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NEW PHILADELPHIA Construction students at Buckeye Career Center are building boxes to hold the flags that cover veterans caskets at their burials. The project serves two purposes: it gives the juniors the opportunity to serve the community, and it gives veterans survivors a way to display the flags. "Many times these flags get shoved in a closet. The flag boxes can cost over $100 and are hard to find," said Debra Cook, director of the Tuscarawas County Veterans Service Office. All veterans wh...

(From left to right) Patrick Huckleberry, Patrick Walker (faculty), Ashley Watkins and Aisley Stuebs. Not featured are Madelyn Buckingham and Taylor McDaniels because they have graduated since the May 2020 course. Photo by Meghan Arrell. LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2021) — Recently, a team of students from the University of Kentucky Lewis Honors College finished in third place in the Small Business Institute’s Project of the Year, in the Specialized Case Analysis category. The students were e...

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- Las Vegas-area vaccination sites are quickly responding after the FDA and CDC recommended suspending the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday morning. Signs at Las Vegas Convention Center said the site will not offer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on Tuesday. Officials at the Cashman Center also said they wouldn't administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine Tuesday. Southern Nevada Health District, who runs the...

We were terrible at preventing deaths but great at giving the vaccines.

Crown Bakeries, Cumberland University, Gaylord Opryland Resort, Leadership Music and Tecovas announce updates Cordia Harrington The Bakery Companies, a wholesale manufacturer of fresh and frozen breads, baked goods and dough products — has rebranded as Crown Bakeries. The new name and branding come as the Nashville-based company continues its evolution with partner Arbor Investments. In the last 12 months, the Company has made various investments into the business. In 2020, Crown Bakeries co...

Which bottom four side can make the biggest leap in 2021? A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size After what felt like an eternity of an offseason (which doesn’t make sense given it was actually shorter), the AFL is back in just two short weeks. That means it’s time for preview articles! Rather than going team-by-team in 2021, we’ll group the teams together based on where they finished last season. Today, I...

I called a friend in Mumbai, Shashank Joshi, who is a member of his state’s COVID-19 task force. “Our I.C.U.s are nearly empty,” he told me. Joshi is a doctor with seemingly infinite reserves of energy: a stethoscope perpetually dangling across his chest, he has spent the past several months carrouselling among slums, hospitals, and government offices, coördinating the state’s response. Early last spring, when the first serious spread of COVID-19 was reported in India, Joshi jumped i...

‘Knowledge hacking’ app Uptime raises $16M Uptime, the self-described “knowledge hacking” app, has raised $16 million in seed funding, after officially launching on iOS in January. Positioned as a “micro-learning” platform,” Uptime presents five-minute “knowledge hacks” from books, courses and documentaries. The idea is to let you quickly “grasp ideas and insights from trusted authors, instructors, and creative minds,” without spending too much of your precious time. In re...

Trade and draft review: North hits self-destruct A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size If North Melbourne’s season could be compared to its mascot, the big grey kangaroo on the side of the highway jumped directly into the path of a speeding truck. Of all directions, its instinct might have told it to jump and its random subconscious sent it to obliteration. A year removed from a promising late-season revival ...

VCE 2020: Students who scored perfect ATAR reveal where it took them Normal text size How meaningful is a “perfect” ATAR? About 45,000 VCE students will receive their ATARs on Wednesday, putting a merciful full stop on a year in which they have been tested in ways no textbook could have prepared them for. Sahil Shekhar finished year 12 with a perfect ranking but followed an unexpected career path. Many will be sweating on their Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank, a competitive ranking used...