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NEWS SEPTEMBER 2010
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sinkhole suit news story 05.10.10 kshn reported friday and saturday that the massive sinkhole which formed two years ago - back on may 7, 2008 - is now the subject of lawsuits. the court documents were filed thursday on behalf of the city of daisetta and many of its residents who are represented by two law firms working together, fredrick mcguire in liberty plus watts, guerra, craft llp in san antonio. attorney rick mcguire – a liberty native – also contends the city of liberty’s north water well, which is the city’s primary source of water, is 6.3 miles downhill from the daisetta sinkhole. as a result, he claims it is also threatened by the same chemicals allegedly found in daisetta’s water supply. "audio" rick mcguire says those engineers have said the area’s geological formations make the threat of contamination to liberty’s north well real. "audio" according to thursday’s legal filings on BEHALF OF the city of daisetta and many of its residents, testing of the sinkhole has indicated elevated levels of toxic and hazardous wastes, chemicals, solvents and other substances. it also claims the city of daisetta’s water supply has, or will be, penetrated by these compounds. as a result of the sinkhole and the contaminations, the suit claims the value of property in daisetta has been negatively impacted in a dramatic way. attorney rick mcguire said the suit does not specify damages because the total cost of reparations has not yet been determined. these three lawsuits were filed against five companies – deloach vacuum service, de-vac incorporated, triangle PETROLEUM service, saratoga oil company, and exxonmobile oil. triangle petroleum is owned by liberty mayor pro-tem mike mccarty. when asked if that complicates the situation as it relates to the potential for contamination of liberty’s north water well, attorney rick mcguire said no. "audio" liberty county district clerk melody gilmore said there are 196 PLAINTIFFS listed in the lawsuit filed thursday on behalf of the city of daisetta and many of its residents who are represented, in part, by local attorney rick mcguire. the liberty native says the same contaminants found in the city of daisetta’s water supply could soon migrate into liberty’s north water well. that well, which is 6.3 miles downhill from the daisetta sinkhole, is the city of liberty’s main source of water. silas parks trial set news story 03.24.10 it’s a story we have followed since it begun last year, and now there’s a surprising development in the IDAHO MURDER TRIAL OF SILAS PARKS. he’s ACCUSED OF KILLING DAYTON NATIVE SARAH SHEFFIELD PARKS last june and his trial was to begin today. however, LATAH COUNTY PROSECUTOR BILL THOMPSON told kshn that his office recently reached a plea deal with the victim’s husband, silas parks. "audio" according to the idaho prosecutor, the decision to enter a plea agreement was reached with consultation from the victim’s family. "audio" bill thompson said idaho law places the MAXIMUM sentence on these three charges at 40 years in PRISON. "audio" silas parks will be sentenced on june 8. the latah county prosecutor said his office will likely pursue a sentence on the upper end of the possible range. "audio" kshn has reported SINCE LAST June ON THE DEATH of 28-year-old dayton native sarah parks in moscow, idaho, and the arrest of her husband, silas parks, on murder charges. the body of sarah parks was found among the ashes of a moscow, IDAHO, apartment fire back on june 24, 2009, but a subsequent autopsy showed the pregnant woman actually died before that fire. JUST ONE WEEK LATER, on july 1, silas parks was jailed on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of arson. sarah PARKS graduated from dayton high school in 1998 and then from stephen f. austin UNIVERSITY. at the time of her deatH, SHE WAS expecting her first CHILD AND working as a school teacher IN MOSCOW, IDAHO, now, her husband, silas parks, has pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and one county of first-degree arson. he is scheduled for sentencing on june 8.
