THE demolition of a former village school will be “emotional”, a community leader has said after plans to sell it off for affordable housing were approved. Wrexham Council’s executive board met yesterday (Tuesday, February 9) to discuss proposals for the future of the Ysgol Pontfadog site in the Ceiriog Valley. The primary school, which served the area for more than a century, closed its doors for the final time in July 2019 amid dwindling pupil numbers. The decision to close it was made by members of the local authority’s ruling independent/Conservative administration, despite strong opposition from residents. However, senior councillors pledged to give the community a say on how the land should be used in future, with a report recommending selling it to a social landlord to build houses to rent to local people as the best option.
Posted: Wed 10th Feb 2021
Glyntraian community ‘looking forward’ to working with developer on ‘a scheme the village can be proud of’ for former school
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Plans to develop affordable housing on the site of a former village school are set to progress to the next stage after receiving unanimous support from senior councillors.
Ysgol Pontfadog, located in the Ceiriog Valley, shut its doors for the final time in July 2019 after serving the area for 110 years.
Despite opposition from some local residents, Wrexham Council made a decision in summer 2018 to close the school due to dwindling pupil numbers.
Wilmington College’s MLK Day event emphasizes ‘You Matter’
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
New Wilmington College President Trevor Bates gives his first public address as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day event.
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The online presentation showed many Wilmington College staff and students in “You Matter” T-shirts. From top, staffers point at you (as in
You Matter), and four drummers provide music for the MLK Day program at the college which traditionally has a strong musical component.
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WILMINGTON In times such as these, the life and message of Martin Luther King Jr. continue to be matters of consequence, speakers said during Wilmington College’s annual MLK Day program.
Seeing 2020 (Oct-Dec.) and charging into 2021
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Wilmington’s Claire Burns would advance to represent Clinton County at the state tennis tournament at the Lindner Family Tennis Center. Burns would be the first girls tennis player from a Clinton County school to participate in the state tennis tournament.
In this composite photo, at left, in the Region 16 semifinal versus Waverly, the game came down to the leg of Clinton-Massie’s Trevor McGuinness who drilled a 24-yard field goal as time expired to give Massie a 31-28 win; at right, Wilmington players and coaches celebrated as Isaiah Rigling raced 43 yards for the first touchdown of the game as Wilmington defeated Marietta 56-14 for the first-ever playoff football win in WHS history., The Board of Clinton County Commissioners recognized Paul Butler as a recent inductee with the 2020 Class of inductees into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame. The proclamation expresses the commissioners’ gratitude “for Paul’s dedica
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
December 29, 20207:43 pm (top left to top right) Bazi Owenz, Bailey Bigger, Joshua Asante, (bottom left to bottom right) The Eulogy Brothers, Elise Davis, DOT
Creators are going to create, and whether the upheaval of a year like 2020 stifles or fuels that process probably depends on the artist, and on the day. Many, undoubtedly, made music in 2020 at their own expense, investing time, money or both into projects they couldn’t support or promote with live performance, at least not for the foreseeable future. A good number of them, especially those who make music for a living, have spent the year devoted to an industry and to a live music landscape that may well emerge from Post-Pandemic Times looking very different than it did in 2019. But I’m willing to bet that by the time some of this quarantine-crafted music reaches the stage, congregants’ ears