May 6, 2021
ROCHESTER Seniors can get down, grab lunch and go to a book club in the coming months at the Rochester Senior Center
The center is hosting a Hip Hop Chair Exercise class on Wednesday, May 19 at 11:00 a.m. This one-time event is sponsored by the Rochester Cultural Council.
A special Luncheon will be held at the Rochester Senior Center on Monday, May 24 at noon. Lunch will be homemade chicken pot pie. A $5 donation is requested and advanced reservation is required.
Joseph H. Plumb Corner Library Director, Gail Roberts, will be relaunching book club at the Rochester Senior Center on Tuesday, June 8 from 1 to 2 p.m. This will be an organizational meeting. Bring your library card to pick up a copy of July’s book, “Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie,” by Alan Bradley.
Summer of Love 2?
Where are history’s marketing muses when you need them?
The global and domestic events that helped launch the counterculture movement in the 1960s may be entirely different than those that got us to today, but the feeling that we’ve reached some kind of watershed moment of shared catharsis and forever-changed perspectives echoes across the ages.
This time, though, it’s not just for the kids.
“I think if you’re trying to draw a parallel between that summer and this summer, I think it’s very similar in many, many ways, but it’s older people rather than 16- and 18-year-olds,” said Mark Robbins, a Colorado Springs native who was a teen when the West Coast awakening began rippling nationwide more than 50 years ago, via airwaves, fashion and attitudes. “A lot of the people who’ve gotten both shots of the vaccine, they are the people who are somewhere around the age where they might remember the Summer of Love … and they might relate those fee
Ysgol y Bedol has been removed from the list of schools requiring review AN AMMAN Valley primary school has shown enough improvement to be removed from monitoring by Estyn. Ysgol y Bedol has “made sufficient progress” to be taken off the list of schools requiring review and there will be no further monitoring, according to the schools inspectorate for Wales. An October 2018 inspection had found all aspects at the Garnant school to be “adequate and needing improvement.” The school was placed into monitoring which involved working on the recommendations set and holding regular meetings with an improvement panel to discuss and review the progress made in each recommendation.
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Most of us have spent more time than usual at home lately. With spring comes the chance to branch out literally by venturing outside, even if it’s only into your own garden or patio.
Spring also brings a renewed real estate market. If you’re hoping to sell, or simply want to beautify the space you’re in, there are plenty of helpful options right in our own backyards.
First, understand how important aesthetic appeal is, whether you’re hosting guests or preparing your home for the market. “You only have one opportunity to make a first impression. It’s like going on a blind date,” says Gail Roberts, a Realtor who has sold many properties in and around Harvard Square. “Your yard is the first thing anyone will see.”