Monthly Archives: June 2011

Pitt Fall Up For Sale – COASTER

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West Mifflin, Pennsylvania - © Kennywood Pit Fall: Once the world's tallest freefall ride, Pitt Fall has now been listed as up for sale.According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Kennywood put their Pitt Fall freefall ride up for sale this past Tuesday. International Ride Management, a brokerage company based in Wildwood, NJ which helps parks to list and sell their rides, put up pictures of Kennywood’s Pitt Fall ride last week, and announced its sale on June 16. Kennywood spokesman Jeff Filicko Read more [...]

The Lock, Stock and Barrel Listing

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She put the whole pretty package on the market, and sold it eight months later “fully furnished down to the sheets, the pots and pans, the towels on the rack and the books on the shelves,” Ms. Fisher recalled. “And I got full price.” Now she is trying the same approach with her waterfront contemporary in Westport. Freshly renovated and decorated, the house is for sale in the most expansive sense of the word. The price includes everything in it: the bright white furnishings, the Read more [...]

Spring Prep Highlight Reel

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From Prospect’s unprecedented baseball performance to Morgan Maize’s softball power-hitting to Nick Batcha’s and Sarah Gorden’s elite exploits in track and field, it was another exceptional year for Journal-area high school sports this past spring. Here are some sound bites as the Journal reviews the 2011 spring season. Events are listed here in no particular rank order. • Prospect’s amazing baseball team gathered steam after a slow start Read more [...]

House Hunt: Check Out Newly Listed Properties For Sale In Strongsville

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Looking for a home in Strongsville?  With its small-town charm, recreation options at Mill Stream Run, proximity to the Ohio turnpike, and range of housing stock, the city is a great place to live.

Here’s a sampling of properties now on the market.  Whether you’re house shopping, or just keeping tabs on real estate in your town, check back for new listings every Thursday.

Relocating arts group slams bid to alter listed church

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Staff at Forest Cafe have launched a campaign to derail plans for their soon-to-be vacated HQ on Bristo Place, which looks set to become home to the Mosque Kitchen. The culinary annex of Edinburgh Central Mosque is seeking new premises following a dispute with Islamic leaders.Among the plans for the building is a bid to install a new mezzanine floor which campaigners suggest could contravene its B-listed status.In April, the News reported that the popular Mosque Kitchen was set to relocate from Potterrow Read more [...]

What Properties Sold in and Around Arlington This Week

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Click on the photo at right to look at a photo gallery of homes that sold in Winchester and surrounding communities from June 15 through June 22 The same information without photos is available below in an easy-to-scan list. In the market for a new home? Be sure to check out our House Hunt column on Fridays for open houses in your area. 1 Robinhood Road - Arlington List Price: $857,000 Price: $879,000 Sq. Feet: 2,960 Style: Colonial Garage: 2 Parking: 2 Rooms: 9 Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 2.5 Listed By: Read more [...]

Laura Lodge from Vail, CO Big Beers Festival Interviewed

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E-mail to Friend                                         Vail, Colorado--The Big Beers, Belgians and Barleywines Festival is a three day event held in January in Vail, Colorado.  The festival offers beer and food pairings (aka HEAVEN on earth), a commercial tasting and educational workshops and seminars. Big Beers Fest is considered a premier destination beer event and is open to the public. This year's featured brewers will be made in late June and will be listed on the Read more [...]

Pfizer confirms sale of Cork plant, with 35 jobs created

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PFIZER HAS CONFIRMED the sale of its plant at Shanbally in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork – in a move that will actually increase the number of jobs there.The plant has been sold to Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company BioMarin, which this afternoon said it would create 100 jobs over the next five year at the facility.Pfizer had announced last month that it intended to close the plant, with the potential loss of 75 jobs there, as part of a global restructuring following its merger with another pharmaceutical Read more [...]

Twentieth Century Society makes second bid to have Redcar Library listed

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ABK’s library is one of country’s most significant, say campaigners The Twentieth Century Society has resubmitted ABK’s Redcar Library for listing, just two months after the architecture minister rejected English Heritage’s recommendation that it be granted grade II protection.Senior caseworker Jon Wright believes he has found new evidence of the 1970s building’s historical significance including the fact that it was the practice’s first venture into steel.Its only other public Read more [...]