LIBERTY STATE CHAMPS AGAIN 5.10.10 HOW ABOUT THIS. COMING INTO THIS YEAR THE LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL ACADEMIC U I L LITERARY-CRITICISM TEAM HAD WON THE STATE TITLE THREE OF THE LAST SIX YEARS. THEIR RUN WAS UNUSUAL IN THAT THEY WON ONLY IN ODD NUMBER YEARS BUT THIS YEAR THE LIBERTY FOURSOME UNDER LEADERSHIP OF COACH RANDY GUNTER CAPTURED THE STATE CLASS 3A TITLE AGAIN MAKING IT THE FORTH TITLE IN SEVEN YEARS. JUNIOR CLASS MEMBER CHRISTOPHER ELLERBE, WE ARE TOLD, FINISHED IN SECOND PLACE OVERALL INDIVIDUALLY. TEAM MATE, SOPHOMORE- JONATHAN GUNTER – THE COACHES SON- WAS 4TH PLACE OVERALL. THAT, COMBINED WITH THE TEAM SCORE, HANDED THE STATE CROWN BACK TO THE LIBERTY PANTHER LIT-CRITTERS. THE REALLY EXCITING PART OF THIS YEARS TITLE WAS THAT LIBERTY DROPPED TO SECOND PLACE IN REGIONAL THEN HAD TO WAIT ANXIOUSLY UNTIL ALL THE STATES REGIONAL SCORES WERE IN. THE HIGHEST SCORING SECOND PLACE TEAM IN THE STATE THEN GOT A WILD CARD INVITATION TO STATE FINALS. LIBERTY IT TURNED OUT HAD THE BEST SECOND PLACE SCORE. THEN THEY ROSE TO THE CHALLENGE TO WIN IT ALL FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW AND THE FORTH TIME IN SEVEN YEARS. AND THE FOURTH TIME IN SEVEN YEARS. STATE CHAMPIONS IN UIL ACADEMIC LITERARY CRITICISM HELD THIS WEEKEND IN AUSTIN. DAYTON YOUTH LIVESTOCK SALE 5.10.10 ANOTHER WHOPPING GOOD YEAR AT THE DAYTON FFA YOUTH AUCTION SATURDAY WITH $161,616.50 IN GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BIDDERS – THEN CAME $4630 IN RESALES FOR A TOTAL $165, 976.50. THE YOUTH LIVESTOCK SALE GOT OFF TO AN EXCELLENT START AT THE ANSON RIGBY ARENA LED BY AUCTIONEER ED PHILLIPS. THE GRAND CHAMPION STEER WAS RAISED BY MIKAYLA YATES OF DAYTON 4-H, SHE’S 7TH GRADER AT WOODROW WILSON JUNIOR HIGH. THRIFTEE FOOD CENTER WAS HIGH BIDDER AT – GET THIS - $10,735. EVEN AT THAT HER YOUNG AGE MIKAYLA IS WINNERS CIRCLE VETERAN.. AUDIO HER PARENTS ARE JAMES AND JESSICA YATES. ON HAND WERE CLIFF RICHEY, BILL MONK AND DALE BRANTLEY OF THRIF-TEE FOOD CENTER WERE ALL THERE TO SHAKE THE HAND OF MIKAYLA YATES AFTER THEY BOUGHT THE BIGGEST TICKET ITEM OF SATURDAY’S SALE. LEIGHTON CHACHERE OF DAYTON FFA SOLD THE RESERVE CHAMPION STEER TO LIBERTY COUNTY JUDGE CANDIDATE KEN MORRISON FOR $9,000. KEITH KLIMITCHEK OF DAYTON 4-H HAD THE GRAND CHAMPION COMMERCIAL HEIFER THAT SOLD TO B. J. VACUUM FOR $5000. THE CROWD GOT A LAUGH WHEN AUCTIONEER ED PHILLIPS TOOK THE INITIAL BIDS FROM JEFF GREEN BUT WHEN JEFF SLOWED DOWN THE AUCTIONEER, WHO KNOWS HIS CROWD, SWITCHED TO HELEN GREEN TO GET THE BID HE WANTED. AUDIO OTHER TOP ANIMALS SELLING SATURDAY AT DAYTON SCOTT INCLUDED SCOTT CHACHERE OF DAYTON 4H WITH THE RESERVE COMMERCIAL HEIFER THAT SOLD FOR $4000 TO THE COMBINED BIDDING OF DR. LUKE CHACHERE-VETERINARIAN AND RICKY BROWN OF CAPITAL FARM CREDIT. GRAND CHAMPION MARKET HOG BELONGED TO HANNAH DODSON