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Brenda Campbell is shown during a closing sale at Sportco Sporting Goods, 2580 E. Sunset Road, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Brenda’s husband, Rob Campbell, who founded Sportco with his father in 1989, died last month.
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The line of customers was at least 100 people deep outside Sportco Sporting Goods on this February afternoon.
The longtime supplier of
Canoe campers permitted to visit the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness will be required to get educated on what it means to “leave no trace” after a pandemic-driven surge in visits last season saw everything from people cutting live trees to leaving campfires unattended.
The U.S. Forest Service, which manages the million-acre wilderness, said in a statement Friday that there has been “unacceptably high amount of resource damage,” and visitors
Wilmington, N.C. – Nearly 50 years ago, a power company received permission from North Carolina to build a reservoir by damming a creek near the coastal city of Wilmington. It would provide a source of steam to generate electricity and a place to cool hot water from an adjacent coal-fired plant.
Sutton Lake became popular with boaters and anglers, yielding bass, crappie, bluegill and other panfish. But coal ash from
British Cycling will write to government this week to express concern at the way sport’s bailouts are being allocated, with too much attention given to ticketed sports and not enough on the grass-roots facing an “existential crisis”.
Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, has asked sports to put in their bids for government assistance by 5pm on Wednesday, but there are fears within recreational sport that there will be an excessive
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Last week, ICE released guidance stating that international students would not be allowed back into the US in the fall unless they were taking in-person classes at their university.
This poses a problem for Harvard’s international students, as the school recently said classes in the fall would be entirely remote.
Students
On her birthday, Justine learned that her future as a student in the U.S., and the futures of hundreds of thousands of international students like her — may be in jeopardy. New federal guidance announced Monday that international students will be required to leave the U.S. if their schools switch to an all-online curriculum amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students already residing in the U.S. have been thrust into panic and
International students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under new guidelines issued Monday by federal immigration authorities.
The guidelines, issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, provide additional pressure for universities to reopen even amid growing concerns about the recent spread of COVID-19 among young adults. Colleges received the guidance the same day that some
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Ending a years-long skirmish over complying with short-term rental regulations, Airbnb and New York City reached a settlement that requires Airbnb to provide the city with host information, including names, physical addresses, phone numbers and emails. If hosts don’t consent to the data transfer, they would be barred from listing their properties on the platform.
That Airbnb consented to such a settlement in one of its biggest global markets may
