Eyesores are a town blight

Eyesores are a town blight 7:20am Thursday 17th February 2011 Print Email Share SOMETHING desperately needs to be done about Penarth’s vacant property problem. Bridgeman Road has been a victim of this for years and it is shocking that nothing has been done about it. These houses leading towards Penarth Pier are beautiful listed Victorian buildings that would once have been an attraction on the walk Read more [...]

More than 300 county properties on the block in tax sale

WILKES-BARRE - More than 300 properties in Luzerne County will go up for sale because of unpaid taxes from 2008 or prior years, according to the company in charge of the county tax claim office.The list of properties to be sold March 23 includes Keystone Garden Estates, an assisted-living facility in Larksville, which owes more than $387,000 in delinquent taxes and fees. But Keystone last week got a court order giving the company another six months to pay off its delinquent Read more [...]

Atherton Adds H-P Chief To Roster of Top Executives

By BEN WORTHEN When chief executives and other well-paid big shots move to the Bay Area, they often settle in Atherton. Hewlett-Packard Co., who in December paid $7 million for a six-bedroom house in the tony Silicon Valley suburb, according to public records. His predecessor, current Oracle Corp. President Mark Hurd, also lives in Atherton, as do Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt and former eBay Inc. CEO Meg Whitman. "The town has a lot of cachet," said Todd Beardsley, a real-estate agent Read more [...]

Monticello 4 bedroom listed for sale

A four-bedroom, 4.5-bath home at 3033 Sunset in Monticello is available for $1.375 million. Timothy Surratt of Greenwood King Properties is the listing agent. The 4,212-square-foot home is newly constructed and features a formal dining room, high-end granite in the kitchen and stone in the island of the kitchen, breakfast room and family room. Master suite has sitting area with fireplace and coffee bar. Upstairs features media room. 3033 Sunset is located in the Monticello subdivision, 2.4 miles Read more [...]

TSX-listed corporate dividends and distributions declared Feb. 16, 2011

TORONTO - Dividends or distributions were declared or updated on the followed listed issues on the Toronto Stock Exchange on February 16, 2011. Tdb Split Corp. Cl A (TSX:XTD): $0.05. Payable Nov 10. Record Oct 29. Tdb Split Corp. Cl A (TSX:XTD): $0.05. Payable Dec 10. Record Nov 30. Bonavista Energy Corporation (TSX:BNP): $0.12. Payable Mar 15. Record Feb 28. Brompton Advantaged Oil Gas Income Fund (TSX:AOG.UN): $0.0325. Payable Read more [...]