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Boston Massacre topic of DAR essay contest
Special to the Star
The winners of the American History Essay Contest for 2021 read their original essays about the Boston Massacre for the members of the St Joseph Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the winners’ family and guests at the February DAR meeting.
Each essay was written in the first person, with each young patriotic author telling this historic event and its impact on them, friends, and the country from their own perspective. History came to life for the DAR members and the winners’ family and friends as each read their essay.
4th March 2021
Breaking through the sometimes mystifying language of impact measurement and management is a challenge, but a project run by Social Value UK and an accelerator for Indonesian social enterprises has proved a success.
A 21st century economic success story, Indonesia has seen a surge in economic activity resulting in a quadrupling of its per capita GDP between 2000 and 2019. However, it’s fair to say that this has not been a tide to float all boats. According to the World Bank and NGOs like Human Rights Watch, almost 10% of the country’s 264 million residents live below the poverty line, regional inequality is rife, deforestation, overcrowding and other forms of environmental degradation loom large, and many millions face discrimination on the basis of race, gender, disability and sexual orientation.
Media Credit: File Photo by Arielle Bader | Assistant Photo Editor
A public health school spokesperson said the programs will meet increased national demand for certain types of public health research.
The Milken Institute School of Public Health has begun accepting applications for two new doctoral programs in global public health sciences and health and biomedical data science.
Faculty in the public health school said the programs will educate the next generation of leaders in these fields and prepare them for jobs in government agencies or in academia. They said the programs offer an interdisciplinary approach to global public health sciences and health and biomedical data science, which will help attract candidates.
Times Past: Feb. 23, 2021
Published: 2/24/2021 2:42:28 PM
Modified: 2/24/2021 2:42:26 PM
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Washington’s Birthday is renowned in the area for the hatchet hunt sponsored by the Athol Fire Department and the Athol Area YMCA. More than 350 area youth with many parents ventured into the Bearsden Woods in search of 50 prizes, the most coveted of which were two engraved hatchets. Winners of the hatchets in the 74th hunt were Adam Richard, 13, of Phillipston, who found the Washington Hatchet and Emily Webster, 5½, kindergarten student at Silver Lake School, who found the “Johnnie” Johnstone Hatchet.
■After a short reprieve from winter weather, winter-weary North Quabbin residents awoke to a new blanket of snow. The snow was greeted with somewhat less than enthusiasm by most folks who are hoping for the first signs of spring. To add insult to injury, weather forecasters are predicting another storm with estimates of three to five more inches of the wet white stuff being dump