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    It’s Been Exactly 30 Years Since Garth Brooks Released No Fences – CMT.com - September 1, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    by Alison Bonaguro 8/27/2020

    Let that sink in a little. Thirty years ago today, on Aug. 27, 1990, Garth Brooks released his second studio album No Fences.

    And by now, its 100 percent obvious that there was never any kind of sophomore slump for Brooks.

    Quite the opposite, in fact. That album from 1990 won him the Academy of Country Musics album of the year award, and when Brooks accepted the award and thanked his team and his pickers he also thanked the fans. Most of all, the people who bought this album, man, hed said, thanks for spending your money.

    I picked the album title No Fences because once you hear The Thunder Rolls into New Way to Fly, Friends in Low Places, Mr. Blue, Unanswered Prayers, Wolves, it just became clear that this record had no boundaries, and, as much as we could guess, the future was whatever the music wanted it to be. We were beginning to feel that, really, there were no fences, Brooks wrote, and wed be fools to put any up.

    All you knew was, Man, theres some thing about this record that makes me pull for it. Something about it that makes me want to hear it again. I just know thats how it hit me.

    Brooks also tells the story of his now-signature hit Friends in Low Places. How George Strait had passed on it, how Mark Chestnutt was about to cut it, but how Brooks had always thought of it as his song because hed been singing it at shows for years. (Ultimately, Chestnutt did record the song for his 1990 album Too Cold at Home, but never released it as a single.)

    Once Brooks released the song, he recalls driving home from a recording session at 2:00 in the morning, listening to the radio, and the DJ saying, In my entire career, Ive never had so many requests for one song. This has to be the most-requested song Ive ever known.

    Im yelling, Ive got my hands up in the air. We are on a ride that, Brooks admitted, we have no idea. We didnt have a real sense for what was getting ready to happen, none of us did.

    The songs from No Fences were some of Brooks very biggest hits, and they still are today. Even the deep cuts have been fan favorites at his live shows since 1990.

    No Fences track list:

    1.The Thunder Rolls (Garth Brooks, Pat Alger)2.New Way To Fly (Brooks, Kim Williams)3.Two of a Kind, Workin on a Full House (Bobby Boyd, Warren Haynes, Dennis Robbins)4.Victim of the Game (Brooks, Mark D. Sanders)5.Friends in Low Places(DeWayne Blackwell, Earl Bud Lee)6.Wild Horses (Bill Shore, David Wills)7.Unanswered Prayers (Brooks, Alger, Larry Bastian)8.Same Old Story (Tony Arata)9.Mr. Blue (Blackwell)10.Wolves (Stephanie Davis)

    Alison makes her living loving country music. She's based in Chicago, but she's always leaving her heart in Nashville.

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    Panola County Sheriff’s Office Blotter: Man tears down fence over property dispute with sister – panolawatchman.com - September 1, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The following items were submitted by the Panola County Sheriffs Office.

    While on patrol, Deputy Robert Delconte and Deputy Randy Payne initiated a stop on a vehicle for no front license plate. Deputies then made contact with the female drive and male passenger. While speaking with the female driver, she admitted to deputies that there was marijuana inside the vehicle. Deputies then conducted a search of the vehicle and located two suspected marijuana joints, which the female subject advised belonged to her. Deputies also located a mason jar containing two bags of suspected marijuana inside the male subjects belongings. The female subject was issued a citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and the male subject was placed under arrest for possession of marijuana as well as three local warrants.

    Deputy Hollie Mojica took a report of theft that occurred on County Road 1512. Complainant stated that some unknown actor(s) came onto this property and stole his 6-foot cultipacker. This case is being investigated

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    Plymouths Meg Marcel will try to knock down some fences as part of ASFLs Home Run Derby – Wicked Local Plymouth - September 1, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Meg Marcel will compete with the best home run hitters in the state for charity.

    PLYMOUTH - Meg Marcel didnt hit a softball until she was 13-year-old but shes quickly made up for lost time. The Plymouth native and recent Archbishop Williams graduate will put her powerful swing up against the top power hitters in the state as part of the inaugural A Shot for Life Home Run Challenge.

