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Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Yahoo
Croghan man facing charges after Lowville traffic stop
LOWVILLE, N.Y. (WWTI) – A 35-year-old Croghan man is facing multiple charges after Friday afternoon traffic stop in Lewis County. According to the Lewis County Sherriff's Office, they pulled over Jay Augustyn on the Ross Road just before 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 25. Man allegedly flees scene of ATV crash in Lewis County Augustyn was alleged to have been operating his 2021 Jeep Compass with a suspended license. A subsequent search allegedly yielded methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia inside the vehicle. He was charged with first-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree aggravated unlicensed operation. Augustyn was arraigned in the Town of Turin CAP Court and remanded to the Lewis County Jail without bail. Authorities said the investigation is ongoing and more charges are pending. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Chicago Tribune
09-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Purdue Northwest professor explores cultural origins of Hip Hop
Heather Augustyn will never tell you that Hip Hop isn't an American-born movement, but if you can't pick up the Jamaican and Ska influences in it, you're not listening close enough. For Augustyn, one of the world's foremost historians on Ska music and professor for Purdue University Northwest's Westville campus, American music extended its hand to Jamaica via the airwaves in the 1950s, she explained during her Black History Month lecture, 'Wheels of Steel: A Circular History of Hip Hop' at the school's Hammond campus. The Jamaicans, in return, brought their own style of what they learned and loved back to the United States when they came here. A DJ from Philly likely started it all: Douglas 'Jocko' Henderson's 'Rocket Ship' show on WDAS was known for his catchy, rhythmic turns-of-phrase, shouting out to the 'Daddios' and talking about the 'Great googa mooga shooga booga,' in the mid-1950s, she said. That lexicon then started showing up at Jamaican House of Joy parties, where a so-called toaster would stand in front of a humongous wall of speakers with a turntable and a microphone and perform short 'raps.' 'Part of what they were doing is a percussive technique, which comes back in Hip Hop,' Augustyn said. 'They were replicating what they heard from the U.S.' Finding recordings of the toasters is extremely difficult, however, because they performed live, she said. Augustyn, however, noticed in some of her research that some Ska music sounded like the stuff she would roller skate to when she was in middle school and high school, so she felt in her bones there was a connection. An interview with renowned Jamaican music producer Clive Chin for a paper she was working on around 10 years ago confirmed her suspicions. The first known Jamaican toaster, Count Matchuki, used to carry a jive dictionary in his pocket to replicate the language, she said, so that made sense to her. A second conversation with another Jamaican heavy-hitter, Godfather of Hip Hop Clive 'DJ Kool Herc' Campbell, however, confirmed her theory. Campbell, who migrated to Bronx, New York, with his family when he was 12 in 1967, grew up sneaking into house parties with the King George walls of sound, she said, and when he got to America, he would play Jamaican music for his new friends. With the cultural differences — Jamaicans were fighting against British colonialism at the time — Campbell's music didn't translate to kids who were more into disco and funk. But then at a back-to-school party he threw for his sister in 1973, he played Latin funk and disco but invoked the Jamaican Toasters into his flow, she said. 'I found Herc through his sister, and I asked him if there was a connection between Hip Hop and Jamaican music, and he flat-out admitted it. I about fell out of my chair,' Augustyn said. 'He had to have heard (the jive-talking American DJs).' A new twist Campbell employed, and one that's still used in Hip Hop, was the two turntable Merry-Go-Round technique, Augustyn added. Augustyn reworked her study findings for a popular music magazine and garnered quite a bit of social media blowback from people who insist that Hip Hop is strictly American. That was never her intention, she said. 'I'm not saying Hip Hop is Jamaican; all I was saying is it was a path to Hip Hop as opposed to the path to it. It's not my culture, and I don't want to create negativity around the stuff I revere,' she said. 'I do see Ska in everything, so every chance I get to 'skavangelize,' I'm all for it. PNW Web and Events Coordinator Raymond Kosinski said his history background spoke to him when talking to Augustyn about making her presentation. 'As someone who's a fan of Hip Hop all my life, this was really informative,' he said. Mary Beth Connolly, a history lecturer for the school, called the presentation a 'way down Memory Lane.' 'You kind of know the connections, but I didn't know this connection,' Connolly said. 'When you talk about the Harlem Renaissance, you don't think about how powerful radio was in the 1930s and 1940s, but it was broadcast all over the country.'
