Information About Haiti

WILMINGTON – Julie Gustafson, Wilmington High School Class of 2010 graduate, has found a unique way to mark the end of one phase of her life and the start of a new one. Although she heads to college at the end of the summer like many of her fellow grads, before she does that, she will be boarding a plane to Haiti next week for what purports to be a life-changing experience.

Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage When the massive earthquake hit Haiti in January, Alaskan Christa Brelsford and her brother Julian were there, at a friend’s house that collapsed as they were running to get downstairs. Christa was trapped under debris and ultimately lost her right foot. She considers herself lucky, both because she says [...]

“GRANNY’S APPALACHIAN TALES,” the Good Life Theater uses hand, rod and shadow puppets, live music and live actors to tell folk tales from the Appalachian tradition, plus a singalong with Granny on the mandolin. 10:15 and 11:30 a.m. Thursday-Friday, Discovery Theater at S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100… Organizations – Freemasonry – Fraternal – Craft Masonry – Events

WW Presents Week Three of our Australian music intern’s diary of moving to Portland. I had been warned about the bureaucratic nightmare of dealing with US Government agencies. But after spending over five hours sitting in the US consulate in Melbourne watching a Disney video to get a visa, I thought I’d endured the worst of [...]

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Wyclef Jean was in town recently collaborating with Berklee student musicians, arrangers and producers on tracks for his upcoming album, “The Haitian Experience.”

Haiti’s president on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate recommendations on holding an election for his successor, brushing off criticism that the current process will leave the shattered country wit…

After months of uncertainty, Haiti’s president Wednesday set November 28 as the day that voters in the earthquake-devastated nation will head to the polls to elect a successor.

Haiti’s president on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate recommendations on holding an election for his successor, brushing off criticism that the current process will leave the shattered country without a credible leader.

Haiti announced Wednesday that elections will be held November 28, opening the way for rebuilding political institutions in the country devastated by a deadly earthquake in January.