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Featuring textiles from the Kentucky Museum and Kentucky Historical Society,  Whitework: Women Stitching Identity explores the significance of early white embellished textiles that have been largely ignored, undervalued, and misinterpreted. Whitework holds a “special place” within the cultural geography of textile making, connecting regional textile making with broader narratives of American women’s lives, political participation, and self-expression during the formative years of the E...

Mayoral committee member for spatial planning and environment Marian Nieuwoudt said her department was “concerned and appalled” at the incident. The city’s baboon population has grown from 350 in 2009 to 430 this year. The baboons have no natural predators in the Cape Peninsula, where leopards or lions no longer roam. In April, the city euthanised a male baboon which had started leading a splinter group of baboons from the Smitswinkel Bay troop to raids on homes in Murdoch Valley near Sim...

Lampson Brook Farm in Belchertown protected from development Updated May 14, 2021; Posted May 14, 2021 State Sen. Eric Lesser, D-Longmeadow, discusses the permanent protection of 436 acres of Belchertown land from non-agriculture development on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Jim Russell photo) Facebook Share BELCHERTOWN – Permanent protection against non-agriculture development of 436 acres of meadows and forest is now in progress at the Lampson Brook Farm property. This milestone was celebrated...

Getty Images A male juvenile baboon was killed last Thursday. The City of Cape Town believes baboons are at risk if rangers cant use paintball markers to keep them out of urban areas. The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) has withdrawn its support for the use of paintball guns to shoot primates, after a juvenile baboon was killed in Simons Town. The City of Cape Town maintains the use of paintball markers assists in keeping baboons out of harms way b...

City says paintball markers needed to keep baboons safe after baboon shot dead 13 May 2021 9:47 AM Share This: The City of Cape Town says baboons are at a greater risk of death and injury if rangers cant use paintball markers to keep them out of urban areas. This comes after a juvenile male baboon was reportedly killed with a pellet gun in Simon’s Town last week Thursday. The City says the killing of the juvenile male baboon from the Waterfall Troop demonstrates why keeping baboons out of ...

SANParks CEO Fundisile Mketeni appeared in court on 11 May together with two other SANParks men and a woman, all facing similar charges. He has been temporarily replaced by Dr Luthando Dziba, who presently heads Conservation Services. SANParks board chairperson Joanne Yawitch said that in line with SANParks’ commitment to ethical conduct and the seriousness of the allegations, Mketeni will have to step aside until the matter is resolved. “The board views the allegations made in an extremely...

Who Can You Trust? In a world beleaguered by spin and confused messages, theres never been more need for diverse, trustworthy, independent journalism in Canberra. Who can you trust? Well, for more than 25 years, "CityNews" has proudly been an independent, free, family-owned news magazine, serving the national capital with quality, integrity and authority. Through our weekly magazine and daily through our digital platforms, we constantly and reliably deliver high-quality and diverse opinion, new...

Who Can You Trust? In a world beleaguered by spin and confused messages, theres never been more need for diverse, trustworthy, independent journalism in Canberra. Who can you trust? Well, for more than 25 years, "CityNews" has proudly been an independent, free, family-owned news magazine, serving the national capital with quality, integrity and authority. Through our weekly magazine and daily through our digital platforms, we constantly and reliably deliver high-quality and diverse opinion, new...

SANParks Share This: SANParks executives say only a small portion of that R200 million total is actual irregular expenditure for the 2019/2020 period. This weeks Wednesday Panel addresses issues raised by lasts weeks panel, around irregular spending, crime, tourism infrastructure, and conservation matters affecting the Table Mountain National Park. Last week Andy Davies, chairperson of Mountain users’ forum Friends of Table Mountain (FOTM) said the park has deteri...

January 28, 2021 Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences is seeking applications to create online collections that will support teaching and scholarship at Cornell and beyond. Tabitha Cary/Provided Visual resources collections coordinator Simon Ingall digitizes artifacts for a street art collection. Materials to be digitized range from cassette recordings to 3D artworks, and can come from the applicant’s personal collection or from an...