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Officials probe chief’s departure Report: Holiday Hills president threatened job of former top cop By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com HOLIDAY HILLS – A July dispute between Holiday Hills Village President Dan Drury and then-Police Chief Larry Mason could have led to Mason’s resignation weeks later, some village trustees believe. Mason, who resigned in

golf cart to go home after a July 21 meeting with Drury, Mason and the village building To read the Holiday Hills police inspector regarding a noise report of the incident, visit complaint the resident filed NWHerald.com. against Drury, a police report stated. According to the report, August, refused to stop a resi- Drury ordered Mason to arrest dent Drury claimed was drunk the resident for driving under when the resident entered his the influence and threatened

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Mason, saying he would find a police chief that would do the job if he refused. “The resignation was a forced resignation because of Drury’s vindictiveness,” village Trustee Rich Young said. “The neighbor had been at the board meeting and this special meeting following right after it, so he had been in Chief Ma-

son’s view for almost three hours and [he] could plainly see that the neighbor was not intoxicated.” In Mason’s police report, he documents a lengthy feud between the resident and Drury, who are neighbors. He said the meeting was to resolve the noise complaint issue and the underlying tension Mason

feared would escalate in the form of more complaints. But Drury said the police report was inaccurate and that an investigation into the incident has been reopened. Drury said residents called him with concerns about the neighbor that night and he asked Mason

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Obama to issue executive order

Dredging stops for the year

Will announce immigration plan in prime-time address By JIM KUHNHENN and ERICA WERNER The Associated Press

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Wonder Lake Master Property Owners Association President Dick Hilton discusses on Thursday the more than $7 million dredging project that has shut down for the season.

Removal of sediment from Wonder Lake to continue in the spring By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com WONDER LAKE – During the summer, a barge with a white shelter sat on the west bay of Wonder Lake. The dredging machine had a cutter in the water to break up sediment, which was sucked out and pumped through a 1.5-mile-long tube to a former agricultural field. On that field, sediment, which is

80 to 90 percent water, is in the process of drying out. The machine has gone idle for the year, as temperatures have dropped, making dredging difficult. “The pipeline is freezing up on them,” Master Property Owners Association President Dick Hilton said. “It’s pretty tough to push frozen water through a frozen pipeline.” In the first year of lake dredging, workers have dredged about two-

thirds of the west bay, lake manager Randy Stowe estimated. A final tally of how much was dredged out this year has yet to be determined, Stowe said. Contractors are being paid by volume, and have agreed to dredge out about 480,000 cubic yards of sediment as part of the project, which will continue in the spring, once temperatures allow, Stowe said. Workers had hope to dredge

more, but temperatures dropped sooner than hoped. “We just weren’t planning on winter to come a month early,” Stowe said. To pay for the work, the MPOA had issued $5.9 million in bonds. Because of lawsuits and extra engineering work during the permitting process, the MPOA had to raise about

See DREDGING, page A6

WASHINGTON – In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he will sidestep Congress and order his own federal action on immigration – in measures that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people illegally in the U.S. and set up one of the most pitched partisan confrontations of his presidency. O b a m a Barack Obama declared that Washington has allowed America’s immigration problem “to fester for too long.” The president will use an 7 p.m. address Thursday to announce his measures and will sign the executive actions during a rally in Las Vegas on Friday. In doing so, Obama will be taking an aggressive stand that he had once insisted was beyond his presidential power. As many as 5 million people in the country illegally are likely to be protected from deportation and made eligible for work permits under the plan. They would not have a path to citizenship, however, and the actions could be reversed by a

See OBAMA, page A6

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