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A public information session will be held on the proposed designs for Hazelbank Play Park

Derry City and Strabane District Council are inviting residents to a public information session on the proposed designs for Hazelbank Play Park.

There is nothing that says “small town” like a quilt show, and The Grapevine Quilter’s Guild is helping Ukiah live up to its rural roots. The Guild is presenting their annual “Quilts in Bloom” quilt show on Saturday and Sunday, May 4th and 5th at the Ukiah Conference Center. Like so many organizations, the non-profit Guild is […]

Safety measure is welcomed but residents say the work should have already been done

Residents say their requests for fencing were not acted on as investigation opens into events that led to five-year-old’s death

Sierra Space has completed a key test of its inflatable space habitat, as the company progresses toward launching and operating a private space station with Blue Origin before the end of the decade. The “ultimate burst pressure” test of the inflatable module was conducted at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. In this instance, engineers inflated the module to 77 psi before it burst, proving that it exceeded NASA’s recommended safety level of 60.8 psi by 27%.

Nurses from Adventist Health Ukiah Valley and members of the Grapevine Quilters Guild with the quilts donated to the first baby girl and first baby boy of 2024 born at the local hospital.

By day they are IT workers, economists and policy specialists. But by night, a battle of the bands has brought out a different side to the capital’s musical bureaucrats

Here's this week's "Artsweek" column from the desk of arts editor HELEN MUSA.

Following on from Help! We Bought A Village, Channel 4 and True North are expanding the Help! franchise.