Clark County

It is 7:23 a.m. on a Thursday morning, the pass allowing tardiness to first hour is tucked away in my tattered blue backpack. I sit in my car gazing at the quiet building. I have seven minutes to make it up the staircase, adorned with two lamp posts. I, along with many others, have visited Morgan Federal, the bank across the street, countless times and never realized just what was in the vicinity. A friend who works next door in the courthouse suggested I profile this place and gave the…

many news reports and the Manitowoc police department. Instead of being the cold-blooded, uneducated monsters, they are aloof and simple men who have their families and their flaws. Although the media and those who are of a higher class in Manitowoc county may regard them as the former, Making a Murderer has given personalities and background into these demonized men and their families that garner sympathy from the viewers that may be more similar to prosecutors than the…

profitable financial status. In the article "Hudson Valley Reels Under Impact," the author revealed that "years ago, builders would put up offices on speculation, knowing that I.B.M. would eventually rent it, ‘said Lucille P. Pattison, the Dutchess County Executive” (newyorktimes.com). IBM is a major consumer in the commercial office market of the Hudson Valley. The company provides benefits extending to those owning properties available for rent, and financial support to the local communities.…

It’s a warm and humid summer afternoon in Kansas City. So humid where you can just feel your skin becoming moist and sweaty just from standing outside. The gym is even more hot and uncomfortable. I’m a young adolescent in grade school watching my oldest brother play competitive basketball. Normally, I’m forced to attend these activities as I’m too young to be at home by myself. There were about 200 people just packed in one big gymnasium. Parents spectating, players working their tails off, and…

My grandmother, Carol Gondringer, was 25 years old in 1968. 48 years ago was a very different it was very inexpensive back then the gas prices were low, and the motels were only a few bucks which made it an idle time to have a road trip. My grandma and her four friends Ruthie, Bonnie, Cathy, and Carol decided that they wanted to go on a road trip when they would meet up to discuss topics. They decided they wanted to go to the Grand Canyon because my grandma’s grandma had been there before and…

Over the last couple of years, headlines about schools have become more and more prevalent. Whether it was about school lunches (and how bad they are) or how schools are helping their students for the better, stories about schools have been and will always be in the headlines. However, there is one story that has shown up plenty of times and has no definite solution: underfunded public schools. Public schools all over the nation, from Chicago to Philadelphia, have been declining for a while.…

been greatly influenced by three prominent men: Theophilus Weeks, Samuel Swann, and Otway Burns. Theophilus Weeks was born to Benjamin and Mary Chase Weeks in Falmouth, Massachusetts in 1708 (3). In the 1730s, the Weeks family moved to Carteret County in North…

I. Welcome, Introductions, and Overview of Agenda Mrs. Hyre opened the meeting with a review the agenda for the meeting. II. US Wellness Mrs. Hyre provided the current statistics for the Wellness Program. There are currently 519 active accounts with US Wellness. Under the previous wellness vendor, the highest number of active accounts was 300. There are 240 participants signed up for the current wellness challenge, “Walk to the Keys”; previously the highest challenge participation was 70.…

On Saturday 04/15/17 at 2258 hours I was dispatched to a residential burglary in progress at 12924 SE 301st ST in the City of Auburn, King Co, WA. Dispatch advised Jackie Chapman stated her neighbor, Coreen Wood, who lives at the above address, asked her to call 911, because people were breaking into her residence. Dispatch also advised Chapman stated Wood was out of town in Las Vegas, and was receiving text messages from college students living in her residence stating a tall black male was…

Nat Turner Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800, in Southampton County, Virginia born into slavery. Nat Turner was married sometime around 1822 to Cherry Turner in the plantation of Samuel Turner. Nat Turner started one of the biggest rebellions in slave history, killing 55 white people, then running away for two months, then found and hung in Courtland, Virginia, at the Belmont Plantation owned by Dr. Samuel Blunt. Nat Turner was brought into a very religious family on the Belmont…