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MOHUA AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST/SUPPLIED The Mohua Affordable Housing Project aims to provide affordable homes for people who are finding it increasingly difficult to get somewhere to live in Golden Bay. A community-led proposal to build two additional pensioner flats on Tasman District Council land in the Golden Bay town of Tākaka has received strong support from district councillors. “If this works well, I believe its a model that we can roll out in other parts of the district,” said cou...

The 2020-21 school year challenged students academically, physically, mentally, emotionally and politically. Despite elections, protests and remote learning, MU still strived to succeed and achieve some semblance of normalcy. However, COVID-19 and racism on campus showed students that the administration is not always willing to listen and abide by student concerns. A summer of Black Lives Matter protests demanding an end to police brutality and justice for the murder of George Floyd led stude...

Apr 30, 2021 LISBON — Anthony J. Antonas, 40, Poland, was bound over in county Municipal Court to the grand jury on charges of domestic violence, criminal trespassing, aggravated burglary and disrupting public services. Antonas is accused of striking Cheyenne Cooper in the nose three times and causing it to bleed in May of 2020 and then entering the home of Ester Blue, whose granddaughter, Cooper, had fled there to shelter from Antonas. He reportedly refused to leave when he was told to go by...

Apr 30, 2021 LISBON — Anthony J. Antonas, 40, Poland, was bound over in county Municipal Court to the grand jury on charges of domestic violence, criminal trespassing, aggravated burglary and disrupting public services. Antonas is accused of striking Cheyenne Cooper in the nose three times and causing it to bleed in May of 2020 and then entering the home of Ester Blue, whose granddaughter, Cooper, had fled there to shelter from Antonas. He reportedly refused to leave when he was told to go by...

Author: Christopher Bennett (Vanderbilt University) This study was published today in American Educational Research Journal. Key Findings: In undergraduate admissions, the adoption of test-optional policies at selective private institutions was linked to a 3-4 percent increase in enrollment of Pell Grant recipients, a 10-12 percent increase in enrollment of first-time Black, Latinx, and Native students, and a 6-8 percent increase in enrollment of first-time students who were women. However, the...

Social Share Clyde Jones, a leading photojournalist in New York whose camera took him to most landmarks in New York and key economic diplomatic and social events and institutions in the United States and Barbados died in a New York hospital today after a prolonged illness. Jones was in his late 80s. Thelma, his wife of more than 50 years said: “He passed away in Mount Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn. Clyde was truly an outstanding person who loved his country and is going to be mourned by many ...

THIS week’s pictures from The Northern Echo Camera Club show a variety of styles, from the vibrancy of nature, seeing things from a different…

Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin is planning on announcing the first nine members of the new Police Civilian Review Board in early March.

Christopher Bennett, the World Bank engineer who developed the project, said phase one would see a total of nine homes built. This included two pensioners’ flats on council-owned land, behind the existing four pensioners’ cottages on Commercial Street. After 35 years, they would be donated to council. Another would be located in Rockville to host a landowner’s elderly parents, and another on residents Shirley and Paul Marcussens land, in Hamama. A suitable tenant, or tenants, were cur...

California State University, Fresno selected AFROTC Detachment 035 as the recipient of its fall 2020 Provost’s Award for Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times in the category of Innovative Teaching. The university announced the award on Dec. 22,,