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Springfield Technical Community College has named an interim vice president of advancement and external affairs. Shai L. Butler, who started June 7, will work closely with college president John B. Cook and will carry a portfolio that includes fundraising, governmental relations, strategic marketing, branding and communication. Butler carries the dual title of executive director to the STCC .
LUDLOW Assembly Rooms and the Chamber of Trade have hit out at a decision by the Town Council to recover money from the arts venue. Ludlow Assembly Rooms has hit out at a decision taken by Ludlow Town Council to claw back £5,000 of funding which it provided to support the Town’s Visitor Information Service before Covid struck, despite the financial pressures of the pandemic and the protracted closure of the Assembly Rooms main building for modernisation. The funding which was provided in 2019/20 supported Ludlow Assembly Rooms to provide a Visitor Information Service. Though delivered largely by volunteers, the Assembly Rooms provided management oversight and met the direct costs of running the service such as IT support, telephone, photocopying and training.
SNOW and a return to winter made for a slow start for some businesses in Ludlow that have opened for the first time this year. It was more like mid-winter than early spring when non-essential shops opened their doors to customers for the first time in more than three months. Melissa Gibbons , manager at Bodenhams, said that the snow had put some people off from shopping early on Monday. But it improved as the day went on and we are glad to be back, she added. Stanton Stephens, of the Castle Book Shop, has been selling online and offering a click and collect service during the lock downs.
LUDLOW’S shops and other businesses have pulled out all of the stops to make Christmas as successful as possible. Shops throughout the town went the extra mile to look festive in what has been a very unfestive year. The town has been making the best of a bad situation with shops, the Chamber of Commerce, Ludlow Town Council and Shropshire Council all making a contribution. Unable to hold its traditional Medieval Fayre and Christmas lights switch on at the end of November, a virtual event was staged that attracted viewers from all over the world. There has also been an online market for the past month.