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The RSM Classic Par ScoresMany of the major stories in Clinton from 2024 in education, industry, government, healthcare and politics will continue into the new year. The Clinton Community Schools District’s $61.8 million high school reconstruction and renovation project this year neared the end of phase 2, which involves building a performing arts center as well as a career and technical education area. It was helped along by a fundraising campaign that the district launched in June to raise $750,000 to cover costs that inflated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The campaign raised around $1 million. The new theater is expected to open in February. The district also saw its certified enrollment rise for the first time since 2019 to 3,586.16 pupil units, an increase by 27.8, while adjacent districts reported losses. What that will mean for state funding levels will be determined in the 2025 legislative session. A charter school — The Diamond Academy — that sought to use the state’s new education savings account law, which opponents label school vouchers, failed to attract enough students for it to open as planned this year. Meantime, Prince of Peace Catholic School saw an increase in its enrollment and state funding. The Clinton YWCA broke ground to build housing to help people out of homelessness. The $6.9 million project funded mostly by a $4.4 million National Housing Trust Fund grant is being constructed in DeWitt Park, which was sold by the city to the YWCA after the Council declined to rezone property near the Clinton County Jail to allow the facility. The city of Clinton and a concert promoter built larger audiences in year 2 of the Tailgate N’ Tallboys concert series. More than 39,000 tickets were bought by concertgoers from 42 states as well as Canada and France. The first year drew around 32,000 concertgoers. Next year will be the third and final year of the contract between the city and USA Concerts. City leaders have talked about extending the relationship. Construction of Atlas Roofing Corporation’s $224 million, 440,000-square-foot shingle manufacturing facility progressed on the west end of Clinton, with its foundation poured in the fall. The company expects it to be running at full production in 2026. The city also advanced the development of its Rail Park that is key for Atlas. Nestle Purina Petcare followed up on its $156 million Clinton factory expansion in 2022 with a $110 million, 90,000-square-foot Automated Storage and Retrieval System facility that is nearing completion. Also advancing was the expansion of a Regional Water Reclamation Facility, a $130 million project funded by ADM to improve wastewater treatment and support Clinton’s industrial growth. Politically, the county experienced a resurgence of the Republican Party, sweeping all the state and county seats up for election and voting to return Donald trump to the White House. Clinton was the site of Trump’s Jan. 6 campaign rally, which was also the date of the riot he inspired at the nation’s Capitol attempting to stop certification of the election he lost to President Joe Biden. In Fulton, the mayor resigned as the City Council was in discussions about adding a city administrator position. The city ultimately decided not to fill the position. Shortly thereafter, Fulton’s Chief of Police also resigned. Two grassroots movements took shape in 2004, one a response to the city’s sale of DeWitt Park to the Clinton YWCA for its supportive housing project and the other to block construction of wind turbines for industrial level electricity generation. The Save Our Parks group’s petition drive successfully ended with the City Council adopting a new ordinance to put new restrictions on the sale or leasing of city parks. The efforts by opponents of wind turbines, who incorporated as The Don Quixote Society, are ongoing as it seeks to influence Clinton County’s updating of its zoning ordinance related to wind turbines. The county supervisors placed a moratorium on wind turbine developments in the meantime. Earlier in the year, the county adapted its zoning ordinance as a 150-megawatt Rock Creek Solar development by NextEra Energy Resources on about 900 acres of land located between Low Moor and Camanche advanced. The city of Clinton dealt with a utility-level solar development as well, the Alliant Energy solar field proposal for former Ashford Sports Complex property owned by the Clinton School District. After acquiring Genesis Health System in March of 2023, MercyOne enacted changes that affected its Clinton operations. In adapting to a model where larger hospitals in a system are hubs for certain services that smaller hospitals have difficulty providing because of staffing or other issues, Clinton’s cardiac catheterization services were moved to Genesis Medical Center in Davenport. That facility was to become the regional hub for cardiovascular medicine and surgery. Other service expansions are planned for the Clinton hospital. Opposed to the cardiac catheterization services move, interventional cardiologists Drs. Saadi and Ali Albaghdadi decided to open