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Tufts student body passes anti-Israel referendum The university has said it will not act on the referendum targeting campus police, which passed with 68% of the vote Pete Jelliffe Share The student-run Tufts University Elections Commission certified the results of a November referendum targeting trainings and conferences for U.S. law enforcement in Israel, delivering a symbolic win to the campus’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, which sponsored the ballot initiative. University...

Collins Names Kopper As Interim Cheyenne Fire Chief Kopper has over 25 years of experience as a professional firefighter, including as interim Fire Chief for the Wyoming Air National Guard. He also has served as Assistant Chief of Operations, Emergency Management Superintendent, and Assistant Chief of Training for the Wyoming Air Guard. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree n Fire Science Management from Southern Illinois University, graduating with Cum Laude honors. In the news release, Collin...

Chief Kozak responded to Collins comments with the following statement on Monday morning: Once again Mr. Collins has released misinformation, which I am obligated to correct.  The Cheyenne Police Department has always released accurate crime numbers to the Division of Criminal Investigations (DCI); it is erroneous for Mr. Collins to infer otherwise.  In fact, the Cheyenne Police Department releases its crime statistic with our annual report, a year before DCI publishes them.  The reports are...

CHEYENNE — You may have missed it but we here in Chy-town have been having a little dust-up lately. The new mayor-elect Patrick Collins, a Cheyenne businessman, shocked his supporters when he announced recently that he was going to get rid of the city’s police chief, Brian Kozak,and the fire chief, Greg Hoggatt. Collins, a current member of the Cheyenne City Council, initially gave the usual vague reasons for getting rid of an appointee; he wanted to go in a different direction. Later...

By MARGARET AUSTIN | Wyoming Tribune-Eagle | Published: December 13, 2020 CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Tribune News Service) — Through the Adopt an Airman program in Laramie County, service members who are new to F.E. Warren Air Force Base have gotten to know the community and experience the activities Wyoming has to offer, thanks to generous host families who try to provide "a home away from home." According to program founder and director Carolyn Ritschard, the idea was inspired by a similar pro...

Ritschard recognized for Adopt an Airman program with Compassion & Action award Myles Boyns © Provided by Cheyenne-Scottsbluff KGWN-TV Cheyenne family reflects on Adopt an Airman program, encourages other families to participate. CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) - Chairman of the Adopt an Airman Wyo program, Carolyn Ritschard, was given the “Compassion & Action” award, for the program showing excellence for over a year. “Carolyn has taken it from day one and made it ...

Gaoth Dobhair author in final of Irish Book Awards GAOTH Dobhair author Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde has been named Love Leabhar Gaeilge Irish Language Book of the Year award winner at the An Post Irish Book Awards for his latest work Cnámh. Mac Giolla Bhríde previously won athe Prose Work Prize in the 2018 Oireachtas Literature Competition for this collection of short stories. Speaking to the Donegal News this week, the author admitted that he had been ‘surprised’ to receive a telephone cal...

A year in photos: 2020 in Greenwich Tyler Sizemore FacebookTwitterEmail From tragedy to joy, and everything in between, Greenwich saw it all in 2020. As 2020 draws to a close, images captured by the Greenwich Times photographers paint a picture of the year that was. Tyler Sizemore / Tyler Sizemore Cate Adorney plays the role of Amneris during the dress rehearsal of "Aida" at Eastern Middle School in the Riverside section of Greenwich, Conn. Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Performances will take place in...

Supreme Court Hears Shareholder Suit over Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday questioned a bid by shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pursue legal claims arising from the government’s rescue of the mortgage finance firms following the 2008 housing crisis. The justices heard an appeal by President Donald Trump’s administration of a lower court ruling that let shareholders in the two companies pursue a challenge to a 2012 agreement between the Federal Ho...

Lawrence Hurley (Adds focus of questions by justices on constitutional issue) WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday questioned the constitutional structure of a federal agency as they weighed a bid by shareholders of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pursue legal claims arising from the 2008 housing crisis. The justices heard an appeal by President Donald Trump’s administration of a lower court ruling that let shareholders in Fannie and ...