TIFTON, Ga. (WALB) – No tax increase is planned for residents of Tift County after commissioners approved the $ 29 million budget for the next fiscal year. It was approved at the committee meeting on Monday evening. According to Tift County Commission Chairman Tony McBrayer, public safety departments, like EMS …
Read More »Where we’re still vulnerable as California reopens
Hello, Bay Area. It’s Monday, June 14, and if you’re broke, a local financial advisor says $ 3 bagels may be to blame. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. As California prepares to reopen fully on Tuesday, it’s hard to imagine a scenario that would require …
Read More »Style (06/14/21) – BusinessWorld
Tesoros Independence Day Sale ends June 15 DISCOUNTS of up to 40% on selected items are offered in the Tesoros Independence Day Sale which runs until June 15th. Hats, mugs, key chains, pins and t-shirts are among the items included in the sale. Buy online. Meanwhile, Tesoros also opened its …
Read More »Halo: MCC is the best collection ever
Of all the game collections, none can compete with Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Even now, none have gone beyond this celebration of Halo. As video game support grows and improves, franchises surrounding one or a few characters have become commonplace. From Nathan Drake to Crash Bandicoot, these franchises have …
Read More »State Audit Says County Community Service Punishment “Short-Term Taxpayers” | Local News
PITTSBURGH – The propensity of Washington County Court of Common Pleas judges to allow defendants to perform community service instead of paying fines and other penalties has cost State and County 1, $ 56 million in recent years, a state audit found. State Auditor General Timothy DeFoor released his findings …
Read More »Parker Fashion Week revitalizes the city’s art and fashion scene for local designers
This past weekend, Parker, Colorado put itself on the fashion map by hosting its first fashion show, Parker Fashion Week, at Main tap and west grill. Between Friday and Saturday, the two-day event drew around 500 guests and developed a diverse cast of models who celebrated a variety of body …
Read More »Lexington Arts and Crafts Looks To The Future With A Focus On Community
Three years ago, Lexington Arts and Crafts Society, known as LexArt, needed a change. The organization, founded in 1935, was based on outdated methods and an inward mindset. “We believe it’s about bringing the organization into the 21st century,” said Katina Leodas, Chairman of the Board of LexArt. The problems …
Read More »Chau Chak Wing Museum Wins Three National Museum Awards
The Chau Chak Wing Museum was announced as the winner of three national awards at the 2021 Australian Museums and Galleries Association National Conference in Canberra on Wednesday, June 9. The great temporary exhibition Gululu dhuwala djalkiri: welcome to the Yolŋu foundations moved back National Museums and Galleries Award (MAGNA) …
Read More »Audio logs of healthcare workers during COVID-19
The Library of Congress acquired audio diaries featuring more than 200 frontline healthcare workers in the fight against COVID-19, a collection that provides first-hand testimonials from hospitals and communities across the country then as the public health crisis unfolded. The audio library was donated by The Nocturnists, an independent San …
Read More »Manchester residents nominated for Local Mirror Heroes campaign
Dr Haider Ali. Image taken from Manchester Evening News InYourArea supports the Mirror’s 1,000 Acts of Kindness, and there is still time to name YOUR local heroes. Do you have a neighbor who is always ready to lend a hand, is someone in your community fundraising or supporting their local …
Read More »The newly equipped Schenectady bookmobile will hit the streets on Wednesday
SCHENECTADY – The Schenectady City School District Mobile Library is set to hit the streets on Wednesday after a donated school bus upgraded, a diverse collection of books expanded, and reopened a general sense of things. The district bookmobile, newly wrapped in student art, is expected to visit four locations …
Read More »New fashion favorites: tennis and golf
Manors is a new, golf-inspired brand that identified a gap in the cool golf apparel market for Generation Z. “The biggest brands were trying to look at market trends and technical performance,” says the co- founder Jojo Regan. “They were professional white guys swinging golf clubs hard and fast and …
Read More »Curator Joy Bivins appointed Director of Schomburg Center in Harlem: “In my career, I have worked to help others make sense of history”
THE SCHOMBURG CENTER for Black Culture Research in Harlem has a new leader. The New York Public Library announced Joy Bivins will be the next director of the renowned cultural institution, a library and research center where the papers of James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Maya Angelou are kept. Bivins …
