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Tickets for this year's Thursford Christmas Spectacular are selling fast, with its December dates already low on availability.

Organisers of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular 2021 have said this year's event will be "bigger and better than ever" following lockdown.

As state says unvaccinated kids should wear masks, heres what suburban schools are doing so far Elgin Area School District U-46 will require masks in prekindergarten through sixth grade, while masks will be "strongly encouraged" in middle and high schools. John Starks | Staff Photographer People carry signs as they wait to enter the Elgin Area School District U-46 board meeting Monday. John Starks | Staff Photographer About 45 people watched from each of two overflow rooms a...

District 211 recommends rather than requires masks for unvaccinated students Masks for unvaccinated students will not be required in Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 schools but will be on buses and other school-related transportation. Getty Images   Updated 7/15/2021 11:49 PM During a contentious board meeting in which jeering parents were admonished several times, the board of trustees of Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 on Thursday night decided to reco...

Published: 11:17 AM April 3, 2021    Beccles Public Hall is set to receive £35,000 as part of the second round of funding from the government. - Credit: Danielle Booden A theatre is celebrating after receiving £35,000 as part of the governments culture recovery fund. Beccles Public Hall and Theatre has been awarded its second-round grant which will help the arts venue to reopen in May. The first round of funding received by the theatre helped to support their Christmas Festive Season in D...

True West Magazine LT HOWARD CUSHING There were many brave officers in the Frontier Army during the darkest days of the Apache campaigns in the late 1860s and early 1870s but none braver than Lieutenant Howard Cushing. He was a member of one of America’s most famous family of war heroes that included brothers, Milton Jr., Alonzo and John Cushing. Their father, Dr. Milton Cushing Sr. received his medical degree and settled in Zanesville, Ohio where he married his first wife Abigail. They had f...

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captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. im ann curry. >> im matt lauer. and, wow, that was a pretty emotional scene last night. there was ant dry eye in the house, pun intended, when gabby giffords walked on to the floor to cast her vote. >> thats right. the chamber walked it as you can see in thunderous applause as hugs and kisses and tears. another milestone on giffords road to recovery. coming up, why she said she had to be the...