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Local News

bruto said:
Back in the semi-local news is a long term recurring controversy over....the Rutland high school football team's name and mascot. The were for a long time the Rutland Raiders, with a logo of an Indian chief in headdress, etc. And not surprisingly these days, it was decided that this is not a very good idea, and thus has begun a years-long controversy, with Raider recidivists taking over the town boards, and recriminations and so forth. Nobody seems able to come up with a team name that satisfies everyone. They were to be the Ravens for a while, but then they were back to the Raiders, and then Ravens then Raiders, and a recent vote to just drop the whole thing and call them "Rutland" got a majority, but not a two thirds majority, so on it goes. The news report is not specific about the unpleasantness at recent meetings, but makes note of it. Some feather have definitely been ruffled.
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Canberra's rugby league team is the Raiders, but we have a faux-Viking as the logo.
 
novaphile said:
Lots of local areas have local community online groups...

(quite similar to this site)

I don't know where you live, but it's worth finding if you have one.

Friends have regaled me with stories from their communities from time to time...

Local council, or your local library could probably tell you if one is running in your area.
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Thanks for that. I joined a local community facebook group, and found to my amazement that around half the residents are members (you have to give your address, so maybe some did this falsely, but I can't imagine many). Yes a lot of people I know, but short of news. When you get rid of "lets have a coffee" and "who can fix my door" and "kangaroos eating my grass" (hardly news here) there is not much news at all.
 
arthwollipot said:
Canberra's rugby league team is the Raiders, but we have a faux-Viking as the logo.
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Yeah, unfortunately the faux-viking Raiders have kind of been pre-empted by the pro football team, and this being one of the more rufescent corners of Vermont, I'm afraid if they tried to keep the name and de-nativize it, they'd end up with stars and bars instead. I like the idea of just plain Rutland. They could go on with that theme. "Just plain Rutland. Just live with it." "Rutland. That's it. We're not ****** Brattleboro!" "Rutland. Ya want cheese with that?"
 
Before it hit the news!

On the walk home tonight as I crossed the highway there was a taxi crashed into the ditch at a tire shop.

The road behind it was littered with bullet casings and cops. The coroner van was already there.

Most times anything like this happens it's drugs and money owed for them.

This crap doesn't even bother me anymore. The drug business here is a self cleaning litter box. They don't want non players involved when possible.
 
I've been in our local paper 3 times this year, once to do with doing 250 parkruns and twice for my art.

Not going to doxx myself, so no links. :)

I also had something to do with the stories in two other articles (no, not writing them) but my name wasn't mentioned, that were about tree planting and town decorations.

At least I wasn't in the Court writeups. :D
 
bruto said:
Back in the semi-local news is a long term recurring controversy over....the Rutland high school football team's name and mascot. The were for a long time the Rutland Raiders, with a logo of an Indian chief in headdress, etc. And not surprisingly these days, it was decided that this is not a very good idea, and thus has begun a years-long controversy, with Raider recidivists taking over the town boards, and recriminations and so forth. Nobody seems able to come up with a team name that satisfies everyone. They were to be the Ravens for a while, but then they were back to the Raiders, and then Ravens then Raiders, and a recent vote to just drop the whole thing and call them "Rutland" got a majority, but not a two thirds majority, so on it goes. The news report is not specific about the unpleasantness at recent meetings, but makes note of it. Some feather have definitely been ruffled.
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Compromise and call them the Ravers.
 
More local for our resident Monkey than myself, but honestly, nothing much happens in my miserable little burg anyway, and St. Louis provides my local TV news, so here it is...
Some St. Louis Aldermen were dumb enough to get caught on video being handed lumps of cash as bribes, and have now been sentenced for abject stupidity.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/gov...louis-aldermen-sentenced-in-corruption-scheme
 
Mike! said:
More local for our resident Monkey than myself, but honestly, nothing much happens in my miserable little burg anyway, and St. Louis provides my local TV news, so here it is...
Some St. Louis Aldermen were dumb enough to get caught on video being handed lumps of cash as bribes, and have now been sentenced for abject stupidity.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/gov...louis-aldermen-sentenced-in-corruption-scheme
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I love the first guy's outfit. Let's go appear in front of the judge in a fur-lined jacket and a hat straight out of "The Godfather," that'll make a good impression.
 
TragicMonkey said:
It would be more logical to call them the Rutters.
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When my stepson was little, he used to like to call local towns by funny names, and his choice for this one was "Rat-land.*" No need to hunt for a mascot there.

*Castleton was Smashleton, and once the whole family got into it it's hard to remember which of us came up with Polluteney for Poultney, and Muddlebury for Middlebury, but I think Brandoon was his. Fur Haven was his and prophetical, as recently the town has twice elected a dog as its mayor.
 
I like mgidm86's rant, but I take a slightly opposing view anyway. I get the local paper (well, as local as such things can be when you're not local to much of anything). It's mostly puppies and fund drives and high school kids picking trash out of the stream, and it takes about 30 seconds to read it and recycle it. I say **** the world news, it's all dismal and discouraging and frightening. If it's big enough to have to know about, it will get into the paper and send the school play to page 2. Otherwise, if it's important enough I'll probably hear about it first here.

Congress will commit congress, and somewhere bombs will fall, but I'm OK with bluebird sightings and pussycats in funny hats.
 
Mike! said:
More local for our resident Monkey than myself, but honestly, nothing much happens in my miserable little burg anyway, and St. Louis provides my local TV news, so here it is...
Some St. Louis Aldermen were dumb enough to get caught on video being handed lumps of cash as bribes, and have now been sentenced for abject stupidity.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/gov...louis-aldermen-sentenced-in-corruption-scheme
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What I found funniest was when one of them argued he shouldn't have to return the bribe money.
 
This fantastic statue is right outside the building where I work.

Popular magpie sculpture officially swoops back into the city

The famous magpie sculpture that impressed Canberrans earlier this year has finally returned to its home in Garema Place.

Big Swoop, designed by local artist Yanni Pounartzis, was officially welcomed back on 2 December after undergoing months of repairs. Vandals damaged the sculpture within two weeks of it being unveiled in March earlier this year.

Now in a more centralised position outside Redpath Shoes, the half-tonne, 3.5 metre-long, 2.4 metre-high structure is already wowing Canberrans again.
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