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Hundreds of people visit the building every day but few know about the ruins that lie beneath Norwich Magistrates Court.

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For the second year in a row, Manhattan voters this week turned down a high school operations levy request, forcing the district to move to its contingency plan to fund programs for the next academic year. Superintendent Brian Ayers said Wednesday he is disappointed the levy failed, but stressed, “I don’t view a failed levy as the community not supporting schools.” Instead, he said it’s clear the district failed to effectively communicate its need for the funding, and he vowed to attempt to fix that problem next year. “I need to get out in the community and connect wi...

Wedding dress dash sale by central Ohio nonprofit allows brides to shop by the armload Allison Ward, The Columbus Dispatch © Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch After a 30-minute dash to sort through some of more than 8,500 dresses, Madison Osborne, 14, right, watches as her mother, Elizabeth Beckwith, 37, of Grove City, hugs her new wedding dress Friday as she checks out with program coordinator Lacey Wicksall, left, during a dress sale for Wish Upon a Wedding. Choosing a wedding dress can be a highlight of any woman’s wedding-planning experience, but it can also be one of ...

African-American barber snips Covid fictions 196 carefully guides his trimmer as he fights misconceptions about Covid-19 among his African-American customers, who face an outsize risk from the virus but are less likely to get vaccinated. Kerdell Porter is a 60-year-old mailman who said he has shared his doubts about the vaccine with his barber, including the claim that the shots are a ploy to kill Black people. “I don’t trust it. The first person I know who got it, she fainted,” said Akeem Momoh, a Black teenager who sweeps the floor of The Shop hair spa in Hyattsville, Maryland, a subu...