Read More »Town of Pelham Public Library: LGBTQ Pride Month Resources
2021-06-05 A library curated listing of education and advocacy groups and projects, as well as books, feature films and documentaries available through the Westchester Library System. National organizations Equality Forum http://www.equalityforum.com/ Equality Forum coordinates LGBT History Month, produces documentaries, undertakes high impact initiatives and hosts the largest annual national and …
Read More »Pack-Pennsylvania State Archives Preparing to Relocate
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – David Carmicheal, Director of State Archives, is a very happy man right now. If all goes as planned, next year the archives will move to a new building. “I think it will be much more open and welcoming for people to come and spend an afternoon …
Read More »Monthly Galleries Walk Begins Tonight
Gallery Walk, sponsored by the Hot Springs Area Cultural Alliance, will be held today from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at a number of Hot Springs art galleries. Some galleries will open for Gallery Walk today and some are waiting until July to resume the monthly tradition, according to the …
Read More »Codeless Web Forms: Best Online Form Builders
Needless to say, online form makers make life a lot easier for marketers, salespeople, account managers, etc. If you ask me “in what way”? I will say there are a lot of reasons to use one. Marketers and sellers can use it for inbound lead generation – registration web form, …
Read More »published poet calls for educating children on Rwandan poetry | New times
SEVERAL RWANDAN POETS have published different collections of poetry in English but few have published them in Kinyarwanda. This shows how most poets, especially the younger generation, are more comfortable writing poetry in foreign languages than in the vernacular. Yves Muhizi, a 25-year-old poet in the making, is one of …
Read More »One Bend resident among 3 appointed to the State Historic Cemeteries Commission
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – Three commissioners have been appointed to the Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries. Lisa Sumption, director of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, which oversees Oregon’s historic cemeteries, took one appointment last fall and the other two in May. Shawn Steinmetz, appointed in October 2020, is an …
Read More »Study finds WA’s ‘natural biodiversity museums’ under threat
Up to three-quarters of the biodiversity living on Western Australia’s iconic Ironstone Mountains in the state’s Mid West (known as Banded Iron Formations) could be difficult, if not impossible, to quickly return to its former state after the landscape has been mined, according to a study from Curtin University. find. …
Read More »Commercial Waste Redesign Plan – Henley Standard
A MAJOR upheaval in the collection of commercial waste at Henley is proposed to help fight climate change. The downtown businesses currently employ about ten different subcontractors, but now one company offers to take care of all the collections. Grundon devised a waste management strategy that he said would reduce …
Read More »Historic Australian Civil Service Treasure Unveiled at Old Parliament House | The Canberra Times
news, breaking news, Australian Democracy Museum, Old Parliament, Ben Morton, history How many Australians could identify what a Departmental Secretary to the Prime Minister and Cabinet does without referring to TV satire? This crucial link to government decisions and their implementation is featured in the first of two exhibitions at …
Read More »Pacific Archive acquires extensive collection of vintage Stockton postcards
Love letters come in countless forms, from beautifully handwritten and emailed to lipstick on a mirror. For Stockton history buffs, they come in the form of postcards – 2307 to be exact. University of the Pacific Libraries’ Holt-Atherton Special Collections and Archives added Stockton’s largest and most significant public postcard …
Read More »ETSU unveils its Nicely collection | New
JOHNSON CITY – The Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University recently received a donation of 50 works of art from the Sammie L. Nicely estate. Nicely, an Atlanta resident at the time of his death, was Reece Museum’s Artist in Residence during the 2014-2015 academic year. That year, he …
Read More »Roger Tory Peterson Institute reopens Saturday with celebration
The Roger Tory Peterson Institute on Curtis St. in Jamestown, NY. the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History will hold a special reopening ceremony this weekend at its Curtis Street location in Jamestown. The institute, named after the world-renowned Jamestown native artist, will open on Saturday for the first …
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