New England Hemp Farms to close Westport location, remain online
WESTPORT — After three years in business, New England Hemp Farm will close its Westport location on Aug. 31, but will maintain its online store and Groton location. Chief Operating Officer Matt Bannon said business has never been better for the CBD store. But for now he will have to focus on an online sales platform due to the “drastically” increased rent. “We’ve loved everything about it,” Bannon said of the Westport location, which is just minutes from his home. “We’re going to miss Main Street.” Bannon said the Westport location has been an opportunity to talk to and educate…
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‘They beat girls just for smiling’: life in Afghanistan one year after the Taliban’s return | Afghanistan
Maryam* is near the top of her sixth grade class in Kabul, which under Taliban rule means that her education should be ending in a few months. But the 10-year-old, whose name we have changed to protect her identity, has a strategy to stay in school for another year, and her eyes dance with satisfaction as she explains her plan. “I will make sure I don’t answer too many questions right. I have decided to fail, so I can study sixth grade again.” This is Afghanistan nearly a year after the Taliban seized control of the country in a lightning…
Read More »New England Hemp Farms to close Westport location, remain online
WESTPORT — After three years in business, New England Hemp Farm will close its Westport location on Aug. 31, but will maintain its online store and Groton location. Chief Operating Officer Matt Bannon said business has never been better for the CBD store. But for now he will have to focus on an online sales platform due to the “drastically” increased rent. “We’ve loved everything about it,” Bannon said of the Westport location, which is just minutes from his home. “We’re going to miss Main Street.” Bannon said the Westport location has been an opportunity to talk to and educate…
Read More »Colombia swears in first-ever leftist President
Ex-guerrilla and ex-mayor Gustavo Petro will be sworn in Sunday as Colombia’s first leftist president, with plans for deep reforms in a country beset by economic inequality and drug violence. The 62-year-old former senator takes over from the deeply unpopular Ivan Duque for a four-year term in which he will have the support of a left-wing majority in Congress. Petro’s hard-fought victory in June’s election brought Colombia, long ruled by a conservative elite, into a burgeoning left-wing surge in Latin America that could be consolidated in October with a likely victory for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil. At…
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In CT, cash bail still exists. In New Jersey, it’s mostly gone. Why?
The burden of bail: A three-part series The CT Mirror is exploring the effects and challenges of Connecticut’s cash bail system.Last week: One man’s uphill struggle to stay out of prison illustrates the pitfalls of the systemThis week: Why New Jersey got rid of most cash bailNext week: Financing freedom through GoFundMe Shortly before appointing Patrick Griffin to be Connecticut’s chief state’s attorney, Criminal Justice Commission Chair and Supreme Court Justice Andrew McDonald brought up a systemic dilemma involving the state’s money bail system. McDonald pointed to two recent cases to illustrate the disconnect between the public perceptions of how…
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Ukrainian risks her life to rescue wild animals from war
Natalia Popova has found a new purpose in life: rescuing wild animals and pets from the devastation caused by the war in Ukraine. “They are my life,” says the 50-year-old, stroking a light-haired lioness like a kitten. From inside an enclosure, the animal revels in the attention, lying on its back and stretching its legs up toward its caretaker. Popova, in collaboration with the animal protection group UA Animals, has already saved more than 300 animals from war; 200 of them went abroad and 100 found new homes in western Ukraine, which is considered safer. Many of them were wild…
Read More »Celebrate National CBD Day With a New Topical, Tincture or Edible Made Locally
The youngest of the contemporary cannaholidays is also the most…sober. National CBD Day, observed on August 8, has only been around since 2018. It was established by North Carolina hemp brand cbdMD as a marketing tactic that quickly turned into something more substantial. Interest in the non-intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid has surged in recent years, and CBD Day is about more than just moving merchandise — experts in the field are using it as an opportunity to raise awareness about plant-based medicine. In other words, it’s a weed fest for everyone. If you’re looking for ways to celebrate one of the…
Read More »Police arrest wanted Osun suspected cultist, Oko’lu
About 5 months after he was declared wanted, the Osun State Police Command in the early hours of Sunday arrested a suspected cultist, Rasheed Hammed, popularly known as Rasidi Oko’lu. Reliable security sources told our correspondent that Oko’lu was arrested at his hideout in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, at about 4am by men of the Anti-Cultism Unit of the Police Command d ‘Osun. Oko’lu was declared wanted by the police in March, following the alleged death of a Senior National Diploma in Banking and Finance from the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, while awaiting his summons letter, as well as a…
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