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The Meadville Tribune www.meadvilletribune.com Thursday, January 6, 2022

January 6th attack: One year later

Council
FALSE NARRATIVE mulls
special
DEEPENS DIVIDE public
input
session
By Mike Crowley
MEADVILLE TRIBUNE

Meadville City Council members on

Wednesday discussed the possibility
of holding a “visioning session” to re-
ceive input from the public on council
priorities for the upcoming year.
When the session will be held and
the exact form it will take could be de-
termined when council next meets on
Jan. 19. As a public meeting, the vi-
sioning session will require advertise-
ment ahead of its occurrence.
The time and form remain to be de-
Associated Press termined, but Councilwoman Autumn
Rioters try to break through a security barrier at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Vogel argued that the need for the ses-
sion is clear.

Disinformation splits nation

“2021 council set some priorities for
the year that we would work on,” Vogel
said in explaining why she had request-
ed the visioning session. “Despite those

on anniversary of Capitol siege being present on every meeting agenda,

not a lot of progress was made there.”
Early last year, using a survey dis-
By Christian Wade tributed electronically by city staff,
CNHI NEWS SERVICE INSIDE: Area educator, former law enforcement council members voted on top priori-

M
onths before attackers
supporting then-Pres-
ident Donald Trump
stormed the U.S. Capi-
tol last Jan. 6, social media sites were
flooded with angry postings claiming
the presidential election had been
rigged and calling for violence.
The “stop the steal” campaigns,
officer weigh in on last year’s events, Page A3
which falsely claimed Democrats
stole the election for President Joe
Biden through widespread voter
fraud, became a rallying cry for the
angry mob that attacked the Capitol
on a day that will go down as one of
the darkest in American history.
One year after the attack, false in-
formation continues to be recirculated
and repeated by Trump’s supporters,
by candidates running for elected of-
fice, by Trump himself and among
See SIEGE, Page A3
ties to address in light of a budget defi-
cit on the horizon that was expected to
exceed more than $600,000. By early
February, a list of five goals began ap-
pearing on each council meeting agen-
da: review the moving of 911 dispatch;
review the marketing of 984 Water St.,
the former city hall building; begin the
See COUNCIL, Page A5

Good Morning Boy Scouts of America

Serving Crawford
County for 138 years
Park had OK
Thank you to tear down
for subscribing,
Dona Drnek
of Adamsville
coaster; zoning
Weather official’s
Today: Cloudy, 22
This evening: Snow, 21
Tomorrow: Cloudy, 22
statements don’t
Deaths
n Jeffery Howard
match permit
Chambley, 58, Meadville
n Carol Jean Bright By Keith Gushard
Finch, 80, Westerville, MEADVILLE TRIBUNE
Ohio
n Carol A. Johnson, 77, SUMMIT TOWNSHIP — A demolition permit
Hadley for Conneaut Lake Park’s Blue Streak roller coast-
n Sherry Lynn McClen- er from Summit Township was in place Tuesday
don, 61, Indianapolis, Ind.
n Mary Helen Valesky, prior to fire departments responding to a late-after-
91, Jamestown noon fire at the park.
n David Lee Walker, 63, Keldon Holdings LLC, the owner of the amuse- Tribune News Service
Conneaut Lake ment park, had a demolition permit signed, dat- A sign is seen outside the Boy Scouts of America Headquarters in Irving, Texas, in 2013.
Details, Page A8 ed and issued Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, by Summit

Bid to emerge from sex-abuse

Index
Weather.......................... A2
County............................ A3
Opinion........................... A4
Nation............................. A5
Nation............................. A6
Business........................ A7
Deaths............................ A8
Meadville Daily
Our Towns...................... A9
Nation & World............. A10
Sports............................. B1
Comics........................... B4
Nation............................. B5
Legals............................. B5
Classifieds..................... B5
Township’s zoning officer. The Meadville Tribune
obtained a copy of the properly signed and dated
demolition permit from the Summit Township
Building on Wednesday. 
However, Randy Fyock, the township’s zoning
officer, confirmed to the Tribune early Tuesday
bankruptcy falls short
night that a demolition permit for the Blue Streak By Kim Christensen ly abused in Scouting. “Survivors understood that
was not to be issued until Wednesday. He said a LOS ANGELES TIMES Although 73 percert of the the Plan does not adequately
demolition permit had not been approved for Kel- nearly 54,000 claimants who
The Boy Scouts of America’s compensate them,” said John
don prior to Tuesday’s fire. cast ballots voted to accept the Humphrey, co-chairman of the
bid to emerge from bankrupt-
Contacted Wednesday about the apparent incon- cy appeared to fall just short settlement, the proposal need- official tort claimants commit-
sistency, Fyock told the Tribune he had given Kel- Tuesday when a $2.7 billion ed at least 75 percert to ensure
don “a verbal commitment” to move forward with tee appointed by the bankruptcy
settlement offer failed to garner confirmation by the bankruptcy trustee to represent all victims.
See PARK, Page A2 enough votes from thousands of judge presiding over the case,
men who say they were sexual- according to plaintiffs’ lawyers. See SCOUTS, Page A6

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