KAUNAS - "Every country produces one singer in each generation who represents that country, the way Bruce Springsteen represents America or Bono does Ireland. Zucchero is the Italian voice for everyone in the world,” world-famous singer Sting once said about this musician.

nancy scholz/times news Pleasant Valley's Amber Skworzow (13) clears the ball from in front of her goal on a Parkland corner kick. Bear Goalie Sarah Elmonticir (yellow shirt) and defender Kayla Kishbaugh are in the background. The Parkland players are Kiera Kaunas and Camille Roberts (4).

The Lithuanian University in Kaunas on Tuesday decided to cancel a commemorative conference planned for the “prime minister” of Lithuania’s 1941 Nazi puppet government. Click here for the rest of the article...

Jewish groups in Lithuania condemn a plan to repatriate Nazi-era PM Juozas Brazaitis, whose administration oversaw anti-Semitic attacks.

A famous Vilnius synagogue was vandalized over the weekend, shortly after an official ceremony in remembrance of Lithuania’s 1941 pro-Nazi leader. The event occurred on Friday, when assailants threw green paint at the façade of the only Vilnius synagogue that has remained active since before the Holocaust. Click here for the rest of the article...

KLAIPEDA - The difference from last year, when 28 new private kindergartens were established, with the previous 20-year-span of only 7 opening, is huge. Have Lithuanians become richer, spending more money on their childrens’ schooling, showing a more caring and personal side?

2 burglaries probed in Shenandoah SHENANDOAH - Borough police are investigating two burglaries that occurred at the Shenandoah East End Field and Stream, 320 E. Lloyd St. Police said the first burglary occurred between the evening of May 2 and Friday and the

Forty-four year-old Diana Varnaite, an alumnus of Vilnius University’s History department and currently director of Lithuania’s Cultural Heritage Department (LCHD), has had a perfect career in such a subtle and shake-resistant field as protection of cultural heritage.

Spokane Chiefs defenseman Reid Gow won the Western Hockey League’s Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Trophy as the league’s Scholastic Player of the Year. Gow, a two-year Chiefs veteran, has a cumulative 95 percent score in his core classes – college prep English, advanced placement statistics and sports marketing – at Ferris High School. He is also taking college-level psychology online through Athabasca ...

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