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Austin ISD looking to fill over 200 vacancies for 2023-24 year, holding career fair Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The Austin Independent School District is holding a teacher career fair Saturday, April 15 to fill some of its nearly 225 openings for the 2023-24 school year.The career fair will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Austin Convention Center. Those interested can RSVP online and are encouraged to apply for a teacher position before the career fair. Arnoldo Gutiérrez, Assistant Superintendent of Human Capital for Austin ISD, told KXAN that the school district doesn't have as many vacancies this time of year as it usually does. However, current teachers still have time to resign before their resignation deadline, which is 45 days before the first day of instruction, and the district is working on recruitment in the meantime. That recruitment includes stipends for special education and bilingual teachers and housing options. Right now, AISD is offering a $7,000 per year stipend for bilingual classroom teachers and a $5,000 per year stipend for special educati...

The best walking trails in Schenectady, according to All Trails

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- With spring officially here and the weather starting to match, why not get out for a walk? Using All Trails, News10 has compiled a list of what trails are considered the best in Schenectady. All Trails uses reviews from trail-goers to make their rankings. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! 1. Lisha Kill Nature LoopLength: 2.2 milesElevation: 295 feetRoute type: loopLisha Kill Natural AreaAccording to All Trails, the Lisha Kill Nature Loop allows leashed dogs and is kid-friendly. The trail also is good for bird-watching and is apt for running. It takes 55 minutes on average to complete and is considered an easier route. It is a busier trail, so expect to see other visitors there. 2. Sergeant Falls Side TrailLength: 3.4 milesElevation: 538 feetRoute type: out and backPlotter Kill Nature PreserveAccording to All Trails, the Sergeant Falls Side Trail is considered an easier route and takes an average ...

New York Times bestseller named Russell Sage commencement speaker

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Eddie Glaude, the New York Times bestselling author of the 2020 book "Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” was announced as Russell Sage College's commencement speaker for its 2023 commencement ceremony. The commencement ceremony will be Saturday, May 13, at the MVP Arena. Get the latest, news, weather, sports and community events delivered right to your inbox! Glaude's "Begin Again," made several best-book lists in 2020 and received the 2021 Stowe Prize, which is awarded by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, highlighting social justice issues in the U.S. On top of being a New York Times bestselling author, Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

'Chasing Piscasso' book releases this Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

ST. LOUIS - Fifty years ago today, April 11, 1973, a nude painting by Pablo Picasso was stolen from the St. Louis Art Museum. It hasn't been seen since.Where did it go, and who took it? All of those questions and theories are discussed and in a new book being released this Saturday called Chasing Picasso. Trending: St. Louis man flips after win on The Jennifer Hudson Show St. Louis author Carol Baker joined the station to discuss one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in St. Louis history.

Think your Claude Monet painting might be stolen? Submit tips to FBI using this art crime smartphone app

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

For Americans concerned about whether impressionist paintings, fabled violins and other treasured items might be stolen property, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched a new art crime smartphone app that promises direct contact with agents.Anybody can use this free downloadable app, FBI officials announced Monday, to verify whether art and antiquities they own or are looking to buy weren’t stolen.“Submit tips to the FBI directly from the app,” officials said.This app gives mobile, on-the-run access to a National Stolen Art File database that FBI art crime investigators developed in working their cases.In the past, police agencies and art-industry partners in the United States and abroad have submitted information on stolen Claude Monet paintings, Stradivarius violins, Tiffany lamps and the like to this database, FBI officials said. It holds secrets on the provenance of scores of stolen pieces of art and other culturally significant property.Related Artic...

