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This weekend in the arts: a solo show by Andrés Hernández at Hill Street Country Club, the 14th annual soundON new music festival, 'Nature's Abundance' at Mission Trails, 'Stained Glass Enters the Stream' at Swish, a new Hershey Felder film and Le Salon de Musiques.

BELFAST —The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court Oct. 8-13. Jennifer A. Rowan, 47, of Belfast, operating under the influence in Frankfort April 5, 2019, license suspended for 150 days and $500 fine; operating while license...

Share SlaveVoyages.org is the world’s largest repository of information about the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades: the routes, the ships, the manifests and the human beings at their core. And now, after nearly 20 years at Emory University, the website and its treasure trove of data have moved to their new home at Rice. “It’s the first time in the history of this project that it’s shifting hands,” said Rice professor Daniel Domingues of the momentous undertaking. His dec...

The case of the Vancouver couple accused of flying to a remote Yukon community to get the COVID-19 vaccine has prompted the question — could that happen in Saskatchewan? Former Great Canadian Gaming CEO Rod Baker and his wife, Ekaterina Baker made the news last week when they were given summary tickets for violating the territory’s Civil Emergency Measures Act, which carried fines of up to $1,000, plus fees. It’s alleged the couple hired a plane to the remote community of Beaver Creek, po...

"If I would do it again, I would have waited a week and got the freezer conditioned, and then we could have paced ourselves a lot better and there wouldn’t be this impending crisis here in the next week about moving vaccines," Keller said Thursday. The initial doses were divided among the regions remote communities, he said. All doses in Stony Rapids were used, but it has been slower going in the First Nations communities of Fond-du-Lac and Black Lake, which both have active COVID-19 cases. ...

The Athabasca Health Authority in far north central Saskatchewan is hoping to get more people to take the COVID-19 vaccine. In a letter posted on their Facebook page and signed by executive director of primary health care Derek Keller, the local health authority said so far they have administered 362 doses of the vaccine. Health […]

The Athabasca Health Authority in far north central Saskatchewan has received COVID-19 vaccines and are working to get them in people’s arms. “Thursday night we started vaccinating in Stony Rapids and Fond-du-Lac and Black Lake started vaccinating on Friday January 8,” said Derek Keller, executive director of primary health care for the Athabasca Health Authority. […]

Nearly 70% of Sasks COVID-19 vaccines remain in freezers after holiday slowdown A slowdown of Saskatchewans vaccination program has resulted in more than 9,000 COVID-19 vaccines sitting in freezers. Social Sharing

A holiday playlist for even the grinchiest at heart. By Chris Gray 12/23/2020 at 10:39am For anyone struggling to get into the Christmas spirit, Hearts of Animals is here to help. Merry Christmas Anyway, the Houston indie mainstay’s new eight-song release, will make an ideal digital stocking-stuffer for anyone who can relate to the lyric, “Christmastime is a punishment for everyone alive.” Fittingly, the woman who wrote that line has been contending with Christmas music for most...