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Evergreen doubles the size of their church in Salem
Project estimated at $1.3 million By JO ALLEN jallen@morningsentinel.com SALEM — Evergreen Christian Church in Salem has been busy the past couple of weeks, as they have started a large expansion project that will double the size of their church....

Dairy faces uncertain export future
Daniel Munch American Farm Bureau Federation Trade is a hot topic with a lot of uncertainty. Trade-policy decisions made in Washington, D.C., will impact farmers and ranchers in the countryside. This Market Intel is part of a series exploring...

A peek into the Carpinteria pickleball scene
Over the past few years, the sport of pickleball has taken the world by storm. Here in Carpinteria, what was originally a handful of players has exploded into a scene of hundreds of paddle-swinging pickleball fanatics (there are now 230 members in...

Former World Leaders Call for ‘New Coalition of the Willing’ to Address Poverty and Inequality
Club de Madrid members and partners gathered for their Annual Policy Dialogue 2025 at the UN Office in Nairobi, Kenya on April 3, 2025. club_de_madrid / Instagram Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper,...

Sheikh Khaled and President of Belarus hold talks in Minsk as trade deal agreed
Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, on Friday held talks in Minsk with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko as a trade deal was made between the countries to usher in a "new era" of private-sector collaboration. The leaders...

Telluride Yoga Festival embraces transformation and celebration
The 17th annual Telluride Yoga Festival (TYF) returns Thursday, June 26 through Sunday, June 29, for four days of immersive inspiration, movement, wellness and connection. With 40 presenters supporting this year’s theme “Art of Living,” the...

Paddleboard festival showcases the benefits of life on the water
Trent Hickman invites the public to a celebration of life on water at the 2025 Park City SUP Festival on July 5 at Jordanelle State Park’s Sand Pavilion. The family-friendly event will feature standup paddleboard races and live music, said...

Canadian Government Just Issued A 3-Step Advisory Plan For Travel To Los Angeles
The Canadian government has issued important travel advice in recent days. Costa Rica has been issued another travel warning, while the United States also has another updated advisory. U.S. government officials pushed back on Canada's recent...

Organized crime stifles Latin America's economic development
Organizd crime, including drug smuggling is stifling Latin America's economy, according to a recent report by the World Bank. Photo by Carrasco Ragel/EPA-EFE June 27 (UPI) -- Latin America and the Caribbean rank among the regions with the highest...

US goalie Matt Freese focused on Gold Cup knockout round
Having displaced Matt Turner as the starting U.S. goalkeeper for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, Matt Freese isn’t contemplating starting the Americans’ World Cup opener next June. “It’s not at the forefront of my mind,” he said Wednesday. “What I’m...

Pune: Once On Brink Of Closure, ZP School Now In Race For $10,000 World’s Best School Prize; Check Pictures And Video
Pune: Once On Brink Of Closure, ZP School Now In Race For $10,000 World’s Best School Prize; Check Pictures And Video | Once on the brink of closure with just three students in 2022, a government school in Maharashtra’s Pune district faced an...

Want to live to 100? Learn these lifestyle habits from the world's longest living communities
Want to live till 100? Experts say if longevity is common in your family, you're more likely to live longer. But genetics makes up only one part of the equation. The rest? Lifestyle choices. According to a 1996 study on Danish twin pairs,...

30 Unhappiest Countries In The World in 2025
This article looks at the 30 unhappiest countries in the world in 2025. The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford recently published the World Happiness Report 2025. Finland took the number one spot yet again, marking eight years...

Konshens Breaks Down ‘Pool Party’ LP & Explains Why A ‘Shake It to the Max’ Remix Would Be ‘Kinda Predictable’
Nearly a decade ago, Konshens dropped one of the biggest dancehall songs of the century in 2016’s “Bruk Off Your Back.” For his new studio album, Pool Party, which arrived on Friday (June 27) via Submachine Entertainment & FTS Global, the Jamaican...

Matt Freese Has The Hot Hand But Won't Let World Cup Talk Distract Him
ARLINGTON, Texas – Matt Freese admittedly was trying to "overcomplicate a scenario." In the 19th minute of the U.S. men’s national team’s eventual 2-1 win over Haiti in its final Gold Cup group stage match on Sunday, Freese received a pass back...

New website tracks SCCF-tagged sea turtles
/News 1 / 3 SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION From left, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) Coastal Wildlife Director Kelly Sloan, Hammerhead Technology conservation technologist Corrie Presland-Byrne and SCCF sea turtle...

Ex-world leaders call for ‘powerful shift’ as they warn of extreme inequality
The world is facing a looming crisis of inequality that could see the first trillionaires emerge while nearly half of humanity still languishes in poverty, a group of 40 former presidents and prime ministers warns. In a letter seen by the...

Like it or not, we can’t live without insects
Many people find insects annoying, even frightening. As a former fruit fly geneticist who spent many boyhood years exploring insect and other life in the swamps near my home in Leamington, Ontario, I’ve always been fascinated by them. They’re also...

Cost of Trump’s tariffs hits home as goods surge to record highs
President Donald Trump’s trade war is affecting Americans from the grocery store to electric bills, with the cost of bananas, ground beef and electricity surging to all-time highs, according to the latest data from the Consumer Price Index. Major...

From Colombia to Kyiv: The War in Ukraine Recruits Far from Home
News that a charter flight carrying fifty Colombian ex-soldiers is en route to Ukraine has jolted regional security analysts, raising urgent questions about how economic desperation and combat experience are turning Latin America into a new...