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Checkpoint Executive John Peterson Died Dec. 8th at the Age of 55
John Peterson
John B. Peterson, senior director of North America sales at Checkpoint, died of congenital heart failure on Tuesday, December 8, 2020. Born in Akron, OH, on March 1, 1965, he was diagnosed at birth with the heart condition that would ultimately take his life. Doctors told his parents that he wouldn’t live past age 20. In true fashion, he beat their odds to celebrate 55 fantastic years, living each day to the fullest.
John worked with Checkpoint Systems for over three decades, earning many awards and accolades in his tenure. But above the awards, he loved to be a mentor to countless coworkers, leaving a lasting mark on both the company and the industry as a whole.
Men’s Marathon Project Preview: With a Fast Course & Perfect Conditions, Sunday Could Be a Historic Day for US Marathoning
December 17, 2020
In the annals of US distance running, a total of 21 men have broken 2:10 in the marathon, doing so a combined 56 times.
There are only six races in history in which more than one American has broken 2:10. The list:
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2012 Olympic Trials
Meb Keflezighi (2:09:08), Ryan Hall (2:09:30), Abdi Abdirahman (2:09:47), Dathan Ritzenhein (2:09:55)
1983 Boston
1982 Boston
2002 Chicago
2010 Boston
2019 Boston
Scott Fauble (2:09:09), Jared Ward (2:09:25)
That list could be due for a major revision on Sunday. While the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into the traditional marathon schedule the three US-based World Marathon Majors (Boston, Chicago, New York) were all cancelled it has also created opportunities that would not otherwise have existed. Like the Marathon Project.
Sidelines: With questions to answer, UMaine men’s hoops looks to finally play games
The progress of the UMaine men s basketball team has to be measured in baby steps this season, Travis Lazarczyk writes.
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Maine men s basketball coach Richard Barron talks to his team before a game last year against Maine Maritime at the Portland Expo. Ariana van den Akker/Staff Photographer
The University of Maine men’s basketball team was ready. The team was at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, two days before Thanksgiving, preparing to open the season against the University of Virginia, the last men’s hoops national champion crowned before the 2020 NCAA tournament was one of the first things cancelled at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
One piece of the puzzle: Universities say study on high parent loan debt accurate but incomplete
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Students move into Toussaint Hall, the newly opened dormitory on the campus of Sacred Heart University, in Fairfield, Conn. Aug. 24, 2018.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
A recent Wall Street Journal report that examines the level of debt parents take on to give their kids a college education paints an incomplete picture, according to officials from some of the Connecticut higher education institutions that find themselves toward the top of the list.
“It is one piece of the puzzle,” said Julie Savino, executive director of University Financial Assistance at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.