Crime rates spike, as social warriors take charge Jaslyn Adams death can t be blamed on systemic racism or white privilege, BLM narratives that fuel more violence Follow Us
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On Monday night in Chicago, a vigil was held for Jaslyn Adams, a 7-year-old Black girl who was brutally murdered after her car got caught in the crosshairs of a gang-related shooting at a local McDonald’s drive-thru.
“Please put the guns down,” Tawny McMullen, Jaslyn’s’ aunt, pleaded to viewers of the local ABC News. “My 8-year-old baby says she doesn’t want to go out and play because she is scared that she is going to be shot.”
Published: 4/21/2021 8:51:14 AM
Elly Vaughan bought the farm that would become Belchertown’s Phoenix Fruit Farm in 2017 after working as its manager. Since taking over, she has planted new varieties of fruit trees, brought the farm into the vegetable business and opened a farm store. This year, however, something happened on her farm that Vaughan had never seen before: She assembled an all-woman pruning crew.
Vaughan, 35, has been farming since her college years, but she’s never worked on a crew that’s all women.
“Most of the times you’re the only woman on the crew,” she said.
The crew was formed after her assistant grower, Natalie Goodman, suggested bringing in some friends she knew from rock climbing for the pruning work.
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IMAGE: With Army funding, scientists invent a way to make compostable plastics break down within a few weeks with just heat and water, potentially solving waste management challenges at forward operating. view more
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. With Army funding, scientists invented a way to make compostable plastics break down within a few weeks with just heat and water. This advance will potentially solve waste management challenges at forward operating bases and offer additional technological advances for American Soldiers.
The new process, developed by researchers at University of California, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, involves embedding polyester-eating enzymes in the plastic as it s made.
Stuart Beckley and Alan Wolf finalists for South Hadley town administrator
Updated Apr 21, 2021;
SOUTH HADLEY The finalists to be the next town administrator here are Ware Town Manager Stuart Beckley and Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz’s chief of staff, Alan Wolf.
Of 20 that applied for the South Hadley town administrator position, four finalists were selected; two subsequently removed themselves from consideration.
South Hadley Town Administrator Michael Sullivan will retire in June.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Selectboard member Sarah Etelman asked the consultant hired to oversee the search process why one of the finalists did not possess any actual experience in the role of a town administrator, as the board had said they wanted in the pool of finalists.
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