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Wicked Local 4Cs COVID-19 clinics Two Barnstable County COVID-19 vaccine clinics dispensing the Johnson & Johnson shot today and Thursday filled up within 30 minutes of registration opening last Friday. Registration opened at noon for the clinics, held at the gym at Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable. While the 1,200 slots — 600 on each day — went quickly,  Barnstable County spokesperson Sonja Sheasley expressed frustration with the way they were posted on the states registr...

Scholarships, altruism, arts, St. Paddys Day, Notes The Barnstable Patriot April 1 is the application deadline for the  Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit’s annual scholarship. Applicants must be graduating high school seniors who either reside or attend school in the Town of Barnstable and are entering college in fall 2021. One scholarship of $2,000 will be awarded. Students are considered on the basis of their above-average academic record; participation in school and community ac...

HIT & RUN — Nathan Harbort, 31, of Perkasie, was charged with accident involving damage, duty to give information and render aid, and a stop sign violation following investigation of

RUSTON, La. – It was exactly 675 days since the last time Louisiana Techs baseball team hosted a game at the corner of Alabama Avenue and Tech Drive, and the Diamond Dogs didnt disappoint, reeling off five straight runs to close the ballgame in a 9-2 victory over Southern at the new J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park. Senior Parker Bates tallied the first home run in the new ballpark with a two-run blast to right field in the eighth inning, putting an exclamation point on Techs opening ...

Town planners to review solar farm proposal on property owned by Genesee Gateway Local Development Corp. The Batavia Town Planning Board was introduced to another community solar project on Tuesday night – a plan to install a 1.65-megawatt system on vacant land owned by the Genesee Gateway Local Development Corp. on R. Stephen Hawley Drive (College Road) – and, right away, was peppered with comments about the need to shield the array from a nearby home. Planners held a public hearing in con...

Kids on bikes: Four children reported riding bikes in traffic, Main Street, 2:45 p.m. Man reports harassment: Says someone criticized him for not wearing mask, Highland Road, 3:46 p.m. Search for elders: Woman asks police to look for parents at Ward Reservation, says their cellphones died while they were lost and it was getting dark, Prospect Road, 5:05 p.m. Food thrown: Someone tossed cheese out of a car, hitting another person, Main Street, 8:29 p.m.  

Image courtesy UN Women. The Association of Female Executives in Trinidad and Tobago (AFETT) is calling for a multi-pronged and many-layered approach in dealing with the issue of Gender Based Violence (GBV) in this country, stating that it should be a national priority, all year round. In an official statement issued today, recently elected AFETT president, Dixie-Ann Dixon, points out that men need psycho-social support to bring about behaviour change, and that arming women is not enough to end...

Tech Drive is the new initiative organized by the Service Committee of the Graduate College in collaboration with the Calgary Immigrant Society. The goal of this project is to collect used electronic devices such as phones, tablets and computers. The Gauntlet interviewed Isabel Fandino, the initiator of the Tech Drive project. Fandino is an MA student at the University of Calgary. The idea of Tech Drive came to Fandino’s mind after she interviewed refugee families for her research project. M...