— A woman in her 70s is dead after a fire occurred in the Lake Stickney neighborhood of Lynnwood Thursday evening South County Fire said firefighters responded to the incident just after 6:30 p.m firefighters found a woman in her 70s on the second floor who had died SCF continued to note that firefighters were able to extinguish the fire in 10 minutes "The Snohomish County Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire," SCF wrote on X "We encourage everyone: please check your home’s smoke alarms." The search for answers began in 1994 when a fisherman discovered a body in the lake The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's office determined the deceased to be between 25 and 35 years old and the victim of a violent homicide There are multiple facial reconstructions for the victim in part because ethnicity assessment was inconclusive Each artistic rendition was shared with the public in hopes that someone would recognize the victim and come forward with information Detective Scharf and Investigator Jorgensen reached out to Othram the nation’s only forensic DNA sequencing laboratory After uploading the genealogical profile to a public genealogical database Othram’s internal laboratory team worked with investigators to establish an ID for the Johnson one match is not enough to point to a single person this match had included another clue in their public database profile They belonged to a distinctive direct maternal lineage The high-resolution profile developed by Othram allowed investigators to perfectly match up this uncommon maternal lineage signature The investigators then found a record for a missing person that appeared to match Johnson although the missing person was reported in 1996 It’s likely that the Lake Stickney John Doe had been in the lake for as many as seven years before being discovered Investigators reached out to next-of-kin and used legacy DNA testing to confirm the identity established from the genealogical profile Investigators are now working to better understand what might have happened in the days leading up the Johnson’s death Anyone with information related to Rodney Peter Johnson or his disappearance is asked to call the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 425-388-3845 Republished courtesy of DNASolves/Othram. Photo credit: DNASolves This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page — The Snohomish County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding the killer of a man whose unidentified body was found in Lake Stickney 26 years ago after he was fatally shot in the late 1980s Investigators said Rodney Peter Johnson was about 25 years old when he was slain in 1987 or early 1988 He was last seen by his family after he reportedly left on a camping trip Officials said Johnson's body was found floating in Lake Stickney on June 11 The Snohomish County Medical Examiner concluded that his body was covered in a soap-like substance called adipocere indicating his body had likely been underwater for many years Detectives said Johnson suffered a gunshot wound to the head before his body was dumped in the lake And he had been weighted down under the water before surfacing A relative of the victim pleaded for help in finding Johnson's killer "We are asking the public if they know something "Our family wants closure and justice for whoever did this to Rodney Detectives believe Johnson lived on NW 60th Street in Ballard and worked at The Golden Dragon Chinese restaurant on 17th Avenue around the time of his killing Sheriff Adam Fortney credited forensic-grade genome sequencing and genealogy to help find Johnson's relatives and confirm his identity The victim's DNA matched a DNA sample obtained from Johnson's father and a brother The sheriff said the case remains an active investigation "Our work in this case isn't over yet," Fortney said "We are determined to find out who killed Rodney and get justice for him and his family." Anyone with information about the case was asked to call the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 425-388-3845 LAKE PLACID — Temporary road closures will begin at 5 a.m on Sunday The following are all estimated times based on New York State Police traffic control ¯ Road closures (Route 86) southbound to Lake Placid from Wilmington and Jay beginning at 7 a.m ¯ Bobsled Run Lane will be closed in both directions from 7 a.m ¯ Route 9N will close Northbound from Keene to Jay at 7 a.m ¯ Stickney Bridge Road will be closed Northbound from 7 a.m There will be no vehicular traffic allowed on Stickney Bridge itself in either direction during this time ¯ Route 9N southbound will be closed from Stickney Bridge Road to the Route 86 intersection from 7 a.m ¯ Bilhuber Road will be closed to traffic from 8 a.m ¯ Haselton Road will remain open from Bilhuber Road to the town of Black Brook as part of the new bike