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One CWA family suffered a double tragety in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York City. Tina Grazioso, a former US Airways employee and member of CWA Local 1171 in Syracuse, N.Y., lost both her husband and brother-in-law at the World Trade Center, reported local President Rose Mary Nickerson.

A writer who went to jail for nearly six months to protect her sources and the First Amendment, reporters who exposed a cancer center’s fatal wrongdoing and a pair of promising young journalists were honored in May at The Newspaper Guild-CWA’s first Freedom Award Fund Banquet.

Bahr Honored at Ceremony for Educational Leadership

Empire State College, State University of New York, is accepting scholarship applications for the 2002-03 academic year for its unique “distance learning” college scholarship program named in honor of CWA President Morton Bahr.

The debris is gone now. What’s left at the World Trade Center disaster site is a gaping hole spanning several square blocks.