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Members of the Avard Rail Authority were quite pleased to hear that five trains were on an unloading schedule at the site near Avard. A large pipeline project requiring 60 miles of pipe is utilizing dozens of rail cars. These trains will continue to flow into the site for several weeks. Also, members heard that another pipeline project is in the works and their bosses might be interested in unloading at the Avard Rail site. Sonja Williams reported that some track maintenance has been occurring. Earlier, the board members were concerned about...
Happy Birthday To June 15: Terr Darr, Lois Tolle, Betty Bliss, Blythe Bowers June 17: Phillip Welty, Brandy Darr, Bryan Pierce June 18: Kyle Reed, Harvey Dunlap, Michelle Schroeder June 19: Carol Rooney, Robert Frei, Chris Wagner, Heather Winn June 20: Kirk Brown, Jeffery Lewis June 21: Melba Artz, Janea Ferguson, Lisa Hughes June 22: Cari Parks, Dani Winn, Tanner Wagner, Marvin Woodall June 23: Terry Welty, Billy Beer, Darwan Tolle, Earnest Tolle, Trista Wilson June 24: Bobbie Powers, Rhonda Bradt, Loyd Boham June 26: Sharon Harper, Francis...
The order of services on Sunday, June 11, was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Welcome and sharing life’s happenings: Freedom Museum Fund Raising Supper Friday, June 16 (this Friday) in the Fellowship Hall at 6:30 p.m. No admission at the door. Eighty tickets are being sold. Contact a museum board member. Opening Prayer by Pastor Woody Call to Worship led by Shirley Wagner Opening Hymn “Standing on the Promises” Song leader Debra Brown Affirmation of Faith led by Debra Brown Hymn of Justifying Grace “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” Offertory...
The Freedom Chamber of Commerce is under new leadership. In April, Bryant Weber was voted in as president, Patricia Dauphin as vice president, Jenny Province as secretary and Misty Weber as treasurer. Officers in attendance for the June meeting included Dauphin and Province. Other members were Robyn Landis, Dakota Province, Gary Watson, Patricia Jessup, Casey Luddington, Dalene Dauphin and Rodger Gagnon. The June Chamber meeting was called to order by Patricia Dauphin. The first agenda item was the treasurer’s report. The following expenses w...
Freedom Public School cheerleaders attended the All Stars Cheerleading Camp on June 7-8 in Shattuck. Junior varsity and varsity squads participated. They were evaluated on a cheer, jump, tumbling, dance and stunt routine and received the Superior Team Award Trophy. The team traveled to and from Shattuck each day. Cheer Coach Nicole Denham wanted to thank Bretta Woodard and Tiffany Weber for their assistance. "We couldn't get to Shattuck if Bretta hadn't volunteered to drive the second day, and...
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Education authorities in Hungary say they are evaluating the installation of shooting galleries in schools to increase the variety of sports available for students. The Klebelsberg Center, which oversees Hungary's education system, said Wednesday that shooting is an Olympic sport and "has nothing to do with aggression and violence." Responding to local media reports about the scheme, the center said shooting was a "safe sport, one of the Olympic sports which according to plans students and schools will be able to c...
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two dozen people have been charged with three hazing counts each in April hazing incidents that put five Tarleton State University students in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. The hazing happened at two parties April 20 that Stephenville police said at the time were believed to be "initiation proceedings" held by two intramural softball teams. The campus student news website Texan News reports 12 of the 24 people have already been arrested and released on bond. Stephenville Police Chief Jason King says 12 o...
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — A University of Nevada, Reno professor pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors in a case involving walking a 13-year-old student to a principal's office by his ear. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports (http://on.rgj.com/2tjiUoq ) that Howard Rosenberg pleaded no contest Tuesday in Sparks Municipal Court to trespassing and disciplining a student without a teacher's license. A judge fined Rosenberg about $1,300. Defense attorney Robert Fahrendorf said Rosenberg was training a middle school art teacher April 3 when he identified a...
