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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 2/17/2021 5:05:45 PM The one message that stuck with Jim Guy ever since he was a young boy growing up in Cleveland, Ohio was the importance of getting an education. His parents grew up in the 1920s, and life as Black people coming of age was anything but easy. “They were subject to severe racial discrimination,” Guy said of his parents James and Josephine. Yet they persevered, with James eventually beating the odds and becoming a doctor, and he wanted his only son to know that it would take hard work – “twice as much as a white man,” Guy r...

Residents had to be evacuated following a fire in Stuart Crescent, Stanmore TWENTY-FIVE people needed to be evacuated after a fire broke out spreading from a shed to four houses in Stanmore. Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to Stuart Crescent at 10.50pm on Friday following reports that a blaze which started in a shed and spread to a terraced house. Police evacuated neighbouring properties as the fire then spread to three other houses through the common roof void. A spokesperson for the fire service said: “The property where the fire started was 100 per cent destroyed by...

Published: 2/2/2021 5:46:08 PM To honor the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Allen Davis started a tradition over lunch on the third Monday of January. The tradition of reading King’s “I Have A Dream” speech is one that only encompasses the last three years, but is something Davis plans on keeping for many years to come. In fact all, of Davis’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day was a tribute to the Civil Rights leader. It started by viewing the video put together by the Hancock Community Conversations on Race for the town’s third annual celebration of MLK.