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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
Stolen car led to South Memphis shooting: police
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A shooting that put a South Memphis school on lockdown Thursday started when the owner of a stolen car found someone driving it, and someone opened fire, police said. Police were called to Modder Avenue and Castex Street at 3:30 for a shooting call. When they arrived, they found an unoccupied red Hyundai Sonata that had been shot at multiple times. Shooting near middle school prompts lockdown A witness said a male wearing an orange shirt and red pants had run away from the car. Officers found that person's relative, who told them the victim stole the car, but the car's owner caught him while driving. The owner was in a van or truck with three people inside. One man got out of that vehicle, approached the stolen Hyundai and began shooting as the driver put it in reverse and tried to get away, according to police. One severely injured in Third Street crash involving semi-truck The victim who was inside the stolen car ran away. He told police he was walking nearby when two friends pulled up in the Hyundai, and he did not know it was stolen. He didn't know what happened to the two friends. No one was injured in the shooting, but the people in the van or truck got away. The shooting put nearby Riverview Middle School on lockdown, and knocked out power to part of South Memphis. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- General
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Plymouth Maple Festival to dedicate new Sugar Shack at Maple Festival in April
PLYMOUTH – With recent cold nights and warm days, the many maples at City Park are bursting with sap and the new 18-foot-by-24-foot sugar shack will be busy boiling down the sap into tasty maple syrup, according to the Plymouth Maple Association. Leaders of the association helped City Park build the Plymouth Sugar Shack. The structure was constructed by Plymouth High School students under the direction of Beau Biller. Many local businesses and individuals donated funds and materials for the project. The project started in fall 2024, association member John Nelson said. Quasius Construction poured the slab and Taylor Concrete donated the concrete. The building's electric power for lighting is generated via solar panels on a nearby shed. The sap evaporator is wood-fired. Throwback: 100 Sargento employees who won $208M Powerball jackpot in 2006 among Sheboygan's big lottery winners City Park will dedicate the new Plymouth Sugar Shack at the park April 5 during the fourth annual Maple Festival. According to Nelson, who is also operator of Molly's Maple, the festival's primary goal is offer something fun and educational for the community. "A lot of people are going to come here and just see this process," he said. As an example, students from nearby Riverview Middle School will pick up information about making maple syrup, something he thinks they will remember their whole lives, he added. Early in March, about 100 students from Riverview Middle School walked over to the park and tapped many maple trees. According to the association, groups of students have been coming over as needed, collecting the sap to be boiled by Nelson at the new facility. The new Plymouth Sugar Shack is capable of boiling 25 gallons of maple sap an hour, Nelson said. It takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup. Association member Barb Drewy-Zimmerman, operator of Drewy Farms Maple Syrup, said enough sap has been boiled to make an estimated 20 gallons of syrup from the park's trees. Some of the syrup will be used for the pancake breakfast at upcoming fourth annual Maple Festival April 5, while some will be given to area schools. Throwback: Sheboygan's Nino's Steak Round-up was popular for years & once hosted a Harley photo shoot Syrup left to sell will need a special name for the bottled maple syrup, Drewy-Zimmerman said. She said a contest is being held during the festival with people voting on the top submitted names. People can submit suggestions until 5 p.m. April 1 at The Plymouth Maple Festival, which runs 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at City Park in Plymouth, will feature a pancake breakfast and vendors selling maple syrup, foods and crafts. An open-door Bird Sanctuary will be featured and chainsaw wood carver Zac Koenig will be giving demonstrations. Gary C. Klein can be reached at 920-453-5149 or gklein@ Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) at @leicaman99. Check out his other work at This article originally appeared on Sheboygan Press: Maple Festival at Plymouth City Park will feature new Sugar Shack
