Rioters storm the U.S. Capitol Wednesday following a rally with President Donald Trump.
College and university leaders across the country responded to the violent chaos at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday using unusually strong terms for higher education leaders. Many college presidents said they were saddened and frightened by the sight of supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol and condemned the rioters’ actions on Twitter and in statements or emails to students and employees. I want to be clear: the storming of the Capitol complex is not merely a brazen act by a relatively small group of instigators. It is the direct result of a campaign to sow mistrust in our democracy and to overturn an election that was by all reasonable accounts conducted freely and fairly, Vincent Price, president of Duke University in Durham, N.C., said in an email to the campus. These events are made all the more shameful by their futility they are based on falsehoods and conspira
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A fabled radio voice of Southwestern Pennsylvania is silent.
Jim Rhone â known by local listeners as Jim Jefferson, longtime news anchor at WJPA â died of cancer Friday morning. He was 68.
Recognized for his smooth, unwavering delivery, Jefferson was well regarded in Washington and Greene counties during his four decades in the news industry. He retired in June 2017 after 43 years at the station â most of them as an anchor â in his only professional job.
He was a tutor, as well, and a role model for Bob Gregg, operations director at WJPA. They knew each other for nearly 40 years.
âJim was here in the afternoons when I was in high school, walking around here trying to learn stuff,â Gregg said. âThe Jim Jefferson that people knew on the air was the one we at the station knew personally. He was real, he was fair and he was honest.
Select board names Gonda to board until March
The Waitsfield Select Board appointed Jordan Gonda to fill outgoing board member Darryl Forrest’s term until Town Meeting next March.
Five candidates, Gonda, Pete Mooney, Christine Sullivan, JB Weir and Fred Messer expressed an interest in the seat. They were interviewed via Zoom on December 7.
Gonda is an attorney for the state of Vermont and has served on the planning commission since 2014. She served as vice chair from 2018-2020 and has served on the Mad River Valley Housing Coalition since it was founded in 2019.
Gonda and her husband have a young son and are also in the process of building a house, which led board member Jon Jamieson to ask if she was comfortable taking on the commitment of serving on the board. Gonda told the board she’d given a lot of thought to the issue of applying to fill the position and said she felt comfortable taking on the opportunity to dip her toe in the water, particularly since she’ll
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