Martin Luther King Day News

Gilbert's Martin Luther King Jr. celebration has been shelved for next year. The January holiday has been commemorated with a breakfast or with an evening celebration such as the one held earlier this year, attended by students.

SUGAR GROVE – Sugar Grove village offices will be closed Wednesday for Veterans Day as the village institutes furlough days in the face of budget problems caused by the sluggish economy.

It has recently come to my attention that in Bedminster, mold was found in the walls of the Bedminster Township Public School, causing them to delay the school's September opening.

Awash in tape hiss with a remarkable tinny sound, Guided by Voices' "Bee Thousand" showed that a pop masterpiece needs no million-dollar studio but simply great melodies, solid musicianship and a decent enough voice to carry it all through.

A North Philadelphia man faces sentencing today for voluntary manslaughter in last year's killing of a man watching a basketball game on Martin Luther King Day inside a recreation center named for the civil rights leader.

Jeffrey Kolowith's kindergarten students read a poem about Christopher Columbus, take a journey to the New World on three paper ships and place the explorer's picture on a timeline through history.

Negotiators for Otsego County and the CSEA reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday after more than two-and-a-half years of bargaining.

I think nationalized health care is a great idea - I really do - as long as somebody else's country is running it.

A North Philadelphia man accused of a fatal shooting during a basketball game last year on Martin Luther King Day was found guilty today of manslaughter and firearms violations.

NEW UAB CAMPUS CALENDAR PROVIDES ONLINE ACCESS TO EVENTS The new UAB Campus Calendar at www.uab.edu/calendar now is the university's primary source for promoting campus events, activities and deadlines, and the "Calendars" link on the UAB home page takes you straight there.

When UNLV students return this month for fall classes, they will be paying more in fees and tuition but wona TMt notice many other effects of the budget cuts handed down by the Legislature this year.

Which U.S. president signed the law making Martin Luther King Day a national holiday? Ronald Reagan in 1983.

Vilonia Middle School teacher Carol Edwards plans to assess her fifth-grade students' knowledge concerning black history and "fill in the gaps" with the help of scholars from higher learning institutions.

On January 19, 2009, the day before his historic inauguration, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, commemorated Martin Luther King Day by volunteering for various community service projects around the Washington, DC, area.

Cherif Keita, Carleton College professor of French studies, spent last weekend in Paris, showing the documentary film he has made regarding John L. Dube.

A slow economy is affecting local festivals, but a decrease in festival number, and size, could also affect the local economy.

Memorial Day is many things. Ita TMs our first holiday since New Years, unless you get time off for Martin Luther King Day.

CEDAR CITY - Budget accommodations and talks with the city regarding an agreement for the aquatic center topped the agenda during the last Iron County School Board meeting of the school year on Tuesday.

Jim Splaine just doesn't give up. The odds are rarely with Splaine: The 61-year-old Portsmouth legislator has spent most of his 40-year career in public life as just one of 400 in the New Hampshire House, and much of that time he's been the leading legislator on liberal political causes that appear lost.

I recently had one of the toughest speeches of my career. It was a three hour afternoon session on Martin Luther King day in Baltimore, Maryland.