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Maryland law would ban 'hate' symbols in public schools Search By Tom Hindle ANNAPOLIS (March 31, 2021)—Hereford High School senior Vita Shats had seen it weekly. The Confederate flag on T-shirts. The swastikas in bathrooms. She'd seen a fellow student with a Confederate flag on his belt, flaunting it in a Black student's face. Two years ago, she talked to her school principal about implementation of a policy to ban those symbols—but was told it was beyond the school's jurisdiction. So, she tried two superintendents. Neither got back to her, she said. There was no statewide policy regardi...

2/3/2021 One of the church’s 170-year-old stained glass windows. St. Paul’s opens thrift shop to fund window restoration BLACKSTONE – The stained glass windows at St. Paul Church in Blackstone have a story to tell, and not just the one engraved in biblical scenes across their faded surfaces. The church, now approaching its 170th anniversary, was founded in 1851 to serve the immigrants, mostly Irish, who came to the area in search of work. Over the years, its continued use as a church by residents of both Blackstone and North Smithfield (the border of which technically runs through the b...