Page 20 - Ryan Berg News Today

When Ryan Berg thinks of The Voice, he thinks of coffee. Most mornings, the Dallas singer-songwriter and his competitors-turned-friends Jim Ranger and Ian Flanigan would grab some cups of joe and hang out at their hotel, taking a brief break from the surreal insanity of being on reality television. There were plenty of other positive memories for Berg, too, including his meeting with songwriter Julia Michaels of “Issues” fame (“to have that facetime was a fangirl moment for me,” he say...

LILY NICKEL LISBON — Students at David Anderson High School have been given the all clear to start a field research project on the historic Sandy and Beaver Canal in Willow Grove Park. During Tuesday’s village council meeting, Councilwoman Dawn Thomas said a state grant will be funding these projects for all of the schools along the 73-mile long canal in Ohio. A STEM teacher from DAHS contacted Thomas to get permission to begin the project, and Thomas brought it before council where it was...

Staff Writer LISBON — Students at David Anderson High School have been given the all clear to start a field research project on the historic Sandy and Beaver Canal in Willow Grove Park. During Tuesday’s village council meeting, Councilwoman Dawn Thomas said a state grant will be funding these projects for all of the schools along the 73-mile long canal in Ohio. A STEM teacher from DAHS contacted Thomas to get permission to begin the project, and Thomas brought it before council where it wa...

Staff Writer LISBON — The community swimming pool is unlikely to reopen this year for a second consecutive summer, as village officials continue to search for funds to repair it. The pool was closed last summer in response to the COVID-19 virus, and village councilman Ryan Berg reported at this week’s council meeting that it will probably remain so this year. Berg updated council on a recent meeting of the parks committee in which repairs to the pool were discussed. There are major leaks a...

tgiambroni@mojonews.com LISBON — The community swimming pool is unlikely to reopen this year for a second consecutive summer, as village officials continue to search for funds to repair it. The pool was closed last summer in response to the COVID-19 virus, and village councilman Ryan Berg reported at this week’s council meeting that it will probably remain so this year. Berg updated council on a recent meeting of the parks committee in which repairs to the pool were discussed. There are ma...

tgiambroni@reviewonline.com LISBON — The community swimming pool is unlikely to reopen this year for a second consecutive summer, as village officials continue to search for funds to repair it. The pool was closed last summer in response to the COVID-19 virus, and village councilman Ryan Berg reported at this week’s council meeting that it will probably remain so this year. Berg updated council on a recent meeting of the parks committee in which repairs to the pool were discussed. There ar...

Biden faces border dilemma Anna Giaritelli President Biden faces an early test of his immigration agenda. With illegal border crossings expected to rise, Biden has little time to steer sweeping reforms through Congress. Without new laws, he could be forced into a choice between either maintaining the Trump administrations enforcement measures and disappointing liberal immigration activists or seeing a rise in illegal immigration of the kind the GOP has predicted. The number of...

President Obama removed Cuba from the designation and it is expected early into the Biden administration, this action will again be reversed. The United States has once again designated Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, accusing it of granting safe haven to terrorists and also providing support for acts of “international terrorism.” The move by the Trump administration comes days before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, who would have liked to start where he and Obama left th...

White House to List Cuba as State Sponsor of Terrorism Getty Images Jack Beyrer • January 11, 2021 3:30 pm SHARE The Trump administration is moving to designate Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism as soon as Monday, State Department officials will reverse the Obama administration decision to take Cuba off the list of state sponsors of terror, according to  Bloomberg‘s report, which was published Monday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly plans to cite Cubas harboring of an Amer...

. In a recent press conference, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) derided the Mérida Initiative – the country’s security cooperation framework with the US – for adopting a militarised approach to organised crime instead of focusing on the development and wellbeing of the Mexican people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs followed this up by announcing that the Mérida Initiative had officially ended, as it was no longer meeting Mexico’s needs. The relationship h...