a new practice, Cardiology Consultants, in the Quality Care Clinic and SurgiCenter building on the south side of town at 2745 Lincoln Way. Despite the move from offices in MercyOne-Clinton Medical Center, they retain their relationship with the hospital. The city of Clinton continues to raze dilapidated houses and buildings. More than 200 single family homes have been demolished since the city began its efforts in recent years. The vacant lots, which are usually too small to build new, are first offered for sale to neighbors. The Clinton City Council in May approved the emergency demolition of the former home of a Salvation Army at 405 7th Ave. S. because of roof collapse. The L-shaped structure partially wrapped around Mike’s Fun Foods. The city had also this year razed the deteriorating buildings in the 1000 block of South Fourth Street where a building collapsed in 2023. An agreement between BTS Development and the city requires that four single-family townhouses, each with a two-car garage, be constructed with a minimum investment by the company of $900,000. Roughly estimated, there are around 80 buildings abandoned at the year’s end within the city of Clinton, a city with over 12,000 housing units. The number of abandoned buildings is down from as high as approximately 250 in the past eight years, through ongoing efforts led by the Community Development Department and use of the International Property Maintenance Code.
Alappuzha (Kerala), Dec 28 (PTI) U Pratibha MLA denied the reports that her son was arrested with ganja on Saturday, after the officials of the excise department arrested nine people for possessing the narcotics. Her son also rejected the allegations on social media. The Kayamkulam MLA on a Facebook live alleged that her son was only questioned when he was sitting with his friends, adding that the media was haunting her. “Since the news broke, I have been receiving many phone calls, ” she said. “When my son and friends were sitting together, the Excise officers came and asked questions, but the news came that my son was caught with ganja,” she said. “If the news is true, I will apologise. If not, the media should apologise publicly,” the MLA added. The Excise Department said that they have arrested nine people, including the son of CPI(M) MLA U Prathibha, with ganja from Thakazhi in Kuttanad in Alappuzha district. According to the officers, all nine were released on bail. “We seized ganja from a member of the group from under Thakazhi bridge. They were arrested for smoking and possessing weed. Since it was a small quantity, all were released on bail,”an Excise officer added. A case was registered and an investigation is underway. PTI ARM HIG HIG This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );
CBA Albany to face CBA Syracuse for Class AA football state titleMurdoch sat in a separate room, away from the DJ and partygoers holding pink cocktails, and met with the cream of Australia’s media, entertainment and sporting crop for a few minutes each to talk politics. Rupert Murdoch , the 93-year-old media baron , flew into Sydney this week for the first time in six years. On Thursday night, he held court at his eldest son Lachlan and wife Sarah ’s annual Christmas party at their Bellevue Hill mansion, Le Manoir, the AFR’s Sam Buckingham Jones reports. It is one of the biggest social events of the Murdoch calendar (which was cancelled last year ), and Rupert being there made this year arguably the biggest in years. Invites featured a piece from cartoonist Johannes Leak and the promise of “Christmas cocktails” while wearing smart casual. [Read more] The federal government is set to decide, in the coming fortnight, whether to force Meta to negotiate payment-for-content deals with Australian news media companies, The Australian’s James Madden reports. In 2021, the Morrison government introduced the news media bargaining code – legislation that required tech giants such as Meta and Google to pay for the right to display Australian news content on their platforms. In February this year, Meta – owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads – announced that it wouldn’t be renewing its commercial deals with Australian news publishers, which were worth an estimated $70 million a year to the industry. Under the terms of the bargaining code, the Australian government could “designate” Meta, which would force the Mark Zuckerberg-controlled company back to the bargaining table to reach commercial terms with Australian media companies. [Read more] Newsroom unrest within Nine’s TV news bunker is likely to continue over the Christmas-New Year period, as management battles to allay deep concerns among rank-and-file staff that the company’s handling of internal workplace issues – in the wake of the devastating Intersection report – has fallen short of expectations, The Australian’s James Madden reports. Diary is aware that Fiona Dear , Nine’s director of news and current affairs, has been the subject of multiple complaints from newsroom staff to management in the seven weeks since the publication of the Intersection review, which uncovered a culture of entrenched bullying and