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Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Tuesday announced he has appointed a committee to take a closer look at the statue in Columbus Circle. The 23-member Columbus Circle Action Group will give the mayor recommendations on how they think the city should create an all-season, education and learning site at the downtown park space that has been home to a statu...

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Rockford Public Schools will be open on Columbus Day this year, swapping the traditional annual day off for the state’s newly designated Election Day holiday on Nov. 3. Government entities and public schools across the state are adjusting their work and attendance calendars after Gov. JB Pritzker signed the legislation on June 16.  Some schools are...

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On July 1, the Christopher Columbus statue was removed from the park named after him in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The statue was sculpted in Italy and brought to Atlantic City in 1958 for $7,000.  That money was raised from many years of spaghetti dinners, raffles, and other fundraising events by Italian-American volunteers.  It was their way of s...

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NOT JUST STONE: WHITE PLAINS COLUMBUS STATUE MUST REMAIN! The Antonio Meucci Lodge #213, Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSIA) of White Plains and many Westchester Italian American groups oppose any attempts to remove the statue of Christopher Columbus in White Plains, NY. The statue in Tibbets Brook Park at Lake Street and North Broa...

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Should Easton’s Christopher Columbus statue come down? Easton’s Sigal Museum will hold a discussion on the issue, “Columbus in the Crosshairs: Navigating Symbolism in Public Art — Virtual Event,” 5- 7 p.m. Wednesday via Zoom, the videoconferencing platform. As of Tuesday, more than 1,800 people have signed a petition asking for Easton’s statu...

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For more than a century, the Christopher Columbus Piazza in the 100 block of Abriendo Avenue has served as the hub for celebrations of the federal holiday dedicated to the Italian explorer. Built in 1905 by members of the local Italian community, the monument, capped by a large bronze bust of Columbus, has come to symbolize the opening of the New W...

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We the Italians hate racism and condemns with all possible severity the murder of George Floyd by four policemen who abused their authority and disgraced the uniform they wear. That said, and reiterated with all possible strength and conviction, we stand with those wearing a uniform, which in the vast majority defend the weakest and protect the inn...

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Supporters of the 106-foot, 28-year-old, $1 million Christopher Columbus monument in the park at Penn’s Landing have sued the park’s nonprofit manager, which they say broke an agreement to maintain the monument. . America 500 Anniversary Corp., which raised funds to donate the statue in 1992, is seeking a Common Pleas Court preliminary injunc...

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My column last week about replacing the statue of Christopher Columbus in Wooster Square Park with one of Frank Pepe and his wife Filomena drew passionate rejections, hearty endorsements and some imaginative other proposals. “I am deeply disturbed by your suggestion of a statue of Frank Pepe to replace Christopher Columbus,” wrote a man with family...

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Every Columbus Day is the same:  Christopher Columbus is attacked.  His statues are desecrated.  Public monuments in his honor are threatened or removed.  Every year, more states and cities change Columbus Day to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” or “Native Americans’ Day.” And left-wing professors smear the once-revered hero who discovered America in 1492...

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