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Vol. 114, No. 267 / 22 pages, 4 sections
Thursday, April 26, 2018
One dollar
Denton, Texas
Mailer causes stir in Denton race
of the Lantana area
and Alfredo Sanchez
of Denton — are run-
ning to unseat Place 1
incumbent Barbara
Bums on the Denton
school board.
A full-page flyer
designed to look like a
mock report card landed in voters’
mailboxes over the weekend and came
from the Fritcher campaign. It criticizes
Bums for a lack of fiscal responsibility,
failing to listen to parents or teachers
and being a “rubber stamp” with unani-
specific teacher’s as-
sessment.
wouldn’t say how
many mailers were
sent out or how much
i they cost.
“In no way did we
want anyone to think
this is what a Denton
report card looks like,” Armstrong said.
Some of the information included in
the flyer, though, isn’t completely accu-
rate.
mous votes. A “teach-
er’s summary” at the
bottom of the flyer
states, “It is our rec-
ommendation that
Barbara Bums not be
re-elected.”
Fritcher didn’t re-
spond to requests for
comment, but let his campaign consul-
tant, Matt Armstrong of Round Rock-
based GrassRoutes Public Relations,
field questions.
Armstrong said the mailer was a
marketing tool and didn’t represent any
scores in the district
based off information
in a July 12 article in
the Denton Record-
Chronicle. It claims
two-thirds of the dis-
trict’s middle schools
and every single dis-
trict high school per-
formed below the area average, but that
math doesn’t quite add up.
The information in the article com-
pared scores from local districts, not
Campaign piece gives
school board incumbent
‘failing’ grade for service
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By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones@dentonrc.com
A campaign mailer that gives a Den-
ton school board incumbent a “failing”
grade looks to be the latest move in al-
ready contentious board races.
Corinth resident Brad Fritcher and
two other challengers — Barry Barnes
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Fritcher
Sanchez
Burns
Barnes
For instance, Fritcher’s campaign
references low state standardized test
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actions
drew in
police
TODAY
IN DENTON
Committee requests updates from county commissioners on monument
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Low: 46
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Dallas officer dies after
shooting; two others
in critical condition
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By David Warren
Associated Press
DAT J AS — The gunman accused of
opening fire at a Dallas home improve-
ment store — killing one police officer and
critically injuring two others — was initial-
ly detained because he was acting suspi-
ciously and may have tried to steal from
the store, an arrest warrant revealed
Wednesday.
An off-duty officer who was working a
part-time job at the Home Depot store in
the north of the city learned Armando
Luis Juarez, 29, had an
outstanding felony war-
rant after he was de-
tained by store officials
for suspected shoplift-
ing, according to the ar-
rest warrant.
Two on-duty officers,
Rogelio Santander and
Crystal Almeida, were
called to the store and, along with a Home
Depot loss-prevention officer, were speak-
ing with Juarez in an office.
The off-duty officer stepped away,
heard a report of “shots fired” broadcast
over the police radio and then rushed back
to the office to find the officers and loss-
prevention employee on the ground with
gunshot wounds, according to the war-
rant.
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The deadly van rampage
in Toronto is training
attention on an online
world of sexual loneliness,
rage and misogyny after
the suspect invoked an
uprising by “involuntary
celibates” and gave a
shout-out to a California
killer who seethed at
women for rejecting him.
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John Baines, chairman of the Confederate monument advisory committee, discusses a sketch of a plan for the
monument, in the Denton County Commissioners Courtroom at the Courthouse on the Square on Feb. L
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liberation. Commissioners then adopted
the overall plan on Feb. 6 before hand-
ing the project off to Peggy Riddle, direc-
tor of the Denton County Office of His-
tory and Culture.
In the only public update since com-
missioners approved the plan, Riddle
said on April 17 that her office has been
discussing the changes with local and
By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill @ dentonrc.com
The 15-member Confederate monu-
ment advisory committee has complet-
ed its task of recommending changes to
the downtown Denton monument, but
that doesn’t mean members are not pay-
ing attention to the implementation of
the plan.
Committee chairman John Baines
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penned a letter to Denton County com-
missioners Monday asking for more fre-
quent updates of the county’s work to
add outdoor video kiosks on either side
of the monument and a large plaque de-
crying slavery under the statue’s arch.
The committee unanimously ap-
proved those changes during a Feb. 1
meeting after nearly three months of de-
The man who author-
ities said Wednesday is
among the worst serial
killers and rapists in U.S.
history is a 72-year-old
Vietnam War veteran,
former police officer and
grandfather who lived in
a tidy, suburban Califor-
nia home.
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See DALLAS on 7A
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‘Schoolhouse Rock’
musical director dies
LOCAL
Going nowhere fast
Blotter: Police arrested
two teens on drug charg-
es Tuesday after officers
stopped a vehicle filled
with six teens at the
intersection of the Audra
Lane and Charles Street
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Jazzman Bob Dorough attended what s now UNT
in east Denton, accord-
ing to police.
asked by his boss at the
advertising
where he had a dayjob to
set the multiplication ta-
bles to music; his boss
cited his children’s abili-
ty to remember Hendrix
and Rolling Stones lyrics
but not their school les-
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By Michael Merschel
The Dallas Morning News
Jazzman Bob Dorough has died at age
94. The musician died of natural causes
Monday at his home in Mount Bethel,
Pennsylvania, his son, Chris, told The As-
sociated Press.
The musician, who attended what is
now the University of North Texas, was
known to millions, if not by name, then by
his folksy, swinging voice when he was the
musical director behind ABC’s School-
house Rock!
The shorts ran between 1973 and 1985
and were revived from 1993 to 1999. They
are the reason that no child raised during
that era can count by threes or fives or ex-
plain the legislative process without
breaking into song.
NPR explains that in 1971 Dorough was
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Dorough
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sons.
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MONEY & MARKETS
“I got the idea that three is a magic
number,” Dorough told NPR’s Rachel
Martin in 2013. “Then I looked in the
magic book and sure enough, three is one
of the magic numbers.” That concept be-
came the song “Three Is a Magic Number.”
By 1973, the project evolved into the
now-beloved Schoolhouse Rock! Some of
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OPINION
Jeff Woo/DRC
Traffic backs up on South Loop 288 near East McKinney Street as Den-
ton firefighters contain a chemical spill during Wednesday morning
rush hour. A fire department hazmat crew responded to the spill after
two 5-gallon containers of material used for painting highways fell in
the roadway, department spokesman David Boots said. Firefighters
responded at 7:38 a.m., and the material was cleaned up by about
10:30 a.m. See video online at DentonRC.com.
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