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Pat Nabong/Sun-Times After months of arguing about hand sanitizers, positivity rates, air purifiers and the like, a sense of normalcy returned to the city’s public schools Thursday — at least from the outside — as parents clutching mittened hands led their children up snow-dusted steps and back to the classroom. “I’m kind of scared, but at the same time, he needs to be in school instead of on the computer,” said Eboni Johnson, walking her preschooler, Ashton, to William H. Brown Ele...

Third-grader collects winter clothes, blankets to help those in need Brown Elementary third-grader Jojo Gurd holds bags filled with new winter items to donate to Dégagé Ministries Byron Center — The bins filled with new winter clothes and blankets at the entrance of Brown Elementary School are just a sampling of what third-grader Jojo Gurd has collected to help keep people warm over the winter months. In November, the altruistic youngster — with help from her parents and brother Hudson,...

Dec 17, 2020 While interest rates have plummeted in recent months, Cumberland County still enjoys low variable rates on its long-term debt. Scott Gibson with Cumberland Securities said the county could consider converting some of its variable-rate loans to fixed rates in the coming months, but added, “financially, there’s not really a savings to do that. But there’s not really a cost.” The county has about 43% of its debt in variable rate loans, with 26% in fixed-rate loans ...

Doris Louise Dowdell, age 102, died on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 2020. She was born Aug. 15, 1918 seven miles east of Galt. She was a descendant, on her maternal side, of early day pioneers (1860) and on her paternal side (1906). Her parents were Athos Loll and Stella (Trimmer) Loll. Louise attended a one-room school, Brown Elementary, one mile down the road. She walked to and from school, rain or shine, and graduated in 1932. The school was closed after that, and the schoolhouse was sold. It ...