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HERMISTON — As Cindy Middleton accepted Hermiston’s Woman of the Year award on Wednesday, Feb. 24, she thought back to the day in 1992 that her father called her while she was away at college to tell her that her own mother, Judy Bracher, was Woman of the Year. “I was deeply touched by the way that Dad described what Mom was being recognized for,” she remembered. Middleton was one of several people recognized during the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce’s annual Distinguished Citizens Awards banquet, along with Ken Huber as Man of the Year. The event, which usually hosts ...

___ The Southeastern Conference has postponed Vanderbilt’s men’s basketball game at Texas A&M on Wednesday night, the second game between the teams postponed this season. The SEC says this postponement is because of a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and quarantining of people inside Texas A&M’s program. No make-up date has been scheduled. The first game in Nashville between the teams on Jan. 20 was postponed due to COVID-19 testing, tracing and quarantining with Vanderbilt. ADVERTISEMENT ___ The Buffalo Sabres are the latest NHL team to be shut down because of players in ...

International Boxing Hall of Fame announces induction postponement for second straight year; will hold 'Induction Trilogy' in 2022 The International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota announces that it will postpone induction weekend for the second straight year amid the pandemic. Three classes will be enshrined in 2022. Posted: Feb 2, 2021 11:12 PM Updated: Feb 3, 2021 12:00 AM Posted By: Spencer Davidson CANASTOTA, N.Y. - The International Boxing Hall of Fame will have to wait another year to ring the bell for its induction weekend. The Hall announced, Tuesday, that it will postpone enshrine...

James Kirkland open to reuniting with trainer Ann Wolfe Share this story Photo by Omar Vega/LatinContent via Getty Images At age 36 and coming off a first round knockout loss to Juan Macias Montiel last month, many in the sport were expecting, or hoping, to have seen James Kirkland (34-3, 30 KOs) in between the ropes for the last time. After all, Kirkland has experienced a pretty turbulent career in a rough sport where he’s taken some punishment due to his ultra aggressive fighting style. But during this conversation with Curran Bhatia, Kirkland says he doesn’t have any thoughts of retir...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle The rest of the house had long since gone to bed, but Thomas W. Boyde Jr. was still working. Smoke curled from a spent cigarette in the ashtray. A row of graphite pencils lay ready to use. He kept them sharpened to a lethal point — not more than five feet of drawing before restoring the point with a heavy desktop sharpener — not just because it was his personal preference, but because the job required precision. Boyde was an architect but also an engineer at heart, and that meant resolving problems with certainty. What candlepower was needed at the leve...