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Longview’s sales tax revenues down 14 percent

Longview sales tax revenues fell 14.11 percent in November compared with a year ago, marking the 11th straight month of declines for the city.

November’s revenue was $2.20 million, down from November 2014’s total of $2.56 million. It is Longview’s lowest allocation to start the year since January 2010.

Sales tax figures represent monthly sales made in November by businesses that report taxes monthly.

Hallsville and Kilgore were some of the area municipalities reporting a positive change, improving by 9.07 percent and 18.19 percent respectively. For Kilgore, it was the first positive return since January 2014’s allocation.

Collections elsewhere in Gregg County continued to drop, according to data released Wednesday by the state comptroller’s office.

Gregg County was down 6.59 percent from a year ago to $3.24 million, with collections elsewhere in the county also continuing to drop. Other than Kilgore, the only Gregg County municipality to show positive movement is the community of Lakeport, up 2.33 percent.

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Members of Longview’s Historic Preservation Commission took a tour Tuesday of the former fire station No. 3 to become better acquainted with the city’s properties of historical value in the city that might be eligible for local designation.

The station was built in 1936 near the corner of Mobberly Avenue and Young Street.

“This place sure could use some sprucing up,” said commission council liaison Ed Moore.

Despite being out of use since the late 1990s, Fire Marshal Johnny Zackary said the structural integrity of the former station is largely intact.

“It’s certainly seen better days, but it’s still in pretty good shape, especially considering that it hasn’t had much upkeep in recent years,” he said. “(The station) really is a neat old building with a lot of character.”

Zackary said in the early days, the station captain and his family lived upstairs while the crew bunked on the ground floor.

“All three of those first stations were designed as ‘live-in’ stations,” he said.

A city bond package in the mid-1930s that funded the station also helped establish the Central and Nugget Hill fire stations.

Fire station No. 3 was in operation until 1987, when a new No. 3 station was built near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Birdsong Street in South Longview.

“When the station was relocated, EMS section chief and training personnel was housed in this building, with the billing and medical supplies,” he said. “That stopped in the mid-1990s, when the police area representative was based here for awhile. Not long after, the city stopped using it altogether.”

Since then, the only occupant has been “Luke,” the purported ghost of a long-deceased firefighter who was said to walk the stairs late at night, causing mischief and giving LFD veterans something to rib rookies about.

Zackary said Luther “Luke” Waldrop died at 1:30 a.m. Jan. 19, 1940, while receiving a phone call about a fire.

“The story goes that he had a heart attack while he was on the phone,” he said. “I don’t know when the stories about his ghost haunting the station started, but it’s something that generations of Longview firefighters have heard about.”

City staff liaison Angela Choy said the station features red brick and high gables that complement the Idylwood neighborhood near the corner of Mobberly and Young.

 

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News Article About Teens Sent To Prison For Drug Use

In Ebanon, Ohio A teenager convicted of selling up to $20,000 worth of high-grade marijuana a month to high school students in southwestern Ohio was sentenced Monday to serve six months to three years in a juvenile prison by a judge who called him “a pretty fine young person that went down a bad trail.”

Tyler Pagenstecher was taken into custody right after the hearing and will be turned over to Ohio’s Department of Youth Services. The agency will decide how long he will be in prison, depending on his behavior.

“He’s not going home today,” Judge Thomas Lipps said, explaining that the charges against Pagenstecher were too serious for him to avoid prison time.
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The Associated Press is naming Pagenstecher because of the seriousness of the crimes and because the teen’s identity quickly became public following the announcement of the charges against him when he was 17.

Authorities say that he was one of the most prolific drug dealers in the area, a “little czar” in charge of six teenage lieutenants who helped him sell the marijuana.

Authorities believe that he began selling the drugs when he was at least 15 and managed to stay under authorities’ radar for a long time by not selling pot at school, but largely out of his home, where he lived with his single mother and older brother.

On Jan. 12, authorities raided the house and confiscated pot, scales, a bong and a box of cash, CBS Cincinnati affiliate WKRC-TV reports. It was the first hint to neighbors that the quiet kid on the corner might be up to something.

“We just thought he has a lot of friends, until the police came, and then after that incident there wasn’t anything going on, and we were hoping everything was straightened out,” neighbor Earl Borgemenke told WKRC-TV.

In court Monday, he stood up and apologized, saying that he didn’t realize the severity of his actions.

“I understood that I would get in trouble but not to the level or extent this has become, and I sincerely regret all of this,” said the pale, bespectacled, soft-spoken teen. “If I could take it all back, I would.”

His mother, Daffney Pagenstecher, also spoke to the judge, saying her son “just thought he was using a recreational drug and selling it to his friends, and that was it.”

“He wasn’t out to become, you know, a big drug dealer,” she said. “He didn’t buy a new car. He didn’t buy fancy clothes. He wasn’t making the money that a drug dealer would make and flaunting it.”

The 50-year-old school bus driver said she had no idea what her son had been up to before his arrest.

Lipps expressed incredulity that Tyler Pagenstecher didn’t understand the seriousness of what he was doing and said all parents would want to see the person responsible for selling their child drugs to be punished, regardless of age.

He said he did take into consideration the fact that Pagenstecher wasn’t violent, didn’t have weapons, was a good student, finished a drug-abuse program and got a job at an Italian restaurant.

“You know, I think you’re probably a pretty fine young person that went down a bad trail here,” Lipps told Pagenstecher. “I do think there’s hope for you in the future.”

After the sentencing, prosecutor David Fornshell said he hopes the case sends a message to other young adults.

“I think that probably when people originally heard this story they thought this guy was a hero or a rock star,” Fornshell said. “I think any juvenile who would come in here today and see somebody go through what this juvenile went through today, and the fact that (if) he doesn’t cooperate in the Department of Youth Services, he’s going to be in there until his 21st birthday — I hope that sends a strong message.”

He said that he expects Pagenstecher to be imprisoned in a juvenile facility that will include drug rehabilitation and education, considering he was just three classes away from graduating from high school.

In addition to Pagenstecher, seven adults ages 20 to 58 were arrested in connection with the drug ring. They were accused of growing the pot under artificial lights in a furniture warehouse and two suburban homes.

Four of the adults have pleaded not guilty to charges of drug trafficking and possession, marijuana cultivation and engaging in corrupt activity. They are set for trial in November and December.

The other four have pleaded guilty to some of the charges, with most still awaiting sentencing. One of them, 31-year-old Stacy Lampe, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

As part of its investigation of the drug ring, the Warren County Drug Task Force seized more than 600 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $3 million, or $5,000 a pound. Investigators also found $6,000 in cash in Pagenstecher’s bedroom.

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