course change No vehicle travel south of Bilhuber Road will be permitted until 3 p.m ¯ Road closures (Route 73) south/eastbound from Lake Placid to Keene beginning at 6 a.m Notice to residents and businesses along the Wilmington Road: Runner traffic will continue until midnight ¯ LAKE PLACID TO JAY: From Saranac Avenue/Route 86 go left at Main Street at the High Peaks Resort to Mirror Lake Drive Expect delays in the village of Lake Placid ¯ AuSABLE FORKS TO WILMINGTON: North on Main Street at Stewart’s to stop sign At the fork with Guideboard Road (right fork) then a left on Bonnieview Road (County Route 19A) to Wilmington Expect delays at intersection in Wilmington ¯ AuSABLE FORKS TO SARANAC LAKE/LAKE PLACID: North on Main Street at Stewart’s to stop sign then a left on Union Falls Road (County Route 4) to Route 3 ¯ AuSABLE FORKS TO KEENE: Off Route 9N south take a right on the Sheldrake Road (Route 9R) then turn left onto Glen Road/Mill Hill Road (Route 22) ¯ SARANAC LAKE TO I-87 SOUTHBOUND: Route 3 west to Tupper Lake Route 2 east to Exit 29 on Route I-87 or Route 28N to Warrensburg ¯ POINTS SOUTH ON ROUTE I-87: From Northbound Route I-87 take exit 29 to Route 2 west to Route 28N ¯ POINTS NORTH ON ROUTE I-87 TO LAKE PLACID: From Southbound on Route I-87 take exit 31 to Route 9N north Expect delays at the intersection in Keene ¯ KEENE TO LAKE PLACID: Route 73 westbound lane open Expect Delays at River Road/Ski Jumps intersection Access village of Lake Placid via Old Military Road ¯ LAKE PLACID TO WILMINGTON/AuSABLE FORKS/I-87 NORTHBOUND: From Saranac Avenue/Route 86 Straight through intersection on Bonnieview Road (County Route 19) Right on Silver Lake Road and follow detour arrows to AuSable Forks Expect delays in the village of Lake Placid and in Wilmington from 8 a.m ¯ BLACK BROOK TO WILMINGTON AND JAY: From Silver Lake Road take Bonnieview Road turning left at Route 86 (four corners) in Wilmington Haselton Road will remain open but closed at Bilhuber Road to Route 86 Note timeline change for opening Wilmington Road northbound from Lake Placid Traffic detours to Iroquois Road after the bike cutoff approximately 6 p.m Travel to Northwood Road and turn left on Route 86 to Wilmington and points north LAKE PLACID — Registration for the first-ever event on the Adirondack Rail Trail — Sunday Copyright © 2025 Adirondack Publishing Company | https://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com | 54 Broadway The Sound Transit board is poised to vote on alternatives to be studied in the Everett Link Extension’s first round of environmental review But the alternatives set to be incorporated into that review process evoke more the horrors of the 1950s and 1960s highway building era than a modern rapid rail transit system that belongs in urban communities That’s more than enough to accommodate guideway and stations while maintaining sufficient lanes for car traffic Pursuing a property-takings-first approach to build a project like Link has serious cost and construction timeline drawbacks This is because Sound Transit would need to make hundreds of costly and time-consuming property acquisitions with property owners clear properties of buildings and vegetation and remove other improvements and features The agency may also have to resort to even more costly and time-consumptive processes like eminent domain to take properties the agency faces a variety of potential scenarios buildings fall directly within conceptual alignments and station areas and would need to be taken as well as the land underneath them or their entire lot conceptual right-of-way doesn’t fall on buildings The agency may only need to take a strip of the land in those cases but there are also many circumstances where the agency would still need to take whole properties since they may be left effectively valueless or undesirable Each of those property acquisitions would be complicated and expensive to complete Sound Transit can be on the hook for relocation assistance to displaced tenants and compensatory measures for on-site construction impacts to property owners The agency also faces more complicated planning and design processes as well as delayed construction timelines These costs all add up to a project already estimated to be well over budget under most scenarios and behind schedule focusing on in-street alignments would be a boon to more timely project delivery and save the Snohomish County subarea an immense amount of money that could be reinvested in building a better project Saying the link had been made public in error the agency quickly took down the presentation link rendering it inaccessible to the public Sound Transit had only published documents with generalized paths of alignments using same sized lines and approximate locations That allowed only vague interpretations of potential impacts But the newly surfaced presentation