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Savannah Morning News editorial page editor Adam Van Brimmer (@savannahopinion) discusses Savannah's unofficial Fourth of July fireworks shows, as well as a preview of tomorrow's Savannah Morning News Opinions Page.

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It's a jam-packed edition of Download Required. It's a been a rough week for DC Comics. The company spoiled the ending of the Batman-Catwoman wedding by leaking issue 50 to the New York Times days before releasing it to readers. Justice League Odyssey is delayed after the first two issues have to be redrawn. I also run down all the new titles on shelves this week.

According to call history records from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, at around 8 p.m. July 4 a woman told dispatchers that a man on a paddleboard near the Okaloosa Island Pier had disappeared from his board, and he was “possibly swarmed by sharks.”

Fayetteville police responded to a 911 call of a woman stabbed at Treetop apartments. When police arrived, they found the suspect standing over a pregnant woman. The suspect refuse to put his weapon down. Police then shot the suspect.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Jon Bonk discusses the new record low temperature for Eugene in July, set on Tuesday, July 3, 2018. The new record low for the summer month is 38 degrees, one degree colder than the old record. [Dylan Darling/The Register-Guard]

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Savannah Morning News editorial page editor Adam Van Brimmer is joined by sports reporter Dennis Knight to discuss Donald Chumley's decision to leave Savannah Christian after many successful years as football coach and atheltic director.

Read Dennis' article here.

Read this morning's commute here.

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Chet LoConti, assistant director of the City of Utica Youth Bureau, discusses some of the renovations happening at Addison Miller and Buckley pools.

What makes this moment precious is the teenagers who make up this team, including Cazz Johnson, captain of the varsity football team at Mount Pleasant High School and an honor roll student; Raymond Arciliares, the muscle of the team who loves fishing and dancing; Jaylayah Murray, who plays on the unified volleyball team and has been accepted into a hospital internship program; and Charles Fontes, who plays guard and manages the varsity boys basketball team.

Pamela Palmer, administrative assistant for the Creswell Chamber of Commerce, explains on July 3, 2018, why having an F-15 flyover has become a tradition for Fourth of July events in the southern Lane County city. [Dylan Darling/The Register-Guard].

Sarah Messier, a new firefighter with the Oregon Department of Forestry, describes being close to a fire for the first time as part of fire school training. Messier and her fellow hand crew members had to put out a slash pile practice fire on June 29, 2018, near Sweet Home. [Dylan Darling/The Register-Guard]