    The event will take place over the weekend of Sept. 12 at the Austin Prep School in Reading. Money raised from the event will be donated for ongoing cancer research being conducted by the Dr. Curry Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.

    A similar ASFL charity challenge to crown the top boys and girls basketball shooters in the state has been a successful event for the last eight years under the direction of ASFL CEO Mike Slonina. This year 16 softball players and 17 baseball players are in this event two-day event. Each participant was asked to raise $1,000 to compete.

    Plymouth South senior Amelia Freitas, a teammate of Marcel on the Mass Drifters Showcase AAU softball team, will also take part in the contest.

    Im honored that Ive been asked to take part in this competition, said Marcel, who was settling in over the weekend as an incoming freshman at Bryant University. Its raising money for a great cause and I get to play the game I love. I jumped at the chance to be a part of this.

    Speaking of jumping, the softball has a tendency to jump off the bat of the 18-year-old, 58 right-handed hitter.

    I can hit the ball with some power, said Marcel, who had a legitimate shot at breaking the Bishops career home runs record if her senior season had not been canceled by the Coronavirus pandemic. Ive learned that you cannot swing for home runs. You need to make a good swing and get solid contact with the softball and then let the pitcher provide the power.

    That hitting philosophy has served Marcel very well. She was a three-time Central Catholic League All-Star as the starting shortstop with Archbishop Williams and is now a member of the NCAA Division I Bryant University softball program. She will major in Business and carry a minor in Sports Management.

    I love the campus and everyone was very nice to me when I came here for my visit, Marcel said about the Smithfield, RI university where classes started on Tuesday. One of my teammates is my roommate and the rest of the softball team is coming in this week. I think weve got a couple weeks of conditioning practices to start and then theyll add on more in a couple weeks as long as everything remains safe.

    Marcel grew up playing baseball in the Plymouth Youth Baseball and Softball league before switching over to softball at the age of 13. The angle the ball comes to you at the plate is one of the bigger differences she encountered in her switch from one sport to the other because the softball comes at you from a lower spot than a baseball, which is thrown over the top.

    You meet a softball and a baseball at different points in the swing so that was something I had to make some adjustments for, she said.

    The adjustments she made worked out very well for Marcel. She batted .463 as a freshman and came back as a sophomore to club eight homers and 20 RBI. She saw her batting average continue to climb as a junior when she was named a Patriot Ledger, Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic.

    Along with choosing a college, Marcel also had to pick what sport she wanted to play at the next level. She played four years with the Bishops girls basketball program, making it to four Division 3 South title games, winning three of them, and she was also a part of two state championship hoop teams.

    I was playing basketball as soon as I could walk. I thought I was going to be a basketball player when I started high school but softball came along and I grew to love it, Marcel said. I have some great memories of playing basketball for Archbishop Williams. Ill miss my teammates and (Head Coach Matt Mahoney) was the best to play for but I think it will be better for me now that I can concentrate on playing just one sport.

    You can donate to any competitor in the ASFL Home Run Derby at http://www.gofundme.com/f/asfl-home-run-derby . Make sure you indicate which player you are donating to in your message.

    Email the reporter at dwolcott@wickedlocal.com and you can follow him on Twitter, @DavidWolcott1.

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    Can a 2,000ft fence save Hawaii’s rare native birds from destruction? – The Guardian - September 1, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

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    Before the first Polynesian settlers arrived roughly 1,500 years ago, the Hawaiian Islands were ruled from the sky. Not a single land-dwelling reptile or mammal called the archipelago home just winged insects, one variety of bat, and a truly vast array of birds.

    While Hawaii is still flush with life today, many of those birds are now gone roughly 67% of all endemic Hawaiian birds have been wiped from existence since humans first arrived on the islands. Although habitat loss and more recently, climate change have played a role in that decline, one especially persistent threat to these native birds has been predatory invasive species, which were introduced inadvertently or otherwise to the islands by humans. For example: feral rats stowed away on canoes used by early Polynesian settlers.

    To protect Hawaiis native birds from these and other four-legged predators, conservationists at the Klauea Point national wildlife refuge on the island of Kauai are trying something new: building a sprawling wall around the birds nesting ground.

