IN CASE YOU MISSED IT.Byline: The Register-Guard SWAT officers respond after man fires shots The Springfield SWAT team was called to a residential neighborhood Sunday when a possibly suicidal man with a pistol fired several shots inside his home and refused to respond to police calls. The wife of 39-year-old Stephan Mark Holmes called police to their home on the 600 block of 52nd Street at about 2:20 p.m., saying her husband was making suicidal statements and had fired a round from a .380 caliber pistol into the ceiling and pointed the gun at himself, Springfield Sgt. Tom Borchers said. As the woman left to call the police, she heard yelling and another shot fired. After an hour and a half of attempting to reach Holmes by phone, SWAT members entered the house just before 4 p.m. and found Holmes lying on a couch in the living room uninjured. Holmes was arrested on charges of being a felon An individual who commits a crime of a serious nature, such as Burglary or murder. A person who commits a felony. felon n. a person who has been convicted of a felony, which is a crime punishable by death or a term in state or federal prison. in possession of a firearm firearm, device consisting essentially of a straight tube to propel shot, shell, or bullets by the explosion of gunpowder. Although the Chinese discovered gunpowder as early as the 9th cent., they did not develop firearms until the mid-14th cent. . City outlines plan to boost downtown City officials last week released a plan outlining nearly $72 million in improvements they hope are made to the downtown area over the next 20 years. The overarching o·ver·arch·ing adj. 1. Forming an arch overhead or above: overarching branches. 2. Extending over or throughout: "I am not sure whether the missing ingredient . . . goal in the corridor is to create "a family friendly atmosphere where people want to shop, live and work," Springfield City Manager Gino Grimaldi said. But a looming question is whether strip clubs and smoky bars - now prominent features of the district - could pose a barrier to a successful revitalization project. The city's effort to remake the downtown will kick into high gear if voters approve a November ballot measure that would establish an urban renewal district stretching from the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. east to 23rd Street, encompassing much of southwest Springfield. In a renewal district, property tax increases over a certain number of years are placed into a special fund. The revenue is available only for projects inside district boundaries. Voter endorsement is crucial, as is the city's ability to get downtown-area property owners to buy into the plan and trust that they can profit from it by upgrading their parcels, city officials said. That includes the owners of lots that now house five strip clubs, an adult shop and a number of bars where patrons smoke and drink hard liquor hard liquor A popular term for beverages with a high–often > 30% by volume–ie, 60 proof alcohol content–eg, gin, rum, vodka, whiskey; HLs are preferred by alcoholics as a steady state of low-level inebriation is easier to maintain. See Standard drink. . Some believe that unless those types of businesses are phased out, the city's downtown plan will fail. Schools hire consultant to expand arts education A couple of years ago, when Oregon schools were squirming under a seemingly unstoppable budget ax, the notion of a district hiring a consultant to help guide an expansion of the arts would have been unthinkable. But the Springfield School District is doing just that and more. Through an initiative dubbed Arts Matter (formerly Arts as a Signature), the district hopes to build on what officials believe is already a strength by ensuring that a rich, varied and integrated arts Integrated arts practice refers to inter-disciplinary art, art research, development, production, presentation, or artistic creation of work that fully uses two or more art disciplines to create a work for a specific audience. curriculum is available to students in every building. Two killed in head-on collision on Jasper Road A Springfield teenager and a Pleasant Hill woman were killed and a Pleasant Hill man was injured in a two-car head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. Sept. 23 on Jasper Road about three miles east of Springfield, Oregon Springfield is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States, separated from Eugene, Oregon primarily by the I-5 highway. Springfield was named after a natural spring located in a field or prairie within the current city boundaries. State Police reported. An investigation found that 19-year-old Natalie Ann Peterson of Springfield was heading east on Jasper Road in a 2003 Chevrolet pickup when, for unknown reasons, she left the roadway and drifted onto the right shoulder, police said. Peterson then overcorrected and veered to the left, crossing the centerline cen·ter·line n. 1. A line that bisects something into equal parts. 2. A painted line running along the center of a road or highway that divides it into two sections for traffic moving in opposite directions, or, in the case of and colliding head-on with a westbound Mercedes sedan Sedan (sədäN`), town (1990 pop. 22,407), Ardennes dept., NE France, on the Meuse River. A noted textile center since the 16th cent., Sedan also has metal and brewing industries. The town became part of French crown lands in 1642. driven by Donald Laird, 60, of Pleasant Hill. Laird's wife, Donna Laird, 55, was a passenger. Peterson, a 2006 Thurston High School Thurston High School is located in Springfield, Oregon in Lane County. Their mascot is a black colt. Shooting On May 20, 1998, student Kipland "Kip" Kinkel killed his parents, William and Faith, both Spanish teachers at local high schools. graduate, and Donna Laird were pronounced dead at the scene. Donald Laird was taken to Sacred Heart Medical Center Sacred Heart Medical Center may refer to: In the United States:
Council votes to close block of B Street The City Council last week finalized a decision to permanently close a downtown street to make room for a police parking lot adjacent to a voter-approved public safety complex. Councilors voted 4-2 to support closing a blocklong section of B Street, between Pioneer Parkway East and Fifth Street. Councilors Anne Ballew and Christine Lundberg voted no. It appears that the city decision will now be scrutinized by the state Land Use Board of Appeals. Springfield resident Scott Olson Scott Olson is a guitarist, bassist, and recording engineer. He currently is working with Seattle's legendary London Bridge Studios, best known for their work on Pearl Jam's Ten and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger. said he will ask the state panel to overturn the council's ruling on grounds that it violates local land use plans that support street connectivity and easy travel routes for bicyclists and pedestrians. Springfield voters in 2004 approved a $28.7 million construction bond to build the public safety complex, which will include a new police station, municipal courtrooms and a 100-bed jail to house misdemeanor-level inmates. If Olson's appeal to the state land use board is successful, the city might have to redesign the complex. If B Street remains open, the city could build a secure lot on the block north of the street. But police officials have said that such an arrangement could slow officers' responses to an emergency, and create an unsafe situation where they would have to cross B Street to reach their vehicles. It's official: Gateways is a high school now SPRINGFIELD - The change was small, uncomplicated and noncontroversial, but for the students and staff at Gateways High School - formerly Gateways Learning Center - it speaks volumes. Responding to a request from the school over the summer, the school board last week voted to change the name of the 12-year-old alternative school, which has evolved from a part-time credit-recovery program to a bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being high school. Last June, the school awarded nearly 80 standard diplomas in a celebration at the Wildish Community Theater. "The people who instigated (the change) were really the students and second to that, the parents," said Gateways Principal Sheryl Ott, who has led the school nearly from its inception. "They said, `We're not a learning center now, we're a school. We're not just making up credits, we go to school.' '' Located in a bright, refurbished former bank building on Main Street downtown, Gateways also serves as a hub for referrals to all of the district's alternative education programs, including the Young Parent Program and private programs such as Looking Glass Looking Glass - A desktop manager for Unix from Visix. Riverfront riv·er·front n. The land or property along a river. School & Career Center. For that function, it will keep the "learning center" moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. , operating as a distinct entity. |
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