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Last modified on Thu 15 Apr 2021 13.20 EDT In 1967 the National Youth Theatre in London performed the first new play it had ever commissioned, with 80 performers arranged on a set depicting a football stand. The play would be revived with new casts eight times over the next 20 years, and again at Wilton’s Music Hall in London in 2017. It was televised twice, and entered the school curriculum. The play was Zigger Zagger, and its writer was Peter Terson, who has died aged 89. The story of teenager Harry Philton and his friend Zigger Zagger, who draws Harry into a band of rioting football fans...

Photographer Travels Through Vietnam, Preserving Rich Heritage of 54 Ethnic Tribes on Film Travel photographer, Réhahn, originally from Normandy, France, moved to Vietnam after falling in love with the kindness of its people and the serenity of the landscapes. The Vietnamese then became his muses, a passion that eventually took the form of a special decade-long project documenting 54 of the country’s ethnic groups. As he traveled with a camera in hand, Réhahn took time to build relationships with members of all 54 of Vietnam’s ethnic minority tribes. Taken by their stories, costumes, a...

Bret Hayworth and Courtney Crowder Cherie Dandurand came to the Woodbury Central School District as Miss Heilers, a green teacher and coach. After a life in Eastern Iowa — playing both volleyball and basketball for Loras College in Dubuque — she relocated to almost the exact opposite side of the state for this new adventure. Three decades later, Cherie was married, a mother of two, a head coach and a rock on the Woodbury Central staff, beloved by pupils and coworkers alike. "She was one of my best friends for 30 years,” said Carla Hubert, an English teacher. “I will miss her patienc...

BRIDGEWATER-ROXBURY-WASHINGTON — Superintendent Megan Bennett informed the Region 12 Board of Education, meeting Monday, February 22, that Region 12 staff will finally be able to have access to the Covid-19 vaccine. In accordance to Gov. Ned Lamont’s recent update, teachers and school staff members, including bus drivers and other personnel, are officially qualified to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, starting March 1. Gov. Lamont said on February 22 the state will continue with an age-based approach to expand eligibility for the vaccine, extended to include educators and child care...

Our thoughts and sincerest condolences are with the families and their loved ones. John Foster FOSTER John Anthony Retired Flt. Lt. - Passed away on February 7, aged 80, after a brief battle with cancer. John will be greatly missed by his loving wife, Philomena, his proud and adoring son and daughter, Paul and Joanne, their spouses, Joanne and Ian, and his six beloved grandchildren, Tom, Ellie, Matt, Sam, Olivia and Millie. The funeral service will be held in York on March 5. Contact Rowley & Sons Family Funeral Services 01904 593096. Derek Forbes FORBES Derek January 29 1933 - February...