Word: arsenault
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grand jury investigation was launched in April after a newspaper reporter in Fairbanks questioned the awarding of a noncompetitive, ten-year contract for government office space to a company partly owned by Lenny Arsenault, a Sheffield campaign fund raiser. According to the jury's report, Sheffield and his staff manipulated lease specifications to guarantee that the firm would win the lucrative contract. Sheffield, who has denied the charges, said that he was "devastated" by the grand jury's findings. State legislators, who adjourned in May, will convene in Juneau on July 15 to consider the impeachment issue...
...story of School Bus Driver Gloria Arsenault and the pot-smoking students whose bus service was suspended is not something to laugh about [Jan. 17]. The parents who provided the offending children with rides showed a lack of respect for both the school system and the town police. These parents have no one to blame but themselves for the decline of our public schools...
Driver Gloria Arsenault, 58, taking a busload of 50 children to their junior high school in Peabody, Mass., thought she smelled something odd. Her nose told her it was marijuana smoke. Her mouth told the kids to stop. "But these kids weren't stopping," said Arsenault later...
...Arsenault drove her passengers to the local police station. There officers poked through the bus and found two joints and two hashish pipes. Who were the smokers? None of the students would say. That would be squealing. Town officials and police promptly decided on a punishment: they suspended service on the bus for three days...
Some of the children live as far as six miles from school, but none had to walk. Their parents, who complained loudly about the suspension, drove the youngsters to class. Said Ninth-Grader Michelle Penkul, 15: "They shouldn't be making this much hassle over pot." Bus Driver Arsenault had a different view: "I did it because I am a mother and grandmother and concerned for these kids...