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BRATTLEBORO—Every year the Vermont Pastel Society (VPS) hosts a juried member show somewhere in the state. For the first time, the show this year will be held in Brattleboro.

Vermont Artisan Designs on Main Street will host the show that opens Friday, Oct. 7, during the monthly Gallery Walk festivities. The show will continue through Nov. 18. An awards reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4 at the gallery.

The mission statement of the VPS, an all-volunteer organization founded in 1999, calls for its members “to build and strengthen connections among pastelists, to foster artistic development, and to promote public appreciation of pastels as a fine art medium.”

With those goals in mind, the membership roster of approximately 100 artists was divided geographically,…

Gaming is more like a sport these days. Most adults and teenagers are into it. Some use it as entertainment, while some use it as a career. In recent times, gaming has surpassed being on mobile phones and tablets. Big organizations and companies now host the competition on a large scale. People can play games within the organization’s set rules and standards. This company supports multiplayer.

However, on a bigger scale, VPN and dedicated hosting are reliable for these organizations. To host these games, you need a specialized server, as this will prevent you from having interruptions while playing. The Blackwake server is a typical example of a hosting provider that prevents your games from crashing and downtimes. The blackwake dedicated server prevents computer and network…

For information, contact: Audry Ricketts at 605-773-8242 or audry.ricketts@state.sd.us (South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs)

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs will be hosting a State Bridge Dedication Ceremony next month to honor U.S. Army Private Frederic Schroeder.

The ceremony will be Saturday, October 1, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. (CT) at the Madison City Armory (198 VanEps Avenue N) in Madison. 

The Big Sioux River Bridge on SD HWY 34, one mile east of Egan, will be dedicated to PVT Schroeder.

Schroeder, whose home of entry was Egan, enlisted in the U.S. Army and began his World War I tour of duty in…

For all you newsy folks who went to visit “Solomon’s” this morning and found an error page, he site has released a statement on Facebook. According to the post, the site has been considered “spam” by the web hosting company Blogger. It isn’t clear if the action taken by Blogger was based on a breech of the hosting agreement or if it was a random automated response. Blogger is a free website platform for many bloggers and owned by Google.

For those who worry that the Wellsville Sun could suffer the same fate: Worry not, this site used a paid website software program, hires local web design professionals, and is independent of Google or the like.

Here is the statement from Solomon’s this morning:

“Blogger has taken down our Solomon’s words…

Gaming has quickly become one of the largest entertainment mediums in the modern world. This multi-billion dollar industry has seen a gradual shift from a single-player focus to a stronger emphasis on shared gaming and multiplayer experiences. While in the past, games predominantly were known as single-player mediums, nowadays, gaming is rather dominated by an ever-growing multiplayer industry, focusing on online microtransactions and cosmetic sales to drive up sales. For better or worse, the games themselves are mostly dependent on the servers of their original developers or publishers in order to provide this multiplayer experience.

Now, while the majority of gamers are fine with the conditions of the games as hosted by the publishers or developers, there are certain scenarios…