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The Draper Holdings Charitable Foundation has made a generous contribution of $50,000 to Delaware Technical and Community College, it was announced Wednesday.

Some of todays sophomores at William Penn High School could be tomorrows nurses or health care technicians - sooner, rather than later.

Delaware Tech's courtyard project adds to the $25 million Student Success Center, as a list of projects catches up on decades of deferred maintenance.

The music-centric Riverbend Festival marks its 40th anniversary this weekend, while community festivals in Athens, Tenn., and LaFayette, Ga., celebrate cows and honeybees, respectively. Heres a look at those and other events around the region.

Heres whats happening this week.

For this issue, the tense moments in last week’s Joint Finance Committee hearings and the lieutenant governor’s busy week.

One Friday in the spring of 1971, 5-year-old train enthusiast Michael Meadows and his grandmother boarded the northbound train to Nashville at Chattanoogas Union Station. Meadows grandfather was a train man, The Chattanooga Times reported, and Michael Meadows hoped to follow suit. Chances looked dim.

Kevin Gilmore had the audience’s full attention when he asked, “Without hope, what do we have?”

Bonnie Martinson Brainard, 74, of Moscow, died Wednesday, March 9, 2022, at Good Samaritan Village in Moscow, after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Bonnie was born in National City,

The 2022 graduation ceremony for Delaware Technical Community College Owens Campus took place May 25 in Georgetown. Dr. Bobbi Barends, vice president and Owens Campus director, welcomed the approximately 400 graduates along with their families,...