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This essay examines a deep underlying cause of many societal ills in the Pacific: trauma resulting from abuse. Abuse, combined with patriarchal, colonial and capitalistic influences lead to depression, gender-based violence, addictions, and broken relationships, but we don't usually talk about trauma. Any viable way forward must embrace inclusion, creation of safe spaces to talk…

Ashley F. Ellis, the chief academic officer for Loudoun County Public Schools, received a state leadership award, according to a March 18 news release.

The family of John McFail, Jr., 84, of Houstonia, will receive friends from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 18 at Heckart Funeral Home

A Celebration of Life for Betty Mae Borchardt, 92, of Sedalia, will be held in California at a later date.

Funeral service for Dr. Dean Allen Dohrman, 64, of La Monte, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9 at Rea Funeral Chapel.

Memorial service for Tammy S. Mosier-Young, 65, of Sedalia, will be at noon Monday, Feb. 12 at Calvary Baptist Church.

Memorial service for Tammy S. Mosier-Young, 65, of Sedalia, will be at noon Monday, Feb. 12 at Calvary Baptist Church.

A memorial service for Daniel W. Smith, 80, of Sedalia, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 at Heckart Funeral Home.

The co-chairs of the school divisions Special Education Advisory Committees Policy and Compliance Subcommittee recommend reducing the number of administrators to hire more special education teachers.

Historicization may be part of what we expect from art, but Fredrick Jameson’s recommendation that one “Always historicize” sounds like a rule. The problem, I think, is the word ‘“always.” It makes it sound as though historicism is always the same and always observed or digested in the same way. “Always” is an absolute, everything else other than absolutely nothing isn’t.