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The reconfiguration will cost more than $100 million with a fall 2025 completion date.

By Rick Cleveland Apr 23, 2021 7:44 PM Mike Kinnison’s No. 15 jersey will be retired at Delta State Saturday. Kinnison, a former DSU All American, won 75.6 percent of his games as the school’s head coach. He won a national championship in 2004 and six NCAA Regional titles as head coach. Author’s note:  Delta State University will retire former head baseball coach Mike Kinnison No. 15 jersey in a ceremony Saturday at Harvey Stadium-Ferriss Field prior to the 2 p.m. ...

  A Government Minister has suggested it will be possible for taxes owed by struggling small businesses to be written down in new “examinership-lite” proposals that could be enacted before the summer. Robert Troy, Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, says he will bring proposals to Cabinet next week for a so-called “summary rescue” process for SMEs. This would allow insolvent SMEs to restructure debts using a fast-track administrative process, without the huge...

The public will be able to virtually view plans for the Interstate 70 at Route 51 Interchange Improvement Project located in Rostraver and South Huntingdon townships. The state Department of Transportation project involves reconstruction and widening of an approximately two-mile section of I-70 beginning about 1 mile west of Route 51 and ending at the eastern end of the Smithton High Level Bridge spanning the Youghiogheny River. The project will also include reconstruction of approximately 1 mi...

Any suggestion that the “airbrushing” of the 1916 Padraig Pearse surrender photograph was done to exclude Elizabeth O’Farrell from the image, because she was a woman, is not true. (‘Painting of woman airbrushed from GPO Rising surrender unveiled in Seanad to mark International Women’s Day”, Independent.ie, March 8). Elizabeth O’Farrell stated in a later interview that she decided to step back when she became aware that a British Army officer was taking a photograph. She was obscur...

Dr Mairéad O’Driscoll, HRB chief executive Health Research Board welcomes update to personal data guidelines The Health Research Board (HRB) has welcomed an update to regulations governing the collection of personal information for health research purposes. The Health Research Regulations (HRR) were introduced in 2018 in response to the European-wide General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to protect the rights and freedoms of research participants. The recent amendments covered pre-scre...

Minister for Health amends Health Research Regulations on personal information   The Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly TD, today made significant amendments to the Health Research Regulation 2018. Those Regulations provide the legal framework that governs the collection, use and sharing of an individual’s personal information for health research purposes. The amendments deal with the following main areas: pre-screening to establish suitability or eligibility for inclusion...

Covid-19 Updated / Saturday, 23 Jan 2021 07:00 Next month will mark the anniversary of the first officially recorded case of Covid-19 here. At that time, no-one could have written the script for what was to follow Health Correspondent Is this the longest January in history? It certainly feels that way. The first month of the year has seen a mixed picture with Covid-19. After the surge in cases, the daily numbers are thankfully beginning to reduce, but only very slowly. The impact on the healt...