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Robert Merrill Higgins died peacefully Tuesday, August 22, 2023. He was born November 17, 1930 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada then moved to Bemidji, Minnesota in 1936. He attended Bemidji Public Schools and graduated in 1948.

Longfellow Elementary School hosting Reading Madness throughout the month

Listing for Feb. 21.

As a child, Mykael Ash enjoyed picking up seashells near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His grandfather lives there, so trips to the beach were a regular part of life.

In Ash’s studio, spent ammunition mixes with caution tape, broken glass and paint to transform the litter of violence into art

Gun violence has been a persistent problem in East St. Louis, which had one of the highest murder rates of any U.S. city before the pandemic.

Mykael Ash uses bullet shells he finds on the ground as elements in his artwork to tell stories about racial violence, resistance, and history.

As a child, Mykael Ash enjoyed picking up seashells near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. His grandfather lives there, so trips to the beach were a regular part of life.

Each year since he was 17, Mykael Ash has lost at least one friend or relative to gun violence. "My art saved my life," he says.

100m hurdles After improving her own Puerto Rican record to 12.32 to move to equal seventh on the world 100m hurdles all-time list in Eugene in April, Camacho-Quinn will be hoping to make more history for her nation in Tokyo. There she will aim to become the first Puerto Rican woman to win an Olympic medal in athletics and given her recent form, she will surely be going for gold. The 24-year-old hit a hurdle and missed out on the final when making her Olympic debut in 2016 but now working with ...