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Our condolences to the family of Marine Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum, 20, who was preparing to welcome his first child into the world. There will be a candlelight vigil at 7:30 p.m. today at Demoret Park, on the corner of Main Street and Townsend Avenue, for those who would like to pay respects to the fallen 13.
Interview with the supe: Carrie Stephenson, the Montrose County School District superintendent, spoke with Anna Lynn Winfrey about how her long-term goal for MCSD is for education to be "joyful." She also reflected on her first 14 months with the district.
On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall became the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice. He was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson and is looked at as a justice who was all about civil rights. He once described his legal philosophy like this: "You do what you think is right and let the law catch up."
He was a champion of individual rights, supporting such causes as a woman's right to have an abortion and opposing the death penalty.
In 1987, when most of the country was celebrating America's bicentennial, Marshall gave a controversial speech about the founding of the country, in which he said "... the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and major social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today."
Read more about this day in history here.
Our favorite rendition of the national anthem: A WWII vet earlier this month was invited to sing the Star Spangled Banner before a ballgame in Michigan. Give it a watch.
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