A Kickmeuit Middle School student will be among a group of Rhode Island students given the unique opportunity to participate in a live question and answer session with two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this Thursday.
2020 is finally over. Here are 10 Orlando moments to remember from the year that wasn t So, let s review 2020: We shopped online for masks. We sat around in sweatpants. We baked bread. We checked out each other s bookcases and hoped for our colleagues pets to pop up onscreen during interminable Zoom meetings. And we experienced many of the important happenings in Orlando through our screens, as the 2020 lockdown dragged on and on. About that eternal lockdown: The principle of Hanlon s Razor holds that we shouldn t credit malice for actions that can be explained by stupidity, but in Florida, in 2020, sometimes it was tough to tell the difference. As other countries and even states worked together to flatten their disease curve and return to something approaching normality, those of us in Orlando who scrupulously observed COVID protocols watched helplessly as those who refused to danced, drank and wedding-partied Florida into a viral cesspit. Malice, stupidity, or a litt