May 12, 2021
WELLSVILLE, N.Y. Arthur M. Van Tyne, 95, passed away Monday, May 10, 2021, at Jones Memorial Hospital, Wellsville, N.Y., after a short illness.
He was born on Aug. 12, 1925, in Syracuse, N.Y., the son of the late Roy and Isabelle (Hoag) Van Tyne. He married his sweetheart Patricia (Boyd) Van Tyne, in Chicago on July 13, 1946. They were married for 67 years before she passed away on Feb. 24, 2014.
Art was raised in Syracuse, N.Y., until his father, a steel-alloy chemist, moved the family to New Jersey to aid in the wartime steel effort. Upon graduating from high school at the age of 16 he worked in the steel mill for a year before enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corp’s (now the U.S. Air Force) Cadet Program in September of 1943. After that he completed flight training at Michigan State University and military bases in Kansas and Texas, Art became a navigator aboard the Curtiss C-46 Commando Cargo aircraft. He was stationed at the 5th Air Force Headquarters in the P
As Pennsylvania begins the process of adjusting its voting districts to account for population changes documented in the 2020 U.S. Census, government advocates are calling for rules to prevent distorted
Comal Independent School District trustees considered budget reports and approved hiring additional staffers for the 2021-22 school year during their workshop session Thursday.
First, they approved one-time COVID-19 resource stipend of $300 for each full-time employee and $150 for all part-time employees at an approximate combined cost of $1,001,010.Â
David Andersen, district CFO, and Crystal Hermesch, executive director of school finance, reviewed 2020-21 financials and a presented a preliminary look at revenue and expenditures for the 2021-22 budget, which trustees are slated to approve June 24 to go into effect July 1.
Trustees approved $775,370 for the final major purchases of furniture, fixtures and equipment for the new Pieper High School, opening in August at 810 Kinder Parkway in San Antonio. They also approved $243,143 for a CISD warehouse box truck and band trailers at Canyon Lake and Davenport high schools.
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Daniel Lewis, an Old Town resident who unsuccessfully sought a spot on the Park City Council in 2019, said this week he will mount another campaign this year.
Lewis, 38, works for Park City Film and as a bartender. He said in an interview he had not finalized a platform. He said his campaign, though, will stress issues important to the youths of Park City and to the working class.
He noted he wants Park City to “try to use the benefit of rapid change.” He said a changing community, over time, brings with it infrastructure improvements like trails and the development of lower Main Street.
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âWhen people asked if I needed an umbrella I just told them that it didnât bother me â Iâm an old retired Army guy,â said Spradley, who defeated Joy Harvey by 47 votes to win in his first try at elective office.
Others scoring big wins Saturday included District 3 Council Member Harry Bowers, who coasted to an easy reelection victory, Steve Minus, who will succeed four-term retiring incumbent Sherry Harrison as New Braunfels ISDâs District 5 trustee, and Courtney Biasatti, who defeated District 2 Trustee and Comal ISD board President David Drastata, who was seeking a fifth term.
All 18 city charter propositions also passed in unofficial election totals, which indicated 3,269 voters, or 3.89% of 84,034 eligible, participated in at least one of Comal Countyâs five elections, which also included city council races in Garden Ridge and Bulverde.