power imbalances within the company. The claims against Dear are separate to allegations raised as part of the Intersection review, and do not necessarily relate to allegations of misconduct since the report was handed down in late October. Rather, it’s understood that the general findings of the Intersection review prompted some staff to make separate, and as yet untested, claims against Dear. [Read more] Growing up in Marrickville in the 1980s, Anh Do’s friends nicknamed him “Weirdo” – a playful twist on his surname (“Weir Do”). Little did Do know that the books he would go on to write, inspired by his childhood, would dominate Australia’s bestseller lists for five consecutive years. Now, they’re set to hit television screens, The Age’s Kerrie O’Brien reports. The Weirdo series is being turned into a television series by Ludo studio – creator of the beloved children’s show Bluey – in partnership with Warner Bros. A release date has not yet been announced. Do’s Wolf Girl series is being adapted into a film by Rose Byrne’s production company Dollhouse Pictures, alongside Foundation Media Partners, with casting expected to begin in coming months. Along with the team at Ludo, Do worked on the pilot episode of Weirdo with Johnny Lowry, now at Warner Bros, who produced the ABC TV show Anh’s Brush with Fame . [Read more] In mid-October, Nine Radio director Tom Malone pulled the trigger on a plan to slash costs at Perth’s talkback radio station, 6PR, the AFR’s Sam Buckingham Jones reports. This, he argued in internal messages, was necessary to “reset” 6PR, which was running at a loss and could no longer be propped up by the broader business. Station manager Emily White ended her 14-year tenure by resigning a short time later – while popular presenter Gary Adshead , who hosted the morning show, quit within days to join the ABC. The Perth cuts are part of a broader significant change across Nine Radio, which dominates the nation’s talkback radio market. It owns 3AW in Melbourne, 2GB in Sydney and 4BC in Brisbane, all of which prioritise local news, sport, some music and opinion with a broadly conservative slant. Nine Radio also leases 2UE, 4BH and Magic1278 to ACE Radio. The business reported $131.8 million in revenue in 2019. Last year it wrote $103 million. The entire industry is struggling with these consumer changes. [Read more] The owner of Britain’s The Guardian newspaper has pressed on with a £25 million ($49 million) deal to sell off the group’s Sunday title, The Observer , defying a 48-hour walkout by journalists, The Guardian’s Europe correspondent Hans van Leeuwen reports. The board of the Scott Trust, the £1.3 billion fund that owns the two titles, gave its in-principle backing late on Thursday (Friday AEDT) to sell the 233-year-old the Observer – the world’s oldest Sunday paper – to online news start-up Tortoise Media. The move comes amid a slew of deals in the British media industry: The Spectator magazine, The Daily Telegraph broadsheet newspaper and regional newspaper group National World have all either changed hands or are sitting on the sales block. [Read more] It’s not the “neighbours” on Ramsay Street that Kate Connick is dressing to impress: it’s the trendy Melburnians. The rising US actor – also known as “Skate” (from her birth name, Sara Kate) – has settled in the inner-city suburb of Collingwood while filming a guest role on Neighbours, The Herald Sun’s Siobhan Duck reports. “I feel like I’m definitely living in the ‘cool’ area, so I got a second piercing just to try to fit in,” Connick, 27, tells Stellar with a laugh. “Collingwood reminds me of Brooklyn a bit.” While Australia feels very distant from Connecticut – the US state where she grew up – family is never far away. Connick’s younger sister Charlotte, 22, is training at Melbourne’s 16th Street Actors Studio, while her elder sibling Georgia, 28, is studying cinematography at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. [Read more]A person is dead after a crash early Saturday morning Pittsburg County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reports. According to a report, the driver was in a 2012 Chevrolet Impala at high sppeds heading northbound on Hartshorne Adamson Road before 2:45 a.m. near Sunny Slope Drivwe approximately 2.5 miles north of Hartshorne when the vehicle approached a turn and left the roadway striking a tree. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene due to their injuries. People are also reading... Bill Haisten: ‘Why would you even say that?’ OSU fund-raising was damaged by Gundy comments Sooners legend Tiare Jennings 'a game changer' as OU softball graduate assistant Berry Tramel: Kevin Wilson makes a decision for TU's future that might not be his State Department of Education bought 532 Trump Bibles, purchase order shows QB commit Jett Niu's dreams led him to OSU, but he had one question for Mike Gundy What's the latest with Michael Fasusi? 