• Evening Standard

    Garrick Club votes to accept women members for first time in its 193-year history

    The Garrick Club has voted to allow women to become members for the first time in its 193-year history.A vote on Monday evening passed with roughly 60% of the 1,500 members voting in favour following a private meeting at a venue near its headquarters in Covent Garden on Tuesday.

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    Cause for Paws a hit in Baker Lake

    A chance encounter between high school teacher Andrea Robinson of Baker Lake and Rankin Inlet Fire Chief Mark Wyatt led to the first veterinarian clinic to be held in Baker Lake this past month from April 17 to 21. Robinson said the two became friends and she came down to Rankin Inlet to have Wyatt show her how to properly vaccinate dogs. She said Wyatt also sponsored seven high-need dogs from Baker to come to a Rankin clinic to get spayed. “He’s (Wyatt) just been super, super supportive of ever

  • Reuters

    Civil rights leader Daisy Bates to be honored with statue at US Capitol

    The late U.S. civil rights leader and journalist Daisy Bates, who was instrumental in desegregating Arkansas public schools in the 1950s, will be honored on Wednesday when a statue of her is unveiled at the U.S. Capitol. The bronze statue depicts Bates, who died in 1999 at the age of 84, with a newspaper in one hand and a notebook and pen in the other. It will be joined later this year by another Arkansas entry, honoring the late singer Johnny Cash, according to the office of House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson.