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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Statements made in a disciplinary action form that did not hold the requisite defamatory “sting” to the reputation of the plaintiff cannot support a defamation claim, and statements made during proceedings before the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) are protected by absolute privilege and cannot form the basis of a defamation claim, the Supreme Court of Virginia has held. Relevant Background Lisha Bryant-Shannon was a 31-year...

April 6, 2021 Monday night’s Century Town Council meeting was a bit unusual in that the council did not vote on anything, except ordinary acts to pay the bills and approve previous minutes. The council heard updates on items including the Community Action Program and the Charter Review Committee during a meeting that lasted well over an hour, but there were no action items on the regular agenda. The council barely had a quorum with two members absent; Leonard White and Sanda McMurray-Jackson ...

Electric and gas or propane relief funding is available now through Gila County’s Community Action Program, for local residents who meet low-income guidelines, or are experiencing unemployment or another qualifying hardship. Eligibility guidelines for utility assistance, for example, living alone and earning less than $2,061 gross per month is the qualifier — or sharing your home with one more and earning less than $2,695 (and $3,329 if three household members). If you have a question...

Glenn seeks donations for Rent-A-Kid program LIMA — Lima’s 6th Ward Councilor is once again beginning his Rent-A-Kid program. It’s a chance for the kids to learn some work experience and pocket some money for them for helping Lima’s senior citizens. The program is in its 10th year. The kids could do anything chore including cutting grass, raking leaves and cleaning out your garage. “That’s what I want to see, give them the work ethic so they have money in their pocket to go skating,...

Email address: Leave this field empty if youre human: Kevin and Zoey Martin stand outside their apartment on Kennard Road in Manchester, NH. Courtesy Photo MANCHESTER, NH – Last Spring Zoey Martin looked out her window and saw surveyors taking measurements in her Kennard Road apartment complex and she knew that was not a good sign. The past year was not a good one for Martin.  Her husband was hospitalized five times during the year, she aggravated an old injury and had to stop working in S...

PENDLETON — The soft opening for the motel formerly known as The Whiskey Inn began on a sidewalk on Southeast Second Street. About a half-dozen of Pendleton’s unhoused residents gathered Thursday, April 1, across the street in front of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, where Paula Hall, the chief executive officer of the Community Action Program of East Central Oregon, explained why the new homeless shelter and transitional housing project had been renamed the Promise Inn. “W...

The local area received some good news last week with the announcement that the Community Action Program of East Central Oregon will receive a large grant to help transform a former local hotel into a facility to help provide housing for the homeless and the housing insecure. A $1.3 million grant of state funding administered by the Oregon Community Foundation will drive a plan to refurbish The Whiskey Inn on Dorion Avenue. The facility is a first-of-its-kind in the eastern portion of the state...

PENDLETON — Superficially, the future of The Whiskey Inn doesn’t look promising. The former motel’s sign featuring a cowboy slumped against a post is turned inside out. Whatever visual evidence the empty parking lot offers is confirmed by a sign at the entrance that states the motel is “permanently closed.” But by the end of March, the 35-room motel, situated at 205 S.E. Dorion Ave., will be reborn as a facility that will serve the unhoused, a first of its kind in Easte...

Allied Tannery site in Boscawen to be cleaned up Select board member Lorrie Carey, Bill Lambert, and Moderator Charlie Neibling assist voter Marylin Martin at Boscawen Elementary School in Boscawen on Tuesday. Melissa Curran / Monitor staff Published: 3/10/2021 3:39:37 PM The old buildings at the abandoned Allied Tannery in Boscawen will be torn down and the site on the Merrimack River cleaned up so it can be used for a new purpose. Voters at town meeting on Tuesday night approved spending $10...

PENDLETON — When the Umatilla River floods hit Pendleton in 2020, hundreds of residents were rendered temporarily homeless. The Oregon Legislature eventually stepped in to provide millions of dollars worth of rapid rehousing money to organizations like the Community Action Program of East Central Oregon to help displaced residents find a new place to live. But the nonprofit struggled to find homes for the flood survivors in Pendleton’s existing housing market, according to CAPECO Chie...