Wilmington, NC News

Settlement reached in NC windy weather death

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CHARLOTTE — The family of a North Carolina town official killed when a tree fell on her sport utility vehicle has reached a settlement with the city of Charlotte.

WSOC-TV reports Tuesday that officials and the family of assistant Matthews town manager Kay Plyler reached the agreement Monday afternoon, just before jury selection in a wrongful deathlawsuit was set to begin.

Plyler was killed when wind gusts propelled the tree onto her SUV in March 2008. Her daughter suffered minor injuries.

Attorneys for Plyler’s family say the city knew the tree had a decaying root system but didn’t warn people about the danger.

The settlement amount has not been released. Because it will be paid with taxpayer money, the figure needs city council approval.

(CopyrightInaugural dean of UCI arts school dies at 93

IRVINE, CA (August 7, 2015) – Clayton Garrison, founding dean of the School of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine, died July 27 at the age of 93. He was a visionary stage director, choreographer and theater professor who left a lasting imprint on UCI and what’s now known as the Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

Garrison was invited by founding Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich Jr. to create a “department of arts” in 1964, the year before the campus opened. After committing to Aldrich and leaving UC Riverside, where he had been teaching, Garrison insisted that a single department with the arts lumped together would not suffice for the new university. He devised a plan for a “conservatory