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Take these statues down since 2016. today was the day they got a chance to do it. the mayor this morning, when she kicked things off, was very succinct about what was going on. >> what happened, we had the ability to remove the statues today. it has stood for 104 years and it doesn't need to stay a moment longer. >> reporter: that really was the attitude of a lot of people here in charlottesville, pam. amazing to think about just how much time we spent thinking about this park and these statues, to see them come down and to see the way they came down, how happy everybody was here and how peace...

Evan Mack's sons are all smiles after getting refurbished band instruments. Photo provided May 25, 2021 — A musical instrument donation effort in the Adirondacks is hoping to collect as many band instruments as possible this summer. The brass, woodwind, and even string instruments, will be donated to North Country schools as part of the "We Are Instrumental" program. It started at Skidmore College last year, just before the pandemic, when 70 instruments were collected and donated to the music program in Ticonderoga.

15:34 The Ticonderoga Festival Guild’s "We Are Instrumental" program will host a summer-long musical instrument drive to benefit elementary school students in the North Country. The drive will accept gently used band and string instruments beginning Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend. When musician Evan Mack’s son came home from band practice and told him most of his classmates were playing on instruments that were bruised, battered, and bonded together with duct tape, the senior teaching professor of music at Skidmore College was stunned. He also learned that many students could ...

COLUMBIA - On Thursday at 6 a.m., one University of Missouri student will sit in a rocking chair in downtown Columbia, and he won't get up until 9 p.m. on Saturday, April 17.  Brian Carter is the 2021 rocker for Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) Fraternity's Rock-A-Thon. The MU fraternity seeks to raise thousands of dollars for the American Cancer Society. The focus mission for this year's Rock-A-Thon is lung cancer.  While Carter is rocking in the chair for 63 hours straight, the rest of the fraternity men will be around MU's campus and downtown Columbia collecting donations for the American Can...

Published Mar 11, 2021 The Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur held a virtual prayer service February 12 to close out the 15th Anniversary Year of the assassination of Sister Dorothy Stang by wealthy landowners in the Brazilian Amazon. The prayer service included the participation of two Sisters who worked alongside Sister Dorothy: Sister Joan Krimm and Sister Jo Anne Depweg. Sister Elizabeth Bowyer also took part. Sister Elizabeth was the Ohio Province Provincial who received the news of Sister Dorothy’s death. The service was opened by Archbishop Daniel Schnurr, of the Cinc...