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M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - There comes a time in everyone’s life when you have to stop, look back, and examine the path you have taken to get to your present state of being. For the average person, the look back could be a happy one, or it might not be so easy, involving painful memories, old photos, thoughts about what might have been. But for an artist, the process may be somewhat simpler. One major question might very well occupy their mind: What have I created in my years

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - All great things must come to an end. And this week’s Art Thursday marks the end of another great season for the ultra-popular Christiansted art gallery walk. What an artistic blast it has been this season to escape the day-to-day world and enter a scene filled with beauty and creativity. All the wonderful art, the fantastic jewelry, the cool people you meet along the way, it certainly has been a breath of fresh creative air. But ‘parting is su

Axel Dash Special to St. Croix Times Washington, D.C. - UFO/UAP Reports: Example #1 - Source: U.S. Military Platform Date: 2021 Description: Two minutes and eight seconds of infrared sensor footage showing an object with no visible propulsion, described as an “area of contrast” demonstrating advanced performance characteristics Status: Ongoing analysis Example #2 - Commercial Pilot Sighting (1948) Witnesses: Pilots Clarence Chiles and John Whitted Object: “Wingless aircraf

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - To say Spring is in the Air would be a vast understatement if applied to Lucian Downes’ Spring Equinox Art Exhibition that opened recently at CMCArts in Frederiksted. A more appropriate description might be to state that a Revolution in the Arts is in the Air, and it is sweeping through the creative minds of artists and patrons of the arts, clearing out the old conceptions and ringing in the new. Hear ye! Hear ye! Harken unto thee, a rumbling

Neil Weare and Edoardo Ortiz Public debate about U.S. territories is often shaped by unsupported assumptions or even outright falsehoods—especially on the issue of taxes. Addressing these myths is important to de-normalize the undemocratic colonial rule of more than 3.6 million people in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Tax Day gives us a timely opportunity to address some common misconceptions, which we

A.J. Pike Grenada - The U.S. Department of State has increased its travel advisory to a Level 2 for the country of Grenada, urging Americans “to exercise increased caution” when heading to the country. The advisory was updated on January 5, 2026, to include the crime indicator, mentioning instances of armed robbery, assault, burglary, and rape against American citizens. “Violent crime can occur anywhere in Grenada,” the State Department wrote in its advisory, adding “