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Arbor Day celebrated with tree planting at Springfield’s Bowles Elementary School in memory of paraprofessional Lynne Ainsworth Updated Apr 30, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — Students and staff at Samuel Bowles Elementary School joined local officials in celebration of Arbor Day on Friday with a tree planting in memory of paraprofessional Lynne Ainsworth. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, and Mayor Domenic J. Sarno were among those taking part in the annual Arbor Day celebration. They praised Springfield’s stewardship and protection of trees and the city’s designation as a “Tree City USA...

WESTMINSTER — After 16 years, Chris Hodsden said he knew it was time. Hodsden, 55, the longtime principal, assistant principal and math teacher at Bellows Falls Union High School, has given his resignation, effective at the end of the school year. “I want to try something different,” he said Monday. Hodsden, who himself graduated from BFUHS in 1984, said that after 16 years as principal, six as assistant and three years as a teacher at the school, he wanted to do something new before it was too late for him to seek a new career. Hodsden told his staff last week during a faculty...

of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. As fast as the blood flows into the right atrium of President Spencer W. Kimball’s stopped heart, a tube pumps it out of his body and into a machine next to the operating table. Dr. Russell M. Nelson peers down into the chest cavity. The room smells of cauterized blood vessels and arteries. Not long ago, this was unthinkable. Operating on a live heart was a medical sin when he entered medical school. The blood streaming into the machine had been returning to President Kimball’s heart after a trip through his body. The machine takes over...