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Apr 5, 2021 21 hrs ago Tuesday was a big day for the Athens Kiwanis Club with the swearing in of six new members. Lt. Governor Danny Morris administered the oath to Stephanie Gade, Kris Stringer, Phillip Parnell, Kathy Fleming, Jenny Palmer and Barbara Schmidt. Rich Flowers/staff Like many organizations, the Athens Kiwanis Club has seen its share of struggles since the coronavirus started to spread last March. After the 2020 Pancake Day, Kiwanis meeti...

Lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted last week to designate the Bible as the state’s official book. If approved by the state Senate and signed by Gov. Bill Lee, the holy scriptures would join an assortment of plants, insects and other creatures deemed an “official” something in Tennessee. That includes the raccoon, which is the official wild animal in Tennessee. The wily raccoon is in the same company as the bobwhite quail, which is the state’s game bird...

The Virginia General Assembly is reconvening Wednesday to take up Gov. Ralph Northam’s recommended changes to legislation, with much of the attention being paid to him urging lawmakers to speed up legalizing simple possession of marijuana. The General Assembly passed legislation to make it lawful for an adult to possess up to an ounce of marijuana in 2024, when commercial sales begin, but the chances of the legislature passing Northam’s amendment to accelerate the timeline look good. ...

Amtrak says it could bring dozens of new train routes to cities across the United States with funding from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal.

By Beau Simmons bsimmons@stwnewspress.com Apr 2, 2021 Dr. Kayse Shrum will be the next president of Oklahoma State University. Shrum is currently the president of OSU’s Center for Health Services. She is a former member of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s cabinet, as the Sec. of Science and Innovation. After two days worth of lengthy deliberations, the OSU A&M Board of Regents selected Shrum out of four finalists.  She will be the universitys 19th president and the first woman in the...

(The Center Square) – Democrats are turning up the pressure on Republican Gov. Chris Sununu over his administrations handling of a COVID-19 outbreak at a veterans home that sickened nearly 200 and killed 37 elderly residents. In a letter to Sununu’s office, New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley rips the governors "sham" report on the outbreak and requests documents related to the state’s response to the outbreak at the New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton and ...

A new Forsyth County park planned for the shores of Belews Lake is about as close to Reidsville or Greensboro as it is to Winston-Salem. As a result, lawmakers from around the Triad are signing on to a bill that would appropriate $3 million from the state’s Parks and Recreation Trust Fund to further the development of the park. The bill was filed March 29 by N.C. Rep. Donny Lambeth, R-Forsyth, but has drawn support from other lawmakers representing Stokes, Surry, Rockingham and Guilford co...

BILL CRAWFORD “Gov. Tate Reeves and Republican lawmakers who resist Medicaid expansion have for years said that Mississippi cannot afford to extend health-care coverage to the working poor. They obviously don’t bother to do the math.” You see, the latest COVID relief package makes Medicaid expansion much more affordable. State Sen. Hob Bryan, chairman of the Senate Public Health Committee, told Mississippi Today, “there will be more money in the state treasury if we expand M...

BOISE — The Idaho State Board of Education will hold a special Board meeting on Monday, April 5 starting at 3 p.m. (MDT). The meeting will be conducted virtually at the State Board office in Boise and carried via livestream on the Board’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3dnhzFO The public can also listen to the meeting by calling 1-877-820-7831; Passcode: 7483005. The agenda is posted on the State Board’s website.  Meeting materials will be added once finalized: Agenda items incl...

“No justice, no peace!” roared a crowd of about 100 people who met at the Arch in downtown Athens on Saturday afternoon. The crowd gathered to join in solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Islander community after the mass shootings in Atlanta that occurred on March 16. The event was organized jointly by the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement, Economic Justice Coalition, Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition, Moms Demand Action and Justice for Black Lives Academy. The event was ...