offers a much higher level of precision of guideway and station widths overlaid on aerial maps The scale of displacement tacitly contemplated in the presentation could be immense on some of the Everett Link extension segments if boardmembers don’t push back on the alignments and a perplexing property-takings-first approach the alignment alternatives include plenty of head-scratchers and businesses in some of the densest parts of Everett and unincorporated Snohomish County are right in the path of destruction That could disproportionately impact low-income and minority families and minority-owned businesses Sound Transit has not provided useful qualitative and quantitative information to support county leaders’ preferred alternatives Information has consistently been squishy and vague At no point has the agency published comparable ridership numbers for options or definitive cost estimates these may sound useful but when actually referring to them it becomes obvious that they don’t provide the kind of quantitative and qualitative information that a decision-maker should want The recommendation tables lay out each option and then notes recommendations made separately by the Community Advisory Board These recommendations each briefly note things like “fewest displacements,” “closer to community destinations,” and “higher planned population growth.” Recommendation boxes also indicate if the group recommended continued study In the case of the Everett Station segment the recommendations incredibly don’t provide quantitative information with the statements provided and in the case of the Broadway and alley alignment options never states clearly the impact they would have on displacements The tables analyzing options for a given segment also lack any genuine use in decision-making None of these are accompanied by hard quantitive information and all of them merely make a performance assessment in relation to the other remaining options It doesn’t make an assessment if other options that have been removed may have been higher performing and essentially makes all of the metrics seem like they are equal because there is no quantitative and qualitative information to support and explain them Whether or not these are even the right metrics to make an evaluation is just an assumed given the tables read more like the justifying of a decision after the fact than a serious analysis With the Sound Transit board set to express a dozen or so preferred options for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement review process it is important that the board chooses the best preferred options to study among a decidedly bad bunch That starts with making a corridor-wide policy choice to put stations and alignments in existing street right-of-way as much as possible Pylons need not take up much right-of-way and can be situated in multiple areas of a street The agency can also study guideway alignments that are set to one side of the street instead of the middle to allow for expanded sidewalks and protected bike lanes under them Stations can similarly be located to one side of a street for direct access to sidewalks and pedestrian crossings as well as community and station amenities bus bays and drop-off zones could be located immediately next to the stations in the street for efficiency If the Sound Transit board proceeds with the remaining corridor options rather than a wider look the body should also select the following options as the preferred ones: These options maximize the potential to tame dangerous roads and avoid technically challenging properties and corridors Taking an excessive amount of private property to build an urban rapid rail system is not a best practice It is an expensive and myopic folly that begets complicated delayed projects and leaves a wake of destruction behind it one-size-fits-all highway building approach to transit Blame for that falls on elected leaders who have been steering the ship to run aground But blame also falls on Sound Transit for structuring a process that has enabled such myopic decision-making threatening displacement and subpar transit outcomes because of a failure to course correct and live with tradeoffs Snohomish County should be getting the very best for the billions it will be spending on the Everett Link Extension Building a lot of mileage of track will be a mere consolation prize though if communities get very little local connectivity to go with it With an average station stop distance reaching 2.7 miles and spending potentially topping $1.5 billion per station when all is said and done Everett and Snohomish County is on course to have very little to show for all the years fighting to complete the spine to call the Everett Link planning process to date “flawed” would be the kindest of descriptions But the Sound Transit boardmembers could change that It’s up to them whether it stumbles clumsily and foolishly into environmental review to create costly generational mistakes or is straightened out to serve generations of Snohomish County residents well Editor’s Note: Stephen Fesler is a former Snohomish County land use planner and worked on the Everett Link project and thus has specific knowledge of the project and area transportation and land use circumstances Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable He is especially interested in how policies and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014 The Urbanist hosts social hour meetups every month. 