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This weekend in the arts: a solo show by Andrés Hernández at Hill Street Country Club, the 14th annual soundON new music festival, 'Nature's Abundance' at Mission Trails, 'Stained Glass Enters the Stream' at Swish, a new Hershey Felder film and Le Salon de Musiques.
BELFAST —The following cases were closed in Waldo County Unified Court Oct. 8-13. Jennifer A. Rowan, 47, of Belfast, operating under the influence in Frankfort April 5, 2019, license suspended for 150 days and $500 fine; operating while license...
Share SlaveVoyages.org is the world’s largest repository of information about the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades: the routes, the ships, the manifests and the human beings at their core. And now, after nearly 20 years at Emory University, the website and its treasure trove of data have moved to their new home at Rice. “It’s the first time in the history of this project that it’s shifting hands,” said Rice professor Daniel Domingues of the momentous undertaking. His decades of research at both Emory and Rice on slave trading expeditions have been crucial to expanding ...
The case of the Vancouver couple accused of flying to a remote Yukon community to get the COVID-19 vaccine has prompted the question — could that happen in Saskatchewan? Former Great Canadian Gaming CEO Rod Baker and his wife, Ekaterina Baker made the news last week when they were given summary tickets for violating the territory’s Civil Emergency Measures Act, which carried fines of up to $1,000, plus fees. It’s alleged the couple hired a plane to the remote community of Beaver Creek, posed as local workers, and joined the line for the vaccine. The couple face charges related to breac...
"If I would do it again, I would have waited a week and got the freezer conditioned, and then we could have paced ourselves a lot better and there wouldn’t be this impending crisis here in the next week about moving vaccines," Keller said Thursday. The initial doses were divided among the region's remote communities, he said. All doses in Stony Rapids were used, but it has been slower going in the First Nations communities of Fond-du-Lac and Black Lake, which both have active COVID-19 cases. The health authority reported that, as of Thursday, Black Lake had 23 active cases, with three peo...