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Month: November 2024

Deschutes Cultural Coalition opens application period for 2025 Cultural Grants

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The Deschutes Cultural Coalition is seeking applications for grant funding from all sectors within the culture field including arts, heritage and humanities. Grant funding is sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust and Deschutes County. The partnership with the county, which began in 2022, will continue into 2025 to help cultural nonprofits

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US Dept. of Labor seeks to distribute wages owed to Oregon workers with online ‘WOW’ tool

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ)  – With the year coming to an end, the U.S. Department of Labor is eager to return $819,762 in wages recovered by its Wage and Hour Division’s Portland District Office to 1,195 workers who have earned them and encourages people to use the Workers Owed Wages online tool. WHO:             Anyone who believes they may

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‘Bomb cyclone’ brings high winds and soaking rain to Northern California and Pacific Northwest

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — What was expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades arrived Tuesday evening, knocking out power and downing trees across the region. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks beginning Tuesday and lasting through Friday as the strongest atmospheric river — a large

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‘Bomb cyclone’ brings high winds and soaking rain to Northern California and Pacific Northwest

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — What was expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades arrived Tuesday evening, knocking out power and downing trees across the region. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks beginning Tuesday and lasting through Friday as the strongest atmospheric river — a large

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The White House’s Christmas tree is a symbol of resilience for hurricane-hit North Carolina farms

Associated Press NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing a deadly deluge across western North Carolina, including Avery County, where Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has stood for decades.

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In southern India’s tea country, small but mighty efforts are brewing to bring back native forests

Associated Press UDHAGAMANDALAM, India (AP) — Scattered groves of native trees, flowers and the occasional prehistoric burial ground are squeezed between hundreds of thousands of tea shrubs in southern India’s Nilgiris region — a gateway to a time before colonization and the commercial growing of tea that reshaped the country’s mountain landscapes. These sacred groves

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Texas officials signal support for adding Bible lessons for K-5 classes as some states push Christianity in public schools

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Texas have backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten. Eight out of 15 state school board members voted Tuesday to keep the Bluebonnet Learning curriculum on a list of K-5 reading and English language arts

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