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Lake George Churches will continue their annual tradition of Walking the Way of the Cross along the Village streets on Good Friday and celebrating Easter with a sunrise service on the lake shore.

The Walking of the Way of the Cross will begin at noon on Friday, March 29. The observance will start at Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Mohican Street and travel to St. James Episcopal Church on Montcalm Street. The procession will continue to Lake George Community Methodist Church and end at Caldwell Presbyterian Church, both also on Montcalm Street.

Retracing Jesus’ final footsteps is a Christian tradition that dates back to the 4th Century when pilgrims would travel to the Holy Land to walk the original Way of the Cross. The path is marked with 14 stations beginning with Pontius Pilate’s Court condemning Jesus to death and ending with Jesus being laid in his tomb. During the season of Lent, Christians worldwide celebrate the Stations of the Cross each Friday.

The sun rises over Lake George.

On Easter Sunday, the four Lake George Churches will celebrate the Resurrection with an ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service on MacDonald Pier in Shepard Park. The service will begin at 6:30 a.m. A free continental breakfast at Caldwell Presbyterian Church will follow the Easter Sunrise Service.

Featured image: Parishioners walk The Way of the Cross on Montcalm Street, Good Friday 2019.

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MOUNT VERNON — Local officials are working to make a connector trail between the Kokosing Gap and Mohican Valley trails a reality.

Representatives of Danville, the Knox County Park District, the Knox Community Foundation, the Area Development Foundation, and the Kokosing Gap Trail Board met with the county commissioners on March 14 to review preliminary plans.

The KGT ends at Richards Street in Danville, and the MVT begins at East Street. Connecting the two is one initiative in the village’s strategic plan.

“Typically, trails would follow the railroad bed, but Danville Feed and Supply has a building on the railroad bed,” explained Sam Filkins, ADF vice president.

“We looked at using an existing bridge on the state route, but it wasn’t wide enough to do a bike trail, and we would have to build a new bridge. That would cost too much.”

Lisa Loyd of the KCF added, “We think the easiest way is to build a bridge over the creek behind the feed mill in Danville.”

Plans call for cyclists to come off of the KGT, head north on Richards Street to Tilton Street, and then east to South Market Street.

Cyclists will cross South Market onto village-owned land, skirt the perimeter of what will become Thomas Wayne Cottrell Jr. Memorial Park, cross the new bridge, and access the Mohican Valley Trail.

The connector trail will be a raised boardwalk over the wetlands areas.

The crosswalk on South Market will include warning lights and roadway striping.

Connector trail brings commerce

Filkins said Danville is one of the few villages that import workers. More than 32 percent of them are in retail and food services.

“They would benefit from tourism and commerce,” he said. “The reality is we’re not able to build a large industrial place in Danville,…

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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — The Oscars honor those who bring our favorite stories to life on the big screen. You know the actors, but what about the thousands behind the scenes who make movie magic happen?

Two such people with resumes that could fill a textbook got their start at home in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

“My mom called me and said that they had placed a classified ad for hairdressers for a movie that was coming to Asheville,” Deborah Ball, a Haywood County native, said.

Ball and her friend, Gail Hensley, spent a career working in salons before the production of “The Last of the Mohicans” came to their doorstep.

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“The salon, with contemporary work, can become boring for an artist,” Ball said. “I found the challenge in film work. Not only in the research, but also in the construction of these pieces.”

A three-decade journey of hair and wig work began for Ball and Hensley on the set of the Daniel-Day Lewis-led, Oscar-winning movie.

“(An) unbelievable opportunity crossed our way,” Hensley, a West Asheville native, said.

Winning a Golden Globe on the TV show “Homeland” and a career of opportunity working on films like “Titanic,” “The Patriot,” “The Help”, and “Lincoln” involves quite a lot of research.

“You have to start thinking about, ‘Well, how did they manage their hair back then?'” Ball asked.

Research which took two months to thumb through in their latest film, Oscar-nominated “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

“We had traditional Osage, the men and the women, and the men wore the two braids, and the ladies had the one braid,” Hensley said. “Then we would have to transition them into the 1920s as they progressed in the time period when they became wealthy Osage.”

Hensley, who…

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Ohio’s Amish County is a popular spot for exploring markets, restaurants (like Boyd & Wurthmann!), and shops, and if you’re visiting the area, you need a solid home base. Enter Amish Country Lodging and their treehouses in Berlin, Ohio! Amish Country Lodging offers a variety of lodges, cottages, and treehouses throughout the region, and they invited us to stay in one of the Skyview Treehouses.

The Skyview Treehouse is a two-story treehouse with a crows nest. It sleeps six, with a pair of king beds and a couple twin beds. It features some nice outdoor spaces and a hot tub. Like the other Skyview Treehouses, it sits on an elevated piece of their property, so it offers some pretty nice views.

One king bed is located on the main floor.

While the other king bed sits on the second floor.

There’s a cute pair of twin beds tucked into little alcoves on the second floor.

And if you climb up the steep stairs between them (and duck your head), you’ll reach the crow’s nest!

The small windowed room includes a handful of seats. It’s a lovely spot with nice views, perfect for some reading or a quiet cup of coffee.

