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Residents and local businesses support Status 4 All Youth Allotment Date published: 08 May 2021 Status 4 All Youth Allotments, Langley, Middleton A group of residents and young people who volunteer at Status 4 All’s Youth Allotment have been overwhelmed with donations of materials and money for their Youth Allotment. The youth allotment was set up two years ago with a small grant from Riverside Housing, but the pandemic meant its young volunteers couldn’t work on it as they used to, re...

Apr 30, 2021 For a number of years, residents have expressed deep concern about overtourism and the negative effect it has on our environment and quality of life. After the onset of COVID-19, widespread agreement was reached that we don’t want to go back to the way things were pre-pandemic – a new normal was to be achieved. Now that vaccinations against COVID-19 are increasing in numbers with an end to the pandemic in sight, exactly what specific policies, programs and concrete steps has th...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   The Southern Vermont Communications Union District’s long-in-the-works feasibility study has been approved by the state, the district board’s governing chair said. Jeff Such, the board’s chair, said at a March 24 meeting that the organization, which is working toward bringing fiber-optic internet to the region, will now turn to developing a business plan, which won’t be finalized until the district has lined up an operatin...

The company, established in 2001, sees investment in new machinery as the route to open up new markets and better serve its customers. Starting as a repro house, before going into printing in 2001 and then into labels in 2013, a move into the self-adhesive market is seen as further evolution. ‘Given our impressive infrastructure, experience, and expertise, we are ideally

Harker Heights residents will see some big changes in their trash service soon. Beginning March 1, the city will no longer pick up bags of trash left at the curb. Instead, they will be required to place all garbage in 96-gallon, wheeled carts, which will be provided to each customer. The carts will be emptied by new, automated trucks as part of a new four-year contract with Waste Management Inc. Director of Public Works Mark Hyde said, “We’re excited about these five new automated sid...

Jan 15, 2021 As our community continues the long wait for the high school in Kihei (mauka of the highway), at least we had assurance for almost a decade that when it does open, the keiki and everyone else walking or cycling to the school had safe passage via an under- or overpass of the Pi’ilani Highway. Do you know why? A state Land Use Commission condition. What do you know about this statewide all-volunteer panel? Kihei Community Association commences its 61st year of incorporation with o...

Disability rights activist outside Scottish Parliament, 30 March 2013. By Brian McNeil - Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link. David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. Beyond the COVID pandemic, the relative global burden of communicable disease has declined. Non-communicable conditions such as strokes, cardiovascular disease, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have increased as causes of ...