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North Carolina churches join lawsuit against policy allowing ICE into places of worship
February 18, 2025
Several denominations, including the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church, united against the policy that allows ICE in “sensitive locations.”
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New Exhibition Highlights Human Trafficking On Cape Cod
January 24, 2025
As part of Human Trafficking Awareness month, the art exhibit illustrates the problem with both sex trafficking and labor trafficking on Cape Cod.
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Governor announces Film Friendly Texas designation for Breckenridge
December 12, 2024
Breckenridge joins more than 175 Film Friendly Texas Certified Communities that receive ongoing training and guidance from the Texas Film Commission on media industry standards, best practices, and how to effectively accommodate on-location filming activity in their community.
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Wausau Pilot “Letters to Santa” campaign starts now
December 06, 2024
Letters to Santa first began regularly appearing in newspapers around the 1880s. Every December since then, newspapers across the nation have published children’s heartfelt letters as a celebration of the season.
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Muralist builds community and champions acceptance in rural Ohio
November 19, 2024
Amber Kear transformed her hometown of Findlay into a hub for creativity and activism.
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Did Martinsville become the final resting place for a century-old vampire hunting kit?
October 25, 2024
One vampire hunting kit, never used: A European vampire hunting kit in America? Or a 20th-century version of a 19th-century object that never existed?
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A century of connections: Geneva’s Rural Heritage Center celebrates its 100th year
October 16, 2024
What started as one of the first school buildings in Seminole County, The Rural Heritage Center has become a community hub, hosting everything from weddings and yoga classes to plays and birthday parties.
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50 years after ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ a question of how the Roanoke Valley could mark its connection to a literary masterpiece
October 11, 2024
Annie Dillard spent a dozen years in the Roanoke Valley, but there’s no official commemoration of her time there or of her Pulitzer-winning book.
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‘Quinceañeras every weekend’: Nebraska’s Latinos are increasingly native born – and eager to keep traditions alive
October 03, 2024
Once fueled by immigration, Nebraska’s growing Latino population is now overwhelmingly native born. Like others before them, these younger Nebraskans are eager to hold onto their heritage.
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Vance, at Christian nationalist revival, says immigration stance is in keeping with faith
September 28, 2024
JD Vance’s remarks in Monroeville, PA, seemed aimed at quelling some of the controversy that sprang up after he and Donald Trump accused Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating townspeople’s pets.
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New Mural Brings Light to the Hoh Tribe
September 23, 2024
The New Old Time Chautauqua traveled 130 miles west from Port Townsend for six days in June during the Hoh Days celebration where the mural project first took shape.
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‘Haitians are not eating pets’: Springfield faith leaders stand with embattled migrants
September 16, 2024
‘It was a tough week,’ said Harold Herard, a Haitian community leader in Springfield and visitor at Central Christian Church on Sunday. ‘But today, we feel free.’
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Victims of 9/11 attack remembered in Kent
September 12, 2024
The town paused in somber reflection Wednesday, Sept. 11, to remember the loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens, 2,753 of them at the Twin Towers in Manhattan, on 9/11.
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Swift House questionnaire identifies seven potential users
September 12, 2024
Swift House, one of the oldest structures in the village center, is town owned but has been closed since before Covid because it is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Town officials have grappled with whether the building should be sold or renovated for modern uses.
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Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says
September 09, 2024
A Christian school at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that required Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is appealing a ruling upholding a requirement that all participating facilities abide by a state anti-discrimination law.
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