SELLING TO JIMMY RAWLINGS AND PROSPERITY BANK FOR $5750. THEN CAME THE RESERVE CHAMPION HOG OF KENT NOACK SELLING FOR $3000 TO CUSTOM AIR PRODUCTS. THE TOP MARKET GOAT WAS SHOWN BY SCARLETT ADDINGTON AND THRIFTEE FOOD CENTER WAS HIGH BIDDER AT $3250. RESERVE GOAT RAISED BY RICHAYLA YOUNG BROUGHT A HIGH BID OF $2750 FROM MICRO INTEGRATION COMPUTER SERVICES. CHASE DAVIS SHOWED THE BEST PEN OF BROILERS AND MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS PAID $3750. THEN CAME THE SECOND BEST CHICKENS OF BLAKE DAVIS THAT SOLD FOR $2750 FROM RICKY BROWN OF CAPITAL FARM CREDIT. CATHERINE TILL WAS PROUD OWNER OF THE BEST MARKET RABBITS IN THE DAYTON YOUTH SALE MARK HERNDON OF FLNB DAYTON FINANCIAL SERVICES PAID $2750 AND THE OTHER WAS THE RESERVE CHAMPION BUNNIES OF PHILLIP JONES FROM EASTGATE. THEY SOLD FOR THE CAPPED BID OF $2749 TO THE BARN DIVAS, LOCAL LADIES WHO POOLED MONEY TO BID ON SOME OF THE ANIMALS. AGAIN, THAT TOTAL YOUTH SALE SATURDAY AT DAYTON WAS $165,976.50. VOLUME BUYER, NO SURPRISE, WAS THRIFTEE FOOD CENTER. DEMOLITION OF MERCY HOSPITAL ON TRACK .10 ON FRIDAY WE REPORTED ON RESULTS OF A COMBINED MEETING OF THE LIBERTY CITY COUNCIL, LIBERTY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND THE LIBERTY SCHOOL BOARD ON THE MATTER OF DISPOSING OF ONE OF LIBERTY’S WORST EYESORES AND BIGGEST PUBLIC DANGERS. IT’S, THE LONG ABANDONED MERCY HOSPITAL BUILDING IN THE 500 BLOCK OF TRAVIS STREET. IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE FIRST GATHERING OF THOSE COMBINED BODIES IN A LONG TIME. AFTER IT WAS SEIZED FOR UPAID TAXES AND NO ONE BID ON IT THE THREE GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES BECAME JOINT OWNERS OF THE CRUMBLING FOUR STORY BUILDING. TAXES DUE ON THE STRUCTURE ARE $26,747.43 AND COURT COSTS OF $1689 BUT NO ONE HAS WANTED THE BIG BUILDING SEIZED FROM A CORPORATION CONTROLLED BY RANDY SACKETT WHO OWNED AND OPERATED NUMEROUS BUSINESSES IN LIBERTY COUNTY, MOST OF WHICH HAVE FAILED OR CEASED OPERATION. .AFTER THURSDAY’S MEETING WE ASKED LOCAL ATTORNEY RANDY GUNTER, WHAT OCCURRED THURSDAY: AUDIO HE ALSO ADDRESSED THE TIME TABLE FOR WHAT THE THREE ENTITIES HOPE WILL OCCUR IN DAYS AND WEEKS OT COME. AT LEAST, LOCAL LEADERS SAY, THIS WILL GET THIS CHOICE PROPERTY BACK ON THE TAX ROLLS AUDIO SO IF ALL THE DETAILS WORK OUT AS PLANNED THE 1930 MERCY HOSPITAL BUILDING MAYBE REMOVED AND THE PROPERTY IT SITS ON WHICH IS POINT -637 ACRES OR ABOUT ¼ OF A DOWNTOWN LIBERTY CITY BLOCK MAY BE ON THE MARKET BY MID-SUMMER. WHILE THE ENTITIES WILL NOT GET THE PAST DUE TAXES WHITE ON PARTY LINE TUESDAY 5.10.10 TOMORROW OUR GUEST ON THE KSHN RADIO PARTY LINE PROGRAM WILL BE FORMER HOUSTON MAYOR BILL WHITE. HE OF COURSE IS THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. MR. WHITE WILL GO FROM HIS APPEARANCE ON OUR PROGRAM TO A PUBLIC RECEPTION