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Wisconsin women have been making history as community builders, industry innovators, government leaders and more for centuries. Learn about some of the notable women in Wisconsin history during Women’s History Month with the PBS Wisconsin Education Wisconsin Biographies collection.

Milly Zantow

Milly Zantow changed recycling in Wisconsin and the world. When she learned about a problem facing her Sauk County community — a landfill closing much earlier than it should — she took action by focusing on recycling. At that time, no one was recycling plastics, but through her ingenuity, Zantow found a way and developed the idea for the numbering system to identify plastics for recycling.

Electa Quinney

Electa Quinney was Wisconsin’s first-known public school teacher and a notable mentor in the Mohican community. Because of the impactful time in which she lived, Quinney’s story shines a light on the broader story of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans who used non-Native and traditional Native education to preserve their ways of life.

Carrie Frost

Carrie Frost was a fly fishing entrepreneur who paved the way for other female business owners in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Even though women could not vote and in many cases could not own property, Frost created a successful manufacturing company, and she gave more than 150 Stevens Point women a chance to earn their wages at a time when they were not often able to do so.

Elizabeth Baird

Elizabeth Baird was a strong woman with fierce determination living on the Wisconsin frontier. Born a native French speaker, Baird taught herself English and worked as an interpreter in her husband’s law firm, all while operating her family’s farm and recording her…

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When General Electric Co. embarks on its yearslong cleanup plan to remove PCBs from the Housatonic River, it will potentially be working in the vicinity of numerous sites of “significance” to a tribe of Native Americans.

And as the plans for the Rest of River cleanup take shape, efforts are ongoing on numerous fronts to protect those sites.

The Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to ensure that burial and other cultural or historic sites are not destroyed or otherwise impacted.

“Our office is aware of, and actively consulting government-to-government with EPA representatives on the ‘Rest of the River’ Housatonic cleanup project,” wrote Bonney Hartley, tribal historic preservation manager, via email. She noted the tribe’s Williamstown-based office represents the tribe’s cultural resource interests in its ancestral territories.

The plan calls for the removal of PCBs, beginning in 2025, from areas of the river from Southeast Pittsfield to Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge and Housatonic village in Great Barrington. GE released PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, into the Housatonic from its Pittsfield plant for decades until the 1970s.

Bonney Hartley is the tribal historic preservation manager for the Stockbridge Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians. Hartley said her office is aware that the Rest of River cleanup project and is actively working with EPA. 

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Last month, the EPA offered a conditional approval of the work plan covering the southeast Pittsfield portion of the river, starting at Fred Garner Park, including descriptions of potential historic and archaeological impacts. But GE is required to revise and resubmit the plan by March 22. 

Ashlin Brooks, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator…

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Jorge Campillo’s time has come. With Jon Rahm and Sergio García heading to the LIV Golf, he is now the sole Spanish representative on the PGA Tour. The 37-year-old Extremaduran will make his debut on the American circuit this Thursday (16:00, Movistar Golf), having acquired his card last season through synergies with the DP World Tour, formerly known as the European Tour, which now distributes ten memberships among the highest-ranked players in its annual standings who did not already have one.

As he mentioned in an interview with this newspaper in December, his schedule on the other side of the Atlantic will not be too hectic, as his status there is limited and he does not have access, for example, to the Signature Events, the highest category of tournaments.

He will begin his journey at the Mexico Open.

Jorge Campillo, results

Interestingly, this event is not far from where he made his first appearance in a regular PGA Tour event, the Mayakoba Classic, which was a regular stop on this tour south of the border before it fell into the hands of the LIV and the venue shifted to Puerto Vallarta.

Not much has changed. It remains a minor event, with a field that includes only four of the top 40 players in the world rankings, although that classification has long ceased to be a reliable benchmark, and it takes place on a resort course.

But where the average fan sees a less appealing menu, Campillo sees an opportunity to earn a good number of FedEx points to pave the way for more significant events later in the year. Others who have taken advantage of the new “European path” to access the…

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If you need to use the computers at the Maitland Public Library, you’ll probably end up sitting in the middle of a hallway. The building, parts of which are more than a century old, has no space for a computer lab.

Now Maitland’s leaders are asking city residents to fix that and a host of other shortcomings by supporting a $14 million bond on the March 19 ballot to build a new and improved library.

The question for voters is whether the improvements are worth the property tax increase proposed to pay for them. It will cost the typical Maitland homeowner more than $100 annually.

“It doesn’t meet our needs anymore,” said Stacie Larson, director of the Maitland Public Library, of the current facility. “It’s just too small to hold the collection of books and telescopes and baking pans and DVDs and everything else that we have.”

City public information officer Robert Sargent said that Maitland leaders began the process toward improving the library in 2017. A study of the current building revealed the need for repairs on the HVAC, electrical lines, roof and more. The city council ultimately decided that it would be more efficient and less costly to build a new library.

The current library building stands at 12,300 sq. ft. over one story, while the new building will be 20,000 sq. ft. across two stories.

The City of Maitland is preparing to build a new two-story, 20,000-square-foot library, shown here in a rendering. (Maitland city records)

The overall cost of the project would be about $18.7 million. The city has about $5 million in existing funds to allocate toward the project.

The…

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