Mary Umbarger carried her autoharp onto the stage at Broad Street United Methodist Church like it was her baby.
Cradling the stringed instrument in her arms, she began softly picking the strings as she recited a poem about the places that music can take a person to an audience of about 50 people.
“Music just kind of [...]

The auxiliary volunteers at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Brownsville awarded six students with scholarships to attend the University of Texas at Brownsville and pursue a degree in the health care profession.
There were honored during a reception at the hospital on Tuesday.
Alma de los Santos is one of the recipients. The pre-med major spends her [...]

The 5,500 secondary students who will receive their Scholarship results in the mail tomorrow are being assured their work has gone through a thorough assessment regime.
After last year’s scholarship debacle, the New Zealand Qualifications Authority says it has been particularly careful to ensure the 2005 results are accurate and consistent.
Last year saw wild variations in [...]

A Clark County School District special education teacher has been suspended. District officials won’t discuss personnel matters but the teacher was reportedly suspended for lying on his application.
Fred Kober, 56, is accused of sexual misconduct at his previous jobs. He says he lied on his Clark County School District application because he knew he wouldn’t [...]

The Nevada Department of Wildlife is encouraging hunters to go online to check their hunter education records to ensure that records are in order before applying for big game tags and licenses.
To verify hunter education records, or for more information, visit www.ndow.org.

Aim to Expand the Use of Java Technology and Provide Tools to Enable Students and Teachers to Broaden Their Knowledge of Computer Technology
Sun Microsystems, Inc. the creator and leading advocate of Java (TM) technology, today announced that the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), in collaboration with the Java Italian Association (JIA), have [...]

The German Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Mr Peter Linder, has handed over scholarship certificates to three Ghanaian students.
They are the first students to have successfully passed the rigorous selection process in 2006 and to be awarded scholarships by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to pursue various studies in Germany.
According to a press release from [...]

Siletz Valley Charter School has plans to expand.
At the Lincoln County School District Board of Directors meeting Feb. 14, Van Peters, Siletz Valley Charter School director, received unanimous approval from the board to continue its work on the kindergarten-through-eighth grades and presented information on plans to make “an early college academy charter high school” for [...]

When it came time for Pam Graves to go back to school, the registered nurse at Saint Joseph East Hospital picked Indiana Wesleyan University.
That was also the choice of Sandi Metzger and Liz Carnal, both nurses at Central Baptist Hospital.
But none of them is driving to Indiana Wesleyan’s main campus in Marion, Ind., an hour [...]

Book That Enlightens, Empowers and Motivates Children to Get Healthy Included on the Department’s Web-Based List ‘Legal and Social Compliance Approved Out-of-Cycle Instructional Materials’
Child health advocate Merilee A. Kern, co-founder and CEO of www.KidsHealthDepot.com — a soon-to-launch online catalog offering “Solutions That Foster Healthy Children(TM),” today announced that her healthy living-themed fictional children’s book, “It’s [...]

An advisory panel of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Tuesday began studying a new economic strategy aimed at boosting Japan’s industrial competitiveness by taking advantage of economic globalization.
The trade policy committee of METI’s Industrial Structure Council, headed by Canon Inc. President Fujio Mitarai, discussed an outline of the strategy involving Japan’s policy [...]

The dominance of English as the world’s top language — until recently an advantage to both Britain and the United States — is now beginning to undermine the competitiveness of both nations, according to a major research report.
The report commissioned by the British Council says monolingual English graduates “face a bleak economic future” as multilingual [...]