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The superintendent of Academy School District 20 responded via email Thursday to a Change.org petition calling for banning the Confederate flag in the district’s classrooms. District 20 substitute teacher Hailey Schramm created the petition about three weeks ago after she saw the flag on display in a classroom. “It’s a symbol of hate and intolerance,” Schramm told The Gazette last week. “I can’t imagine how students — especially Black students — feel with a symbol of white supremacy and hatred hanging in their classroom.” After reportedly speaking with the school principal...

KEYNOTES: Rotarians adapt to online setting Rosemary Rimkus The confines of COVID-19 have forced the Hudson Rotary Club to adapt its meetings and its aims. Organized in 1923, almost one hundred years later the Hudson service organization has swapped its weekly meetings at the Hudson Portuguese Club for bi-weekly “Zoom” meetings, and in recent years dropped its mandatory weekly attendance rules. Hudson Town Moderator Richard Harrity, current club president, said when Covid restrictions were announced in March 2020, the club attempted outdoor meetings for a few months, “but in the Fall th...

After the vote, Wiltshire Council said it "will consider" reinstating the scheme, with councillor Bridget Wayman, Cabinet Member for Highways, saying the council was "pleased that SCC has debated and agreed a motion on this important scheme", and that it "continues to support it". Cllr Wayman: “We will look to revisit this scheme in 2021, and will consider reinstating it with continued support from all stakeholders in the city.” The support of SCC will remain an important factor in the future of the scheme going forward, and leaders of Wiltshire Council will be keeping an eye on the...

Salisbury Tourist Information. DC8713P6 Picture by Tom Gregory. The Labour leaflet handed to Cllr Moody read: “Your two existing Tory City Councillors were part of this incompetence and in-fighting: Shame on them.” He says, as as one of these councillors for Fisherton and Bemerton Village, he would like to "put the record straight". Cllr Moody says that it was as a direct result of the issue surrounding the office that he decided to stand as an Independent councillor, and not a Conservative. He said he "voted with his conscience regarding the Tourist Information Office", and that ...

  A Douglas County Sheriff’s sergeant, who was shot in the face during a Dec. 20, 2020, traffic stop in Gardnerville, said he wanted the shooter sentenced to the maximum to prevent future victims. Sgt. John and Lauren Lenz both took the stand on Monday to seek the maximum sentence against shooter Nicholas Berreman. Lenz said bullet fragments from the shooting remain lodged in his spine and may affect his long-term health. He said he was testifying for all of Berreman’s victims, both past and future. “I love my life and I’ve worked hard to make it a life worth living,â�...