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You can submit your event for inclusion and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Website Design by Blaser Consulting — Corsica/Stickney racked up six wins in three days to claim the South Dakota Veterans of Foreign Wars Class B 10-and-under state basketball championship on Sunday Corsica/Stickney defeated Bon Homme 10-1 in the championship round Corsica/Stickney earned a 10-0 win over Platte/Geddes in their semifinal game on Sunday while Bon Homme defeated Lake Norden by a 5-4 score The Jaguars finished 6-0 for the tournament with a 54-9 run differential Garretson and Scotland/Menno over the first two days of the tournament A field of 20 teams played games on two fields in Salem and in Montrose on Friday in five pools of four teams each before all 20 teams advanced to a single-elimination bracket on Saturday and Sunday Platte/Geddes earned third place with an 11-1 win over Lake Norden Kimball/White Lake was the winner of the VFW sportsmanship award for the tournament — The Mitchell Avengers 9-and-under baseball team had the best run of the Mitchell squads over the weekend at the South Dakota Class A baseball program's youth state tournament at Aspen Park a 23-5 win over Brandon Valley White and a 9-5 win over Brookings 2 seed in the six-team playoff bracket on Sunday and a bye to the semifinals Brandon Valley Black won the eventual bracket title with a 7-3 win over Spearfish the Mitchell Avengers finished pool play at 1-2 Brandon Valley Black won the division title 11-1 over Capital City The 11U state tournament included a pair of Mitchell baseball squads The MadDogs were 1-2 in their pool play games The 11U title was being contested between Brandon Valley Black and Sioux Falls Boss’ Pizza on Sunday evening at the deadline for this report Mitchell MadDogs Blue finished 1-2 in pool play while the Mitchell MadDogs Yellow were 0-4 in their pool games Brandon Valley Black won the 12U bracket title 5-4 over the Pierre Rattlers PAOLI — Police say two Bedford men accused of attempted murder were wearing masks and entered a West Baden Springs home through a bathroom window before stabbing Robert Meehan and Donna Meehan on Dec are each charged with attempted murder; burglary; and attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury stayed in a vehicle while Stickney and Lake entered the Meehan home according to probable cause affidavits filed in Orange Circuit Court She also was arrested and is charged with aiding inducing or causing burglary with serious bodily injury The three were apprehended in Shelby County later that day and jailed there on charges of possessing a controlled substance Lake also is accused of resisting law enforcement in Shelby County The three remained in the Shelby County jail as of Wednesday morning It isn’t known when they will be brought to Orange County for initial hearings The Meehans first were taken to Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital and then flown to the University of Louisville Hospital She was treated at the hospital and released; he was listed in stable condition later that day The probable cause affidavits were prepared and signed by Indiana State Police Det who said he was summoned by the ISP Jasper Post He learned from CJ Fulkerson of the French Lick Police Department that Robert Meehan had been stabbed in the abdomen and leg and Donna Meehan had been stabbed in the neck Donna Meehan told police two men wearing masks had entered the home and that she believed one of them to be Stickney Staggs went to the Paoli hospital and learned from Robert Meehan the two men had entered through a bathroom window they were interviewed by a police detective in Shelby County Court documents say Lake told police he and Stickney cut the screen to the bathroom window and also cut the phone line Lake stated he and Stickney had taken knives “just in case.” The two were encountered by Robert Meehan near the bathroom Lake said he saw blood and that Meehan kicked Stickney in the groin before running toward the back of the house Lake said he saw Donna Meehan attempting to call police and that he “went toward her and made a swiping motion with his knife at Donna Meehan.” Stickney and Lake then fled Stickney’s