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WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The Ed stanley cup ucation Department plans to lay off over 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organizations staff a prelude to President Donald Trumps plan to dismantle the agency.Department officials announced the cuts Tuesday, raising questions about the agencys ability to continue usual operations.The Trump administration had already been whittling the agencys staff, though buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees. After Tuesdays layoffs, the Education Departments staff will sit at roughly half of its previous 4,100, the agency said.The layoffs are part of a dramatic downsizing directed by Trump as he moves to reduce the footprint of the feder stanley cup al government. Thousands of jobs are expected to be cut across the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Social Security Administration and other agencies.The department is also terminating leases on buildings in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago and Cleveland, officials said.Department officials said it would continue to deliver on its key functions such as the distribution of federal aid to schools, student loan management and oversight of Pell Grants. Todays reduction in force reflects the Department of Educations commitment to efficiency, accountability, and en stanley taza suring that resources are directed where they matter most: to students, parents, and teachers, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said.McMahon told employees to brace for profound cuts in a memo issued March 3, th Hivx Former Portland Pirates assistant hockey coach sentenced for sexual misconduct with 13-year-old
ROCKLAND, Maine 鈥?Bert Snow was remembered as one of the last of the true lawmen to walk the streets of Rockland.Snow, who rose through the ranks to serve as chief of police in Rockland, died Jan. 2 at the Knox Center for Long Term Care. He was 91.Retired Patrol Officer Stephen Johnson said Snow taught him everything about law enforcement. He told me to respect people. Even if you arrest them, when they get out of jail, its a new day for them, he said.Snow initially was hired in 1959 to oversee the parking meters in downtown Rockland. When the meters were removed in 1961 as part of a Main Street redevelopment project, Snows positio stanley kubek termiczny n was eliminated. But a patrolman vacancy opened at the same time and Snow was hired.He conducted his downtown foot patrols where he would be in daily contact with peo stanley cup ple. Chief Bruce Boucher said that Snow is one of the last of those types of lawmen.Snow left the department for a brief period in 1965 to serve as manager of the Knox Pier, which was associated with the brief operation of grain silos on the citys South End.In a 1989 interview upon his retirement, Snow recalled that Rockland had improved dramatically fr stanley cup om the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he said the criminal element 鈥?including motorcycle gangs 鈥?nearly took over the city.Snow was known for regular foot patrols even as he rose to the rank of chief. His popularity was highlighted in November 1984, when 200 residents turned out to urge the City Council to reject the city managers no |
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