Every day, The Herald News will be serving you some local news highlights. Here are our top stories for Sunday, Jan. 20:
LITTLE-KNOWN LANDMARK
Not too many people can say they've been inside the old standpipe water tower on Bedford Street in Fall River. The tower, built in 1875, is a hidden gem. Learn more about the history of the tower, and see photos from inside the tower -- and that amazing view.
VOICE OF THE HILLTOPPERS
Tony Davis, the former radio voice of Durfee High basketball and football, died on Jan. 10 at age 94. Davis and Matt Kuss were a broadcasting duo for about a decade, in the 1980s and 90s on WALE and WSAR.
"Tony truly was and always will be remembered as 'The Voice of the Hilltoppers,'" Kuss said. "It was the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with him and then become his lifelong friend."
FROM THE PULPIT: WHAT REALLY MATTERS
Rabbi Mark Elber of Temple Beth El in Fall River shares his wisdom on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the weekly From the Pulpit column: "Whatever state our society and environment is in is our problem and/or responsibility and no one else’s. If we postpone confronting whatever issues there are, they will not solve themselves, they will only get worse from neglect. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. said: 'Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.'"
STUDENTS MOCK NATIVE AMERICAN AT RALLY
A diocese in Kentucky apologized Saturday after videos emerged showing students from a Catholic boys’ high school mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial after a rally in Washington.
While one student stood extremely close to a Native American man singing and playing a drum, staring him down, other students, many wearing “Make America Great Again” hats and sweatshirts, surrounded them, chanting, laughing and jeering.
'EMOTIONAL STRUCTURE' AT BCC
“Emotional Structure,” an exhibition of work by Michael Cochran and Lloyd Martin, opens at Bristol Community College’s Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery Jan. 24.
In his paintings, sculptures and works on paper, Cochran draws on the structure of ancient forms such as Egyptian obelisks and Sumerian ziggurats bringing emotion to the pieces through color and gold. The pieces are beautiful and breathtaking.