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This Louisville resident is a retired public health worker and he plays Santa Claus. Heres his take on Christmas and the pandemic.

This Louisville resident is a retired public health worker and he plays Santa Claus. Heres his take on Christmas and the pandemic.

Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 12.41 EDT Barbara Allen, by Jo Stafford I’d been playing the piano since I was five, and by the time I was 15 I was memorising Rachmaninov concertos. But Barbara Allen, recorded by Jo Stafford, turned me towards the music that was becoming the rebirth of folk music in the US. I knew Stafford’s voice very well – her My Funny Valentine was one of our favourites. She was such a magnificent singer, and her version of Barbara Allen was just stunning. Th...

   The first inductees into the Belmond-Klemme Hall of Fame are two undefeated football teams and three individual state champions.   The 1963 Bronco football team was the first team in school history to go undefeated while the 1964 team followed up with the same record.   The individual inductees are:   • Art Hoffman - cross country state champion with a time of 10:13.9 in 1961;   • Murray Katter - long jump state champion with a jump of ...

COVID-19 by the numbers Over the weekend, health officials reported 2,519 additional COVID-19 cases—1,442 on Saturday and 1,077 on Sunday—bringing the statewide total so far to 129,993. Of those, the health department has designated 54,357 as recovered. Bernalillo County led with 727 new cases over the weekend, followed by San Juan County with 335 and Doña Ana County with 206. Santa Fe added 109 new cases: 66 on Saturday, 34 of which came from the Southside 87507 ZIP code, which ranked ...

The Santa who sounded the alarm Brittany Shammas, The Washington Post Dec. 19, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Art Hoffman broke out the Santa suit early this year. It was April, his Louisville neighborhood quiet in the shock of the first coronavirus lockdowns. He strolled from house to house holding up a sign: "Hello and Love from Santa." He waved at the delighted kids - always from a distance Santa Claus doesnt usually keep. The pandemic was warping everyones sense of time, but that wasnt the only...