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5_26_pages_1to3.qxp_redesign 5/25/21 3:42 PM Page 1 MIDWEEK: MAY 26-29, 2021 STATE RUNNERS-UP Red Suitcase The Winter Springs Ministry helps softball team falls community in 6A final See People, Page 5 See Sports, Page 7 S ANFORD HERALD LAKE MARY, LONGWOOD, WINTER SPRINGS, OVIEDO, GENEVA, CASSELBERRY, OSTEEN, CHULUOTA, ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, DEBARY Vol. 130, No. 84 • © 2021 READ US ONLINE AT MYSANFORDHERALD.COM Since 1908 HEADLINES FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS Former mayor threatens lawsuit over lack of enforcement of downtown noise ordinance European planes skirt Belarus amid fury at By Steve Paradis journalist arrest [email protected] MOSCOW (AP) — European Herald Staff airlines were skirting Belarus on Tuesday after the European Former Sanford Mayor Linda Kuhn Union urged them to do so while threatened legal action if the problems imposing new sanctions against with noise is not rectified soon. She said the ex-Soviet nation to punish it the city’s new noise ordinance is rou- Herald photo by Steve Paradis for the forced diversion of a pas- tinely violated, and she and about two Lake Mary police officers (above) on scene of the senger jet to arrest an opposition dozens other residents are tired of it. hit and run this week. journalist. Kuhn made her remarks during the public participation segment at the San- Lake Mary police seek clues Blinken says US will aid Gaza ford City Commission meetings Monday without helping Hamas evening. JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Sec- “It doesn’t have enough teeth,” Kuhn in deadly hit and run retary of State Antony Blinken said of the noise ordinance approved in By Steve Paradis vowed Tuesday to “rally interna- February. At the time she told the Com- tional support” to aid Gaza fol- mission she’d be back in a year, but she [email protected] lowing a devastating war there said Monday she is back after four Herald Staff while keeping any assistance out Herald photo by Tommy Vincent months because there have been viola- of the hands of its militant Hamas Former Sanford Mayor Linda Kuhn (above) complained to com- Lake Mary police are searching for a white rulers. missioners Monday about the noise in downtown. See NOISE, Page 6 Ford F-150 pickup truck with an extended cab and extensive damage to the front in connec- Iran approves 7 for presiden- tial vote, bars Rouhani allies See HIT-AND-RUN, Page 9 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran named the hard-line cleric running its judiciary and six PROCLAMATION others Tuesday as approved can- didates in its June 18 presidential Convicted murderer now suspect election, barring prominent candi- dates allied to its current presi- in cold homicide case in Hawaii dent amid tensions with the West By Steve Paradis over its tattered nuclear deal. [email protected] Herald Staff It's not just Arizona: Push to review 2020 ballots spreads The family of a woman killed in 1982 in ATLANTA (AP) — Six months Honolulu, Hawaii, attended the last few days after Donald Trump's loss, con- of a trial here in Seminole County of a man spiracy theorists and Trump back- who was convicted of murder in a case that ers are continuing their push for happened here in 1984, according to the chief repeated examinations of ballots and finding limited successes. A See HOMICIDE, Page 6 Georgia judge last week awarded a group the chance to review mail ballots in a large Georgia county Seminole Smile sponsored by Oakport Dental that included Atlanta. Biden to meet Putin for Geneva summit amid US-Russia tension See Page 2 Herald photo by Steve Paradis STOCKS OF Rosemary Closson accepts a proclamation Monday night from Sanford Mayor Art Woodruff. Woodruff declared the second Sunday of June to be forever known in Sanford as Race Amity Day. The Towards E Pluribus Unum LOCAL INTEREST Initiative has invited communities across the United States to reflect on the beauty and richness of the diverse people of the nation while reaching out to each other in a spirit of amity. As of 10 a.m. Thursday Allegiant $220.76 SEMINOLE SMILE Faro $75.64 Former Navy Seal sniper aims for Fastenal $52.74 HCA Healthcare $210.61 Stephanie Murphy’s congressional seat Invacare $7.76 Lowes $192.96 By Steve Paradis NextEra $73.46 [email protected] Herald Staff Tractor Supply $180.53 Toro $110.93 Brady Duke, a former Navy SEAL Team Wells Fargo $46.18 One member and Oviedo resident, an- nounced Tuesday that he is running as a Republican for the 7th Congressional Dis- trict now held by U.S. Rep. Stephanie Mur- phy. “I started thinking about running proba- bly over a year ago,” Duke told the Herald Tuesday morning. He said he had started to Photos contributed get an unsettled feeling for the state of the Ankan Daas Brady