Monthly Archives: July 2011

Trowbridge Town Hall put up for sale

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Trowbridge Town Hall put up for sale 11:00am Saturday 16th July 2011 Print Email Comments(1) Trowbridge Town Hall is to be sold in the biggest shake-up in the building’s 122-year history. Town councillors are furious that Wiltshire Council, which owns the Grade II listed hall, have let it fall into such a bad state of repair that Read more [...]

Democrats listed as among News Corp. gift recipients

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COLUMBUS, Ohio • News Corp. met a self-imposed deadline Friday for reporting its latest political contributions online, revealing $115,750 in contributions mostly to Democrats. The company reported that its single largest contribution since January went to the Democratic Governors Association, which strongly criticized the media giant's $1.25 million in donations to its Republican counterpart ahead Read more [...]

Home foreclosures continue to drop

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The number of residential foreclosures in Denton County decreased yet again, continuing a trend that has developed over the past few months. The county has a total of 494 homes posted for foreclosure sale at the Aug. 2 auction, down 12 percent from August 2010, when 561 homes were listed, according to a report released Thursday by Foreclosure Listing Service Inc. Natalie Kuehler, with Fairway Independent Mortgage, said the recent Read more [...]

Trainer Peter Snowden snares last stakes race of season

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Peter Snowden snares last stakes race of the season with Scarf victorious in the Winter Stakes. Picture: Mark Evans Source: The Daily Telegraph HE may have relinquished the Sydney premiership but Peter Snowden kept up his feature race strike rate with Scarf in the Winter Stakes at Rosehill. The 1500m race was the last stakes race of the Sydney season and a welcome Read more [...]

Trainer Peter Snowden snares last stakes race of season

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Peter Snowden snares last stakes race of the season with Scarf victorious in the Winter Stakes. Picture: Mark Evans Source: The Daily Telegraph HE may have relinquished the Sydney premiership but Peter Snowden kept up his feature race strike rate with Scarf in the Winter Stakes at Rosehill. The 1500m race was the last stakes race of the Sydney season and a welcome Read more [...]

WKU’s Bobby Rainey Listed Among Nation’s Top Running Backs On Doak Walker …

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Bowling Green, Ky. - For the second time this month, Western Kentucky University senior running back Bobby Rainey has found himself on a preseason watch list Friday as the Doak Walker Award - which is presented annually to the nation's top running back - announced its preseason candidates. Rainey is one of 51 candidates on the preseason list, which includes 2010 recipient LaMichael James of Oregon.  He is also one of three Sun Belt running backs on the list, joining Lance Dunbar of North Texas Read more [...]

Home Economics: Web’s house-hunting sites not always accurate

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In the old days, if you were looking for a new place to live, you picked up the local newspaper, looked at the real estate classifieds, put on comfortable shoes or gassed up the car, and began a house-to-house search. The Internet has made the job easier, at least on your feet. In short order, you can look at all kinds of sales and rental listings just about anywhere - around the block or across the country. Given their promise of information from Read more [...]

Major African American Book Events For This Summer

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A few weeks back, I teased you by mentioning just a couple of upcoming book events, namely this month’s Harlem Book Fair in New York (July 23) and the National Book Club Conference in Atlanta (July 29-31). I was able to recently get some feedback from some gracious readers that were thankful I’d listed these events so, this week, I’m going to provide you an expanded list of some of the major book events of the summer. Now how’s that for customer service? For those of you who have Read more [...]

Wakefield Steam Train up for sale

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Beginning of Story Content The Wakefield Steam Train is up for sale at a price of $550,000 as listed on the website ozarkmountainrailcar.com. In June, the owners of the 104-year-old train shut down the service to Wakefield because of rain damage to the rail bed. They said the shutdown would be temporary until the rail bed could be repaired. But the for-sale listing went up on the web earlier this week. The Outaouais Tourism Board has said the train brings 50,000 to 60,000 tourists Read more [...]