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Latino Founder brings back Pitch Latino for 2023
The nonprofit Latino Founder is bringing back Pitch Latino and this year's event will feature founders from its first accelerator program.
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Claudia's, a Southeast Hawthorne bar staple, will close
The spot welcomed patrons and supported successful rec league teams for 65 years.
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Health research funding to Oregon slowed in 2022
While funding slid since 2020, it remained well above $400 million in 2022, supporting important research at Oregon's public universities, health-related nonprofits and biotech startups.
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Intel backing grows by $25M as 15 recipients from $240M Oregon chips fund are named
Investments could spur as much as $40 billion in investment, officials say.
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The Chronicle - Centralia
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Hal Williams, Tenino announcer, coach, principal, dies at 86
Hal Williams, a staple in Tenino sports and education for over six decades, died on Wednesday. He was 86. “I would say that when you think of Tenino, you think of Hal Williams,” Tenino boys basketball coach Ryan Robertson said. In his career in Tenino, Williams served as the principal of Tenino Elementary School — now Parkside Elementary school, where his son Brock is now principal. He later worked at Tenino Middle school, and spent decades as a middle school boys basketball coach. He also coached high school baseball and was a long-time assistant boys basketball coach. In 2017, he was inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association as an assistant coach. In the early 1970s, Williams saw the need for a youth baseball program in the community, and along with Gordon Roberston, got to work creating one. Without an official affiliation with Little League Baseball, the new league simply went by “Tenino Little Baseball,” but with Williams at the helm, played a huge role in shaping the younger generation of athletes in Stone City. “He had a sense of authority that he could back up, but also class and integrity,” Ryan Robertson said. “He just had an aura that made you respectful.” But for decades, possibly Williams’ most famous role came in the press box at Beaver Stadium which since 2013 has borne his name. “I grew up on the football field,” said Roberstson, whose father was a distinguished coach in his own right. “ He’d be announcing everything, and I could not wait for him to say my name. I think every kid felt like that; you couldn’t wait for Hal Williams to announce your name.” Williams began as the Beavers’ public address announcer in 1963, and only missed three games in his first 50 years on the job. He retired following the 2017 season, and in 2018, the Tenino athletic department honored Williams with a statue that sits past the entrance of Beaver Stadium that bears the moniker “The Voice of the Beavers.” “I often joke that I’m going to try to tie him,” said Dave Montgomery, Tenino’s current P.A. announcer, who took over for Williams. “But that would mean I’m the announcer until I’m 92. It’s pretty incredible what he did.” Williams is survived by his widow, Shirley Williams, and his three children: Brent, Brock and Nikki. A service will be held next Saturday, Oct. 7, at the Tenino Middle School gymnasium. “It’s the heart of a little town, having a man like him that everyone could point to as a great role model,” Robertson said. “Somebody to hold you accountable, a rock. He was just always there. He was an awesome man.” |
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Hal Williams, Tenino announcer, coach, principal, dies at 86
Hal Williams, a staple in Tenino sports and education for over six decades, died on Wednesday. He was 86. In his career in Tenino, Williams served as the principal of Tenino Middle School, and also coached baseball, basketball and track, founding both the Tenino High School track and field program and Tenino Little League. In 2017, he was inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association as an assistant coach. But for decades, possibly Williams’ most famous role came in the press box at Beaver Stadium which since 2013 has borne his name. “You literally grew up wanting to score a touchdown in Tenino just to hear Hal’s voice,” Matt Whitmire, who played at Tenino in the 1980s and went on to coach at Centralia, told The Olympian in 2013. Williams began as the Beavers’ public address announcer in 1963, and only missed three games in his first 50 years on the job. “I often joke that I’m going to try to tie him,” said Dave Montgomery, Tenino’s current P.A. announcer, who took over for Williams. “But that would mean I’m the announcer until I’m 92. It’s pretty incredible what he did.” In 2018, the Tenino athletic department honored Williams with a statue that sits past the entrance of Beaver Stadium that bears the moniker “The Voice of the Beavers.” A service will be held next Saturday, Oct. 7, at the Tenino Middle School gymnasium. |
NYT Politics
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Where Would a Government Shutdown Immediately Be Felt Most?
As federal agencies prepare to enact their contingency plans for a shutdown, this is where the public could notice changes in the coming days.
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Tribal Judge Rules in Favor of Citizenship for Descendants of Creek Slaves
The judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma ruled that the tribe had violated an 1866 treaty by barring descendants of slaves from being tribal citizens.
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Columbian Newspaper
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Ex-Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark can’t move Georgia case to federal court, a judge says
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected a request by former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark to move the Georgia election subversion charges against him from state court to federal court. |
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What would a government shutdown mean for me? SNAP, student loans and travel impacts, explained
NEW YORK (AP) — With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking all but inevitable ahead of this weekend’s deadline. |
