We’ll take any excuse to make dessert. Wednesday? Cupcakes. Only hit snooze once? Cookies, coming right up. Thawing out from winter’s permafrost and saying hello to spring? Now that’s an occasion worth celebrating with sweets. In honor of a new season (and the return of our farmers market favorites), here […]
Month: March 2021
After the COVID-19 shutdown one year ago, Santa Maria’s Recreation and Parks Department saw revenue losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, leaving staff wondering how crucial community programs would be funded. Although revenue remains almost nonexistent, even now, the department has found creative ways to continue serving the […]
In addition to producing masks during quarantine, like so many others, Ellen has been spending more time in the kitchen. “I think that people are stuck at home and they don’t have a ton of things to do,” the entrepreneur told us.” Besides, you know, wondering when they can go […]
As part of Insider’s wedding series, “The One,” Bijon Vaughn shared how she found her dream dress. The bride wore a Galia Lahav gown for her destination wedding in Mexico. The $7,500 gown featured an intricate bodice, detachable sleeves, and sheer cutouts. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. Bijon and […]
Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images Two new studies suggest that a Covid-19 variant first discovered in California has been spreading rapidly through the state. The findings come as the US ramps up its efforts to track and catalogue various forms of the mutating virus, and raise fresh questions about the […]
Applicants for the two open seats on the Eagle Town Council each touched on a variety of issues in the small but growing town in their interviews. Those issues included supporting small businesses and recruiting new businesses, improving internet services, attracting younger people and families to town, helping older residents […]
Although coronavirus vaccines are being distributed throughout the U.S. and life is expected to slowly start getting back to normal in 2021, we are still quite a while from the old status quo. That is, if life ever truly returns to normal after living and working at a distance for […]
When Dua Lipa was 15 years old, she left her parents and two younger siblings behind in the family’s native Kosovo and moved more or less on her own to London. The plan, at least as understood by her mom and dad (who’d only agreed to it because she’d be […]
In addition to producing masks during quarantine, like so many others, Ellen has been spending more time in the kitchen. “I think that people are stuck at home and they don’t have a ton of things to do,” the entrepreneur told us.” Besides, you know, wondering when they can go […]
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USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 9:10 a.m. CT March 3, 2021 CLOSE The Mishicot girls basketball team beat Mineral Point 70-66 to capture the WIAA Division 4 state championship Friday at the La Crosse Center Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter Miracle League of the Lakeshore opens registration Registration is now open to […]
Worker wages have been a hot topic in recent weeks as debates rage online over things like a $15 federal minimum wage and whether interns should be paid. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) claimed it’s “utterly embarrassing” that there’s a debate in America about paying workers “enough to live” on, and […]
Shot of a tired young female designer looking stressed with her hands in her hair while contemplating in the office at work. If you feel like a hamster on a wheel at work, yet your performance is lacking, it’s time to realize how achieving a work-life balance can help you […]
BOISE, Idaho — The deadline for Idahoans to get the Star Card, Idaho’s REAL ID, is now seven months away. Starting October 1, people will need a Star Card. U.S. passport, military ID or another form of REAL ID to board a commercial flight or enter a federal facility. The […]
Staff Sgt. Mike Schuster loads two produce boxes into a car at a food bank distribution by the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) Tony Dejak AP NEW YORK More than one-third of U.S. nonprofits are in jeopardy of closing within two years […]
Refinery 29 UK Yes, The COVID “Baby Bust” Is Real — Unless You’re Rich The “baby boom” predicted at the beginning of the pandemic is now widely acknowledged to have been a baby bust. Though there was an assumption that people would take the opportunity to procreate while stuck at home, […]
Debra Roberts is an author, licensed clinical social worker, and business consultant based in New York. She explains there are several easy ways to get people to like you over Zoom and virtual meetings. Roberts says to be yourself, show your authentic personality, and be an active and engaged listener. […]
On Feb. 23, Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, reemphasized the central bank’s commitment to the current loose monetary policy. He noted that inflation and employment levels are still far below their targets, and interest rates should remain low. Despite this, concerns about increasing inflation and the subsequent dive […]
For some people, Massachusetts is well behind the pack and cannot legalize sports wagering soon enough. But others say lawmakers should pump the brakes, learn from research conducted in mature gambling markets and take the time to ensure that as many of the unknowns around sports betting are addressed in […]
Illusion Theater is moving to the Center for Performing Arts. The Playwrights’ Center will relocate to a former office/warehouse building in St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone. And, announced yesterday, Red Eye Theater will have a new home in Seward. Yes, we’re still in a pandemic, and no, we don’t know […]
A few red-winged blackbirds and a flock or two of sandhill cranes arrived over the weekend. Maple sap was running. Like usual for the start of March. But it still isn’t a usual winter for ski resorts. If it were, the downhill season at Swiss Valley Ski & Snowboard Area […]
CLOSE Taughannock Falls, near Ithaca, is the tallest waterfall east of the Mississippi. The National Park Service invites public input on a feasibility study that will be used to determine whether the Finger Lakes region could become a national heritage area. Unlike national parks, people actually live in the large landscapes the […]