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Kyra Elzy wins NCAA D-I Rookie Coach of the Year Award Share this story Dawson Powers-USA TODAY Sports After finishing her first season with more wins than any other first-year head coach in the nation, University of Kentucky women’s basketball head coach Kyra Elzy has earned the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I NCAA Rookie Coach of the Year. The Spalding Maggie Dixon NCAA Division I Rookie Coach of the Year award is named in honor of the late Ma...

Evanston Now Evanstons 4th and 8th Wards will definitely each get a new alderman soon. (Shutterstock.com) Evanston’s 4th and 8th Wards will definitely get a new alderman soon. Final results from the February primary show Alderman Don Wilson, 4th Ward, and Alderman Ann Rainey, 8th Ward, will each be replaced by a challenger. In Ward 4, Jonathan Nieuwsma was first in the primary, Diane Goldring second, and Wilson third, 56 votes behind Goldring. In Ward 8, Current City Clerk Devo...

Illustration Matthew Mitchell and his boyfriend, Rodraco Ealey, were headed to their jobs at the Capitol Plaza in Montpelier last July when their car broke down. They called their boss, who offered to pick them up. But they declined, wanting to deal with their car situation first. The two sides dispute what happened next: Their boss says they quit; Mitchell says they were fired, which would entitle them to unemployment benefits. Mitch...

Mar 3, 2021 Robin Schoener, daughter of the late Fred and Jean Schoener of Westfield, N.Y., died in her home in Oak Bluffs, MA Feb. 3 after a long and valiant fight with appendix cancer. She was 67 years old. Robin traveled extensively and after living in several other countries including Egypt, Belgium and Brazil, settled in Boston where she worked for John Handcock Financial Services. Robin relocated to Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard in 2016 where she was part of a close knit community ...

Evanston RoundTable Open Search Print As the County Clerk continues to count mail-in ballots from the Feb. 23 primary election, one incumbent alderman has garnered a few votes. It is looking doubtful, however, that either Fourth Ward Alderman Donald Wilson or Eighth Ward Alderman Ann Rainey will be on the April 6 general election ballot. For those two wards, the primary election was a runoff contest, with the two candidates receiving the greatest number of votes moving on to the general el...

Robin Schoener Robin Schoener, daughter of the late Fred and Jean Schoener of Westfield, died in her home in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Feb. 3, 2021, after a long and valiant fight with appendix cancer. She was 67 years old. Robin traveled extensively and after living in several other countries including Egypt, Belgium and Brazil, settled in Boston where she worked for John Handcock Financial Services. Robin relocated to Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard, in 2016 where she was part of a close knit com...

Though results from Tuesday’s primary are not yet final, City Clerk Devon Reid said Wednesday his campaign for the 8th Ward aldermanic seat is already preparing for the April 6 run-off. “We know we’re moving on to the next round and are gearing up for whoever our opponent will be in that race,” Reid said.  ...

Everything you need to know about Evanston’s municipal primary Ahead of Tuesday’s municipal primary elections, residents across Evanston’s nine wards have been voting early for two weeks. But for residents who haven’t voted yet, it’s not too late to cast a ballot — and The Daily has all the information you need to know.  Early voting opened on Feb. 8 at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, and continued through 5 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday, polling places across the city will be open ...

Most independent pharmacies continue to wait on the sidelines of Ohios COVID-19 vaccination rollout despite their repeated pleas to be included in the public health campaign to end the pandemic.  Barry Klein, president and owner of Cuyahoga Falls based Kleins Pharmacy, wrote a letter to Gov. Mike DeWine last weekend imploring him to let independent pharmacies do their part. "We have been prepared for weeks; however, we continue to be overlooked, putting our pharmacy and our patients at a disa...

As Ohio tries to bolster its COVID-19 vaccine distribution, a neighbor to the south may offer a possible strategy. West Virginia is one of the leading states when it comes to vaccinating its residents and has leaned heavily on its independent pharmacies to make headway. In Ohio, just 20 of roughly 500 independent pharmacies are administering the vaccine so far, said Ernest Boyd, executive director of the Ohio Pharmacists Association. As of Wednesday, 12.4% of West Virginias nearly 1.8 million�...