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Elphinstone grad Kayla Payne plays in the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Competition

OSCEOLA — The North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame and Museum, 1121 Comins Road, will welcome Chad Miller as the featured performer on Sunday.

The music community in New Brunswick has lost a longtime music columnist, collector and historian.

A popular music festival, which features fiddlers playing in canoes while floating down the Tobique River, will resurface this summer for the first time since 2019.

Indiana education leaders spoke against a Senate bill that targets discussion of race in class curricula during a press conference Tuesday – the day before lawmakers expect to hear it. Members of the Education Equity Coalition and Indiana State Teachers Association emphasized the harm of not properly addressing racial issues in the classroom.

A proposed amendment to the bill would strip out most of the topics except when it comes to race and color.

Indiana education leaders spoke against a Senate bill that targets discussion of race in class curricula during a press conference Tuesday the day before lawmakers expect to hear it. Members of the Education Equity Coalition and Indiana State Teachers Association emphasized the harm of not properly addressing racial issues in the classroom.

The bill would limit what teachers can say in the classroom and was inspired by some debates regarding critical race theory.

Bills in the Indiana General Assembly having to do with parent transparency and partisan school board elections have the state in an uproar.

Parents and teachers also spoke out against the controversial bill, calling House Bill 1134 "dangerous" and "racist."