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Celebrate Student Strengths and Diversity of Jefferson County students at "Young Reflections, An Exploration Reframing Student Image"
WATERTOWN, NY (8/20/24) - "Young Reflections, An Exploration Reframing Student Image" will be open for public viewing on Thursday, September 26, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at The Lincoln Loft, 95 Public Square, Watertown, NY 13601. The free exhibit features ten student artists from three Jefferson County school districts as...
$12,500 Community Foundation Grant Helps Improve Clayton Opera House Operations
CLAYTON — Clayton Opera House performers will soon be able to more easily access the main stage with heavy equipment thanks to a new lift that a $12,500 Community Foundation grant helped purchase. Funding enabled the Thousand Islands Performing Arts Fund to purchase the equipment lift, which is expected to be installed in September. The new lift will improve safety during loading and unloading of heavy items for performances. Performers presently bring equipment, some more than 150 pounds, into the venue on a ramp through the front entrance. The new equipment lift will help cut setup times by up to three hours for performers with heavier equipment.
Hettie Jones, poet and author who nurtured the Beats, dies at 90
Hettie Jones, poet and author, at her home in New York on Sept. 23, 2008. Jones, a poet and author who with her husband, LeRoi Jones (who later became the incendiary poet and playwright Amiri Baraka), made her household a hub for Beat writers and other artists — but who was often described as a footnote in the rise of her famous spouse as “the white wife” he disavowed — died on Aug. 13, 2024, in Philadelphia. She was 90. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)
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