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Joseph Kovarik Junior, Owner of Kovarik True Value Hardware, passed away Tuesday, February 23.

Houston is undeniably back in business and arts organizations across the city are ready again to entertain you. With multiple virtual festivals and online concerts this week, there’s a lot to keep you home and happy – don’t forget, we are still in the midst of a pandemic after all. After a brief freeze-related postponement, you can start celebrating Latinx voices and stories today, February 25, during the 4th Annual Sin Muros: A Latinx Theater Festival at Stages. The virtual festival, w...

CMS elementary school students stretch as they return to in-person classes. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted Tuesday to close 60 after-school care sites in April, citing the impact of the pandemic. That means more than 200 employees will lose their jobs and almost 500 children will be displaced. Last year CMS offered before- and after-school programs at 95 schools. The sites, which are licensed as five-star child care centers, served almost 7,000 students — and parents’ fees cov...

The city hasn't made any formal announcement about the 2021 parade.

Broadway decision costs Winona road repair budget $300K (2/19/2021)   Because the Winona City Council canceled the Broadway road diet, the city now has to forfeit more than a third of its road resurfacing funding for 2021.   The city of Winona spent roughly $300,000 on consulting and planning fees for the Broadway road diet project. Since the City Council voted Feb. 1 to stop the project, and thus cut off the outside grant funding that would have paid for that $300,00...

bjohnson@theintermountain.com ELKINS — Elkins City Council voted down a proposed ordinance Thursday evening that would have allowed ATVs and UTVs to drive on city streets. Three council members voted in favor of the proposed ordinance Thursday, while seven members voted against it. The proposal had been returned to the Rules and Ordinance Committee for revision after it divided council on a 5-5 vote in December. City Clerk Jessica Sutton began the discussion of the proposed ordinance at Thurs...

First Ward’s oldest board member thankful for the organization, Saginaw’s ‘fearless leaders’ Updated Feb 18, 2021; SAGINAW, MI - With the walls inside his home filled with photographs of his family and plaques of recognition, Louis Booker says he’s glad he stuck around in Saginaw when others chose to leave. Booker moved to Saginaw when he was 2 years old, so it’s always felt like home to him. Now at 93 years old, Booker and his wife Atheda Booker have 13 grandchildren, 26 great-gra...

Record-breaking Storm Uri blankets 73% of America in snow, kills 23 and leaves 3.5m freezing Texans STILL without power: Governor scrambles for answers as he admits it could take DAYS for electricity to be restored in energy-rich Lone Star State The record-breaking cold weather claimed more lives Tuesday, including four relatives who perished while using a fireplace to stay warm and a woman and a girl who died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning  In Harris County, Texas officials reported...

CAMDEN — Shaneka Boucher isnt shy about telling people why shes on Camdens City Council. "I experience all the same things," she said, as the residents she represents. "Thats the reason I do the work I do, because we experience it like everyone else." And in Camdens First Ward, which includes Fairview, Bergen Square, Morgan Village and South Camden, "it" means the noise, trucks, smells and air pollution that come from all the heavy industry concentrated in and around those neighborhoods. O...

City charter The state legislature grants the village of Utica a city charter. Thus, on February 13th, Utica – population nearly 8,400 -- becomes the sixth city in the state … after New York (chartered as the city of New Amsterdam in 1653), Albany (1686), Hudson (1785), Schenectady (1798) and Troy (1816). Utica’s boundaries are from the Bagg’s Square area on the north to the Oneida Square area on the south and from Third Avenue on the east to the York Street area on the west. Utica will...