AT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HEADQUARTERS AT THE CORNER OF TRINITY AND MAIN ON THE COURT HOSE SQUARE. BILL WHITE, CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, THEN WILL BE THE LIBERTY ROTARY CLUB LUNCHEON SPEAKER AT NOON. BILL WHITE FACES INCUMBENT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS RICK PERRY IN THE NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION. AGAIN BILL WHITE IS OUR GUEST ON THE PARTY LINE TOMORROW MORNING AT 8:30.. GOV. PERRY WHO HAS APPEARED ON KSHN RADIO TWICE SINCE BECOMING TEXAS GOVERNOR HAS BEEN INVITED TO APPEAR AGAIN BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER BUT SO FAR NO WORD ON IF HE WILL ACCEPT. MORE ELECTION RESULTS LOCAL NEWS 05/10/2010 HERE ARE MORE UNOFFICIAL RESULTS FROM THOSE LIBERTY COUNTY CITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHO HELD ELECTIONS SATURDAY. THERE WAS ONLY ONE CONTESTED POSITION IN THE HULL-DAISETTA SCHOOL TRUSTEE ELECTION. APPOINTED INCUMBENT INEZ ECHOLS IS THE UNOFFICIAL WINNER THERE WITH 93 VOTES. CHALLENGER LEWIS N. "SONNY" DEBARGE FELL SHORT WITH 81 VOTES. THE CITY OF CLEVELAND HAS A NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. UNOFFICIALLY, AT LEAST, CITY OF LIBERTY POLICE OFFICER CEDRIC MCDUFFIE DEFEATED INCUMBENT MIKE PENRY FOR POSITION #3 ON CLEVELAND CITY COUNCIL 343 TO 198 VOTES. DURLENE DAVIS WINS OUT OVER WALTER WILLIAMS 311 TO 218 VOTES FOR A NEW TERM AT POSITION #4. POSITION #5 INCUMBENT SCOTT ADAMS DECIDED NOT TO SEEK RE-ELECTION. IN THAT CLEVELAND CITY COUNCIL ELECTION OF POSITION #5, ALLAN GOODWIN GOT 141 VOTES, DELORES TERRY 122 AND MICHAEL GREEN WON POSITION #5 WITH 272 VOTES. LIBERTY ELECTIONS LOCAL NEWS 05/10/2010 LIBERTY RESIDENTS WENT TO THE POLLS SATURDAY TO DECIDE A CONTESTED RACE FOR CITY MAYOR. UNOFFICIAL RESULTS IN THAT RACE SHOW INCUMBENT CARL PICKETT WINNING RE-ELECTION WITH 337 VOTES. CHALLENGER DENNIS BEASLEY GARNERED 216 VOTES. MR. BEASLEY REMAINS ON THE LIBERTY CITY COUNCIL BUT FALLS SHORT IN HIS ATTEMPT TO BECOME MAYOR. BEASLEY TOLD ALL 9 NEWS HE IS SATISFIED HE RAN A SOLID CAMPAIGN AND GAVE VOTES A CHOICE. THERE WERE ALSO EIGHT BASIC HOUSEKEEPING AMENDMENTS TO THE LIBERTY CITY HOME RULE CHARTER ON THAT BALLOT. ALL OF THOSE PASSED. LIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT VOTERS REJECTED A PROPOSED $18.27 MILLION BOND ISSUE. THAT MEASURE FAILED BY 58% OF THE VOTE WITH 465 VOTERS AGAINST AND ONLY 335 VOTES FOR IT. IN THE CITY OF DAYTON, FOUR CANDIDATES WERE IN THE RUNNING FOR THREE AT LARGE SEATS ON THE DAYTON CITY COUNCIL. THE THREE INCUMBENTS RICKY BROWN, BILL GAY, FELIX SKARPA WERE JOINED ON THE BALLOTS BY NEW CANDIDATE DANNY JONES. THE THREE INCUMBENTS WON NEW DAYTON CITY COUNCIL TERMS. UNOFFICIALLY, THE TALLY IS 96 VOTES FOR RICKEY BROWN, 85 FOR BILL GAY, 86 FOR FELIX SKARPA AND 55 FOR DANNY JONES.
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