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St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announces budget conversations

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter’s office and the city’s Office of Financial Services are hosting community conversations in advance of crafting the city’s 2024 budget proposal this summer. The seven in-person gatherings kicked off Tuesday at the Dayton’s Bluff Recreation Center.The discussions will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at El Rio Vista Recreation Center at 179 Robie St.; 6:30 p.m. May 2 at the Rondo Community Library at 461 Dale St. N.; 6:30 p.m. May 8 at the Arlington Hills Community Center at 1200 Payne Ave.; 6:30 p.m. May 16 at Rice Recreation Center at 1021 Marion St.; 6:30 p.m. May 18 at the Merriam Park Library at 1831 Marshall Ave.; and 6:30 p.m. May 23 at the Highland Park Community Center at 1978 Ford Parkway.Participants are invited to bring a smartphone or web-enabled device if they have one. The mayor has until August 15 to submit his budget proposal — including a proposed property tax levy — and the city council has until mid-...

Seedling potters needed for Hudson Valley program

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) - In celebration of Arbor Day, the DEC Estuary Program is "Potting Up." This weekend, volunteers are needed to pot thousands of seedlings for use in a program that plants trees in locations around the Hudson Valley, to keep ecosystems healthy and thriving, in the Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs program. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! “The Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs program provides a great opportunity for communities to work together as environmental stewards and support the state’s efforts to protect vulnerable streamsides with tree plantings," said DEC Commissioner Seggos. "The plantings provide healthy buffers that help reduce water pollution, erosion, and flood damage and protect the important habitat for fish and other wildlife that thrive along the river. I encourage anyone interested to volunteer in this year’s program to help with planting projects throughout the spring.”Bare-root seedlings...

Schoharie custodian arrested for child porn

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A custodian with the Schoharie Central School District was arrested Wednesday morning on child pornography charges not connected to Schoharie students, according to the Schoharie Central School District's website. Schoharie Central School District did not name the custodian, and News10 has reached out for identification. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! According to Schoharie Central School District's post, the longtime employee of the district has been placed on leave and was assigned to the day shift at the junior/senior high school. The district says he did not have direct contact with students as part of his assigned jobs.“The safety and security of our students are the district’s number one priority," said Superintendent David M Blanchard. "This is a responsibility we do not take lightly. We will be in contact regularly with the state police as this investigation unfolds.”

'Pretty Little Liars' casting Hudson Valley roller skating extras

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

HYDE PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Grant Wilfley Casting is looking for Hudson Valley and New York City locals to play roller skating 70s partygoer extras for HBO Max's "Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin" season 2. The show will be filming in Hyde Park, Dutchess County. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! According to the casting agency, extras must know how to skate and be comfortable around strobe lights. Extras should be between 18 and 45 years old. All genders and ethnicities are welcome to apply.The extra work is paid with Grant Wilfley Casting casting SAG and non-union workers. The SAG rate is $197 for eight hours and $165 for eight hours for non-union workers, said the casting company. Derek Hough bringing live dance show to Albany The tentative work date is Tuesday, May 16. Transportation for those in the city will be available from Manhattan. To apply, email your name, phone number, age, photos, and sizes to [email protected] ...

“Wild Life,” from “Free Solo”‘s Jimmy Chin is a rickety helicopter tour of a fascinating marriage

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

“Wild Life,” the latest eco-conscious documentary from filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (“Free Solo,” “Meru”) is a rickety helicopter tour of a fascinating marriage; nearly every scene makes you want to stop and explore in more detail.Things move fast with barely a beat of introduction. Those unfamiliar with American philanthropists Kristine McDivitt Tompkins and her husband, Douglas Tompkins, may feel in the film’s opening minutes as disoriented as if they’ve been dropped in the wilderness. One catches on that the Tompkinses purchased a lot of it: more than 1 million acres in Argentina and Chile, with the goal of gifting the land back as recognized national parks. The scale of the couple’s ambition teeters on the surreal. Asked in archival footage about a massive snow-flocked volcano on the horizon, Doug casually replies, “Yeah, that came with it.”The film doesn’t do much besides pair snippets of the Tompkins’ biographies with staggeringly beautiful shots of Pata...

