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A piece of wood worshipped as part of the manger in which Jesus was born has been returned to the Holy Land. The relic — an early Christmas present from the Vatican — will go on display at a church in Bethlehem.
From mentorship to Nintendo Switch raffles, Bridgeport schools see drop in chronic absenteeism FacebookTwitterEmail Desks are in place at a safe social distance in a classroom of Johnson School, in Bridgeport, Conn. Aug. 27, 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media BRIDGEPORT — At the Geraldine W. Johnson School in Bridgeport, about a third of the students were repeatedly not showing up for class. It was a trend seen district-wide — with some schools seeing chronic absenteeism rates upward of 50 percent — as the pandemic shifted learning online and took kids out of the classroom. The ...