CBC
23-02-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Ontario Votes 2025: Niagara West
Social Sharing Read all of CBC Hamilton's coverage of the Ontario election here. With a population of about 97,000, this riding borders Hamilton and Haldimand-Norfolk, and includes Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, West Lincoln, Wainfleet and a western part of St. Catharines. The relatively rural riding stretches from Lake Ontario in the north to Lake Erie in the south. Manufacturing, health care and retail are some of the biggest industries in the area, which is also home to many grape growers. According to the 2021 Census, the average total income for residents in 2020 was $57,800. Visible minorities make up about nine per cent of the population. Though the riding boundaries have changed, this region has long been represented by Progressive Conservatives in Queen's Park, including by Tim Hudak, who served as party leader from 2009 to 2014. In 2022, Niagara West voters re-elected PC candidate Sam Oosterhoff with about 45 per cent of the vote. Oosterhoff beat second-place candidate Dave Augustyn with the NDP by about 10,000 votes. Augustyn, the former mayor of Pelham, is running for the NDP again. Other major party candidates include fitness instructor Shauna Doyle with the Liberals and businessperson Mark Harrison with the Greens. One way the parties are courting Niagara West voters is with promises to make getting around easier. During the election campaign, the PCs, NDP and Liberals committed to building a GO station in Grimsby. The PCs have promised to widen the Queen Elizabeth Way between St. Catharines and Burlington — a move they say would make travel faster. CBC Hamilton sent a survey to major party candidates, or their party representatives. Their responses, edited for length and clarity, are reflected below. Other candidates running include Aaron Albano with the New Blue Party, Aaron Allison for the Ontario Party, Stefanos Karatopis as a Libertarian and Jim Torma for Populist Ontario. Dave Augustyn, NDP Augustyn, 55, was the mayor of Pelham and a Niagara Regional Councillor from 2006 to 2018. In recent years, he worked as a consultant. Augustyn says he's running to hire doctors and nurses, "save the Welland Hospital emergency department," and build affordable homes, among other things. "If you work for a living, you ought to make a living," Augustyn said, adding the NDP have a plan to "ensure wages keep up with the cost of living," and will make it easier for workers to join a union. He also said voters deserve to get health care close to home, and afford good homes in the communities they want to live in. Shauna Boyle, Liberal Boyle, 47, is a fitness instructor who said she's running "to give people an option for a representative who understands their struggles," because she has "lived them." She said she and her party would work to address health-care challenges in the riding with evening and weekend family health team support, integrated home care for seniors, and the addition of 1,200 internationally trained doctors. The Liberals would "slash taxes on new homes," and eliminate the land transfer tax for first-time buyers, seniors downsizing and non-profit builders, Boyle added. Sam Oosterhoff, PC Party of Ontario Oosterhoff did not respond to CBC Hamilton's survey. He was first elected in a 2016 by-election, becoming the province's youngest MPP ever at 19. He served as Associate Minister of Energy from June 2024. Before that, he was the parliamentary assistant to the Education Minister for four years. Oosterhoff also worked as the parliamentary assistant to the ministers of tourism and red tape reduction. On his website, Oosterhoff says he's "taken leadership" on issues including human trafficking, French-language education and the redevelopment of West Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Grimsby. Mark Harrison, Green Harrison, 64, is a retired business person who owned two Bulk Barn franchises in Niagara. Originally from England, he's has worked in England, Scotland and South Africa. He said he through working with the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority, David Suzuki Foundation and in food retail, he "gained invaluable insights" into issues including urban sprawl, affordable housing, health care and the cost of living. "As a recently retired businessman, I understand how critical it is to balance sustainability with fiscal responsibility. In a world of short-term fixes, we need long-term solutions—and I am confident in my ability to help lead that change," Harrision said, adding that he is a "fiscal Green." Also running
