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Photo credit: Charm TV Baltimore (BALTIMORE, MD) - On Monday April, 12, Mayor Brandon Scott and the Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) announced a pilot program consisting of a community cleanup in partnership with the Coldstream Homestead Montebello (CHM) Community Corporation. The pilot program will help increase the cleaning services of DPW by hiring community residents to clean up their neighborhood.    By creating this new initiative, the Mayor is looking forward to restoring and redeveloping Baltimore City by preventing illegal dumping and allowing community residents t...

Reply Nathaniel Baker has performed as a concert pianist throughout the U.S., Europe and South America. NEW BRITAIN, CT - Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Maestro Adrian Sylveen and pianist Nathaniel Baker will perform Johannes Brahms' violin and piano sonatas nos. 2 and 3 live on Facebook Friday, April 9, at 8:00 p.m. EST. The free hour-long concert will be streamed on the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra's Facebook page. "Brahms' work is a fascination of mine. He had the ability to create poetry out of pure sound, nothing else. His music is beauty that simply is - all you hea...

Fund launched to help Black, brown owned small businesses in Cincinnati impacted by COVID-19 The “Resiliency Fund” is made up of three different tiers. (Source: WAFB) By Jared Goffinet | February 25, 2021 at 1:15 PM EST - Updated February 25 at 1:51 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Urban League of Greater Southwest Ohio, the City of Cincinnati, and the Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise Initiative (GCMI) joined together Thursday to announce a new COVID-19 relief fund for Black and brown minority-owned small businesses, The “Resiliency Fund” will mainly focus on businesse...

Reply NEW BRITAIN, CT - February 9, 2021 - The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra will present a free online concert featuring Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonatas for Violin and Piano on Friday, February 26, at 8:00 p.m. EST. The concert will be streamed live on Facebook. Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra principal artists, violinist Brunilda Myftaraj and Pianist Blake Hansen, will perform. "This is a very important, personal project for Brunilda and Blake. They have created a unique artistic connection," said Adrian Sylveen, Artistic Director of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestr...

  The Pandemic Wrenched Their Dissertation Plans. Catalyst Grants Are Easing the Challenges Jessica Fletcher, Dean Schafer, Megan Henriquez, and Kristena Newman Understanding how infections spread is especially important in light of a pandemic, and Ph.D. student Megan Henriquez (Anthropology) intends to do that with her dissertation on parasitic infections in capuchin monkeys. Ironically, though, the pandemic is wrenching her plans to travel to Costa Rica to collect samples. She had to change how she gathers data, and a grant from The Graduate Center is helping. Henriquez is one of 60 Ph...