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Randy Sheets, 54, Webster City
Randy L. Sheets, 54, of Webster City, formerly of Woolstock, passed away Monday, February 20, 2012, after a short illness. A Memorial service will be held on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Eagle Grove. Visitation will be one hour prior to services. Foust Funeral Homes Cremation of Eagle [...]
Read More >>Quietly announced Westside meeting leaves questions for residents, City Council
What was intended to be a public discussion on the future of Westside housing backfired on Mayor Ron Littlefield Tuesday, as members of the Chattanooga City Council voiced concerns over not being informed of the meeting. Littlefield was making good on a pledge to allow Westside residents to raise questions over a proposed mixed-income redevelopment [...]
Read More >>Residents cry foul over big-box grocery at Grandview Commons
A proposal to build a Copp’s grocery store on Madison’s far east side has outraged dozens of residents who want the city to reject the plan, claiming it upends the new urbanist vision that spurred them to buy homes in the Grandview Commons neighborhood. “New urbanism drew people to this community, and now they want [...]
Read More >>Quietly announced Westside meeting leaves questions for residents, City …
What was intended to be a public discussion on the future of Westside housing backfired on Mayor Ron Littlefield Tuesday, as members of the Chattanooga City Council voiced concerns over not being informed of the meeting. Littlefield was making good on a pledge to allow Westside residents to raise questions over a proposed mixed-income redevelopment [...]
Read More >>Long Grove rezoning gets OK
LONG GROVE — With no deliberation and an announcement that the public hearing portion of the process was over, the Long Grove City Council voted Tuesday to approve a controversial commercial rezoning request. The property in question is bordered by U.S. 61 on the southeast and southwest sides of the Grove Road exit. It is [...]
Read More >>Hudson school district moving forward on trail
Proposed construction of a walking trail around the Lincoln Elementary School campus moved one step closer to fruition Monday after the Hudson Area Schools Board of Education voted to pursue the project. The board’s 4-0 vote to pursue the public walking trail project will take effect once the school’s attorney approves the proposed language in [...]
Read More >>All quiet on Snooki/JWoww front the day before Jersey City filming is set to start – The Jersey Journal
Exterior facade of Firehouse 6, on Mercer Street near Grove Street in Jersey City. Photo taken in 2008 by Jerry McCrea/The Star-Ledger Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Jenni “JWoww” Farley are expected to begin filming tomorrow in Jersey City for their “Jersey Shore” spin-off show, but things were quiet as can be near their temporary residence [...]
Read More >>Vallie Morris Raper
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at J.C. Green Sons Funeral Home Chapel in Thomasville by Pastor John Mocko. Interment will follow in Holly Hill Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 12:30 p.m. until the hour of the service Thursday at the funeral home. She was born Dec. 29, 1906, in [...]
Read More >>Peachtree City UPDATES – Week of February 20, 2012
When do golf carts have “right-of-way” in Peachtree City? (hint: never). GDOT holding public meeting on I-85/Hwy 74 Interchange Plans. Peachtree City Recreation publishes Spring Catalog. Upcoming area meetings. And more . . . Golf Carts Rule! (Not Really) In Peachtree City, it may seem like golf carts rule the road, just from the sheer [...]
Read More >>Smaller, renewable energy projects setting roots across west central Minnesota
Leaving their mark Talk about it More… For Prairie Woods, energy goal is now a reality It’s hard to miss the development of renewable energy at the University of Minnesota campus in Morris. There are now two, 1.6-megawatt wind generators towering over the prairie and cranking out enough kilowatts to provide 60 percent of the [...]
Read More >>Despite mixed-use development’s mixed record, local cities express enthusiasm …
For many Southern Californians, it’s perfectly normal to live amid a sea of homes, shop in a strip mall and work in an office park. It’s a system that keeps cities relatively tidy, but it also makes car ownership almost mandatory for many people, resulting in the traffic congestion and chronic smog that plagues the [...]
Read More >>Help is on the way…but when? Downtown residents plagued by flooding are …
slideshow slideshow With spring just weeks away and the start of hurricane season to follow, residents in the low-lying communities of Paulus Hook and Van Vorst Park say they are still waiting for the city to deal with neighborhood flooding problems before heavy rains again damage their homes. In recent public meetings, city officials have [...]
Read More >>Killingworth Student Helps Repair Home Ravaged by Hurricane Katrina
Killingworth resident Dan McGrath recently spent time in Louisiana to help repair homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. McGrath and nearly three dozen other Fairfield University undergraduates took part in the service trip to the St. Roch neighborhood of New Orleans, a city that is still in recovery mode despite the nearly seven years that have passed since the hurricane. [...]
Read More >>Despite mixed-use development’s mixed record, local cities express enthusiasm … – Pasadena Star
For many Southern Californians, it’s perfectly normal to live amid a sea of homes, shop in a strip mall and work in an office park. It’s a system that keeps cities relatively tidy, but it also makes car ownership almost mandatory for many people, resulting in the traffic congestion and chronic smog that plagues the [...]
Read More >>Despite mixed-use development’s mixed record, local cities express enthusiasm …
For many Southern Californians, it’s perfectly normal to live amid a sea of homes, shop in a strip mall and work in an office park. It’s a system that keeps cities relatively tidy, but it also makes car ownership almost mandatory for many people, resulting in the traffic congestion and chronic smog that plagues the [...]
Read More >>WATER RITES – The Register
The McKenzie River appears inexhaustible as it tumbles wide, cold and fast from the Cascade Range on a winter’s day. Stand at the river’s edge near Vida and you’ll see up to 40,000 gallons flash by each second. But a Lane County businessman is finding that it’s not easy trying to siphon a sizeable portion [...]
Read More >>Batavia mayor welcomes Postal Annex to city
BATAVIA – Sugar Grove couple Carole and Tom Wolff want to help their customers ship out their packages at times that are convenient to them, not just when the local post office is open. The couple are franchise owners of Postal Annex at 143 S. Randall Road, located near the Jewel-Osco store in the Windmill [...]
Read More >>Private streets become public
When Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy saw 19 residents crowd into the council chambers this week, she moved an item ahead with the aldermen’s approval. The Poplar Grove empty-nesters came to see the board approve unanimously a measure turning their private streets into public ones. This is the first time in Germantown where residents who live [...]
Read More >>Retirement communities bustle with events, camaraderie
On cold winter days, those approaching retirement love to contemplate moving to a sunny, warm climate where they don’t have to contend with cold and snow. But when pushed to actually make the decision to leave the Chicago area, relatively few of those dreamers actually move away. Most find it difficult to leave family, friends, [...]
Read More >>Private streets become public in Germantown
When Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy saw 19 residents crowd into the council chambers this week, she moved an item ahead with the aldermen’s approval. The Poplar Grove empty-nesters came to see the board approve unanimously a measure turning their private streets into public ones. This is the first time in Germantown where residents who live [...]
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