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Report backs mayor’s removal of sign carriers BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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n outside investigator said Mayor Brigette Peterson was doing her job when she ordered police to remove three sign-holding residents from the Sept. 20 council meeting. The investigator therefore found no violations in the latest ethics complaint filed against her. Now it’s up to Peterson or at least three
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council members to decide within 10 calendar days if they want to put the item on agenda for discussion. Otherwise the complaint is deemed dismissed with prejudice. “Well, I feel that anything can be turned to a way to where it’s pretty and I think that is what the investigator did,” said Terri Naddy, who filed the complaint. “My personal opinion is they looked at her trying to keep a quorum versus singling out Brandon Ryff, Mr. (Ryan) Han-
delsman and the gal (Joanne Terry) because they were holding up signs.” Naddy said others at the Sept. 20 meeting also had the same signs that read “Stop Lying,” and “Don’t Mesa my Gilbert,” on the table in front of them and were not ejected. The residents who packed the room were expressing their opposition to The Ranch, a town-supported 300-acre light
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EV women probe region’s ghostly doings BY JOSH ORTEGA GSN STAFF WRITER
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f you hear or see something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? East Valley Paranormal! Paranormal investigators Michelle Vincent and Heather Rhyneer founded East Valley Paranormal after a chance meeting at a local events committee. Despite a lifetime of occurrences with the occult, the ladies said even they don’t believe some of the menacing moments they’ve experienced. “We are skeptics, honestly,” Vincent said. “Because if I’m not shown something, I’m not going to believe it.” Rhyneer, a dance instructor and choreog-
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Heather Rhyneer, left, and Michelle Vincent, owners of East Valley Paranormal, investigate spooky occurrences in the region, including a haunted house in Gilbert. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
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