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Apr 22, 2021 Debra A. Zetts, 68, formerly of Avis, passed away at UPMC Lock Haven Extended Care Unit on Sunday, April 18, 2021. She was born in Cohoes, Albany County, N.Y., on March 6, 1953, a daughter of the late Alton and Elizabeth Wright. She married Edward Joseph Zetts on June 9, 1973; they shared 41 years of marriage before Edward passed away on March 28, 2017. She had been a loan officer during her career with Beneficial Finance. She enjoyed stamp collecting, crafting and painting. She is...

A “Tuskegee” for South Carolina While she was studying at Battle Creek Sanitarium from 1893 to 1896, Jessie Dorsey met Almira S. Steele of Boston, Massachusetts, a humanitarian who was trying to open schools for destitute Black children in the South. At Steele’s invitation, Dorsey went south in June 1896 to work with Elizabeth E. Wright in establishing a school for Back students in South Carolina following the model of Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where Wright h...

 | Updated: 11:26, 17 March 2021 National lottery players have made a Fenland church a major winner with news this week it is to receive £363,200 funding. The grant announced by the National Lotterys Heritage Fund means St Peters and St Pauls Church in Wisbech will get the urgent repairs it needs as well as a new kitchen facility and toilets making it fit for the 21st century. It has taken three years of hard work by the Parish Project Team and the churchs trustees for their funding bid to...

By Madeline Hughes mhughes@andovertownsman.com Mar 11, 2021 Mar 11, 2021 The state is delaying MCAS tests this year for elementary and middle-school students, but Andover says the delay is not good enough. The towns school officials and teachers want the tests canceled because of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic. Jeff Riley, state commissioner of elementary and secondary education, announced the MCAS delay Friday. The announcement comes as Andovers School Committee and ...

25 pieces of cake, 25 walks and 25 positive aspirations: Nurses challenge for young carers James Cook’s Ward 2 nurses are helping raise £50k for a respite caravan Updated Nurses from Ward 2 at James Cook University Hospital are taking part in the UChangeLives25 challenge (Image: Rephrase) Get the latest Hartlepool news direct to your inbox with our free email newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you prov...

The Andover School Committee unanimously approved a plan last Thursday to send kindergartners and first-graders back to school buildings four days a week.

February 26, 2021 A federal criminal complaint was filed late this afternoon charging Jeremiah Peter Watson, age 22, of Hyattsville, Maryland, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The criminal complaint was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner and Acting Chief of Police Gregory T. Monahan of the U.S. Park Police. According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on the evening of February 25, 2021, a dark four...

President of the Galen Institute U.S. President Biden, out of frame, meets with labor union leaders in the Oval Office on February 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. to discuss his $1.9 trillion economic stimulus plan. Pete Marovich-Pool / Getty Images Key Takeaways Instead of addressing Obamacare’s many flaws and costly mandates, the Democrats’ misguided proposal simply throws more money at insurance companies. The economic dislocation caused by COVID-19 did n...

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute. The following is an open letter from 68 leaders participating in the Health Policy Consensus Group. The full list of signatories follows the letter. Democrats in Congress have proposed a COVID-19 relief bill that includes provisions to dramatically increase government subsidies for health care coverage for millions of people who already have insurance while further expanding government control over health care. The legislation would incr...

The Macpherson Report: Whites As Kulaks Frank Ellis,  The Macpherson Report: ‘Anti-racist’ Hysteria and the Sovietization of the United Kingdom, Right Now Press, 2001, 47 pp. The 1993 murder of black British teenager Stephen Lawrence, allegedly by a gang of young white men, became a cause celebre for the British left. At various times over the years, police have brought charges against five men, only to see them dismissed because of insufficient evidence. Three white men actually brought ...