account given to police coincided with Lake’s description of the events But Stickney said Robert Meehan kicked him in the groin after he stabbed Meehan the first time in the abdomen “Stickney stated he wished he had killed Meehan.” knew the men “were going to the Meehan residence to commit a burglary and to get pills.” Cox told police that when Stickney and Lake left the residence Stickney was still holding a knife and had blood on his hands She said she knew the people inside the house had been stabbed because Stickney had talked about it The probable cause also relates events occurring during the hours surrounding the stabbing asking her to pick him up in French Lick at 10 p.m He did not say why he wanted her to come get him The relative said Lake called her at about 3 a.m again using Stickney’s phone and again asking her to come pick him up He asked that she pick him up at Wal-Mart in Bloomington The woman said Lake had told her “he was going to get out of town and that he was going into hiding.” Stickney and Cox were arrested after a manhunt on Dec police departments were notified to be on the lookout for Lake Police issued a description of the 2002 Pontiac the two were believed to be driving They were seen later that morning at Bloomington’s Wal-Mart Officers tried to stop the vehicle around 5 p.m They led police on a chase north on the interstate before stopping Cox also was in the vehicle and was taken into custody The three were booked into the Shelby County jail shortly after 1 a.m Contact Times-Mail Staff Writer Roger Moon at 277-7253 or at roger@tmnews.com (AP) — A mapping method used to look at floodplains in the Bitterroot Valley turned up something unexpected: a new fault line that just might cross under the Lake Como Dam a geologist with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte said Ravalli County was using Light Detection and Ranging — or LIDAR — equipment as part of a floodplain study showing what the land is like devoid of homes a senior research geologist and director of earthquake studies at the Bureau of Mines was watching a presentation on the LIDAR study and realized he was seeing something that looked like a “fault scarp” in the Bitterroot “It came as a real surprise to me to find out there was movement on a fault because in that part of the state the national maps show it as a low seismic area,” Stickney said “The Bitterroot fault has long been classified by the U.S Geological Survey as a possible young fault but there’s not much detail known on it But perhaps part of the reason it’s listed as such is the information is incomplete.” A fault scarp is a steep slope that separates what previously was a relatively level area With tall grasses covering a landscape that’s dotted with trees it’s easy for the untrained eye to miss the scarp But a closer look shows where an earthquake offset the surface of the earth dipping the east side down and pushing the west side up the scarp is closer to a “couple hundred feet,” Lonn said “It’s like when you’ve stacked blocks and you’re pushing them together some of the rocks will fall down,” Lonn said “It’s the same as what happened 50 million years ago with the scarp that took the Bitterroot Mountains out from underneath the Sapphires.” This scarp appears to travel along the lower east face of the Bitterroots quite possibly through the Lake Como Dam and at least up to Victor Stickney said it’s difficult to know if it goes through the dam due to glacial deposits that cover part of the scarp “You lose the details; it becomes foggy closer to the lake,” Stickney said “But the general trend is toward the dam “This is why LIDAR is such a powerful tool An analogy I use is that it provides a view of the ground after an apocalyptic forest fire This is known as a “young” fault as far as geologic time is concerned Lonn notes that the earthquake activity that separated the Bitterroots and Sapphires occurred about 50 million years ago Since this newly found scarp is mixed with glacial deposits it’s thought to have occurred around the end of the ice age that occurred 10,000 to 12,000 years ago “While that sounds like a long time ago – and it is from the human perspective — in geological time that was yesterday,” Stickney said “The fact that it has been young movement along that fault comes as a surprise.” Lonn said the earthquake that created the scarp probably was “cataclysmic.” Neither he nor Stickney know if the fault might produce another earthquake that while the fault is loosely related to recent earthquake “swarms” in Idaho and the earthquake earlier this summer in Lincoln because of the earth’s tectonic plates movements elsewhere probably don’t have anything to do with the Bitterroot fault Lonn added that more research is needed to learn whether this is an active fault “If the recurrence rate is one in 7,000 years I would say our chances of