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Michael Grossberg, Margaret Quamme, Peter Tonguette Special to The Columbus Dispatch The show will go on: Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show benefits cancer patients Wooden flowers, forest-themed sculptures, organic skin care, beaded flowers and cigar-box guitars and much more, created by local artisans, will be available for purchase from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday  during the 2021 Columbus Spring Avant-Garde Art & Craft Show at the Makoy Center, 5462 Center St., Hilliard. Admission is $3, or free for those younger than 12, with part of the proceeds going to Hope Hollow, a nonprofit that provides...

Grand Strand Health will not charge patients for COVID-19 care; sending refunds CDC recommends masks in public settings By WMBF News Staff | February 26, 2021 at 1:23 PM EST - Updated February 26 at 3:18 PM MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – Grand Strand Health announced on Friday that it is not charging patients who come to the hospital system for treatment related to COVID-19. It also revealed that it is sending refund letters to COVID-19 patients who had already paid for their treatment. “Based on this policy, if patients made any up-front payments or co-pays they will be receiving a ful...

Mia Armitage Magistrate Michael Dakin has ordered a common assault charge against a former Byron-based policeman be dropped after an altercation involving a naked youth in Byron Bay three years ago. Earlier this week, the Department of Public Prosecutions [DPP] argued Senior Constable Michial Luke Greenhalgh had entered a state of ‘red mist’ when he struck the boy, who he says he didn’t realise was sixteen, a final six times with his baton. DPP’s Brittany Parker. Photo supplied. Prosecutor Brittany Parker said ‘red mist’ was a state of frustration that could manifest suddenly in...

Mia Armitage Senior Constable Michial Luke Greenhalgh is alleged to have assaulted the teenage boy in Lateen Lane, sometime between two and three o’clock in the morning on 11 January 2018, after responding to reports of him wandering half-naked and calling out. Holiday-makers, a Byron resident and a backpackers’ hostel manager all saw or heard parts of the interaction between the youth and the four police officers on-scene. One witness took video footage that quickly made national headlines and was later used as evidence in a Law Enforcement Conduct Commission [LECC] inquiry examining th...

By Erica Thomas, managing editor TRUSSVILLE — The Trussville City Council met on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, and approved a draft of an agreement with the school system on facility usage. The reciprocal use agreement with Trussville City Schools gives Mayor Buddy Choat the directive to oversee the implementation of and compliance with the agreement. The agreement states that schools have priority use of school facilities and the city has priority use of city facilities. However, the two entities would agree to “memorialize their longstanding informal reciprocal use agreement in writing to fa...