On Saturday, Feb. 16, at 3:00 in the afternoon, my girlfriend, two others, and I were on our way back to Johnson from Burlington on the Badger Bullet. It was a cold sunny day and the traffic clogged the roads as if it were rush hour.

At around 3:20, a mile past the Essex shopping plaza, two cars in front of the Badger Bullet came to a slow stop to allow someone to turn left into the discount beverage and gas station. We stopped gradually and waited for them to turn. As we waited, an 18-wheeler logging truck failed to brake in time, and slammed into the rear of the Badger Bullet. Pete, the Badger Bullet driver, saw the truck quickly approaching in the mirror and yelled for us to “look out!” I wasn’t sure what he was referring to, but just a second later, the impact of the big-rig pushed us into the van in front of us.

Two JSC partygoers and one Hyde Park resident were taken into police custody early Friday morning, Feb. 15, as a Valentine’s Day party on Noyes Farm Road in Hyde Park escalated into an altercation with police that involved the use of non-lethal weapons.

JSC students Evan Pestone and Patrick Kantlehner were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, while Hyde Park resident Gregory Cwynar, 34, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest.