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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man due in court for sending sexual messages ‘via Snapchat' to a juvenile
MORETOWN, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – A man is due in court later this month after he allegedly sent 'messages of a sexual nature' to a juvenile. Police first received a report April 8 about an unnamed juvenile that had gotten 'inappropriate messages'. Investigators say that Austin Hoyt, age 28, of Waterbury had sent the individual multiple messages through Snapchat. Hoyt is set to appear in Vermont Superior Court – Washington County Criminal Division May 29. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
San Francisco Chronicle
17-05-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Giants welcome spurned A's fans as rivalry trades Bay Bridge for ‘Highway 80'
Hanging in the merchandise shops scattered around Oracle Park is a new T-shirt designed for the San Francisco Giants' weekend series against the Athletics. Merging orange and black with green and gold, a familiar blend for local baseball fans, the shirt depicts a span of the Bay Bridge with 'Highway 80' scrawled across the front in bold letters. With the Athletics' move to Sacramento, it's the Giants' acknowledgement of a local rivalry now separated by an extra 80 miles west down Interstate 80 (where did Highway 80 come from?). Major League Baseball deemed it 'Rivalry Week' across baseball, but this quasi-local affair shines a light on the awkward transition the once storied Bay Bridge rivalry has made. Despite the 'Highway 80' shirts and the patch on the A's jerseys, the A's won't officially claim Sacramento their home as they pursue an uncertain future in Las Vegas. It's created a behemoth of an opportunity for the Giants in Northern California as they're in position to claim wayward East Bay fans who've lost their local team. It's fair to wonder if the Giants had those lost A's fans in mind when the organization hung a sprawling banner across the right-field bleachers. The sign had San Francisco's 415 area code and the East Bay's 510 area code with a massive heart connecting the two. The sign was a message that 'all baseball fans are welcome to the park, but especially this weekend those from the 510. (The) East Bay,' the Giants said in a statement. The Giants haven't raised a banner for any other team's arrival. The crowd for Friday's series opener was a rich blend of green and orange, but not just for the rivalry. Some A's fans in attendance, including Alameda's Joseph Hoyt, came to the game because it was one of few opportunities to watch his favorite team play close to home. To him, the 'Highway 80' series served as a reminder of the role the Giants played in the A's departure from Oakland. He's acutely aware that it was a unanimous vote among MLB owners to let John Fisher's A's move out of the Town. 'It's really interesting, because it feels like the Giants really pushed the A's out of town,' Hoyt said. 'Their ownership voted for them to leave. And it's just unfortunate that the A's ownership group decided to take this path, because there are lots of different options. If John Fisher didn't want to build in Oakland, he could have sold to Joe Lacob or anyone else and they would have done the same thing. So I'm disappointed overall. But at the same time, I'm happy to be here and root for my team. But it's totally bittersweet.' Since the A's moved out of the Coliseum, where Hoyt grew up playing catch in the parking lots outside before catching a game, he's become more of an Arizona Diamondbacks fan. Because his grandparents are huge Giants fans, Hoyt came to a fair amount of games in San Francisco – he saw Barry Bonds hit home runs No. 72 and 73 in 2001. But he doesn't anticipate more frequent visits to watch the Giants. 'You would think I would naturally come over to the Giants, but I don't have that kind of emotional attachment to the Giants even though I'm from here,' he said. 'I'm following the A's, but it doesn't feel as important. I know the Diamondbacks are going to play the A's in a few weeks. I'm rooting for the Diamondbacks because they're in a playoff hunt and I'm not sure the A's will do anything.' For those involved on the field, the local rivalry feels very much the same – with a few notable differences. The A's, traveling back from a series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, will stay at a hotel instead of in their Bay Area homes – as was normal for the A's and Giants during the Bay Bridge Series in previous years. Giants manager Bob Melvin, who managed the A's for more than a decade and grew up attending concerts at the Coliseum, has previously expressed his sadness that baseball is no longer at the Coliseum. But he said the baseball rivalry felt just as strong despite the A's playing ball at Sutter Health Park. 'I think it's going to be the same energy here as across the Bay and up the road a little bit,' Melvin said. 'It's a much better team, they're playing good baseball, and it's always electric when the A's play the Giants. So it's not going to be any different for me.' The crowd might've had the same rivalry feel, but the dynamic is undeniably different. 'It does (feel different). I thought I would have an easier commute today than I've had, but the bridge traffic was terrible,' A's general manager David Forst said. 'It's different. A's and Giants will be a rivalry for a while, there's always generations of fans who will see A's and Giants and think of it the same way, but it's definitely different. We're not right across the bay.' The strangeness could intensify when the Giants visit for the second part of the season series at Sutter Health Park over Fourth of July weekend. Not just because of how small the Sacramento ballpark plays, but because the A's temporary home doubles as the home of the Giants' Triple-A River Cats.
