Free tree giveaway
The Times-Gazette
Greenfield Tree Commission members Holly Ellinger (left) and Ron Coffey hold a Tree City USA banner and display some of the seedlings that will be given away on Friday, April 30 at the Greenfield City Building.
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Approximately 310 tree seedlings will be given away by the Greenfield Tree Commission beginning at 10 a.m. Friday, April 30 at the Greenfield City Building.
“This year we have an assortment of seedlings to be given away on a first-come, first-served basis,” said Tree Commission Chairman Ron Coffey, who indicated the seedlings will be packaged in groups of five and given away until supplies run out.
Playwright Aleshea Harris Celebrated At Hermitage Greenfield Prize Award Dinner
More than 130 guests gathered during a socially distanced evening to celebrate the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize at Michael s On East in Sarasota.by BWW News Desk
More than 130 guests gathered to celebrate playwright Aleshea Harris, the winner of the 2021 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, on Sunday, April 11, at the annual Prize Dinner at Michael s On East in Sarasota.
The event had been moved earlier that day from its original outdoor setting at The Ringling s Ca d Zan due to inclement weather. The festive evening was chaired by Ellen Berman and Flora Major. Andy Sandberg, Artistic Director and CEO of the Hermitage, served as master of ceremonies.
Honored for our investigations into violence and dysfunction in the Mississippi prison system. By The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project was awarded the prestigious Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting on Tuesday night for our series on one of the most dangerous and dysfunctional penal systems in the country. The $25,000 award, which honors the best in public interest journalism, will be split among reporting teams at The Marshall Project and Mississippi Today, who led the investigations. The work also appeared in the Jackson Clarion Ledger, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, and the USA Today Network.
The judging committee cited “outstanding, deeply reported, data-backed storytelling, and the direct impact this series is having on public policy reforms in Mississippi.” They honored the way reporters made policy failures real to readers by telling specific stories of individuals within the penal system. “These stories gave faces and names
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to present the 2021 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting to “Mississippi’s Dangerous and Dysfunctional Penal System” by Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Anna Wolfe, and Michelle Liu of The Marshall Project, Mississippi Today, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, and the USA TODAY Network. The project investigated why the state is home to America’s most dangerous and antiquated penal system.
The Goldsmith Prize, founded in 1991 and funded by a gift from the Greenfield Foundation, honors the best public service investigative journalism that has made an impact on local, state, or federal public policy or the practice of politics in the United States. Finalists receive $10,000, and the winner receives $25,000. All prize monies go to the journalist or team that produced the reporting.