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As small businesses struggle under COVID-19 restrictions, long waits for promised grant money are leaving many on edge.

Published May 19. 2021 9:00AM  By Kevin Gorden, Special to the Times Town officials are now focused on getting the new Griswold Senior Community Wellness Center completed. Voters agreed in a referendum May 5 to take $760,000 out of the town’s surplus account to finish the construction project. The referendum passed with 550 in favor of more funding and 280 against. Work on the Taylor Hill Road complex stopped in mid-March after a funding shortfall was discovered, causing bad feelings among s...

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Folk group The Magpies have performed internationally and at Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festivals. On Saturday August 14, they will host The Magpies Festival in support of Womens Aid, in the grounds of Sutton Park, just north of York. The festival site will include a camping area and will open at midday. Music will begin at 2.30pm on the main stage, with Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys, Blair Dunlop, Dan Webster, Rob Heron and The Tea Pad Orchestra and Katherine Priddy, already conf...

Investment Trends analyst, Ian Webster, said that while local advice technology developers were focused on lifting practice efficiency and anticipating future changes in advice delivery models, there was emerging competition from applications likes the Salesforce-based Wealth Connect and Intelliflo’s Intelligent Office from the UK. “It is a trend that is likely to grow,” he said. “Now more than ever, advice firms have access to an array of globally available, low-cost digital services t...

Here are 4 ways Utah first lady Abby Cox wants you to help fight an ‘empathy crisis’ Her work will focus on helping children and expanding Utahns’ opportunities to volunteer. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah First Lady, Abby Cox, describes her new statewide service initiative during a news conference in Alpine, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021.   | April 28, 2021, 1:30 a.m. Worried about what she sees as an “empathy crisis,” Utah first lady Abby Cox on Tuesday a...

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The great philosopher William Morris once advised: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” This is probably why the two most dreaded words in the English language for me are “spring cleaning.” I never know if I’m going to make the cut. There are other dangers to spring cleaning, such as filling yet another box full of cords and cables that MIGHT go to something you still have; doubling your collection of bits of string and bread twist...

This week on Northwest Arts Review, Chris Maccini talks Dr. Carlos Gil, the next presenter in SCC’s “Diversity Dialogues” series. Verne Windham welcomes SSO Music Director James Lowe to KPBX after a long COVID separation from both Spokane and his orchestra. And Dan Webster offers his take on a current Netflix documentary. Plus, we have music from cellist Kevin Heckmatpanah and the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. Listen

Beyond GaetzGate: What would a special election in CD 1 look like? Matt Gaetz. A scandal surrounding U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz made national headlines and inspired gossip (and disgust) in Florida and Washington, D.C. But in the quiet corners of Florida’s Panhandle, the whispers already leaned into another topic. Who will replace Gaetz when he’s gone? While nothing is certain with a Congressman whose brand seems synonymous with defiance, talk has already begun who might file for a special electi...