Black History Month events

<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 4-->Events to celebrate Black History Month are planned in the days and weeks ahead. Tell us about your Black History Month events. Include a description of the event, its time, date and location, the sponsor, admission charge if any, and contact information.Email the information to roc-info@DemocratandChronicle.com.Unless stated otherwise, all activities listed are free.OngoingLiving the Dream, Paying It Forward Black History Month Exhibit: A display recognizing Read more [...]

Lake Forest listings: 56% distressed homes

Homes in Lake Forest sell faster than the countywide pace as its listings have a higher share of distressed properties than the rest of Orange County -- including O.C.'s distressed hot spot. The overall Lake Forest home market -- older parts of the city, Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills -- had 188 residences listed for sale as of Jan 19 with 76 new deals opening in the past 30 days. That means, by one theory, it would take 2.47 months to sell all Read more [...]

Mel Gibson listed as witness in discrimination trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Attorneys for the deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving want to call the Oscar winner as a witness during an upcoming trial to determine whether the law enforcement officer suffered discrimination because of the case.MORE: Football Power CouplesThe case will focus on what happened to Deputy James Mee after he arrested the actor-director in 2006, and whether he endured discrimination because he is Jewish. The trial could also focus heavily on Gibson's arrest, Read more [...]

Rural home’s respect for its medieval past

Fewsters Farm, at Kington, South Gloucestershire, is on the market with Knight Frank. The guide price is £995,000. The property is located in the small hamlet of Kington, which is about two miles from the popular market town of Thornbury. ​ Fewsters Farm, at Kington, South Gloucestershire, is on the market with Knight Frank. The guide price is £995,000. The property is located in the small hamlet of Kington which is Read more [...]

Coweta-area Church Activities for week beginning Feb. 4 – Newnan Times

Published Saturday, February 04, 2012 in Religion From Staff Reports religion@newnan.com Listed below are various events, meetings and services for Coweta-area churches for the week beginning Saturday, Feb. 4. • • • MUSIC / DRAMA • Jonathans, Old Veal School, Roopville, Feb. 11, 7 p.m. • Joe/Gina Ables, Macedonia Baptist Church, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. Love offering. Community dinner, 6 p.m. • Young Singers/St. Cecilia's Singers, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Feb. 12, Read more [...]

Patriots Notebook: Gronkowski listed as day-to-day

Rob Gronkowski’s ankle, like the mystery that surrounds it, isn’t going anywhere. As he said continually during the week, it’s “day by day,” which sounds more like an ’80s sitcom theme song than a health update. So the most popular Super Bowl angle (or ankle) will remain a topic of conversation up to, through and after tomorrow’s massive matchup. Yesterday, during a team walkthrough, nobody on the team was moving around at anything more than a trot. Wearing a dark blue T-shirt bearing Read more [...]

Development plans for Middlesex Hospital site approved by Westminster council

By News Reporters Construction workers standing in the crater of the Middlesex Hospital site. In the background a row of houses, including the Grade II listed former residence of Charles Dickens, will be dwarfed by the new development. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Enjoy the spring sunshine around the former Middlesex Hospital site and the views of the buildings which can be seem from the surrounding streets while it lasts. Because after the current (and very noisy) works on the site are completed Read more [...]

Parkside community denounces recent campus events

SOMERS — When the lights momentarily went dark in the room packed with those concerned about recent apparent hate crime events at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, one student later said she had been “terrified.” Then she, like many others Thursday, went on to denounce what were believed to be racially motivated incidents at Parkside that escalated to apparent death threats and sparked an atmosphere Read more [...]