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8 a.m. and 9 a.m. — The Great Race sponsored by the Hennessey Lions Club. Contestants should meet at 8 a.m. on the back side of the elementary school’s playground and must sign up in advance at Town Hall. Entry fee is now $50 (reduced cost from $75 thanks to donations) for each three-person team with proceeds to the Back-to-School Bash. Only 10 teams may compete. The first challenge starts with water kickball and other challenges are “secret,” said Shelley Burch, Hennessey Lions Club chair for those games.
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The 1874 death of Hennessey’s namesake, Patrick Hennessey, will be commemorated in an 8 a.m. Thursday, July 4 memorial service at Pat Hennessey Park.
Read moreNew research on shorter school years, including in Oklahoma, shows short school years have a significant, negative cumulative impact on student learning over time.
Read moreIt’s great to start doing this again. I’m a little rusty, if y’all will bear with me.
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Read moreIn 2019, law enforcement reported that “the Chinese government [poses] a particular threat to U.S. academia” and “does not play by the same rules of academic integrity that U.S. educational institutions observe.” The report includes many examples of actual and attempted espionage for commercial and military purposes.
Read moreSpecies in the wolf spider family can often be identified by their eye arrangement: two half-moon-shaped eyes on the side, two larger forward-facing eyes in the middle, and four smaller forward-facing eyes forming a bottom row.
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