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With continued economic uncertainty ahead, the City of Bryan passed its annual budget, with about a 9% reduction in total funds appropriated compared to the 2020 budget. City officials thanked the city administration, department heads and finance committee for working to limit their expenses wherever possible. “It’s a very good budget,” council President John Betts said during their special year-end meeting on Wednesday, held virtually to avoid contributing to the surging coronavirus pandemic, “especially with all the notable issues that occurred this year and a lot of unk...

Posted: December 18, 2020 Fund aims to help forest sector with COVID-19 costs The Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development announced Dec. 16 it is delivering $9.3-million in relief to small- and medium-sized forestry businesses for the extra costs of keeping employees and communities safe, while operating through the COVID-19 pandemic. “Our government worked with forest contractors to plant 300 million seedlings this year with no recorded COVID-19 transmissions,” said Katrine Conroy, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural De...

Help us bring a Passion Play to the streets of Norwich Celebrate Norfolk is co-ordinating a bid to bring well-known professional Christian theatre company Saltmine to perform a Passion Play on the streets of Norwich. Saltmine produced and performed a Passion Play in Birmingham city centre in 2019, which attracted audiences of several thousand people. Now a first play in Norwich at Easter 2022  is being planned and churches and individuals who share a vision to see this take place are being sought. Rachael Orrell, Chief Executive of the Saltmine Trust, said: “Seeing people engaged and t...

author speaks about being a lawyer and the role that law plays in contemporary fiction with a panel of the national press club in washington d.c.. this is a little over an hour. >> everybody got quiet so i guess we can begin. that's my cue. good afternoon. i am very pleased today to welcome all of you to the nodule celebration and preservation of the harper lee prize for fiction. nell harper lee of monroeville alabama attended our law school in the 1940s and published "to kill a mockingbird" in 1960. and empowered them to represent the wrongly accused. census publication "to kill a m...