New York Times
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Painting Diego Rivera gifted to Hall of Fame pitcher for Dodgers tickets sells for nearly $200,000
It's not uncommon for a painting by famed Mexican artist Diego Rivera to command a sizable price tag when put up for auction. 'Mercado de flores (Mujer cargando un niño)' sold for $190,500 during a Sotheby's art auction Wednesday, and it wasn't even the most expensive Rivera piece sold that day. What makes this piece more unique than most, though, is how it ended up on the doorstep of Hall of Fame pitcher Waite Hoyt in 1951. Advertisement Tim Manners, co-author of Hoyt's memoir 'Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero,' said details of a friendship between Hoyt and Rivera aren't clear, but it likely started when Hoyt provided Rivera with tickets to Ebbets Field to watch him pitch while with the Dodgers in 1932. Manners said from what the Hoyt family recalls, Rivera shipped Hoyt the painting almost two decades later in 1951 as a thank you gift for the tickets. Rivera was famously married to painter Frida Kahlo. He died in 1957. Hoyt kept the painting until his death in 1984. Hoyt would frequently visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his playing days for the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers. Manners said it's why Hoyt felt compelled to meet Rivera in 1932 when the Mexican artist worked in New York on a mural at Rockefeller Center named 'Man at the Crossroads.' 'I just think it's so odd because who would think that a baseball player of that era, any era, would be interested in art to connect with somebody as different from you as Diego Rivera in 1932,' said Manners, citing Rivera's Marxist political views as a primary reason against their unlikely friendship. Hoyt, winner of 237 games and a three-time World Series champion with the Yankees, including as a member of the vaunted 1927 team, said in his memoir that he wondered if he would have been more at peace had he attended art school rather than becoming a pitcher. 'I was happier painting than I ever was pitching,' Hoyt said in the book. Hoyt's love for art only increased following his playing career. Hoyt and Manners devoted a chapter (Art of Baseball) in the memoir specifically to the pitcher's passion for art. According to Manners' item description for Sotheby's: 'Long interested in art, Hoyt's creative pursuits began when his wife Ellen gave him a numbered watercolor set, which he quickly discarded in favor of painting freehand. He later studied with noted Cincinnati painter and baseball fan, Robert Fabe, after phoning Fabe and asking if he would like to get together to talk about painting and baseball. Within a matter of months, Hoyt gave a one-man exhibition and sold 39 of his 40 works.' The Athletic maintains full editorial independence in all our coverage. When you click or make purchases through our links, we may earn a commission. (Top image: Sotheby's)
Boston Globe
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
A former Market Basket bagger is so obsessed with the music he released a playlist on Spotify. And weirdly, people love it.
The playlist, ' Advertisement Behind the music is a former bagger with two dreams: To make a playlist so good that it triggers nostalgia no matter when you were born, and that it's endorsed by no less a musical icon than Market Basket itself. Get Love Letters: The Newsletter A weekly dispatch with all the best relationship content and commentary – plus exclusive content for fans of Love Letters, Dinner With Cupid, weddings, therapy talk, and more. Enter Email Sign Up 'If the playlist led to recognition from the corporate team … ' Hoyt said, both giddy at the prospect, but also afraid of sounding presumptuous, since his current affiliation with Market Basket is limited to being an extremely enthusiastic customer. 'I know my time working there was a drop in the bucket.' Wait — Market Basket has a musical genre? And it's somehow special? Apparently. To much of the world, the Tewksbury-based chain is known for its cult status; its 'more for your dollar' motto; its Italian subs and store-brand soda; and the Advertisement But, incredibly, it's also beloved for the soundtrack played in its 90 stores. Several customers told me they literally dance in the aisles. Shamus Russell, an Arthur Murray ballroom dance instructor, listens to Market Basket music as he drives to shop at Market Basket — his walk-on song, if you will. In Hoyt's day, when a particularly Market Basket-ish song came over the system, employees in the stock room would burst into karaoke. A running joke involved the satisfaction in hearing a song in low rotation. 'You'd collect them,' Hoyt said, 'almost like Pokemon cards.' But what is Market Basket music, anyway? Let's just say there are three ways it can be described. The first is to simply list even just a few of its most on-brand songs: Advertisement Another is by insult: 'It's a collection of songs that you would never pick to listen to,' said Hoyt (yes, the man compiling the playlist), 'but once it's on, you sing along.' The third is by reminiscence. This definition comes courtesy of a customer named Johanna Jalbert (home store: the Plymouth Market Basket): 'I was born in 1961,' Jalbert began, 'and it's every song you wanted that boy to ask you to dance to and he did and you're in the produce section, and you're singing ' ' as you reach for an orange.' Market Basket employee Jamie Cunneen speaks with Bob Hoyt, a former Market Basket employee with a Market Basket Classics playlist on Spotify. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff Hoyt, who has an earnest demeanor that would not be out of place on the gentle HBO series ' Over two stints, interrupted by college at UMass Dartmouth, where he majored in business marketing and minored in philosophy, he eventually rose to the 'ends' department, which meant that he was responsible for the end-of-aisle displays. It also meant that he could be super social. 'I was buzzing around the whole store,' he recalled with true joy. 'If you are in meat, you only know people in meat. If you're in dairy, you only know dairy. I was like a mayor.' Advertisement Then there was the music. Some artists are famously inspired by a childhood trip to Broadway. For teenage Bob Hoyt, it was the ceiling speakers of a supermarket, and he remains so bewitched that even he describes it as 'kind of weird.' Alas, in 2011, Hoyt moved on from Market Basket. But hanging out with pals a couple of years later, the talk turned to first jobs, and, inevitably, to music at Market Basket. Specifically: 'How bad it was, and at the same time, how good it was,' Hoyt said. From there it only made sense to create a 'Market Basket Classics' playlist. 'How Much I Feel,' by Ambrosia, was the inaugural song. The other buddies eventually moved on, but not Hoyt. Why, just last week, he added 'Stand Back' by Stevie Nicks. And now the playlist has grown to 363 songs, and here he was on a Monday afternoon, with a reporter, at the very Market Basket that inspired him. Bob Hoyt checks out at the Danvers Market Basket, his "emotional support" store. Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff To shop the Danvers Market Basket with Hoyt is to take the field with Tom Brady, to tour the Met with Philippe de Montebello, to enjoy Rome through the eyes of Rick Steves. 'I'll just grab a lemon here,' Hoyt said, swooping down to pluck one from what seemed to be a secret basket of lemons that was nowhere near the produce section. The next moment he was nodding with approval as a total Market Basket classic — 'I Ran (So Far Away),' by A Flock of Seagulls — rocked the aisles. But then a dark thought intruded on his mood. 'Are other people going to be in this story?' he asked. Advertisement Other people? Like who? I thought at first. But, surprising as it may be, there are other Market Basket playlists on Spotify. In a stroke of luck for Hoyt, the competitor DJs either didn't respond to a reporter's outreach or couldn't be found. But that did leave one rival playlist. Market Basket itself. It was born of an Many people are so entranced by the Market Basket's soundtrack that they wonder if there's a musical genius at work — the world's best bar mitzvah DJ, now working in aisle five. When I put the question to Market Basket, albeit not quite in those terms, here is what I learned: 'Market Basket works with an outside vendor on the music that is played in the stores. So they provide feedback to the vendor (called Mood Music), which then refines the playlist.' I quickly navigated to the firm's website, clicked on the 'industries' tab, and scrolled down to 'grocery.' What I found there felt far from Hoyt's dream. 'Increase basket size and dwell time with fully-licensed, commercial-free music that is unique to your brand,' the pitch for its services read. I thought such obvious monetization would upset Hoyt, but I was wrong. Not only had he been wondering who was behind the curtain, but he sensed an opportunity. 'I didn't realize that was a job,' he said. 'I'm going to look into it.' Advertisement Beth Teitell can be reached at
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Lowcountry protestors talk about what's next after national hands-off protest
BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. (WSAV) — Thousands in the Lowcountry came together this weekend to protest President Trump and the current administration. It was a part of the national hands-off protest. Local organizers said it was one of the largest turnouts yet, but they'll need those numbers to keep fighting and make a difference at the polls in the future. 'I want to be proud of my country again. I'm not proud of my country right now,' said Carter Hoyt, a protest organizer in the City of Beaufort. 'I'm embarrassed by what we're doing to the farmers or to people of color.' The protests spread across Beaufort, Bluffton, Okatie and Hilton Head Island. 'Our big concern is that decisions are being made, and actions are being taken. And it seems without thought for the ramifications,' said Rita Conrad with the Lowcountry Indivisible group. Organizers said that the national issues are boiling down locally, increasing the number of Beaufort County residents participating in the protests. 'The point is to do what our representatives won't do. To express our outrage and to say, represent us,' said Hoyt. 'We don't want to be doing this. We're fighting for the country we love. They should be fighting for us.' Organizers said this area is just a small footprint on a national scale, but they're hoping to at least catch the attention of the state and local representatives. 'We hope that with the volume, or the number of people who showed up, that our senators will hear us and hopefully pay some attention,' said Conrad.' We also want to reassure the courts, even though they are apolitical, we want to reassure them that there are people who will back them up.' We reached out to the Beaufort County GOP to hear their side on the protests. They declined to comment on the matter. Hoyt said, no matter if it's one person or 100, they will continue to protest every Monday at 4:00 p.m. in front of Beaufort City Hall. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
