KSBY News · Paso Robles, CA
Change is coming to Paso Robles City Hall. Mayor John Hamon is not seeking another term, leaving three candidates competing to replace him, while two sitting councilmembers are hoping to keep their seats. All of this means that voters could reshape the city’s leadership this November. The three candidates vying to fill the city’s top seat are Bill Britton, Dr. Faith Frankel, and Chris Rogalla. “I feel like all the experiences I’ve had, all the things I’ve done, really are what we need in Paso Robles to help us kind of adjust, get ready for the future, listen to people and take care of what we’re doing and focus in on just Paso Robles,” said Paso Robles mayoral candidate Bill Britton. Britton, 70, comes to the race with a background in both the military and technology. He served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force and was assigned in California four different times.
Dancing Astronaut · Local
Pacha is one of the most recognizable names in clubbing, and this summer New York finally got its own taste of it when Pacha New York opened its open-air venue. Now the brand is heading indoors for the winter. Brooklyn Pacha officially opens on the weekend of November 6 and 7, giving the city a Pacha it can dance in no matter the season, and the two opening nights are stacked from top to bottom. The new club lives inside the former Great Hall, a room plenty of New Yorkers already have memories of. Pacha has given it a full makeover, bringing in a new sound and lighting setup while holding on to the gritty, warehouse feel that Brooklyn’s underground scene has always been known for. The goal with the space is to shrink the gap between the booth and the crowd, putting the focus squarely on the music and the people dancing to it. Friday, November 6 gets the party started with three artists who each come at dance music from a different angle.
Spectrum News NY1 · New York, NY
New York City’s free 2-K program will expand to all five boroughs next fall, including every school district in the Bronx and on Staten Island, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday. The expansion will give more than 12,000 children access to 2-K, up from the 2,000 who got seats during this year’s initial rollout, Mamdani said at a news conference. Twenty-two of the city’s 32 school districts will be part of the program once the rollout happens, he noted. “This truly historic announcement will save parents more than $25,000 per child per year, while transforming the lives of children by giving them the strong foundation they need to succeed,” he said. “Next year, when placements are announced, families in the Bronx, on Staten Island, across our city will feel an enormous weight lifted off their shoulders,” he added.
Brooklyn Paper · Jamaica, NY
A Brooklyn pastor has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and 10 years of post-release supervision after being convicted of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Oct. 26. The sentence was handed down by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Naiburg. According to the evidence, 63-year-old Paul Lewis, founder and pastor of Messengers for Christ World Healing Center in East New York, which also has branches in Jamaica, Trinidad and Germany, committed the crimes between Sept. 3 and Dec. 23, 2014. Lewis picked up the victim, who was a member of his congregation along with her family, from her home in his vehicle under the pretense of getting food. He drove her to the vicinity of 1380 Broadway, near a McDonald’s in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he sexually assaulted her in his vehicle on multiple occasions. On another occasion, he took the girl to a Brooklyn brownstone, removed her clothes and sexually assaulted her. On Feb.
