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From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: Summer school teachers in Montgomery Public Schools are getting a bump in pay. The district has increased teacher wages from $25 to $50 an hour to get more teachers in the classrooms to handle an increase of students this summer, WSFA-TV reported. Superintendent Ann Roy Moore and the school board also are looking ahead to the upcoming school year. They’re planning to go back to face-to-face learning full-time. “We found that children don’t do as well virtually in most cases as they do face-to-face with a nurturing teacher in th...

Griffon roller coaster evacuated at Busch Gardens Williamsburg All guests who were riding Griffon at the time were able to safely get off the coaster, with the help of the James City County Fire Department. Author: 13News Now Staff Updated: 11:19 PM EDT June 29, 2021 WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The James City County Fire Department helped over two dozen people safely get off a Busch Gardens Williamsburg roller coaster after the ride came to an unexpected stop on Tuesday evening. A park spokesperson said 28 guests were on Griffon at the time.  JCC fire and EMS crews ...

Students and staff were evacuated from Lois Hornsby Middle School on Tuesday after the smell of smoke was detected. (WYDaily/Courtesy James City County) WILLIAMSBURG — Students and staff were evacuated from Lois Hornsby Middle School in the afternoon of Tuesday, March 9 after a “smoke smell” was detected in the heating and cooling area of the school, said James City County (JCC) Fire Department Chief Ryan Ashe. The JCC fire department received a call around 12:30 p.m. shortly before the school was scheduled to dismiss. Fire units responded to the building at 12:43 p.m., Ashe said. Ashe ...

Ecological experts fear the artificial breaching of the Lake St Lucia estuary mouth on Wednesday afternoon poses a major setback for a multimillion ecological restoration project financed by the World Bank to reverse decades of human interference in the natural functioning of the heartland of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site. Four years ago, the Isimangaliso Wetland Park Authority and then Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa won a landmark victory in the high court against local sugar farmers who had demanded that the lake be breached to protect some of their fields...