Solvang’s Independence Day Parade Bursts Fourth with Pride, Patriotism
After COVID-19 hiatus, popular pastime returns with large crowds, more than 50 entries and a different route for 2021
Kids wave to Santa Barbara County firefighters from Station 30 in Solvang during Sunday’s Independence Day parade put on by the Solvang Rotary Club. (Serena Guentz / Noozhawk photo) By Serena Guentz, Noozhawk Contributing Writer | @NoozhawkNews
July 4, 2021
| 5:07 p.m.
Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Solvang on Sunday morning to celebrate the Fourth of July with the return of the annual parade sponsored by the Solvang Rotary Club.
“It’s very important to the community of Solvang and the citizens of this state that the Fourth of July is celebrated just like it was two years ago,” said Art Kaslow, the club’s president. “Very important that we don’t lose any of the traditions or celebrations.”
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A Famed Folk Singer Won a Presidential Pardon after Molesting a Child. Did He Prey on Others? Breaking News
No one from the government notified Barbara Winter about the pardon. Not the White House, not the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, not the prosecutor who handled her case.
She found out from her mother, who read in the newspaper that one of the country’s most famous folk singers, who had admitted to and been convicted of molesting her when she was barely 14, had been pardoned by President Jimmy Carter on his final full day in office in 1981.
Robert R. Glauber, Harvard professor who led Black Monday presidential commission, dies at 81
By Globe staff and wire reportsUpdated March 6, 2021, 5:38 p.m.
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Robert Glauber in late 2002.Gino Domenico/Bloomberg News
Though he once told Harvard Universityâs student newspaper that his experience as a Harvard Business School professor offered âvery effective preparationâ for becoming under secretary of the US Treasury Department, Robert R. Glauber was reminded daily of the differences between academia and government.
âYou could write things at Harvard and no one would read it,â he said in a 1990 New York Times interview amid the finery of his Victorian-era office at the Treasury building that was so large it had been used during the Civil War to house soldiers. âHere, once you say something, it gets reported and everything is under a microscope.â
Georgetown president and CEO Adam Flatto and a rendering of 787 11th Avenue
The Georgetown Company will bring a life-sciences hub to Manhattan’s Far West Side, where Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has signed a long-term lease.
The medical school took 165,000 square feet at 787 Eleventh Avenue, the former auto showroom building Georgetown purchased with Bill Ackman several years ago to convert to high-end offices. Georgetown announced news of the lease Thursday.
The building sits in a life-sciences corridor on the West Side that is becoming a hub for these kinds of companies.
“This is just the beginning of demand for more life-science companies to move into this submarket, given the strength of other medical companies and institutions in this area of the Far West Side,” JLL’s Steven Rotter told
The Georgetown Company has signed a 165,000 s/f long-term
lease with Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine at its new life science hub
at 787 11th Avenue on the Far West Side.
The developer is also creating a 36,000 s/f research
facility for scientist and inventor Neri Oxman which will render the redeveloped
property fully occupied.
“The pioneering work these scientists and physicians perform cannot be done remotely over Zoom,” said Georgetown Company managing principal Jonathan Schmerin.
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“We believe that we
are only scratching the surface of the demand for life science space given the
strength of our medical institutions and the talent pool in this area and we