    In 2014, the wildlife refuge unveiled a state-of-the-art, predator-proof fence; standing two meters tall and spanning 624 meters (2,050ft) across, it creates a physical barrier that blocks invasive predators from accessing nesting seabirds and their young. The fence is capped with a rolled hood to stop attempts of climbing over, and an underground extension of its base wards off predators who can burrow and dig. The fence with its very fine mesh can prevent anything larger than a one-day-old mouse from getting through, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

    In addition to non-native invasive species like feral cats, dogs, rats and pigs Hawaiis rare native birds also face the looming threat of climate change, according to Jen Waipa, a local employee of the Fish and Wildlife Service. To that effect, the fence is also composed of marine-grade stainless steel to withstand natural disasters.

    The fence the second of its kind in Hawaii was installed at the behest of the Nihoku ecosystem restoration project, which is dedicated to preserving the archipelagos coastal ecosystems and establishing safe breeding grounds for Hawaiian seabirds.

    While the barrier is designed to protect the seabirds from bodily harm, the wildlife refuge ultimately wants the birds to thrive which necessitates a large number of ongoing side projects. One is habitat restoration just as predatory mammals are catastrophic to Hawaiis birds, invasive plants have crowded the islands, choking out native flora that can be used as a food source for Kauais birds. Each year, the Nihoku project transforms one acre of the wilderness refuge, uprooting all introduced vegetation and replacing it with native species. Volunteers also build artificial burrows, which provide the birds with reliable shelter.

    The Nihoku project is also working to attract animals to Klauea Point. Seabird calls are broadcast from a large speaker to attract the attention of adult birds, while volunteers search for hatchlings.

    The gradual loss of biodiversity across Hawaii has painted a bleak picture, but Klauea Point serves as a beacon of hope for the archipelagos future.

    We have six protected seabird species that are believed to breed annually, including one threatened species. In addition, we have the largest breeding population, approximately 160 pairs, of threatened nn [an endemic goose] in the state, states Waipa. Although breeding is unconfirmed, several breeding behaviors have [also] been documented for black-footed albatross, great frigate bird, Bulwers petrel, Kermadec petrel, and the endangered Hawaiian petrel.

    In the coming years, the Fish and Wildlife Service aims to double the number of breeding species at Klauea Point; the service highlights the success of Hawaiis Lehua Island in the north-west as cause for optimism.

    And while many of the unique species that once called Hawaii home are now extinct, Klauea Point serves as another source of hope. Human settlers and colonizers may have started some of the troubles facing the islands endemic birds but careful conservation and creative thinking could now help protect whats left of them for future generations.

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    Airport to receive grant for fencing project – The Republic - September 1, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Columbus Municipal Airport will receive more than $2.5 million in Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants for infrastructure and safety improvements. The funds will be used for the airports fencing project.

    The grants, which total $2,793,500, were announced Friday by Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind. The funding includes $279,350 from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which Pence supported in March.

    Airport Director Brian Payne said that once the funds arrive, all of the money will go toward the airports fencing project, which includes not just perimeter fencing but also work on back-access drives behind hangars.

    Were very happy with receiving the grant, and appreciate the support that weve got from Congressman Pence and the FAA to receive these funds, Payne said. Thatll be a huge improvement for our airport thats been needed for quite some time, so were looking forward to the project.

    He said that while the board has already voted to accept the grant, there are still some decisions that need to be made before the airport submits its final plans to the FAA.

    The debate for aviation board members now is what type of fence will be requested of the FAA, Payne said.

    The design for 10-foot fencing between hangars, which was the initial plan submitted to the FAA, was created by Payne, the airport and its consulting firm. He believes it to be the safest and most secure option.

    Tenants, on the other hand, asked the airport to look at a smaller fence between hangars and a larger fence on the outside.

    The main concern from the airports standpoint, the administrations standpoint, is that we would have more people coming through what would be the larger fence and the larger gate into their hangar complex or their hangar buildings, Payne said.

    He said that some people have also raised concerns about the appearance of the fencing. Payne said the plan is to have a more ornamental black, iron fence around the terminal building and black, PVC-coated chainlink for the rest of the property, not nearly as institutional as some people have feared.

