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Marissa Suski, a resident of Polk County, Texas, who found text messages more reliable than news reports and social media as Hurricane Beryl approached her area. The texts were from AlertMePolkCounty, the county's messaging system. Suski said she didn't know their source but that the account's earlier texts about boil water notices and emergency food supplies had been helpful and accurate. (Texas Tribune — July 31, 2024)
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Kentucky state Rep. Daniel Grossberg, who is under official investigation for inappropriate interactions with women. Women have been contacted by the Legislative Research Commission regarding questionable behavior and texts from the freshman Democratic lawmaker. Some women shared text messages with the Lexington Herald-Leader that they called “weird” or “creepy,” which included comments about their looks. (Lexington Herald-Leader — July 31, 2024)
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Annie Noonan, labor relations director, for the Windham County, Vt., state's attorney's office. She was referring to the departure, midterm, of Tracy Kelly Shriver, who had served as state's attorney since 2007, after having worked in the office for nearly a decade. Kelly Shriver sent a letter to Gov. Phil Scott, calling her work "the honor of my life" but informing him that she was stepping down as of this past Sunday. (VT Digger — July 29, 2024)
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Cyr Martin, town manager of tiny Ashland, Maine, expressing his worry that 65-year-old Lendell Tarr, the town’s recreation director who not only drives Little Leaguers to away games but also cleans the town office, takes seniors out for meals, mows the cemetery lawn, and pitches in driving ambulances and school buses, might retire. Ashland is one of many small rural towns with aging populations and limited resources where hard-to-find municipal workers multitask at several jobs. (Wall Street Journal — July 28, 2024)