seeing an earthquake are not good,” Lonn said “But if the recurrence rate is one every 500 years but it’s interesting that where we live is still geologically active Stay secure and make sure you have the best reading experience possible by upgrading your browser Cathrin Stickney promotes ‘parity’ initiative parallel to one that nearly quadrupled blacks in senior ranks of NFL Rhett Wilkinson Attendees tripled over the prior year at Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2018 It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that feminist talk did “We don’t have enough women in IT … we need more women in senior leadership positions,” said Carine Clark The summit was comprised of guest speaker-discussions and one completely had to do with feminism Josh James, the Domo CEO which asks companies through its ParityPledge™ to interview at least one qualified woman for every open vice-president seat or higher “I’ve always been a proponent of women advancing in their careers,” said Stickney “When I read the World Economic Forum’s projection for gender parity which said we were at least 100 years until gender parity … that made me think … we need to speed this up.” “We are actually going backwards,” she remarked Stickney and James had a dinner “conversation” about increasing impact of the ParityPledge™ “We talked about women in the workplace,” James said having described Stickney as “badass.” “I said ‘teach me teach me … I have six daughters … I wanted to help out and do the right thing.” “I introduced it to you,” Stickney then said James noted the lack of diversity in the NFL compared to what it became after the Rooney Rule saying that it allowed for NFL owners “to expand that network.” Stickney said that more than half of the 80 companies who signed the pledge in four months are from “this great state of Utah.” “All of them are in this audience,” Stickney added “(You) go after that one person … and then go ‘wait “It gives you more ideas; it makes you more compassionate,” James added “It’s good for business … this is a really simple way to take your company to the next level.” Stickney said she has gotten pledges from executives of Adobe “It’s been a lot of fun to go to companies and ask them to take the pledge,” Stickney added Ralph Lauren executives in New York told Stickney “we love this … over 50 percent of the workforce is women; we want to attract more women to the company,” Stickney said Hiring more women in leadership positions “is something we often talk about as various CEOs get together,” James said Stickney then spoke to the “business case,’ citing “numerous studies out there” from the “last few years” that say that when companies have “a balanced companies who have that have a 15 percent increase in profitability over those who don’t have that,” Stickney said “It’s not only the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing to do,” Stickney added “There’s a cycle that goes when you start bringing women in these senior roles … there is a very diverse “That shows in so many studies,” Stickney said adding that her organization “stands for parity in minorities of both race and ethnicity.” Ruzwana Bashir is the Peek CEO and was interviewed by Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard Her parents were first-generation immigrants to the United Kingdom from Pakistan who didn’t read or write English “None of the women I knew had a job,” added Bashir who has earned Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition “What allowed for an opportunity?” Skonnard said of Bashir’s career opening “I had a teacher that went to Cambridge,” Bashir said “So an amazing teacher,” Skonnard affirmed asking for applause for any teachers in an audience that totaled 14,270 Then Bashir “started meeting people” at Oxford University Skonnard then asked Bashir how she gets capital considering also that females “typically get less capital than the men.” “A lot of it is self-motivated,” Bashir replied “I was the nerdy kid who if I was told to write two pages for an essay … you have to get up after these failures.” She then spoke about having raised $25 million there were a lot of people who said know,” she remarked “There’s an emerging wave of entrepreneurship who didn’t have as much access to valley funding,” she added talking about folks to take “values and fall over and get back up again.” Saying that “sexism is in the news every day” and speaking of “women coming forward” about sexual assault Skonnard then asked Bashir for her thoughts about the public expressions and “advice to men in Silicon Slopes” as “a female founder from a different country.” there’s been a lot of women who haven’t been in the same … level of opportunity all of the way to getting harassed,” Bashir said “A lot of men may be intimidated by this conversation … it’s really about getting more opportunities.” “I think