Judge sides with journalist, coalition regarding photos and data of LAPD officers

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

The city of Los Angeles and police suffered a setback in court Tuesday when a judge declined to issue a restraining order relating to the released photos and data of thousands of LAPD officers. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff rejected the city's request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the information and images to be used by an online database called "Watch the Watchers," a project of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the Los Angeles times reported. City of Los Angeles sues reporter, police watchdog group after release of LAPD officer info Earlier this month, the city sued the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Ben Camacho, a reporter from Knock LA who received the contested data for about 9,000 officers from the city when he filed a public records request and then turned it over to the coalition.The city and LAPD are facing legal challenges of their own, as the photos and data included officers who work undercover.More than 300 undercover officer...

Driver who ran down young mother, daughter in Mid-Wilshire was likely 'impaired,' has been arrested: LAPD

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

The driver who slammed into a mother and her child as they walked to school in L.A.’s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood Tuesday morning was speeding and may have been intoxicated, and he was placed under arrest Wednesday morning, according to police.The crash happened just before 8 a.m. in the 6200 block of West Colgate Avenue, across the street from Hancock Park Elementary.The male driver of a white pickup truck, according to police, was speeding when he struck a woman in her 30s and her 6-year-old daughter in an intersection, struck a light pole, and then crashed into an apartment building.The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her daughter was hospitalized in critical condition late Tuesday. Their names were not immediately released.The crash scene in the 6200 block of West Colgate Avenue where a mother was killed, and her 6-year-old daughter was critically injured. April 25, 2023. (KTLA)The crash scene in the 6200 block of West Colgate Avenue where a mother was killed, and her 6-ye...

Neon Nash Breaks Down Walls With New Single “Attack On B!tch”

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

From Los Angeles, breakout artist and anime fan Neon Nash is sure to start a rumble with her latest track “Attack On B!tch”. Inspired by the 2009 manga and 2013 anime Attack On Titan by Hajime Isayama, Neon creates a battlefield of sound worthy of a titan with a skilled blend of fast paced rap and smooth R&B vocals.What inspired your latest release “Attack On B!tch”?Fans of anime are probably quick to realize that my song “Attack On B!tch” now available on Spotify is inspired by the anime Attack On Titan. And I wanted this song to pay the anime justice in every way and I’m so happy with how it turned out, I feel like it definitely did. From the lyrics and references to the specific effects KJ Strock (who also produced for Machine Gun Kelly, Ice Nine Kills and Pop Evil) put in the mix, it turned out exactly how I envisioned it. There are so many references to the anime that I lost count and the extra added effects like the sword fighting sounds and stomps in the bassline just rea...

Peak snowpack: PG&E measures 211 inches of snow in final Lassen Peak survey

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

CHESTER — The final snowpack survey of the year took a bit more effort for the PG&E team at Lassen Volcanic National Park.In the dense, late April snow, PG&E hydrographers drilled through 211 inches of snowpack Tuesday to reach the gravel parking lot of the Lassen Peak trailhead — by jumping on their equipment like a pogo stick.“At many other sites we can core many samples by hand. At this site, we have to jump on the sampler to use our full body weight to get it down,” said PG&E Hydrographer Dan Stephens. “We’ve already broken gear this morning.”Stephens said Lassen Peak represents 3% of the Feather River watershed, and one of the stations measured 211 inches of snow, equivalent to 118 inches of water.Snowpack sample pieces are scattered away from the hole of which it was taken Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at the trailhead of Lassen Volcanic National Park in California. (Michael Weber/Enterprise-Record) Spokesman Paul Moreno said PG&E is one of many agencies conduct...

3 teens arrested in Denver rock-throwing spree homicide

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:37:48 GMT

Alexa Bartell, 20 (Provided by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department) Jefferson County Sheriff’s investigators have arrested three 18-year-old suspects from Arvada in the rock-throwing death of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell.The investigators made the arrests during the night at Arvada homes and officials early Wednesday announced they’d taken the three into custody. Officials identified the suspects as Joseph Koenig, Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, and Zachary Kwak. In a news release, officials said the three will face charges of first-degree murder with extreme indifference.All three are suspected of throwing rocks, and additional charges are expected to be filed, pending determinations by the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office, authorities said.A suspect vehicle has been identified — a black 2016 Chevy Silverado, authorities said. It remains unclear who was driving during a rock-throwing spree last week, authorities said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Li...