Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
Reliable, Trustworthy Reporting, Capturing The Heartbeat Of Our Community
Education • Biology teacher Katelyn Wiegand places a Madagascar hissing cockroach into the hands of Marco Gutiérrez, 20, right, as he and classmate Rodrigo Rodas, 17, work on a study guide. Wiegand, a first-year teacher, keeps the cockroaches and spiders as class pets in glass tanks in her classroom, and will pull them out for students to feel.
SCHUYLER – His eyes are tired from scanning the conveyor belt. His feet and back are sore after hours of standing in his steel-toed boots. His brain is fried from searching for faulty welding and chipped paint on the more than 1,000 metal pieces that whiz past him on the belt during the graveyard shift.
Marco Gutiérrez has spent the past eight hours inspecting tiny parts that will become car seats in Ford F-150s and Chevy Malibus.
Before that, he put in a shift at Panda Express, cooking batches of fried rice and crispy orange chicken.
It's now 7 a.m. on a Wednesday. The sun is starting to peek...
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