Organizers of the 2nd Annual Midcoast Tree Festival have announced that the event is being postponed until 2021 due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The event had been scheduled to open on Nov. 20 with nearly three dozen decorated trees and wreaths for patrons to be raffled off. The […]

Share Tweet Share Share Share Print Email Twelve years after the housing and mortgage markets’ collapse threw the United States into financial distress not seen since the Great Depression, market watchers are again on the lookout for a possible new banking crisis spawned by upheaval in the U.S. commercial real […]

Monday’s positive news of the success of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial has given a boost to the struggling travel industry, with tour companies and online travel agents reporting an immediate surge in enquiries and bookings for next year. Flight and accommodation website Skyscanner reported an “immediate spike” in online traffic, […]

More than 3,700 South Carolinians have died of COVID-19. And untold thousands more are struggling as a result of the coronavirus — loved ones lost, jobs gone, routines upended. We asked South Carolina residents to share how the virus has altered their world. Here’s what they had to say: Crystal […]

SPEARFISH — On Oct. 16, the South Dakota Municipal League circulated a letter signed by mayors from 13, First-Class municipalities throughout South Dakota, including that of Spearfish Mayor Dana Boke. “We are writing to you with a simple ask, but one that we need everyone to take seriously. We need […]

The Symetra Tour’s season finale is happening this week at River Run Country Club in Davidson, North Carolina, but the top-ranked player on the season-long money list isn’t there. Instead, she’s hunkered over an e-reader in a hotel room roughly 20 miles away in Charlotte, North Carolina. So continues the […]

BOSTON (SHNS) – Three months after Gov. Charlie Baker signed a more than $1.1 billion COVID relief spending bill, the administration has made the final $213 million available for dozens of non-profits, municipal departments, and hospitals to claim with just two months left until much of the federal money used […]

Later, the defence minister Johnny Mercer encouraged people to watch the national Remembrance Sunday event at the Cenotaph on television. Speaking during defence questions, he told the Commons: “This is a very important time of year for the country, and we encourage people to remember in their own way. There […]

Interactions Matter Communication skills are more important than ever, said Jean Choy, an associate dean at the Foster School of Business, whose focus is executive education and international initiatives. For example, some people like to chitchat before getting to the meeting’s agenda, and others like to get right to business, […]

In his new Flamingo Showroom production, Piff the Magic Dragon works with one real dog, one puppet dog and several metaphorical elephants. This is because of pandemic protocols, naturally. “There are lots of elephants in the room. In fact, we just put up a yellow fence onstage to make sure […]

PARIS—Before the killings began, Nice’s largest church was quiet and nearly deserted. Vincent Loqués opened the Basilica of Notre-Dame at 8:30 a.m. as usual. The landmark cathedral, a striking bone-white structure, was built in the mid-1860s in the Neo-Gothic style and sits on Nice’s Avenue Jean Médecin—a busy artery in […]

Teen markets virus-shaped goodies to cheer up ailing consumers, making a novelty product from the novel coronavirus Entrepreneur Hudson Hale, 17, had been mulling over the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and was wondering if there was a product that could lift people’s spirits. Stuck at home in the spring […]

THE NEEDIEST CASES FUND As their communities’ needs shifted amid the pandemic, these neighbors offered help. On a blustery day in May, Vanessa Fransen rolled her wagon up to a house in Makoti, N.D. She deposited a bundle on the doormat, rang the doorbell and sprinted away. But this wasn’t […]