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In SCHOOLS | pg. 12

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Honored student

LGHS student receives award

In OPINION | pg. 6

Live United

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Annual fundraising underway

In COUNTY | pg. 2

Budget season

County brings out tentative plan

Police called to apparent murder/suicide in Bolton By Christina Scanlon

christina@suncommunitynews.com

BOLTON — A Bolton couple is dead after what police are calling a murder-suicide in their Thunderbird Road home. David J. Barnes, 55, shot and killed his wife, Kimberly D. Barnes, 46, before turning the weapon on himself shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to Warren County Sheriff Bud York. State Troopers and Bolton Police responded 8 Thunderbird Road after a call was received stating the husband had shot his estranged wife. At the time of the shooting, the couple’s oldest daughter was in the residence. She fled to a neighbor’s home and reported the man had threatened to shoot at responding officers. More than a dozen police cars were in the neighborhood within a half-hour of the call

that said five shots had been fired. “I didn’t see or hear anything,” said neighbor David Dougall of the events two doors away from his home on Brereton Road. “I looked out my front window and I saw three police cars. Then I looked down the street and said, ‘Holy God.’ When you see guns drawn in your neighborhood, it gets your attention,” he said. Law enforcement approached with caution, with assault rifles and wearing body armor, due to the threats to officers. The county’s emergency response team utilized the MRAP armored vehicle and sent a police monitoring robot into the scene, where the two were found dead from their injuries. The county’s forensics investigation van arrived about 1:30 p.m. on the dead end street just a short distance from Route 9N. Investi>> Story Continued | pg. 3

New firehouse garage and community center proposed for Warrensburg By Thom Randall

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WARRENSBURG — The town of Warrensburg will host its first-ever municipal community center and a new expanded firehouse garage — if a proposal by the town’s fire district commissioners is approved by local voters in January. The fire commissioners’ ambitious plans call for constructing a new facility — to house its fire trucks and firefighting equipment — adja-

cent to the town’s firehouse on Elm St., and converting the historic facility to a community center. The new firehouse garage and community center could be a reality as soon as next fall, commissioners said this week. According to plans, the conversion of the firehouse would be bankrolled by a state grant, and the new firehouse garage — to be connected to the community center with a breezeway — would be underwritten by a

bond of up to $1.5 million. This loan would be paid back by fire district residents over the next 20 to 30 years. A public vote on the proposal is tentatively scheduled for Jan. 19, pending the finalization of architectural plans as well as legal and financial details. On Monday Nov. 9, the fire district commissioners — Chairman Brian Engle, David Spatz, Kevin Geraghty, Sean Geraghty, Paul Bederian, James Hull, Rudy Squires >> Story Continued | pg. 4

Bolton Community reacts

Fellow nurses set up fundraiser for daughters By Christina Scanlon

christina@suncommunitynews.com

BOLTON — Almost immediately after the news of the tragic loss of Kimberly Barnes, their friend and colleague, Jessica Percetti and Joelle Corlew-Scally set up a Go Fund Me account to benefit the couple’s three daughters. Corlew-Scally was aware

the couple was having issues, “but nobody expected that,” she said. “Those girls were Kim’s life. We’re a close-knit group,” she said of the registered nurses now banding together to support the girls. “We work 12-hour shifts. We become family. These girls are our family, too,” she said. She hoped the message gets to the girls, she said, “I want them to know there’s people that care about them and want to support them.” With a 10-year-old daughter of her own, Corlew-Scally, said she related to Barnes,

who went back to nursing school as an adult. “We both showed our daughters that you can live the American dream. You >> Story Continued | pg. 3


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