CT city mourns death of history-making mayor
Maria Madsen Holzberg, the first woman elected mayor in Middletown in 1995, has died, leaving behind a legacy of leadership, advocacy and philanthropy. Madsen Holzberg died after a brief battle with cancer at her Middletown home Middletown — the city that she so fiercely loved for nearly four decades — “]with her husband of 38 […]
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PSG, Paris mayor see red in stadium dispute
In happier times: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo with Nasser Al-Khelaifi at the Parc de Princes (FRANCK FIFE) The chairman of Qatar-owned PSG and the mayor of Paris have fallen out publicly over the club’s stadium, the Parc des Princes, raising doubts about the future home of the capital’s only first division team. Nasser Al-Khelaifi and […]
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Anne Hidalgo, the mayor managing paradoxes of Olympic proportions | International
Luis Grañena Abroad, Anne Hidalgo is often seen as an environmental pioneer, someone who, as mayor of Paris, has built hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes and is inventing the metropolis of the future. In France, and in its capital — shimmering and always splendid to outsiders — it is something different. There is a […]
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After house set on fire, French mayor resigns amid local battle over hosting asylum-seekers
PARIS (AP) — The mayor of a small French town whose home was set on fire amid a bitter battle over bringing in migrants is resigning from his job of overseeing an increasingly divided community. Yannick Morez, a doctor who became mayor of Saint Brevin-les-Pins in 2017, said in a letter to the prefect of […]
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Today in History: July 25, Concorde crash near Paris | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Today in History Today is Monday, July 25, the 206th day of 2022. There are 159 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 25, 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the U.S. Public Health Service, in conjunction […]
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Paris, Arkansas, power outages could be over by the end of Wendesday
Power has been restored to about 90% of the homes and businesses in Paris, Arkansas, Mayor Daniel Rogers told 40/29 News Wednesday morning.Rogers said he expects electricity to be fully restored by the end of the day.Strong storms overnight Sunday knocked out multiple power lines left 80% of the city without electricity.It was the most […]
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