Early vote approaches 2,700 on last day
As early voting on a $13.585 million bond proposition wound into its final hours Tuesday, 2,683 Wichitans had cast ballots, according to school district officials.
The bond was proposed to build and buy equipment for athletic and recreational facilities for the district s two new high schools slated for completion in fall 2024.
The proposal brought brisk support and opposition after the school district decided to float it to voters in February. This is the second time the district has tried to pass a bond for sports and recreational facilities. Voters approved a $276.415 million issuance to built a pair of new high schools in November but turned thumbs down on the accessories.
CRYSTAL FALLS –Thomas G. Brooks Jr. passed away on March 10, 2021.
He was born on April 30, 1920, in Crystal Falls, to the late Bessie and Thomas G. Brooks Sr.
He moved to Stambaugh at the age of two with his parents and graduated from Stambaugh High School in 1938. Immediately after graduation he started two years of apprenticeship in the funeral business with Mr. Fransher at the Stambaugh Funeral Home. In 1940 he attended the Cincinnati College of Embalming in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated in 1941.
Tom was married to the former Kathryn McLaughlin on July 25, 1943, in Miami. She preceded him in death on April 1, 1999, and they were married for 56 years. He also was preceded in death by his sister, Doris (James) Matthews and niece, Marion Matthews Chubb.
Classical Voice of North Carolina),
Michael Delfín is a versatile performer of historical keyboard instruments and the modern piano. Michael is the recipient of the 2018 Historical Keyboard Society of North America Bechtel/Clinkscale Scholarship and 2017 Catacoustic Consort Early Music Grant. He has performed for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America and the Central California Baroque Festival and has given lectures on historical performance topics for Early Music America, HKSNA, and the Case Western Reserve University Music Department. He is artistic director of Seven Hills Baroque in Cincinnati and has taught figured bass and improvisation at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Michael has attended the American Bach Soloists Academy and the University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute and performed in masterclasses for Richard Egarr, Joseph Gascho, Corey Jamason, Edward Parmentier, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra.
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LITTLE VALLEY Teddar Scott Brooks, distinguished attorney for 48 years, went to be with his Lord on April 13, 2021. He was born to Torrance and Lenora Brooks on July 3, 1944.
He was a graduate of Cattaraugus Central School, University of Buffalo, SUNY Albany, and Cornell School of Law. He served in U.S. Army Military Intelligence during the Vietnam era, was a member of the New York and American Bar Associations, the American Legion, the Otto Masons and the Wesley United Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Judy (Allen); daughter Kristin Weinhoffer, Grapevine, TX; son Stephen Brooks, Batavia, NY; stepdaughter Darcy Beatty, High Point, NC; stepson Christopher Ashley, Silver Creek, NY; brothers Terrald (Joanne) Brooks and Kameron (Becky) Brooks; sisters Lynn (Rick) LeFeber, Avion Brooks, Randy (Bob) Kiehle and Sally Crocker; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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After the verdict was read in the murder case of George Floyd, Greenvilleâs Will Hobdy said that he saw it as a possible step forward, in improving race relations in America.
On Tuesday, a Minnapolis jury found former police office Derek Chauvin guilty of three charges, including two for the murder of Floyd. For activists, like Hobdy, who is president of the Greenville Branch of the NAACP, it was a moment that will not soon be forgotten.
âWhen I watched it [the reading of the verdict] on the news, it just seemed to me that justice worked,â said Greenville NAACP Branch President Will Hobdy.