    Payne said the airport board will meet this afternoon to discuss the fencing project and hopefully come to a decision about which fence to request. Once a decision has been made, the airport will submit its final plan and numbers to the FAA for final review.

    He said that the final numbers shouldnt be that far off from what was originally estimated. Depending on which fence option is chosen, there would be a difference of about 100 or 200 lineal feet of fencing, Payne said.

    Payne said that the foremost function of the fence will be to keep out wildlife. He added that it will also limit the number of vehicles that are able to access the airfield.

    Where to learn more

    More information about the Columbus Municipal Airport is available at columbus.in.gov/airport/.

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    City Fences Off Montrose Beach After Lightfoot Scolds Beachgoers: ‘It’s A Pandemic, People’ – Block Club Chicago - August 12, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    CHICAGO Hours after Mayor Lori Lightfoot scolded a large, maskless crowd at Montrose Beach on Twitter, city crews erected fencing to try to block off access to the closed beach.

    Its called a pandemic, people. This reckless behavior on Montrose Beach is what will cause us to shut down the parks and lakefront. Dont make us take steps backwards, Lightfoot warned in a tweet.

    In a follow-up tweet, Lightfoot said she visited Montrose Beach personally.

    In case you were wondering, I stopped by to see for myself. Its being addressed, Lightfoot wrote.

    By Sunday, approximately 300 yards of fencing was installed between the grassy area that leads to the beach and the sand.

    Less than 24 hours after Lightfoots tweet, people continued to gather near Montrose Harbor and the nearby lakefront. Many people walked around the fencing.

    Some entered the area by walking past The Dock at Montrose Beach, the newly reopened beachside restaurant. But owner Luke Cholodecki said he does not let customers wait outside his restaurant and none of his patrons were involved in the partying condemned by the mayor.

    Amy Osborne of Lakeview who was at the beach with two friends said she didnt see the mayors tweets.

    I dont think its really a problem, she said.

    Chicago Park District spokesman Michelle Lemons confirmed that park district employees installed fencing Sunday to deter large gatherings.

    While the lakefront trail is open, Chicagos beaches and parkland east of Lake Shore Drive remain closed under the Chicago Department of Public Healths executive order, Lemons wrote in an email.

    On Sunday evening, Chicago Police and emergency workers blocked cars from entering the driveway that leads to the beach from both Montrose and Wilson Avenues, but were not stopping pedestrians on foot.

    Another woman at the beach who declined to give her name said she did see the mayors warning. She shrugged her shoulders in response.

    Her boyfriend, who accompanied her, responded with a shrug, too, and a laugh: That says it all.

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    Clinton man has shed and fence destroyed from severe weather – WHBF – OurQuadCities.com - August 12, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Clinton was hit very hard from the storm last night. Clinton County is one of many that Governor Reynolds has declared a disaster area, which means they are eligible for federal aid.

    Trees are down all over Clinton, and one was in the middle of a road. Local Four News spoke with one neighbor who had some property damage.

    David Martensen just moved into his new house in Clinton a couple weeks ago. Last night was a wild one and its one that he will never forget.

    I came home. I came with my mom in a car and we came here to see the damage at my house and I witnessed branches and trees laying on my shed here and its pretty devastating. I was pretty frightened.

    As the severe weather was rolling in, Martensen immediately went to his mothers house to pick her up and get her to safety.

    I cant really get her down in the basement so I figured it would be safer to get her in a car and find some shelter somewhere. So we found kind of like an overpass to just hide under.

    Matensen didnt have any damage to his house, but his shed and fence in his backyard werent so lucky.

    I was renting another house up in the north end of town, central part of town and I loaded it up on a trailer and just brought it down here because I thought it would be a nice little extra shed to keep lawnmowers and stuff in and I wasnt really expecting a limb to fall on it and destroy it the way it did.

    Considering the extent of the storm, Martensen knows it could have been a lot worse.

    I was surprised that was all there was. It was just a shed. Im not complaining at all.

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    Minnesota’s fence around the Capitol is costing $274 a day — and it’s staying up indefinitely – FOX 9 - August 12, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Minnesota's temporary fence around the state Capitol has cost taxpayers at least $38,000 -- and counting -- and state officials say the barrier will stay up indefinitely.