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New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr sustained a left hand injury and possible concussion in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 14-11 victory over the New York Giants. The Saints feared Carr fractured the hand, per reports, and he was slated to undergo further testing. He reportedly had a cast on the hand when exiting the stadium. Saints interim coach Darren Rizzi said Carr may have to enter the concussion protocol. Carr was injured when he tried to leap for a first down late in the final quarter. He was near the sideline and went airborne, landing hard on the left hand with this face then slamming into the turf as he landed out of bounds with 3:59 left in the game. Jake Haener finished up the game for the Saints. Carr completed 20 of 31 passes for 219 yards, one touchdown and one interception for New Orleans. Overall, Carr has passed for 2,145 yards, 15 touchdowns and five interceptions this season. He missed three games earlier this season due to an oblique injury. --Field Level MediaAs he delivered his postgame speech after the Vikings escaped with a 23-22 win over the Arizona Cardinals last Sunday, head coach Kevin O’Connell locked eyes with undrafted defensive tackle Jalen Redmond. ADVERTISEMENT After watching Redmond explode into the backfield on multiple occasions, making a couple of tackles for a loss in the process, O’Connell wanted to make it known how much he appreciated his impact on the game. So, as he handed out game balls like he typically does after each win, O’Connell made sure Redmond got the recognition he deserved. “Sometimes we start feeling a guy’s energy,” O’Connell said. “Just highlighting that.” Redmond was caught off guard in the locker room at U.S. Bank Stadium, joking that he almost started to get emotional when he heard O’Connell say his name aloud. ADVERTISEMENT “It meant a lot,” Redmond said. “It was a special moment.” It was a stark contrast to back in training camp at TCO Performance Center when Redmond got kicked out of practice by O’Connell in response to a scuffle after the whistle. He remembers leaving that particular summer practice a little bit unsure about his future with the Vikings. “When I was walking off I was like, ‘Oh man. What did I do? I messed up,’ ” Redmond said. “The rule was not to fight, and I know that, so I was, like, ‘Man. I can’t be doing this stuff. I’m barely here.’ ” Fortunately for Redmond, O’Connell was forgiving in the immediate aftermath, and he got to keep his spot on the roster. Fortunately for the Vikings, Redmond has made the most of his opportunity, and he has slowly started carving out a niche for himself this season. ADVERTISEMENT “There’s a reason why he made our team,” O’Connell said. “He’s a perfect fit for our scheme with the way we move those guys up front.” The fact that Redmond has proven skills as interior pass rusher is something defensive coordinator Brian Flores has tapped into even more he’s found places to insert him into the game on a weekly basis. “The athleticism jumped out immediately,” Flores said. “This guy can run.” ADVERTISEMENT That has long been a calling card for Redmond. He was an explosive athlete in college at Oklahoma, and ran the 40-yard dash in 4.81 seconds, proving he had the twitchiness to play at the next level. After signing with the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent, Redmond arrived at rookie minicamp hellbent on proving everybody wrong. He got cut after training camp despite showing flashes of his potential. “It crushed me,” Redmond said. “I didn’t know if I was ever going to get another shot.” As he sat at home wondering what was next for him, Redmond randomly got a call from the legendary Bob Stoops, the former head coach of Oklahoma, who is now the head coach of the Arlington Renegades of the UFL. ADVERTISEMENT “It was wild,” Redmond said. “I look at my phone and see the name. I was like, “Why is Bob Stoops calling me?’ I answered it and he asked if I wanted to play on his team.” After growing up in in Oklahoma, Redmond was not about to say no to a legend. He joined the Arlington Renegades and eventually parlayed that into a cup of coffee with the Vikings ahead of training camp “I went there with the mindset that I was going to make the best of it and try to get back to where I wanted to be,” Redmond said. “I had a lot of fun there, and it helped get me to where I am now.” ADVERTISEMENT Though he wasn’t exactly a household name, Redmond did enough to make the team out of training camp. “Whenever I walk through those doors and my code still works, I don’t take it for granted,” Redmond said. “I put in everything I can to everything I do here because I’ve been on the other side of it.” Now he’s starting to look more and more like somebody who could emerge as a key contributor for the Vikings down the road. “That’s all I wanted to do when I got here,” Redmond said. “Just prove that I can play at this level.” He can. He has a game ball as proof. “I was so happy for him,” Flores said. “I think he’s got a long career in front of him.” ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. Forum Communications Company uses content from agencies such as Reuters, Kaiser Health News, Tribune News Service and others to provide a wider range of news to our readers. Learn more about the news services FCC uses here .