we live in a world where often … you wait to be able to tackle these issues and problems that are out there until later into your career,” Bashir said If there is something that is unjust or unfair in the world you can tackle the better … all the way through to even bringing it to a company … you have more of a voice today … have an impact and step forward on issues that we care about.” founder/CIO of Zayo; and Joy Driscoll Durling CIO and digital enablement director for Vivint Smart Home “I don’t like that word; I like the word ‘balance,’” Mays said “For example … if your community is 20 percent Hispanic your workforce should be 20 percent Hispanic Peterson referenced parity.org and said “that role model Durling said talking about “women in the industry” is important and that “the male needs to be the one asking the woman ‘What are your thoughts?’” Mays then said that her company was “25 percent diverse” when it started but is now “60 percent diverse I’m new to Utah—where do I find non-weird people?” That innocent question sparked an online firestorm revealing just how strange (or just unique?) Utah really is From cryptic social codes to neighborhoods where the “weird” and “normal” debate rages on Buckle up—things are about to get interesting As the approaching first day of school looms 43 new teachers are being welcomed to Lake Havasu Unified School District for the upcoming 2018-19 school year The teachers gathered at Lake Havasu High School for a week-long training and team -building camp “We are talking a lot about the culture of the school district expectations so that they feel prepared entering the classroom for students,” said Arizona Master Teacher Mentor Ginny Sautner Sautner operates the training throughout the year to help Year 1 and Mentor Teachers with professional development and environment acclimation Many are new to Lake Havasu City and some are new to teaching all together She graduated from King’s College in Pennsylvania and is currently working on her Master’s degree in Special Education with Grand Canyon University “I had heard of Lake Havasu because my family used to vacation here I fell in love with the lake and the small town so I thought it would be a good place to start off my career.” Truillo will be experiencing her first year teaching as a special education teacher for seventh grade at Thunderbolt Middle School is a first-year teacher and is also new to Lake Havasu He will be teaching seventh-grade social studies at Thunderbolt Middle School “I have a lot of passion for history and I am excited to bring it to the kids and introduce them to that.” Maples is originally from Wisconsin and went to college in Minnesota Though many teachers migrate from other places to teach in Lake Havasu will teach the Classical Program for first  grade at Oro Grande Elementary School “The classical program focuses learning on classical literature This is kind of a homeschool program to attract homeschooling parents to the district,”  Kent saod This is not her first time in the LHUSD schools will be teaching eighth grade social studies at Thunderbolt MIddle School This is not Stickeny’s first experience with the district He was a long-term substitute for physical education at LHHS in 2012 solid values in the children and teaching them something that they didn’t know previously [I want] to get them knowing more information about the Constitution and how American policies work.” Stickney graduated from Lake Havasu High School in 2008 one community place and we have this chance to really impact our community and students We are a learning community and we work together,” Sautner said Lake Havasu Unified School District classes begin Aug New teachers to LHUSD meet at the high school Tuesday RiverScene Magazine is your fresh resource for news events and community stories happening in Lake Havasu City and video to bring the RiverScene to you like never before We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again PAOLI — Two Bedford men who were wanted for questioning following a stabbing in West Baden Springs have been formally charged with attempted murder who also is charged in connection with the incident — were arrested in Shelby County Thursday following a manhunt that took place Thursday A home invasion and stabbing earlier that day had left 62-year-old Donna Meehan and 54-year-old Robert Meehan injured Warrants for the three were signed Friday afternoon and all three will be returned to Orange County where they will make their initial court appearances Orange Circuit Judge Larry Blanton said Monday morning he does not know when they will be brought to the Orange County jail Lake and Stickney each are charged with attempted murder and attempted robbery resulting in serious body injury In addition to the charges in Orange County Lake is accused of resisting law enforcement and possession of