5Things May 5: Cinco de Mayo Bash at Mexicali Live

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Stunning Winnetka Home Featured in “Home Alone” Movie Listed for Sale at $2.4 …

WINNETKA, IL--(Marketwire - May 5, 2011) - Luxury market homebuyers looking for a piece of cinematic history and refined Georgian charm need look no further than the new-to-market Winnetka home for sale. Featured in the family movie, Home Alone, this stately home is listed for $2.4 million by Marissa Hopkins, a broker associate with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Chicago.Conveniently located in the Chicago North Shore suburb of Winnetka, this red-brick colonial Georgian home sits dramatically Read more [...]

Brothers listed as owners of Osama compound

The paper trail leading to whoever helped Osama bin Laden during his years of seclusion includes sheaves of land-registry documents filed with local authorities in Abbottabad, now kept secret by order from Islamabad.Government officials have been instructed to avoid discussing ownership of the mysterious compound where the terrorist leader apparently lived for five or six years, but one local administrator confirmed that the property was listed under the names of two brothers from the rugged border Read more [...]

UK-London: repair and maintenance services

I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S)Attn: Tel. E-mail: Fax Southern Housing Group Ltd Fleet House, 59-61 Clerkenwell Road William McCormick EC1M 5LA London UNITED KINGDOM +44 2075536474 contracts@shgroup.org.uk +44 2075536401 Internet address(es) General address of the contracting authority www.shgroup.org.uk Address of the buyer profile www.shgroup.org.uk/AboutUs/Partner-With-Us/Procurement-Opportunities/ Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s) Read more [...]

City puts building up for sale

Posted 1 day ago DENIS LANGLOISSun Times staffOwen Sound has listed for sale the two-storey former Todd's Sporting Goods building in the city's downtown, just 16 months after buying it for $300,000."There's only so many buildings that the city wants to retain and it boils down to dollars and cents," Mayor Deb Haswell said Wednesday in an interview.A listing for the property, which is at 80 9th St. E., has been posted on the Read more [...]

Watch out for hotel fees, which may not be listed in base price when shopping …

By Karen Schwartz, The Associated Press – 1 hour ago If you're budgeting for summer travel, be on the lookout for fees on your hotel bill for everything from newspapers to luggage storage.Some of the fees can be avoided: Be careful with the mini-bar, because even jostling items may incur a charge if they are electronically tracked, and ask about charges for things you used to take for granted, like an early check-in of the room.Other charges you may encounter include fees for mandatory valet Read more [...]

Local History Weekend – May 2011

Local History Weekend - May 2011 Eaton Socon History Weekend - May 2011This years annual local history exhibition held at St Mary's Church, Eaton Socon on Sat 30th April and Monday May 2nd focussed on the 1911 Census. Photographs and information from the census helped to bring alive the present area of Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford 100 years ago - when Eaton Socon was a village centred on the village green and Eaton Ford was several small hamlets, such as Cross Hall, Crosshall Read more [...]

5Things May 4: BOE Reorganization Meeting Tonight

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Historic Avalon Dairy up for sale

The oldest continuously operating dairy in the province is selling its historic Vancouver home. Colliers International listed April 25 a 1.26-acre property in Victoria-Fraserview/Killarney that includes the 105-year-old Avalon Dairy. "You've got to look at it as a business, right," said Avalon CEO Gay Hahn. "And to run two businesses, you've got double property taxes, you've got absolutely double of everything... You've got to remember that the plant up at Avalon is 106 years old, right, and Read more [...]