Arapahoe County considers 6-month drilling moratorium as Aurora residents worry about fracking near reservoir

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

Although it’s been a while since local officials in Colorado placed a halt on oil and gas drilling, commissioners in Arapahoe County on Tuesday will consider passing a six-month moratorium on new well permits in one of the state’s most robust places for energy extraction.The potential drilling delay, which would give the county time to refine recent oil and gas regulations, comes as Denver-based Civitas Resources rolls out plans for 174 new wells on a stretch of land owned by the Colorado State Land Board just east of the Aurora city line, in unincorporated Arapahoe County.Homeowners living near the proposed project, dubbed Lowry Ranch, are worried about the possible impacts of nearby oil and gas development on their neighborhoods, and, more notably, on the Aurora Reservoir — a drinking water source for Colorado’s third-largest city.Dozens of people signed up to speak about the moratorium during a March 28 county commissioner meeting. There wasn’t enoug...

Four more Front Range breweries closing their doors

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

New breweries have been opening at a furious pace in Colorado over the last several months — with more than a dozen more on pace to pour their first beers by the end of 2023.But when the glass is half full, it also means it’s half empty. In the past few weeks, four Front Range breweries or brewery-owned taprooms have closed or announced imminent closures.Smiling Toad Brewery, Colorado SpringsSmiling Toad Brewing, which was founded in 2013 before closing temporarily in 2020 and reopening a year later in a new location, has announced the end of the road.“We have news to share. After 10 fantastic years of brewing up a storm, Smiling Toad Brewery is calling it a decade,” owners Bill and Patti Biff wrote on Facebook on April 3. But the brewery plans to keep the taps open into May (or until the beer runs dry).Front Range Brewing, LafayetteThe Hoglund and Nichols families, owners of Front Range Brewing, made the “extremely challenging decision” to throw ...

As Colorado legislature’s focus turns to zoning reform, Democrats press tenant bills

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

Colorado Democrats have advanced a slew of pro-tenant bills amid a legislative session that one lawmaker called “the year of housing.” Despite concerns from some that two of the most high-profile bills may die, lawmakers and lobbyists say enough measures will advance this year to help achieve Democrats’ goal of rebalancing the relationship between landlords and tenants.“There’s too many of them,” said Drew Hamrick, a senior vice president with the Colorado Apartment Association who’s criticized many of those bills as being counterproductive. “And you can’t go to the same (Democratic) legislators over and over again and ask them to kill numerous of their party’s bills.”The focus on housing is in part driven by what Democratic candidates heard while campaigning last year, legislators said, and in part by the number of renters now serving in the General Assembly. The “year of housing” also extends beyond lawm...

DeSantis pushes toughest immigration crackdown in the nation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

By Miriam Jordan, The New York TimesTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican with presidential ambitions, the Florida Legislature is considering a sweeping package of immigration measures that would represent the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration by any state in more than a decade.Expected to pass within weeks because Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers, the bills are part of what DeSantis describes as a response to President Joe Biden’s “open borders agenda,” which he said has allowed an uncontrolled flow of immigrants to cross into the United States from Mexico.The bills would expose people to felony charges for sheltering, hiring and transporting immigrants who are in the country without legal permission; require hospitals to ask patients their immigration status and report to the state; invalidate out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to immigrants in the country without legal permission; prevent them from being admitted to the bar i...

Colorado Democrats propose tougher oil and gas permit rules to curb air pollution — risking showdown with Polis

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:33:25 GMT

Legislation being proposed in the Colorado General Assembly would make the state’s air pollution permitting rules more stringent, largely impacting the oil and gas industry and setting up a potential showdown between the governor and supporters of the bill in the statehouse and among environmental groups.The bill, to be introduced later this week, has been in the works for two years, and its creation was championed by 24 environmental groups that, in a March letter of support, urged Gov. Jared Polis to back the legislation and criticized him for failing to include them in a recent plan to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions in the oil and gas industry.Environmentalists and the bill’s sponsors want state regulators to perform a modeling analysis of potential pollutants from any newly proposed oil and gas sites, and to consider the cumulative impact oil and gas production has on the state’s climate, before issuing new air permits.But it may be hard to convince the govern...