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The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star team May 10, 20212:10 pm WIZ KIDS: (From left) Greenwood High's Anna Johnson, Episcopal Collegiate's Adanna Mogbo and Springdale High's Ryan Espejo. The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, the 27th team the Times has honored, includes quiz bowl savants, budding novelists, future engineers and doctors and championship athletes. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers. Read on for stories of inspiration in these trouble...

NRCS to fund two new regional conservation collaborations in Virginia Published Saturday, May. 1, 2021, 9:38 am Join AFP's 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will co-invest with Trout Unlimited and the Capital Region Land Conservancy to launch two new partnership projects that will address wildlife habitat, water quality and farmland preservation concerns in the Shenandoah Valley and the Richmond m...

A VIMS researcher deploys a tray of oysters. (WYDaily/Courtesy of VIMS) PENINSULA/GLOUCESTER — The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has again partnered with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to help support ongoing efforts to restore oyster beds on private shellfish grounds in the state’s portion of the Chesapeake Bay. In 2011, VIMS, NRCS and the Virginia Marine Resources Commission embarked on a journey to help bring back native oysters lost to over-harvesting, disease and degraded habitat. Beds that lay dormant for decades are now being returned to service to su...

A new opportunity from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service could help reconstitute the ongoing effort to restore oyster beds.

Video from the scene shows thick smoke rising from the roof of the red building in the Jackson Heights neighborhood. "Everybody was panicking, all you see is the smoke," resident Edwin Martinez told CNN affiliate WABC. "When you came out of the building, you couldn't see anything. it was just all gray." Another resident, Kimberly Singhi, said she "got scared, because everything went black." "I grabbed my mom, I grabbed my dog and the pets we have, and we just ran out," Singhi told WABC. FDNY continues to battle the fire from the outside. The cause and origin of the blaze will be determined ...