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School systems are seeking interim solutions to staffing shortages, but also need to face longer-term challenges with recruiting and retaining teachers.

DUNEDIN — City Commissioners continue to approve requests for historic landmark designations in the community.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office has more than a third of a million followers of its Facebook page, and the agency regularly posts seeking public help in finding suspects, either those sought for local crimes or as an assist to another law-enforcement agency. Such posts typically receive mostly positive responses along the lines of, “Go get ‘em, Grady,” in reference to Sheriff Grady Judd. The response was different Friday when the PCSO posted about Jonathan Pollock, a North Lakeland re...

Lava fire swells to 13,300 acres, forcing evacuations, as blazes ignite across California Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times June 29, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A bulldozer operator works on a fire line as vegetation burns nearby at the Lava Fire on Monday, June 28, 2021, north of Weed, Calif.  (Scott Stoddard/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP)Scott Stoddard/AP LOS ANGELES — In what is perhaps an ominous harbinger of the coming fire season, crews are battling multiple wildfires across California...

‘Fire Monks’ Defend Tassajara Zen Monastery From Wildfire Eight monks protecting the Buddhist center near Big Sur, Calif., are relying not only on training from professional firefighters but also on their Zen practice. Smoke rising from the Willow fire, which has burned about 2,800 acres in Los Padres National Forest since it began on June 17.Credit...California Interagency Willow Fire Incident, via Associated Press June 23, 2021 Eight Buddhist monks working to defend the Tassajara Ze...

Dec 11, 2020 ISHPEMING, MI – Harold James “Jim” Marinich, age 80, long time Ishpeming Township resident, passed away on, Tuesday December 8, 2020, at his home. Jim was born on March 25, 1940, in L’Anse, MI, son of the late John and Agnes (Campeau) Marinich. He served his country in the United States Army and recently enjoyed going on the UP Honor Flight to Washington DC. Jim enjoyed riding his Harley, going for side by side rides, sitting in his lawn chair in his garage where he socia...

Harold “Jim” Marinich ISHPEMING — Harold James “Jim” Marinich, 80, long time Ishpeming Township resident, passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, at his home. Jim was born on March 25, 1940, in L’Anse, son of the late John and Agnes (Campeau) Marinich. He served his country in the United States Army and recently enjoyed going on the U.P. Honor Flight to Washington DC. Jim enjoyed riding his Harley, going for side by side rides, sitting in his lawn chair in his garage where he...

Were back. some people say we live in a time of very bitter feuding between right and left on everything from culture wishes to gay marriage to taxes and spending and, of course, health care in the months leading up to pearl harbor before world war ii, there was one of most divisive periods in history about whether the u.s. should enter the war. lynn olson chronicles those years in "those angry days." franklin roosevelt was signing a bill in the law that required men between 21 and 45 to sign up...