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Article content You couldn’t have planned it, scripted it – you couldn’t have seen it coming. Fort McMurray Public School Division’s (FMPSD) Superintendent Jennifer Turner has a story for the books on how her new local career started on March 2, 2020. Just the first normal week-and-a-half full of all 16 school visits followed by a pandemic, provincial staff cuts, a beloved principal’s death, a 100-year flood, new provincial funding formulas, and so much more. No, as aforementioned, you couldn’t have seen it coming. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing ...

Trump addressing GOP convention The BEST and WORST thing about any election night, is that the campaign for the very next election starts the VERY next day. And we’re already off to the races. Let’s “brunch” on that this week! “Senate Toss-Up” – As I’ve been mentioning for weeks, a 50-50 tie between the DEM and the GOP means the President of the Senate, Vice-President Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker for the Democrats. So, if Republicans win a net gain of just ONE Senate seat in 2022, it flips control back to the Republican Party, potentially upsetting the Biden agenda. There a...

Correspondent YOUNGSTOWN — Throughout the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized how fluid, evolutionary and transformational the civil rights movement was and, many people contend, had the wisdom to adopt and shift his strategies with it for achieving a more just society. For example, it was one thing for black people to gain the right to sit at what had been whites-only lunch counters, but another for them to have greater economic power to afford what was being served. The movement continues to evolve today to include tackling disparities in access to health care and education, as...

Jan 18, 2021 HONORING MLK: The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Scholarship Committee will host the 21st annual celebration honoring the life and legacy of King. The program “Reflect, Reset, Reach Forward” will be 9 to 10:30 a.m. today as a virtual celebration on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89259078123. There will be reflections from alumni scholars, community leaders and a panel discussion “Where Do We Go From Here?” MLK WORKSHOP: The YWCA Mahoning Valley and the MLK Planning Committee will host a Martin Luther King Jr. workshop set for 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m today on Zoom, c...

The seeing eye Jan 16, 2021 MLK COMMEMORATION: The YWCA Mahoning Valley and the MLK Planning Committee are preparing Martin Luther King Jr. Day events this weekend. The annual worship service will be held virtually 3:30 p.m. Sunday. The speaker will be the Rev. Michael Harrison, pastor of Union Baptist Church and president of the Ohio Baptist State Convention. There is a workshop set for 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Monday on Zoom, covering the topics criminal justice, health care and youth empowerment. The theme this year is “Fifty-three Years Later: Remembering What is Civil: Doing What is Rig...