WISE – While the Wise County School Board’s budget planning is at the mercy of a stalled state budget process, one county student was welcomed Tuesday for her own legislative
West Fairlee youth retreat puts emphasis on mental health >Brynn Locke, 17, of Lisbon, N.H., creates a magazine cover about herself at the The Upper Valley Youth Wellness Retreat in West Fairlee, Vt., on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. Coaches help campers find empowerment through art. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Valley news photographs Jennifer Hauck >Amir Colby, 10, of Fairlee, Vt., top, Matthew Andrasko, 10, of Thetford, Vt., and Baylan Ploss, 8, of Newport, N.H., take part in a yoga nidra session at the Upper Valley Youth Wellness Retreat in West Fairlee, Vt., on Wednesday, July, 14, 2021. While practicing yoga nidra, a person becomes systematically and increasingly aware of the inner world by following a set of verbal instructions. The retreat run by We R H.O.P.E. helps kids to learn coping skills and how to manage their anxiety. (Valley News - Jennifer
Throughout Black History Month, WQAD is celebrating with a series of stories recognizing our local Black community. Author: Shelby Kluver (WQAD) Updated: 12:23 AM CST February 26, 2021
DAVENPORT, Iowa Para-educator Kevita Puckett is giving some special lessons this month. Typically, black history really wasn t taught in school at all. So my passion behind what I m doing, I m giving these kids something that I never got, says Puckett.
What she s giving, are traveling lessons on Black History Month, at Davenport s Jefferson Elementary. As she visits different classrooms, she gives a presentation on what the month means to her, and fosters a dialogue about it with the students.
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those are four books i recommend and that i m reading. then, i would be remiss if i didn t say, almost every summer and i just happened to see my english teacher in high school on saturday, at an event, and of course my favorite book, and largely because of this teacher and teaching is the great gatsby, and it always makes for great summer reading, and of course, taken from the 1920s, and during the roaring 20s and the jazz age and the time of elusive of course the language of f. scott fitzgerald, they way he is able to write both symbolically and with mixed metaphors, and as he describes the gambler at the time eating with a ferocious delicacy. and so it s always a great read, and i hope it has some influence on my children. in the category of favorite book and movie, of course, would be to kill a mockingbird, and the highest honor any elected official or anyone who serves in public office would we is to be referred to as atticus finch. it was an incredible novel wri