Readers reply: why do we wait until late March to put the clocks forward?
In the UK, the clocks go back by one hour in late October, seven to eight weeks before the winter solstice. However, they don’t go forward seven or eight weeks after the winter solstice in mid February. Instead we wait another six weeks, until late March. The amount of daylight by mid February (about 10 hours) is similar to that of late October. Why do we wait so much longer?
Mark Stephenson
Stobbold
Changing the hour has always seemed a poor way of addressing the issues. In the summer, we have light far earlier, and far later, than we really know what to do with. For several weeks In the winter, it is dark at both ends of the day. It seems there is only a limited period, spring and autumn, when the precise time of dawn and dusk really matters. And the importance of that time, and where it falls within our daily lives, varies depending on the patterns of our lives, including precisely where we live. That
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MSU students donate thousands of bottles of drinking water to Jackson State Students at Jackson State University help unload water delivered by MSU Friday. (Source: Special to WLBT) By WLBT Digital | March 6, 2021 at 10:53 AM CST - Updated March 6 at 10:54 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Students at Jackson State University were greeted with a welcome site Friday – truckloads of bottled water brought in by Mississippi State University.
Students on the West Jackson campus have been without water for weeks, as the city works to restore service following the February winter storms.
As of Friday, about 1,200 student residents were still without water, according to a news release.
Friends offering reward after hit-and-run driver kills San Antonio woman trying to run across Texas
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Rebecca Gartrell Rodriguez, 48, was attempting to run across the entire state of Texas.Courtesy of Rebecca ReevesShow MoreShow Less
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Rebecca Gartrell Rodriguez, 48, was attempting to run across the entire state of Texas.Courtesy of Rebecca ReevesShow MoreShow Less
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The Transmountain Road as it winds through the Franklin Mountains State Park. Rebecca Rodriguez ran through the mountains days before she was killed by a hit-and-run driver Sunday near Odessa.rod davis/san antonio express-newsShow MoreShow Less
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Family and friends of a San Antonio woman killed in West Texas by a hit-and-run driver are offering a reward for leads in the case.
Jim Conard appointed to Third Ward seat on Monmouth City Council
By Jane Carlson
The Review Atlas
MONMOUTH Former Monmouth fire chief Jim Conard was appointed as Ward 3 alderman following the death of longtime council member Bob Wells.
Mayor Rod Davies said Conard’s service to the community in various forms made him the right candidate to fill Wells’ seat.
Wells, who served Ward 3 for 14 years prior to his death, died in early December.
Conard, a 28-year veteran of the Monmouth fire department, including eight as chief, also previously worked as a building inspector for the city’s zoning department.