Thousands of people gathered in the rain Saturday on the soggy grounds of the Washington Monument to turn Earth Day into an homage to science. After four hours of speeches and musical performance
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University of Pittsburgh graduate Sam Orlowski put her heart into her short film, “Thanks to Her,” a Pittsburgh-set coming-of-age tale about being comfortable with your sexuality.
“I am part of the LGBT community, and I have dealt with homophobia,” said Orlowski, who lives in Canonsburg. “I wanted to start a conversation about sexuality. I wanted to get people talking.”
They are talking. Posted on YouTube in September, the 23-minute work has over 630,000 views, 14,000 likes and nearly 800 comments.
Franklinton High School on the city’s westside has been doing in person learning for months. Author: Richard Solomon (WBNS) Updated: 11:11 PM EST February 17, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio Many Ohio school districts are working to shift students back to some sort of in-person learning by March 1.
It has many parents wondering how it is going to be done safely.
Franklinton High School on the city’s westside has been doing in-person learning for months.
“If you use hand sanitizer and wear your mask at all times, you’ll be ok,” said Jasmine Mills, a sophomore at the school.
She told 10TV, she’s felt safe every step of the way.
BETHEL, Maine â The Mahoosuc Land Trust will soon start its first harvest on the recently acquired McCoy-Chapman Forest, a 500-acre tract about 5 miles west of Bethel that runs from the banks of the Androscoggin River to the flanks of the Mahoosuc Range.
The scenic acquisition, which offers year-round recreation, comprises generous land donations from a family that practiced sustainable harvesting on their land for more than two centuries.
âGinny and Sam McCoyâs careful forest management over decades made the McCoy-Chapman Forest an appropriate place to apply best practices and emerging science on the types of harvesting practices that have true ecological benefits,â said Kirk Siegel, Mahoosuc Land Trustâs executive director.
Mandy McCoy wants you to listen.
She knows that you will look. That you will see her wheelchair and how her fist steers the stick that makes it stop or go. That you might notice that her head wobbles a tad to the right, but maybe not because her smile is big and blushed with joy when her blue-green eyes meet yours.
Mandy wants people to look into her eyes.
“That tells me that you respect me,” she said.
For that, she is grateful because respect she knows is earned, more so when your body can’t move the way it should, and especially when the muscles in your mouth can’t keep pace with the train of thoughts in your mind.