a controlled substance Stickney and Cox are charged with possession of a controlled substance Indiana State Police reported the two men entered the Meehans' home at 2:45 a.m When Robert Meehan refused to give them anything The Meehans first were taken to Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital and then transferred to the University of Louisville Hospital She was treated at the hospital and then released; he was listed in stable condition later that day local police departments were notified to be on the lookout for Lake They led police on a pursuit north on the interstate and were later stopped When Twin Cities tastemaker Nancy Bigos set foot on the 1920 Lake Minnetonka estate once owned by the lumber baron Fullerton family “I knew it was the diamond in the rough,” she says of the original home and the accompanying 7.2-acre waterfront property “This is an unprecedented recreation of the original house,” explains listing agent Cindy Redmond of Coldwell Banker Realty. Her listing partner, George Stickney agrees: “I’ve seen a lot of houses in my 34 years of real estate but this is the nicest remodel of a home I’ve ever seen.” She wanted to replace the marble in the front entry, but when she looked into it, she was warned not to touch it — it’s no longer available anywhere, to anyone. Worth more than a quarter million dollars, it’s found in such prominent places as New York City’s Lincoln Center in one instance of putting the past back into the abode all the original wall sconces were reinstalled in their former locations The house is also outfitted with high-tech lighting When it came to the exterior, quite similarly no expense was spared. Brick was re-fashioned in a vintage kiln to look like the original. Bigos even traveled to France to research the gardens at Versailles and had her own inspired take planted and maintained on the grounds “You could spend your whole lifetime going from room to room depending on what mood you’re in,” she says. “The library, for instance, was completely imported from Paris [by the Fullertons] emphasizing that there’s simply no other home in the Twin Cities with this kind of wow factor It’s really a privilege to see something like this.” Read this article as it appears in the magazine. 2017Geologist finds new Bitterroot fault lineEVE BYRON Of the Ravalli RepublicGeologist Jeff Lonn points to a fault scarp Sept 11 where an earthquake separated land along the lower east face of the Bitterroots.APHAMILTON - A mapping method used to look at floodplains in the Bitterroot Valley turned up something unexpected: a new fault line that just might cross under the Lake Como Dam said Ravalli County was using Light Detection and Ranging - or LIDAR - equipment as part of a floodplain study and realized he was seeing something that looked like a fault scarp in the Bitterroot "It came as a real surprise to me to find out there was movement on a fault because in that part of the state the national maps show it as a low seismic area," Stickney said "The Bitterroot fault has long been classified by the U.S but there's not much detail known on it But perhaps part of the reason it's listed as such is the information is incomplete." With tall grasses covering a landscape that's dotted with trees it's easy for the untrained eye to miss the scarp the scarp is closer to a "couple hundred feet," Lonn said "It's like when you've stacked blocks and you're pushing them together some of the rocks will fall down," Lonn said "It's the same as what happened 50 million years ago with the scarp that took the Bitterroot Mountains out from underneath the Sapphires." Stickney said it's difficult to know if it goes through the dam due to glacial deposits that cover part of the scarp "You lose the details; it becomes foggy closer to the lake," Stickney said "But the general trend is toward the dam "This is why LIDAR is such a powerful tool This is known as a "young" fault as far as geologic time is concerned it's thought to have occurred around the end of the ice age that occurred 10,000 to 12,000 years ago "While that sounds like a long time ago - and it is from the human perspective - in geological time that was yesterday," Stickney said "The fact that it has been young movement along that fault comes as a surprise." Lonn said the earthquake that created the scarp probably was "cataclysmic." Neither he nor Stickney know if that while the fault is loosely related to recent earthquake "swarms" in Idaho and the earthquake earlier this summer in Lincoln because of the earth's tectonic plates movements elsewhere probably don't have anything to do with the Bitterroot fault "If the recurrence rate is one in 7,000 years I would say our chances of seeing an earthquake are not good," Lonn said "But if the recurrence rate is one every 500 years but it's interesting that where we live is still geologically active