| Deadline brings last-minute filings for mayor, commissioners
Both lost their seats in the 2006 races. The remaining candidates in the race include Estill "Gene" Mills, Marty Gute and James W. King. Ashland mayor In surprise last-minute filings Tuesday, two additional candidates have challenged incumbent Mayor Steve Gilmore. First-term Commissioner Paula Hogsten and retired Police Chief Tom Kelley filed Tuesday. Kelley, 66, retired in 2006 after 44 years with the Ashland Police Department. He served seven years as chief of police. He has never held an elected office. Hogsten, 59, retired in 2006 as an advanced practice nurse in critical care from King's Daughters Medical Center but continues teaching at area universities and conferences. She is serving her first term as city commissioner, which expires Dec. 31. No further information was available about Madden, who did not immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday.Gilmore, 64, a retired educator, has served as Ashland mayor since being elected in a special election in 2002.
Dallas, I love you, but I've found Austin
Boi Howdy: Rapper Countri Boi, who was born in Dallas, then moved at the age of 2 weeks to California, then back to Dallas after his folks got worried about his gang lifestyle during his teenage years, has signed to independent label TVT Records. OK, let's try to figure out what the strangest thing in that news might be: First, TVT is also the home of Dallas' Polyphonic Spree, whose gospel-inflected, choral hippie sprawl might just be the furthest thing from hip-hop there is. Second, does Countri know that "boi" is the preferred term used by many biological women who identify as male or intersexed? Just a thought. .
Recalling a snowy L.A.
That white stuff on the mountains is a product of one of the longest, coldest, stormiest stretches of weather the Southland has seen in a long time. "The colder elevations - where it drops to 35 to 37 degrees - you need that as a temperature to turn rain into snow," said National Weather Service meteorologist Stuart Seto. "On the beaches - they're mostly at low elevations - they get a lot of wind from the ocean, from the warmer ocean temperatures. That's why it snows in the mountains, but not in the valleys and not at the beaches. "But that doesn't mean it never happens." Which is why, when snow falls anywhere but the mountains, people run outside and try to catch the white flakes on their tongue. Many also grab cameras to record the unusual occurrence. Historically, it's snowed at least a few flakes on the lowlands every 20 years or so.
I Met the Walrus fresh take on Lennon's message of peace
A six-minute animated film in which John Lennon talks about global conflict and the need for peace has caught the imagination of Hollywood. I Met the Walrus, directed by Toronto's Josh Raskin, on Tuesday earned an Academy Award nomination for best animated short. Jerry Levitan, as the 14-year-old Beatles fan who hunted down John Lennon in a Toronto hotel room and recorded his message of peace.(I Met the Walrus) "I am stunned," said film producer Jerry Levitan. "We knew we'd been shortlisted — out of tens of thousands of films we made a short list of 10, but you're not supposed to let anyone know." The Hollywood buzz over the film has been significant, he said, in part because of the style of film, but also because of the appeal of a story involving former Beatle Lennon being kind to a 14-year-old Toronto kid.
Plainview teen killed while speeding
A 16-year-old Plainview boy with a learner's permit died early yesterday when he lost control of his friend's car while trying to find out "how fast it would go," Nassau police said.
Brian Assa, a Plainview-Old Bethpage JFK High School junior, was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after the 1:50 a.m. crash in Woodbury, police said.
A passenger, David Darvas, 17, also of Plainview, was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow and admitted in critical condition. A family member said Darvas was in surgery yesterday afternoon.
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