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers didn't adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri River. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said in a 91-page decision that the corps failed to take into account how a spill might affect "fishing rights, hunting rights, or environmental justice, or the degree to which the pipeline's effects are likely to be highly c...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of insurance companies say they're not obligated to help pay for Duke Energy Corp.'s multi-billion dollar coal ash cleanup because the nation's largest electric company long knew about but did nothing to reduce the threat of potentially toxic pollutants. The claim is in a filing by lawyers for nearly 30 international and domestic insurance companies that were sued by Duke Energy in March to force them to cover part of the utility's coal ash cleanup costs in the Carolinas. The 57 policies generally promise to help D...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A county job development authority in the North Dakota oil patch on Wednesday launched a unique initiative aimed at centralizing state and university programs to help build a regional workforce less susceptible to the boom-and-bust cycle of the oil industry. The move comes as energy production in the state is on the uptick after a recent slowdown, but more than one-third of the 3,000 job openings in northwestern North Dakota are not in the oil fields, according to Cindy Sanford, manager of the Job Service North Dakota o...
PARIS (AP) — OPEC's plan to cut production and support prices is likely to be undone by increased output in the U.S., the International Energy Agency predicted Wednesday. If correct, that could keep a lid on oil and energy prices as a glut of supply grows despite the efforts of countries in the OPEC cartel and allies like Russia to limit production. The IEA, a Paris-based body that advises oil-consuming states on energy matters, said in its monthly oil report it expects production in non-OPEC states like the U.S. to grow 700,000 barrels d...
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame for damaging their crops. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Jonesboro, Arkansas, against Monsanto Co. and BASF Corp. In a statement, plaintiffs' attorney Phillip Duncan says his clients seek unspecified damages for damage to crops, fruits and trees that weren't dicamba-resistant. He also said dicamba also damaged crops in other states throughout the 2016 growing season, including i...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Several pigs that were left four years ago on a small island within the California Delta have become the center of residents' debate after an animal-rights group took them off the island. The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2rrcszq ) 10 people from Farm Sanctuary used a trailer and barge on Tuesday to ferry six pigs off the island under the land owner's permission. Susie Coston, the group's national shelter director, says the pigs were not in good health and were being mistreated, but residents in the area d...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An economic development agency targeted for elimination by President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday nearly $16 million in funding to help diversify economies in hard-hit coal communities in seven Appalachian states. The funding is earmarked for 18 projects in Alabama, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, and will create or retain more than 1,700 jobs, the Appalachian Regional Commission said in a news release. The money announced by the ARC comes from a job organization comprising t...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers as they practiced for a charity baseball game Wednesday, critically wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and hitting aides and Capitol police as congressmen and others dove for cover. The assailant, who had nursed grievances against President Donald Trump and the GOP, fought a running gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died. Colleagues said Scalise had been fielding balls at second base at a local park in Alexandria, just a...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is sending its first shipment of beef to China under an agreement that allowed the U.S. to resume exports after a 14-year hiatus. The first boxes from Greater Omaha Packing went out Wednesday. Gov. Pete Ricketts and Nebraska Department of Agriculture Director Greg Ibach helped load the first boxes. China cut off exports in 2003 after mad cow disease affected some American herds. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it had finalized an agreement with China to restart exports. Ricketts says N...
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Spitting out a mouthful of blood, I clambered to my feet and tried to regain my bearings. A large calf wheeled around me and sped off toward the branded herd. As riders trotted out to bring it back, several people approached me with the same caution I'd seen them use with a wild horse. "Well?" Cow Camp Ranch co-owner Nell Kenehan asked. "You still got all your teeth?" My tongue took silent inventory before I wriggled my jaw and nodded yes. Tremors of pain rippled through my face as Nell assessed the damage, said a few q...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters and opponents of abortion rallied Wednesday at the Missouri Capitol as a special session of the Legislature considered new restrictions in a state that already has some of the nation's toughest abortion laws. Republican Gov. Eric Greitens, who called state lawmakers back to the Capitol for the second special session this summer, led an anti-abortion rally in support of proposed new measures such as mandatory annual health inspections of clinics. He also spoke strongly in favor of nullifying a St. Louis o...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's criminal ban on medical marijuana is being challenged in a lawsuit that says its use could help combat the state's opioid addiction woes. The suit, filed Wednesday in Franklin County Circuit Court in Frankfort, lists three plaintiffs who have used medical marijuana to help ease health problems. The suit says the medical marijuana ban violates constitutional privacy rights. It says Kentucky treats anyone turning to medical marijuana as "criminals rather than patients in need of safe relief." It says that s...
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Five people, including the head of Michigan's health department, were charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter in an investigation of Flint's lead-contaminated water, all blamed in the death of an 85-year-old man who had Legionnaires' disease. Nick Lyon is the highest-ranking member of Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's administration to be snagged in a criminal investigation of how the city's water system became poisoned after officials tapped the Flint River in 2014. Lyon, 48, the director of the Health and Human S...