    The decision to keep the fence up is a reversal in tone from last month, when officials said it would come down soon. During Monday's meeting of the Advisory Committee on Capitol Security, state officials said the Capitol has recently become the target of increasing vandalism.

    Minnesota's temporary fence around the state Capitol has cost taxpayers at least $38,000 -- and counting -- and state officials say the barrier will stay up indefinitely.

    The fence has been in place since May 31. Large protests broke out after the Memorial Day police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, prompting Gov. Tim Walz's administration to order the Minnesota National Guard and a large contingent of state troopers to guard the Capitol around the clock. The National Guard has gone home and most of the troopers have returned to their regular posts, but the fence has remained.

    The fence cost $18,707 for installation plus $274 a day in rental fees, according to a copy of the contract with Minneapolis-based Mortenson Construction and Keller Fence in St. Paul. The money is coming out of the Department of Administration's operational budget.

    The fence -- and the locking of the Capitol because of the coronavirus pandemic -- has blocked the public from entering the building, even as the Legislature has held two high-profile special sessions this summer. A third special session is scheduled to start Wednesday.

    "Its helpful, and thats the bottom line," State Patrol Col. Matt Langer said of the fence. "I would hope it could stay in place for the foreseeable future."

    In the past two months, Langer said the State Patrol has "staffed the Capitol complex like we have never staffed it before and is significantly over budget for security. The Capitol is "extremely large" to protect with troopers alone, added Capt. Eric Roeske, the head of the State Patrol's Capitol Security unit.

    Administration Commissioner Alice Roberts-Davis said the Capitol complex is increasingly a target. In recent weeks, taggers have put graffiti on concrete, statue pedestals and security bollards. Someone used a chisel to damage the Peace Officers' Memorial, she said.

    The Peace Officers' Memorial is being repaired, Roberts-Davis said. She did not say whether anyone was caught or arrested for the incidents, and a follow-up email to the state Department of Public Safety went unanswered.

    The most infamous incident on the Capitol grounds in recent weeks happened June 10, when protesters toppled the Christopher Columbus statue. No one has been arrested in that incident. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension turned over the case to the Ramsey County attorney in July, and prosecutors are "getting close" to a charging decision, Langer said.

    The fence has many critics.

    State Sen. Scott Dibble said the Walz administration should take it down by January, when the Legislature is scheduled to start its 2021 session.

    "Ill just make the point that the fence is ugly and sends a really negative message," said Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis.

    Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who has argued for fence removal in July, said she also wanted an answer by January so the public would know how to engage with lawmakers.

    Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea pushed for a timeline on fence removal, and said the court wants to hear cases in its Capitol courtroom in September.

    "Its almost middle of August now. So what is the deadline for when were going to have a plan here?" Gildea asked.

    Monday, no one provided any timelines. Roberts-Davis made a cost-savings argument, pointing to the recent $310 million restoration of the Capitol and said the state must protect its investment.

    What I would hate to see is us take the fence down and go through that expense and then end up in a position where we have to put the fence back up because of something thats happened again," Roberts-Davis said.

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    Homeland tour: Why I didnt write about the breach in the border fence – Haaretz - August 12, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The video clip I received to my cellphone contained 29 seconds of waves breaking on rocks. Were in Tel Aviv, my friend wrote me. How much excitement was compressed into those few words.

    She is from Nablus. She, her husband and their two children did what tens of thousands of Palestinians from throughout the West Bank have been doing in recent weeks. They left through a breach in the separation fence and entered Israel.

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    This was the first time her 25-year-old son had crossed the Green Line and seen Palestines sea. He didnt want to leave, my friend said. He went crazy over how beautiful the sea is.

    As chance had it, they exited through the breach at Farun, east of Taibeh, about half an hour after I left that exact same spot. Like them, I saw the soldiers standing on the road and watching as masses of people crossed on foot from the fence to waiting minibuses or taxis.

    I saw entire families, groups of young people, couples, babies in strollers and toddlers trotting along the dirt road after their parents. Some went down the sides of the narrow wadi and climbed up toward the breach. Still others chose the longer but easier, paved route there.

    It went on all day and all evening. They came from cities, villages and refugee camps. Some headed to Acre and some to Netanya. Some planned to spend the night in the Galilee or the Triangle region, others would go home at midnight. The excessive price for a taxi ride angered them, but didnt deter them.

