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Albert M. Kellert and Cheryl Greeley Kellert were honored as the SIU Alumni Association’s 2023 Distinguished Alumni during an April 28 ceremony at Walker’s Bluff vineyard.

Michigan has an older teaching population, and if many of them retire in the coming years, the state’s teacher shortage will be a crisis

Administrators say it will take a strong workforce to address academic challenges that worsened during the pandemic.

State Senator David Watters said the report could provide information on how the development of offshore wind might impact New Hampshire’s economy, ports, fisheries, and environment.

New Hampshire colleges, trade workers and policy makers have high hopes for job growth in the Northeast’s burgeoning offshore wind industry, even if we’re

Approval of the Vineyard Wind Project, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the country in Massachusetts, has sparked more talk in N.H.

Credit Dennis Schroeder / National Renewable Energy Labs Offshore wind advocates in New Hampshire have high hopes after federal regulators this week approved construction of the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts – the largest offshore wind farm yet to reach the construction stage in the U.S. At 800 megawatts in capacity, Vineyard Wind’s 62 turbines will be able to generate as much power as many nuclear reactors. The project’s approval comes after delays under the Trump administration...

The Seacoast region is in the early stages of evaluating the challenges and opportunities of offshore wind renewable energy generation with wind turbines off the local coastline. Because the more than 800-foot-tall wind turbines would be anywhere from 10 to 20 miles away from the shore, experts said, they should not be very visible from the shore and they will be out far enough to avoid interfering with commercial fishing operations. But building a multi-billion-dollar offshore wind project ...

Forum to look at offshore wind industry in New Hampshire February 20, 2021 GMT PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A forum on the offshore wind industry in New Hampshire will be hosted by a panel that represents more than 2,500 businesses in the Seacoast region. The forum is scheduled for Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon via Zoom by the Seacoast Chamber Alliance. A panel discussion on the burgeoning industry will feature state Sen. David Watters, D-Dover, and New Hampshire Offshore Wind Industry Director M...

9 & 10 News January 7, 2021 The next phase of COVID-19 vaccinations will begin next week. Teachers are included on the list of next recipients, but schools in northern Michigan aren’t requiring their staff to get the vaccine. “It’ll be optional for the teachers,” said Paul Clark, Superintendent of Cheboygan Schools. “We’ve been talking to health departments. We’re currently getting a list together of all of our employees, not just teachers, but any of our staff members that are in...