Geelong’s Fyansford Green project listed

It will never leave: the Pratt family's California Hotel. Photo: Stephen McKenzie ONE of regional Victoria's biggest urban renewals - the $300 million Fyansford Green project in Geelong - has quietly been listed for sale, seven months after the division of the Perth-based developer that controlled the site went into receivership. Fyansford Green was set to replace the former Geelong Cement Read more [...]

Afsare backed by jockey, Kieren Fallon’s success with owner, Al Maktoum, in …

Afsare backed by jockey, Kieren Fallon’s success with owner, Al Maktoum, in the Ambant Gala Stakes (Listed Race) After an impressive performance in the seasonal debut, the three-year-old bay colt, Farhaan, has made his next stop at the Class 1 Ambant Gala Stakes (Listed Race) on Friday, 6th July. He will be up against eight other three-year and above runners in order to contest the £18,714 prize money. Sandown will host the race over a mile, two furlongs and seven yards. Jazil’s Read more [...]

Ex-anchor sells home here for $1.34M

Former WMAQ-Ch. 5 news anchor Zoraida Sambolin, who works for CNN in New York, sold her six-bedroom, architecturally significant house in Oak Park for $1.34 million.Late last year, Sambolin, 46, left NBC-5, where she had worked since 2002, to co-host a new 5 to 7 a.m. broadcast on CNN. Sambolin reaped a profit on the 5,288-square-foot house, which was designed Read more [...]

Embassy protesters want heritage listing

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1838 Rendezvous underway in Riverton; events schedule listed

Trader Dave Schellinger of Sheridan visited with a customer at Boudreaux’s Camp on Trader’s Row at the 1838 Rendezvous Site Wednesday. (Ernie Over photo) (Riverton, Wyo.) – Held each year during the first week of July on the site of the original 1838 Rendezvous, this event features a re-creation of a trappers and traders encampment, games of skill, food, dancing and entertainment, all set in the manner of the 1830s. The Rendezvous site is still much as it was in 1838, and it’s Read more [...]

Newport homes 3 times as hard to sell

The overall Newport Beach home market -- beach communities, Corona del Mar and Newport Coast -- had 606 residences listed for sale as of June 21 with 135 new deals opening in the past 30 days. That means, by one theory, it would take 4.49 months to sell all inventory at current pace of new escrows in the Newport region vs. 1.53 months countywide. So, Newport homes, hypothetically, are 2.9 times harder to sell than the typical Orange County home. This is Read more [...]

Wife of detained ex-Cabinet official listed as defendant

Taipei, July 5 (CNA) Peng Ai-chia, wife of detained former Cabinet Secretary-General Lin Yi-shih, has been listed as a defendant in the corruption case involving Lin, prosecutors said Thursday. The Special Investigation Division (SID) under the Supreme Prosecutors Office said Peng was charged on suspicion of violating the anti-corruption act, money-laundering act and the criminal code. She was charged with concealing illicit gains, hiding other people's illicit gains from major criminal acts and Read more [...]