
The restaurant’s official Facebook page made the announcement to the community Tuesday night, setting a closure for Friday.
When reached for comment regarding the closure Wednesday, Howard cited staffing issues and a decline in the level of service the restaurant was able to provide.
The Rocky Mountain Chuck Wagon will close its doors Friday. (Joshua Carney / Craig Press)
Spurred by The News’ inquiries, Texas prisons will release heat logs at state lockups
The state agency will disclose outdoor heat readings at its lockups after The Dallas Morning News obtained years of previously unreleased records.
Rep. Carl O. Sherman, Sr., D-DeSoto, stands outside a mock cell the Texas Prison Air-Conditioning Advocates set up in South Austin the week of April 19, 2021. The group invited lawmakers and the public to experience what it feels like to experience the heat behind bars.
The Dallas Morning News inquired about secrecy surrounding the records.
The state prisons department does not measure indoor heat levels at most of its lockups, many of which have no or only partial air conditioning. In 2019, it began refusing to make public the hourly measurements taken outside its facilities, citing ongoing lawsuits. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton backed the agency, denying a records request submitted in October.
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This is Part III of a multi-part series on Navy’s SERE school. You can read Part I here and Part II here. Stay tuned for the next installment.
Approaching Brunswick NAS we passed numerous small islands and slim peninsulas that extended like the fingers of a hand into Casco Bay. From the air, all airports look similar but as you get close to a Naval Air Station its unique features begin to stand out. Neatly laid out rows of uniform buildings, a web of ring-like cul-de-sacs that lead to underground munitions bunkers and large hangers.
Brunswick had been an important patrol base for Navy bombers during WWII covering convoys and hunting German U-boats off the coast. It had been deactivated for about a decade after the war until the emerging threat of Soviet submarines off the U.S. coast became apparent and the base had been reopened and expanded. The base had two parallel, 8,000 ft runways and a couple of P-3 Squadrons based there. When combined with the P-3s deployed