Haverhill school staff have an opportunity to take advantage of a private vaccination clinic for educators beginning today. The clinic is for all staff regardless of position or Massachusetts residence and take place every day this week, from 1-4 p.m., In an email, Haverhill School Superintendent Margaret Marotta thanked Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, Mayor […]
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UMass Lowell Professor Anthony Szczesiul. (Courtesy photograph.)
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Whittier Birthplace kicks off its Virtual Lecture Series next week with UMass Lowell Professor Anthony Szczesiul.
He speaks on “John Greenleaf Whittier’s Radical, Abolitionist Cosmopolitianism,” Thursday, March 25, from 7-8:30 p.m., online. There is a suggested donation of $10 per household and registration is required here by Friday, March 19.
Szczesiul is a professor of English and his research interests include American poetry, 19th and 20th century American literature and Southern literary and cultural studies. He is the author of “The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory” and “Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren
Mosque attacks memorial: Low numbers at national service, refunds offered for service fees on free tickets
15 Mar, 2021 12:50 AM
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Fees of up to $16 charged in error for tickets to national service to mark the anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks despite it being a free and public event. Photo / George Heard
Fees of up to $16 charged in error for tickets to national service to mark the anniversary of the Christchurch terror attacks despite it being a free and public event. Photo / George Heard
NZ Herald
A national remembrance service held to mark the second anniversary of the Christchurch terror attack was only attended by about 150 members of the public.
(Ecofin Agency) - In recent months, the government of Gabon has been bringing in some young blood. Noureddin Bongo Valentin, a youth not more than 30 years, has been appointed as the General Coordinator of Presidential Affairs. A man who shines by his performances, he applies to public management some private management techniques: reporting, auditing, return on investment. I belong to a generation to whom efficiency is crucial, he said.
Ecofin Agency: What does the position of General Coordinator of Presidential Affairs in Gabon entail? Some believe this title is somewhat that of vice-president.
Noureddin Bongo Valentin: This position feeds many fantasies (laughs). Wrongly so. In truth, the reality is much more prosaic. The General Coordinator of Presidential Affairs is an executor who serves the head of state. According to the title’s attributes, the coordinator has