Duke of Oviedo (left) announced he will run as a Re- nation. The Sanford Herald is not subsidized publican for the congressional District 7 seat now held by Student Correspondent by the Federal Government. U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (right). See CONGRESS, Page 6 Goldsboro Elementary 5_26_pages_1to3.qxp_redesign 5/25/21 3:42 PM Page 2 PAGE 2 • Midweek: May 26-29, 2021 SANFORD HERALD Biden to meet Putin for Geneva summit amid US-Russia tension WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe pandemic and settlement of regional con- action — an attempt to send the message to In March, Biden in an ABC News inter- Biden will hold a summit with Russian Pres- flicts.” Putin that he still held hope that the U.S. view responded affirmatively when asked ident Vladimir Putin next month in Geneva, The White House has repeatedly said it is and Russia could come to an understanding by interviewer George Stephanopoulos a face-to-face meeting between the two lead- seeking a “stable and predictable" relation- for the rules of the game in their adversarial whether he thought Putin was “a killer." ers that comes amid escalating tensions be- ship with the Russians, while also calling relationship. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said tween the U.S. and Russia in the first out Putin on allegations that the Russians in- In fact, he brought up the idea of holding that Biden's comment demonstrated he “def- months of the Biden administration. terfered in last year's U.S. presidential elec- a third-country summit in an April 13 call in initely does not want to improve relations" The White House confirmed details of the tion and that the Kremlin was behind a which he notified Putin that a second round with Russia and that relations between the summit on Tuesday. The two leaders' meet- hacking campaign — commonly referred to of sanctions was coming. countries were “very bad." ing, set for June 16, is being tacked on to the as the SolarWinds breach — in which Russ- During his campaign for the White Geneva, a rich, if mid-size, city on the end of Biden's first international trip as pres- ian hackers infected widely used software House, Biden described Russia as the banks of Lake Geneva, offers bucolic vistas ident next month when he visits Britain for a with malicious code, enabling them to access “biggest threat” to U.S. security and al- of the Mont Blanc peak — the highest in meeting of Group of Seven leaders and Brus- the networks of at least nine U.S. agencies. liances, and he disparaged his predecessor Western Europe — and a reputation as both sels for the NATO summit. The Biden administration has also criti- President Donald Trump for his cozy rela- a hub for international institutions and an “The leaders will discuss the full range of cized Russia for the arrest and jailing of op- tionship with Putin. icon of Switzerland’s much ballyhooed neu- pressing issues, as we seek to restore pre- position leader Alexei Navalny and publicly Trump avoided direct confrontation with trality. dictability and stability to the U.S.-Russia re- acknowledged that it has low to moderate Putin and often sought to downplay the Geneva became a leading crossroads of lationship,” White House press secretary Jen confidence that Russian agents were offering Russian leader’s malign actions. Their sole diplomacy in the postwar years of Cold War Psaki said in a statement announcing the bounties to the Taliban to attack U.S. troops summit, held in July 2018 in Helsinki, was intrigue, an intersection where the Soviet- summit. in Afghanistan. marked by Trump’s refusal to side with U.S. dominated Eastern bloc met the American- Biden first proposed a summit in a call The Biden administration announced intelligences agencies over Putin’s denials of styled capitalist West. with Putin in April as his administration sanctions in March against several mid-level Russian interference in the 2016 election. The city last hosted American and Russian prepared to levy sanctions against Russian and senior Russian officials, along with Weeks into his presidency, Biden said in leaders in 1985, when President Ronald Rea- officials for the second time during the first more than a dozen businesses and other en- an address before State Department employ- gan met Mikhail Gorbachev -- a summit con- three months of his presidency. tities, over a nearly fatal nerve-agent attack ees that he told Putin in their first call that sidered short on substance but critical in White House officials said earlier this on Navalny in August 2020 and his subse- he would be taking a radically different ap- breaking the ice between East and West and week that they were ironing out details for quent jailing. Navlany returned to Russia proach to Russia than Trump.

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