UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Isis Camisa, 6, of South Haven, build a snowman with her dad, Antonio, and mom, Rachael, on Sunday morning. Northwest Indiana received 5 to 11 inches of snowfall, according to preliminary reports released by the National Weather Service. John Luke, The Times
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Jacob Wilkerson, of Gary, clears snow from a car Sunday morning. John Luke, The Times
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Robert Scoggins, of Gary, shovels snow Sunday morning. John Luke, The Times
UPDATE: Roads remain hazardous after largest snowfall of season
Screenshot from GSC meeting on 20th Jan, 2021. (Photo: JORDAN JOHN LEE)
on January 20, 2021
Despite social distancing restrictions created by COVID-19, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) spent its Tuesday meeting brainstorming ways to create a virtual community for the Class of 2021 in light of a likely-virtual commencement ceremony.
GSC co-chairs Kari Barclay, a fifth-year theater and performing studies Ph.D. student, and Will Paisley ’20 M.A. ’21 said that, this year, the Office of Special Events and Protocol and organizers of Commencement should hold a virtual ceremony “to not provide false hope,” but that the GSC would not provide a final recommendation to the organizers until they had an idea of what the student body thought of a virtual or in-person commencement.
Outdoor dining grew during the pandemic, now there’s a plan to keep the expansion
Dallas’ Street Seats program will give parklets a more permanent presence.
A temporary seating area outside of Revelers Hall on Bishop Avenue in Dallas, May 15, 2020. Co-owner Jason Roberts said the built structure is an example of a semipermanent parklet, or outdoor seating area that spills out onto a street.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
We are as eager as anyone to be done with this year, to flip to the last page of the sci-fi horror thriller that is 2020 and chuck it out the window.
But we can credit this terrible year with deepening our gratitude for the things that helped us endure it. The time spent with our closest loved ones. The courage of essential workers. The spaces that our cities carved for us outdoors.
This all is an indication 2020 is going to end much like it began, with tension between Mayor Jim Kenney and some mummers. It began with the mayor calling out members of Froggy Carr after at least two of its mummers were seen in blackface during the 2020 parade. Kenney called the incident abhorrent, disqualified the club from the parade s competition and threatened to pull the city support for the Mummers parade entirely.
Froggy Carr s leaders condemned the racist display and there were weeks meetings between mummers leadership and city officials. Mayor Jim Kenney has tried for years (like every Philly Mayor in the past) to cancel the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, a tradition preceding the birth of our nation, organizers of the protest parade wrote on Facebook. The first city-sanctioned parade took place in 1901, but the custom of mummery can be traced back to some of the earliest settlers in the region.