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Festival • The St. Patrick’s Day Food and Family Fest will be March 13 in downtown Irwin. Photos with St. Patrick and children’s games will be at the Shidle Lodge, 417 Main St. The first 125 people to have their photos taken will receive either an Irish derby, green beads or a rubber snake, while supplies last. Feathers Artists Market, 102 Fourth St., will have a caricature artist. Businesses and restaurants will sell Irish foods and alcohol, where permitted. The event is sponsored by the...

Local women will come together virtually Tuesday night to support yet another Greater Saint John charity. Members of the 100 Women Who Care of Greater...

Congrats Mr. Jewett. Dan Jewett, a teacher at Seattle’s Lakeside School, just married MacKenzie Scott, aka Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife. MacKenzie is “worth” somewhere around $50 billion—at least to people who believe that money is in any way a reflection of a person’s value—and she’s said that she’ll give away most of that money. The George Floyd murder trial starts today.Crowds are gathered outside the courthouse in Minneapolis where Derek Chauvin’s trial has begun. Today marks t...

A BABY and toddler class provider is hosting a free 30 minute session at the virtual funky farm this Friday. Held over Zoom, the farm themed class by Hartbeeps will see children bouncing on a big red tractor, meeting Old MacDonald and his animal, and boogying along to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow. Three separate classes will be ran on Friday morning, tailored to different ability levels. The first class at 10am is for the Confident Walkers, at 10.45am it is Sitting to First Steps and 11.30am...

NFT Digital Art Trend: How Cryptocurrency Is Making Millionaires Out of Digital Artists One increasingly popular trend is the whole NFT crypto art trend. Heres how the growing industry is getting even bigger. Photo : Dave Hanson / Hey there, Dave here/YouTube Digital collectibles are the new art currency of the internet. In fact, they have reportedly made a number of digital artists millionaires as digital art buyers purchase collectibles and limited edition artworks online. NFT Art Millionai...

Cumbria Youth Alliance has been awarded a development grant by the Youth Futures Foundation. The £165,300 award will support the organisation in its work to deliver First Steps to a Sustainable Future to 150 young people aged 16 to 24. Cumbria Youth Alliance was set up in 1997 to be the lead agency for organisations working with young people in Cumbria. Its aim was to bring agencies together to plan and deliver high quality services across Cumbria and ensure youth work has a strong voice...

Catholic school enrollment dropped by 111,000 last year. But at St. Joseph, a small Catholic school in Anderson, S.C., the student body has nearly doubled.

Cannabidiol, more commonly known as CBD, has been praised in recent years for being something close to a miracle elixir. Got a headache? Check. Feeling anxious or stressed out? Yep, CBD has been reported to be good for that, too. Cancer symptoms, seizures, and even acne may be relieved with this natural remedy, some scientists say. And, while studies are small and inconclusive at this point, research does suggest that CBD may also help treat the 5 million people in the U.S. who are diagnosed w...

Pandemic loosens telehealth rules NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette INDIANAPOLIS – Dan Spalding is a convert. To telehealth, that is. After battling a bad sinus infection for months last year during the infancy of COVID-19, the online news editor found a doctor in Warsaw doing virtual visits. One round of prescriptions didnt make a dent but after a second telehealth meeting, the physician prescribed something different, which knocked it out. “It was just a friendly conversational discussion ...

Share: With inauguration in the rear-view mirror, Wall Street returns today to the business at hand: A long list of earnings reports and the latest word on unemployment claims. We’ll get to earnings below. First off, weekly initial jobless claims offered a little good news and some bad. On the negative side, they’re still too high at 900,000, and above many Wall Street estimates. The good news is that last week’s big number got revised downward slightly. This metric just stubbornly refuse...