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KENNEWICK, Wash. — Cascade Natural Gas is offering a debt relief program for residential customers whose bills are past due because of financial hardship.

AT&T released findings from a University of Georgia research effort on March 25, where studies of Athens-Clarke County found that Black, Hispanic and low-income communities had 38% to 185% higher flood risk compared to the average risk.  In 2019, AT&T began a Climate Resiliency Community Challenge, an effort to help communities in the southeastern United States build resilience to climate change by funding local universities, including the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of T...

Cleveland-Cliffs, one of the Calumet Regions largest industrial employers, forecasts it will pull in about $3.5 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization this year if prices hold up. The Cleveland-based steelmaker, which bought ArcelorMittal USA and AK Steel last year, projects it will bring in $500 million in EBITDA in the first quarter and $1.2 billion in EBITDA in the second quarter of 2021. The projections assume hot-rolled coil prices in the United States...

WASHINGTON — The White House was forced to scratch the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for the second straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that didn’t stop

BY MIKE GANGLOFF The Roanoke Times RADFORD — Kat Owens laughed last week as she said that her best friend is a duck named Jellybean. “I’m the ‘Duck Lady.’ It’s stuck and I’ve embraced it,” the 23-year-old said. Jellybean turns 4 in June. Matt Gentry, The Roanoke Times The nickname began around her Fairlawn home, Owens said, but has extended to other parts of the New River Valley, thanks to Jellybean accompanying her to all manner o...

Mon, 04/05/2021 - 1:15pm (Photo courtesy Waldoboro Public Library) Story Location: Waldoboro  MaineUnited States WALDOBORO —  Busy volunteers from the Waldoboro Public Library will again be hanging out the open sign on the Village Bookshop at 25 Main Street, where it shares space with the Waldoboro office of the Midcoast Conservancy. All proceeds from book sales benefit the library. Opening day is Tuesday, April 13. The secondhand bookshop, which originally opened in July 2019,...

The streaming service has ordered Minx, a 10-episode half-hour comedy from showrunner Ellen Rapoport, Feigco Entertainment, and Lionsgate Television set in 1970s Los Angeles, to series. It follows “an earnest young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher to create the first erotic magazine for women,” according to the logline. Minx stars Ophelia Lovibond as the feminist and Jake Johnson as the publisher. The cast also includes Idara Victor, Jessica Lowe, Lennon Parh...

Monroe County was the only school district in the Golden Triangle district able to compete. “These are our leadership development events. They competed in opening and closing, prepared speaking, extemporaneous speaking and the FFA creed,” said Hamilton FFA sponsor Jennifer Terrell. Winners from the categories will compete at the district level through virtual events. Approximately 40 students in junior-level and senior-level teams from each of the schools competed. Senior teams can be...

Linoleum floors, steel tables and a stainless steel stove would make anyone feel like a high-end chef. But there’s nothing fancy about Mullens’ work. It’s all about the vegan cheese sauce he personally makes to fuel a growing business that is now nationwide. With the help of PayPal, the payment-exchange service, Mullens has seed money he believes is giving his company a solid foundation. Mullens, 25, graduated recently from N.C. A&T with a degree in industrial engineering. But hi...

The transition back to the workplace in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may present unprecedented challenges for employee and employer alike. In many instances, it won’t be as simple as putting your family’s picture or a potted plant back on the desk. Workers could find their desks now in another room, another floor, another building, across town or another city because the employer chose during the pandemic to shrink its office footprint. Both Truist Financial Corp. and Wells Fargo & C...