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foodshare.org Each week volunteers with Foodshare have been working to help fight hunger in Connecticut. As a Foodshare truck arrived on Hamilton Road in East Hartford on Monday, volunteers quickly got to work. Tables were set up, boxes were unloaded off of the truck and bags were filled. “It is significant you get people that come out here early to make sure that they can get their allotment of the food that is being distributed to them,” said Dana Hya...

That’s where vaccinations are now making a difference. While La Casa Pizzaria in Omaha has done pretty healthy takeout business during the pandemic, General Manager Nicole Jesse has recently seen a noticeable uptick in dine-in customers. “A lot of the people we are seeing now are some of our older customers,” Jesse said. “They are coming in and telling us, ‘We got vaccinated.’ ” Ricketts said he’s optimistic that as vaccination numbers continue to rise, t...

Chiwetel Ejiofor was too scared to speak to his idol David Bowie when they unexpectedly were in the same shop. The 43-year-old actor had never been more star-struck than when he got close to the ‘Ziggy Stardust’ hitmaker – who died of cancer in 2016 – but he couldn’t bear the idea of how “mortifying” it would be to look back on the encounter if he said something silly. He told Empire magazine: “I was probably most star-struck when I was living in New York...

To compost or not to compost? That is the question some people ask themselves before throwing out their waste. At Penn State, composting efforts start in the dining halls and end in the facilities of the Organic Materials Processing and Education Center, where the compost then makes it way back onto campus grounds, the Student Farm and into the community. Ryan McCaughey, manager of grounds and equipment who works closely with the composting process, said the solid waste management department co...

One of Historic Palmyra’s five museums, the Alling Coverlet Museum in Palmyra, New York, displays an impressive 500 bed-sized coverlets, along with a few quilts. A coverlet is a loom-woven bed covering usually made of cotton or linen. Bonnie J. Hays, executive director of Historic Palmyra, said that equipment developed in 1804 by Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard, the Jacquard loom attachment, enabled people to make coverlets in whatever creative design they wished. By inserting punched card...

NORTH POWDER — With skiers and snowboarders carving turns in fresh powder, feathery white clouds glittering in their wake, it was almost possible to forget there’s a pandemic going on. But though symbols of the viral scourge were evident this season at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort, the ski area bucked trends that affected other types of businesses by welcoming more visitors than the previous year, rather than fewer, said Anthony Lakes Marketing Director Chelsea Judy. She didn’t ...

Man Threatened by Unknown Account Over Nude Photos An unknown person threatened to distribute nude photos of a man if he did not send them $1,000 through CashApp on March 27, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department report. An unknown Instagram account using a woman’s name requested to follow the man’s account and he accepted. The account then messaged him and asked if he would be willing to exchange nude photos, according to the report. After the exchange occurred, the ...

ST. LOUIS, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products and provider of related supply chain management and logistics services, announced that Alex Piwoschuk has been named District Vice President for the companys Minneapolis District effective May 1, 2021. Alex joined Graybar in 2012 and currently serves as Director, Electrical Sales in the Minneapolis District. For the first five years of his career, Alex worked in ...

Mon, 04/05/2021 - 1:00pm (Photo courtesy Secoast Security) On March 26, 2021 Seacoast Security, Inc. of Rockport, launched a scholarship program to help fund further education in the skilled trades. The program offers two $1,000 scholarships to students pursuing a career in the trades at a Maine technical school in the Fall of 2021. Recognizing the shortage of skilled tradesmen, Seacoast Security is taking proactive steps to encourage more young people to enter these fields and pursue...

Apr 5, 2021 The Boone County Commissioners have decided to allow the mask mandate to expire. However, while masks in the courthouse will be up to individuals, the offices and courts may still require masks. File photo As Gov. Eric Holcomb’s mask mandate changes to a mask advisory, the Boone County Commissioners have decided to not require masks in county buildings. However, they are allowing individual offices to make their own decisions about masks. Holcomb an...