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SHETLAND has been particularly severely hit by cuts to council spending – losing more than three times the national average in the past years – and is badly in need of greater public investment.
That is the message of Labour’s candidate for next month’s Scottish Parliament election, Martin Kerr, who is drawing attention to figures showing the isles lost £355 per person in local authority funding between 2013 and 2021 compared to a national real terms average of £95 per person.
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Only the Western Isles, at £522, fared worse while Orkney lost out on £59 per head according to the Scottish Parliament’s information centre: “When you look at that league table of cuts Shetland is almost right at the top,” Kerr tells
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Atlanta-based organic burger chain Farm Burger opens its seventh Atlanta-area location Thursday, April 22, in the former Yeah! Burger space in Virginia-Highland. And it plays host to the new neighborhood farmers market on Thursday afternoons in its parking lot.
Founded in 2010 by George Frangos and farmer and rancher Jason Mann, Farm Burger uses “100% grass-fed beef” in its burgers, which is dry-aged, ground fresh, and cooked-to-order. The restaurant also serves vegetarian burgers made from quinoa as well as chicken and pork-based patties and offers mostly local beers, boozy milkshakes, and a small selection of wine on the menu.
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The field at the Jim Click invitational is nothing to sneeze at. Indeed, the top five finishers in the women’s heptathlon posted scores that would leave them all within the top eight nationally at day’s end.
The top of that list: Kansas State senior Lauren Taubert, who set a personal best with 5,831 points to claim the victory on Friday. Taubert’s performance places her atop the NCAA competition list, and was 38 points better than her performance in the 2019 NCAA Championships.
Ariel Okorie, with 5,474 points, was the aforementioned fifth-place finisher and now sits eighth in Division I on the season.
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For once, Connor McCullough didn’t need to worry about his bullpen.
The redshirt freshman lasted seven innings on Saturday against the #3 team in the nation, striking out seven, and officially left the hill with a six-run lead as Kansas State pounded Texas Tech 10-4 to take the deciding game of their three-game series at Tointon.
The Cats struck quickly Saturday, getting a two-run homer from Nick Goodwin and a solo shot from Chris Ceballos to take a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Tech got two back in the fourth on a Dillon Carter double, but K-State responded in a big way in the fifth. Ceballos drew a bases-loaded walk, followed by a Zach Kokoska groundout which plated a run. Then Cameron Thompson jacked a pitch into right center for a three-run shot, and the BatCats had an 8-2 lead.