Admin | September 6, 2011
Standing exhibits Adriance Memorial Library Blues, Bebop and Baseball, works by Kevin Rifenburg, through Aug. 30, 93 Market St., Poughkeepsie. Visit www.poklib.org or call 485-3445, ext. 3702, for hours. Albert Wisner Library Works by Laurie Sniderman, through Aug. 31, 1 McFarland Drive, Warwick. Hours 9 am-8 pm Mon.-Thurs., 9 am-5 pm Fri.-Sat., 11 am-5 pm [...]
Admin | September 5, 2011
According to Challenger Gray, the decade high was 13.1% of jobless starting businesses in the second quarter of 2005. A year ago, 3.9% of unemployed managers and executives were starting businesses rather than look for a job, and in the first quarter of 2011, 4.1% were starting businesses. The lack of business startups is significant [...]
Admin | September 5, 2011
Hurricane Irene is the first, of what may be many, storms that blow through the South and East coasts this year. Although no hurricane has hit US soil since 2008, our neighbors to the south in Mexico and the Caribbean are once again preparing for the annual events. Hurricanes, also called typhoons and cyclones, are [...]
Admin | September 4, 2011
Marion County lawmakers have passed a new budget that increases property taxes and decreases funding to all county nonprofit organizations. The budget includes a cut to all volunteer fire department funding. Hundreds of Marion County taxpayers packed the county commission meeting Monday night to fight against the tax increase and funding cuts. County Commission Chair [...]
Admin | September 3, 2011
The Katrina flooding event, whereby the GOP governor of Mississippi declare Bush exactly right on the issue of individual State responsibility, ALL the Republican governor declared Bush exactly right, no national funding. Gee, Ron Paul is looking like another Bush right now, who da thunk it. I wonder if Paul saw that demand to fund [...]
Admin | September 3, 2011
All week CTV Consumer Reporter Lynda Steele has been reporting on the big business of dogs. Today she ventures into the world of pet psychics and animal memorials. The death of a family dog can be utterly devastating to some people. Thats why a BC firefighter who lost several pets of his own opened a [...]
Admin | September 3, 2011
A few months ago, when the Monument Fire spread rapidly toward homes and ranches in Southern Arizona, families were forced to flee due to a hasty mandatory evacuation. Horses and large livestock that could not be evacuated via trailer were spray painted with their owners phone number and turned loose to evacuate themselves. Many dogs [...]
Admin | September 3, 2011
SHALER, Pa. — A fire re-kindled early Thursday morning after claiming the lives of two family pets Wednesday afternoon. Crews were called back to the scene along Woodland Avenue in Shaler Township. There were dangerous moments for fire crews after 200 rounds of ammunition was found inside the home and live power lines were on [...]
Admin | September 2, 2011
Planned Parenthood is threatening to close its Hays, Kan., clinic this Friday unless it learns by then that its federal family planning funds will be restored.lt;/pgt;lt;pgt;The agency filed court papers that said it must be assured of receiving funds by Sept. 16 to keep the clinic open. It serves an estimated 960 women, men and [...]
Admin | September 1, 2011
Minnesota school districts are asking local voters for money in record numbers this fall, and more may still add their name to the list. According to the Minnesota School Boards Association, 133 districts — more than a third of those in Minnesota — will have referendums in conjunction with city and county elections this November. [...]