Feb 6, 2021
Greensburg Mayor Josh Marsh presented Greensburg Breakfast Optimist Club President Mike Novak with a proclamation to mark Feb. 4 as honorary Optimist International Day recently. Tina Hoeing for the Daily News
GREENSBURG – Greensburg Mayor Josh Marsh presented a proclamation to the Greensburg Breakfast Optimist Club recently honoring the first Thursday of February as Optimist Day in the City of Greensburg.
President of the Greensburg Breakfast Optimist Club Mike Novak received the framed and stamped document that complimented the membership as “volunteers working with young people who are our joy of today and are our hope for tomorrow (and are) exuberant representatives of the potential to be reached and dreams come true.”
February 1, 2021
The president is set to reverse Trump immigration restrictions on Tuesday. But it s unclear if he will end a pandemic freeze on most visas.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT We have the visa in our passport and we can t travel. It s crazy.
President Biden is set to reverse Trump immigration restrictions on Tuesday. But it s unclear if he will end a pandemic freeze on many visas and green cards.
Thousands of diversity visa lottery winners pray that he will so they can use their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move their families to the U.S. Life would be so lovely, so colorful. Our dreams would come true, said Ijeoma Golden Kouadio.
Stanley in Victoria celebrates 160th birthday while fighting for its legal status
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The main intersection of the township of Stanley circa 1900.
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Residents of Stanley, near Beechworth in Victoria s north-east, have renewed their calls for their community to be reinstated as a township.
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Dozens of Stanley residents marked the 160th anniversary of the township s official proclamation
Locals are fighting for the area to be officially reinstated as a township after losing its status in the 1990s
Its current farming zone status restricts development
The fight was recently highlighted as the community celebrated 160 years since Stanley was officially gazetted as a township.
Biden orders ‘pause’ on border wall construction, bringing crews to a halt Updated: January 21 Published January 21
Newly erected border wall separating Mexico, left, and the United States, cuts through through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Douglas, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Print article WASHINGTON - Construction crews building the steel wall along the U.S.-Mexico border were ordered to a halt Wednesday after President Joe Biden delivered on a campaign promise and hit “pause” on the Trump administration’s signature infrastructure project.