Word: sentinels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...edition of the Colebrook, N.H., weekly newspaper, the News and Sentinel ("Independent but Not Neutral"), is filled with the details and delights of North Country life and small-town journalism. A piece on the upcoming Moose Festival invites "moose-minded people" to come forward for the Mock Moose Parade on Friday night. There is a captivating photograph of a boy who won the Kids Fishing Derby. Among the many stories written by Dennis Joos is a feature on the discovery of a vintage sign that puts neighboring Clarksville on the 45th parallel, halfway between the North Pole and the equator...
...routine traffic stop, Carl Drega shot two police officers with an assault rifle, stole their cruiser and proceeded to the building that houses the newspaper and Judge Vickie Bunnell's law office, where he shot her in the back. He also shot and killed News and Sentinel Editor Dennis Joos. Drega continued on his rampage in the stolen cruiser, wounding four police officers and a Fish and Game officer in nearby Vermont before taking a fatal bullet himself...
...town had taken him to court two decades ago for a zoning violation. Six years ago he walked into the town hall, started rummaging through files and had to be removed in handcuffs under Bunnell's orders. Bunnell described Drega as a "time bomb," according to one News and Sentinel reporter...
...proceeds back through golf history, from Palmer's Bay Hill to the Masters created by Jones to Ouimet's U.S. Open. "Tiger has an opportunity to become one of the greatest golfers, or maybe even the greatest golfer, of all time," Palmer recently told Larry Guest of the Orlando Sentinel. "But coming with that is the heavy responsibility to preserve the traditions and integrity of the game that provide him the opportunity...
...some creeping, flesh-eating virus had got hold of the newspaper industry. Nearly every month brought fresh evidence of decay, proof that a major contraction, driven by skyrocketing costs for newsprint, was occurring among papers large and small, famous and obscure. In January the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel announced a merger, destroying about 500 jobs--and creating yet another one-newspaper town. In March the Fort Worth Star-Telegram abandoned its all-day edition. In April the Houston Post walked off the field, leaving its rival, the Chronicle, with the run of the city. Knight-Ridder then announced...