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MOHUA AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST/SUPPLIED The Mohua Affordable Housing Project aims to provide affordable homes for people who are finding it increasingly difficult to get somewhere to live in Golden Bay. A community-led proposal to build two additional pensioner flats on Tasman District Council land in the Golden Bay town of Tākaka has received strong support from district councillors. “If this works well, I believe it's a model that we can roll out in other parts of the district,” said councillor Kit Maling at a meeting of the operations committee on Thursday. Driven by the Golden Bay/...

The 2020-21 school year challenged students academically, physically, mentally, emotionally and politically. Despite elections, protests and remote learning, MU still strived to succeed and achieve some semblance of normalcy. However, COVID-19 and racism on campus showed students that the administration is not always willing to listen and abide by student concerns. A summer of Black Lives Matter protests demanding an end to police brutality and justice for the murder of George Floyd led students straight into a school year already fraught with tension. Several student groups formed to call...

Apr 30, 2021 LISBON — Anthony J. Antonas, 40, Poland, was bound over in county Municipal Court to the grand jury on charges of domestic violence, criminal trespassing, aggravated burglary and disrupting public services. Antonas is accused of striking Cheyenne Cooper in the nose three times and causing it to bleed in May of 2020 and then entering the home of Ester Blue, whose granddaughter, Cooper, had fled there to shelter from Antonas. He reportedly refused to leave when he was told to go by three people there and swatted Blue’s arm causing her phone to fall and break when she was attemp...

Apr 30, 2021 LISBON — Anthony J. Antonas, 40, Poland, was bound over in county Municipal Court to the grand jury on charges of domestic violence, criminal trespassing, aggravated burglary and disrupting public services. Antonas is accused of striking Cheyenne Cooper in the nose three times and causing it to bleed in May of 2020 and then entering the home of Ester Blue, whose granddaughter, Cooper, had fled there to shelter from Antonas. He reportedly refused to leave when he was told to go by three people there and swatted Blue’s arm causing her phone to fall and break when she was attemp...

Author: Christopher Bennett (Vanderbilt University) This study was published today in American Educational Research Journal. Key Findings: In undergraduate admissions, the adoption of test-optional policies at selective private institutions was linked to a 3-4 percent increase in enrollment of Pell Grant recipients, a 10-12 percent increase in enrollment of first-time Black, Latinx, and Native students, and a 6-8 percent increase in enrollment of first-time students who were women. However, these gains translate into only a 1 percentage point increase in the share of the student body receivin...