    And as usual, there were small-scale entrepreneurs there. One was selling masks. Another lugged a canister of cooking gas all day, back and forth, and sold coffee or sage tea. Im afraid the soldiers will shoot me, because theyll think the canister is a weapon, he said. But the lure of some income was stronger than his fear.

    These breaches in the fence are no secret, and BTselem the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories has documented cases in which soldiers shot and seriously wounded laborers who entered Israel through them. Yet the army, the lord and master on the ground, hasnt closed them.

    Its also well-known that these breaches have multiplied since the coronavirus pandemic began. They are now spread out along the entire length of the fence.

    Before dawn, laborers come through them. Israel needs their work, and they need a livelihood. Farmers whose land is locked away on the other side of the separation barrier also come through them. That way, when they go to and return from their fields, they dont have to wait for soldiers to open the gate.

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    And over the past two weeks, even before the Eid al-Adha holiday on July 31, they have been joined by a never-ending stream of vacationers people who long for normalcy, freedom of movement, fun and visits to friends. Theyre hungering to travel around their homeland, said Ehab Al-Jariri, editor and host of one of Palestinian radios most interesting talk shows.

    I decided to wait with the story and pictures of this exodus. I was afraid that any attention to it from the Israeli media would hasten the closure of the breaches. An opportunity for another few thousand Palestinians to exercise their right to travel around their homeland is much more important than any journalistic report.

    For the same reason, photographer Oren Ziv of +972 Magazine, whom I met during one of my visits to Farun, decided to temporarily shelve his photographs. But now that the story has already been told on Israeli television, we have been freed from this decision.

    When so many breaches have remained open for around half a year, its clear that this is a decision from above. Israeli security officials have made some sort of cost-benefit calculation, once again proving the extent to which Israeli control over the Palestinians is present, invasive and capricious.

    In the morning, soldiers actually do lie in wait near the breaches in some parts of the West Bank and fire tear gas canisters at people as they pass by. Why? Its not clear. Palestinians have been busy speculating about why the breaches havent been closed and why soldiers sometimes fire tear gas at them and sometimes dont. Indeed, by Tuesday morning reports from along the fence were telling about soldiers shooting tear gas and closing some breaches.

    The fear or the dangers the vacationers may face are dwarfed in comparison to the possibility of freeing themselves of the usual suffocation and stress, if only for a day. Even if afterward, the feeling of being imprisoned in West Bank enclaves merely grows stronger.

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    Alleged drunken driver crashes through fence, runs from Visalia police – Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register - August 12, 2020 by Mr HomeBuilder

    A Visalia man is accused of being under the influence crashed through a fence and fled the scene, police said.(Photo: File photo)

    A Visalia man who crashedthrough a fence and fled the scene may have been driving under the influence, police said.

    Around 4 p.m. Monday, officers were called to Whitendale Avenueand Chinowth Street after someone reported a car had nearly slammed into a home.

    The driver fled the scene before officers arrived. Police say the fence was damaged, but no one was hurt in the yard or home.

    Officers searched the area and eventually found Jeremy Kyle, 38, on the Linwood Elementary Schoolbaseball field. It's unclear what he was doing on school grounds.

    "School was not in session and there were no students present during the incident," Sgt. Mona Whaley stated in a press release.

    Kyle was evaluated by officers who determined he wasunder the influence. He suffered minor injuries and was treated at Kaweah Delta Medical Center.

    He was later released from the hospital and booked into Tulare County Pretrial Facility on suspicion of DUI and hit-and-run.

    Because no injuries were reported, Kyle will likely avoid felony DUI charges but could face a stiffer penalty for the hit-and-run, if convicted. He will be required to pay restitution fees to repair the fence, if the charges stick.

    If anyone has information regarding this incident, they are urged to call the Visalia Police Department at 734-8116.

    Sheyanne Romero covers Tulare County public safety, local government and business for the Visalia Times-Delta and Tulare Advance-Register newspapers. Follow her on Twitter @sheyanne_VTD. Get alerts and keep up on all things Tulare County for as little as $1 a month. Subscribe today.

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