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WESTMINSTER â The Bellows Falls Union High School board voted unanimously Monday night to send a suggestion for a bonus for retiring teachers to its policy committee, rather than approve the plan outright.
Chairwoman Molly Banik of Westminster said she was âtiredâ of the board coming up with different plans every year to honor retiring staff. âEvery year it comes up,â she said. âWeâve got to stop this. Itâs got to be written down.â
âThis is muddy, and I donât like muddy stuff,â she said at the end of the discussion.
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The fight rages on over a proposal to rename Outer Lake Shore Drive, a 17-mile stretch from Hollywood Avenue to 67th Street, in honor of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. The Chicago City Council is expected to vote on the name change on June 23.
Sometime after 1770, the Haitian-born trader traveled from New Orleans and up the Mississippi River and founded a thriving trading post at the mouth of the Chicago River, a place the Potawatomi native tribe called “Eschecagou.”
DuSable was the first permanent, non-indigenous settler of what would become the great metropolis of Chicago.
Native Americans were there long before. What do they say?
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WESTMINSTER â A request from a Westminster man to fill a vacancy on the Bellows Falls Union High School board prompted a lengthy discussion about the potential for conflict of interest.
Ian Sbardellati attended the boardâs virtual meeting Monday evening and asked to be appointed to fill a three-year term that has been vacant for more than a year. Sbardellati would need to run for the seat next year if he wants to stay on the board.
Sbardellati said he has one child in the high school and another in the Bellows Falls Middle School, heading for the high school.
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Spring is the season of celebration, of weddings, anniversaries and graduations, of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, of cherry blossoms and sunny skies and just being happy to be alive.
Most years we’d be planning parties to mark all the important occasions of the season, filling restaurants and hotel ballrooms with the people we love best. But of course, this is not most years.
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Because of the pandemic, our celebrations will have to be small. Even if restrictions on indoor dining in B.C. are lifted after May 25, we’ll likely be limited to six people for a while, and many of us still won’t feel comfortable dining out at all.