Adam, left, and Jeremiah Babcock talk about the removal of the component pieces of the 18th-century barn they are disassembling. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. For David Babcock, deconstruction and reconstruction are two sides of the same coin and a part of who he is. Babcock is in Williamstown this month removing a 19th-century barn from a property on Green River Road (Route 43). In the not-too-distant future, he will be back in town putting the same barn back together on the property of the Williamstown Historical Museum. My father, he was farming back in the 50s, Babock said this week. He needed a barn, and my grandfather was a carpenter in Williamstown. . It was his grandfather who raised him, and he asked my great-grandfather if he could build a farm. And he said, There s an old barn up on the family property in Berlin, N.Y. We could go up there and take that down and bring it here to Hancock. My father was, I think, in his early 20s at the time, and he
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04/30/2021 08:18 AM EDT
TGIF, Illinois. I’m making pastitsio and dyeing red eggs this weekend. Happy Easter to all who celebrate.
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Bruce Rauner, photographed during the 2018 gubernatorial campaign, looks back on his embattled time in Springfield, saying politics is “brutally hard it’s nasty, it’s dirty and ugly. | Getty Image
“We’re on track” to reopen April 12, San Diego Unified School District Area 5 Superintendent Mitzi Merino told the La Jolla Cluster Association during its March 18 meeting, referring to the district’s plan to have students return to campuses for up to four days a week of in-person instruction in a hybrid model with online learning.
At La Jolla High School which had 1,338 students enrolled as of Feb. 21 56 percent of families chose the onsite option. Those students were split into two groups by last name to attend classes in person two days a week, Principal Chuck Podhorsky said. One group goes to campus Mondays and Tuesdays, the other on Wednesdays and Thursdays.