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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. South Effingham s Butler receives district teacher award Effingham County Teacher of the Year Kimberly Butler listens to South Elementary School third-grader Laney Archer read an essay Friday morning. - photo by Mark Lastinger/staff
GUYTON It isn’t necessary for Kimberly Butler to tell people that she thinks about her job as a language arts teacher. Her face, even while covered by a COVID-19 mask, conveys her opinion thoroughly.
Butler’s eyes glimmered with affection Friday morning while listening to South Effingham Elementary School third graders read creative stories that they penned. Fostering a love for writing in her students is her passion.
Honoring Courtney Isaiah Smith
Despite the strange reality of shows-during-COVID, it somehow is still a shock when members of the local music community are affected by or lost due to the pandemic. That unfortunately now includes the recent loss of one of Utah s most prolific musicians, Courtney Isaiah Smith, who died after a battle with COVID on Monday, Jan. 25. A Salt Lake City native, Smith was born in 1983, and grew up in our community with an affinity for the piano that started at the age of three he was playing church songs by the age of five. His talent was fostered by Christy Anderson at the Calvary Baptist Church, where he furthered his learning on a Hammond Organ, and where he would later, at the age of eight, go on to be a tenured musician. He continued that role throughout his life, all while becoming a brilliant composer in his own right. After studying composition at the University of Utah, Smith would go on to teach jazz piano at most of Northern Utah s major colleges
‘The Landfill Fashionista’ – environmental justice art exhibition opens at Snug Harbor
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Feb 01, 2021
The Wall of portraits, part of The Landfill Fashionista exhibition at Snug Harbor, is shown on January 21, 2021 (Staten Island Advance/ Giavanni Alves)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island Urban Center’s Young Women’s Leadership Group (YWL Group) has chosen art as a vehicle to bring awareness to Staten Island’s environmental challenges.
YWL Group describes “The Landfill Fashionista: Image, Environment, and Culture Through the Lens of Girls of Color” as “a multimedia art exhibition that highlights the need for environmental justice against the backdrop of the beautiful hope that exists for Staten Island’s North Shore communities.”
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Some local teachers unions balk at unsafe school reopening plans January 25, 2021 1:19 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Banners in support of elementary school teachers hang outside Brentano Elementary School on Jan. 4, a week before some teachers were required to return to in-person teaching. | Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times/AP
CHICAGO – President Joe Biden has set a goal of reopening the nation’s public schools safely within 100 days. Some local teachers unions are balking, saying school bosses are rushing ahead to in-classroom learning without taking all needed safety steps against the coronavirus pandemic.
At 2:30 the afternoon of Dec. 30, Probate Judge Christy Anderson swore in the members of the new Walker County Board of Commissioners at the courthouse in LaFayette. The meeting was not open to the public but is posted on Facebook.
Each member of the new board took a turn standing before Judge Anderson, left hand placed on a Bible held by one or more relatives, right hand raised, and swore that he was legally qualified to be a commissioner, that he had no financial conflicts of interest, that he would perform his duties to the best of his ability and that he would uphold the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Georgia.