Monthly Archives: January 2014

2014’s Most Affordable Cities For Living On A Budget, According To Apartment …

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For many Americans, a new year means a new budget -- especially if a move is in your future. And if you're thinking of heading to a big city in 2014 while keeping your resolution of saving some serious cash, cities like New York (where an apartment can cost you more than a castle) just won't make the cut. Lucky for us, Apartment Guide took a second to look at their internal listing data and the Cost of Living Index by The Read more [...]

PREP SPORTS: Weather forces more postponements of BHS athletic events

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The casualty list included the girls and boys doubleheader basketball evening at the Sanford Center against Thief River Falls. Tuesday’s games were scheduled for 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. and were moved to the Sanford Center because the facility was prepped for today’s visit by the Harlem Globetrotters and the Sanford Center officials were eager to showcase the venue to area high school fans.Also scrubbed on Tuesday were the girls home hockey game with Moorhead, the boys hockey game at Crookston and Read more [...]

Lyric Theatre reopening, Mardi Gras among Alabama’s Top 10 events for 2014 … – The Birmingham News

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The reopening of Birmingham's Lyric Theatre, the grand opening of Montgomery'€™s Museum of Alabama and Mobile's annual Mardi Gras celebration are among the Alabama Tourism Department'€™s Top 10 events of 2014, the state tourism agency has announcedEach year, the tourism department spotlights 10 events around the state that it feels will be significant and unique attractions for tourists.Those events, along with more than 1,400 others around the state, will be featured in the department'€™s Read more [...]

Vancouver Home Sales Higher in 2013

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Total home sales in Vancouver were 14 percent higher in 2013 than the previous year, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.  A total of 28,524 detached, attached and apartments properties were sold in 2013, higher than the 25,032 sales recorded the previous year. The figure is 11.9 percent lower than the 32,390 residential sales in 2011. "Home sales quietly improved last year compared to 2012, although the volume of activity didn't compare to some of the record-breaking years Read more [...]

Flawed finances? You still could buy a home

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By AJ Smith, Credit.comThe housing market is showing signs of recovery after the housing crash, but many of the homeowners who were foreclosed upon in that time or forced to short sell have found their credit and finances heavily damaged. Some of those people may never want to own again, but for those who want to give it another shot, there are a few things to keep in mind this time around. The answer to whether you can buy a home with flawed finances is simple. Yes, you can buy a home. But there Read more [...]

Notebook: CrossFit competition comes to Clark County Event Center

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Sixty-four of the top CrossFit athletes in Washington and Oregon will participate in the first Fort Vancouver CrossFit Invitational on Saturday and Sunday at the Clark County Event Center.Athletes will compete in pairs, with 16 men's teams and 16 women's teams invited to compete. Similar to the CrossFit Games, the competition will challenge participants to complete a series of exercise challenges.The event is sold out with 600 spectators expected to attend each day.Doors open at 8 a.m. both days. Read more [...]

Find use for homes that is better than bedsits

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Comments (0) Although I was born in Bury, Lancashire, my father, Alfred Sosbe, followed his elder brother, Tom, to the National Fire Service in Leicester, at Lancaster Place. It was 1940, and I was 18 months old. We were allocated a house on the Lancaster Place estate on the "Banjo" – the cul-de-sac at the upper end of the estate. My dad was employed in the maintenance section, which was housed in Read more [...]

Camborne School of Mines alumni joins Wolf board

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Comments (0) The company behind the £150 million reopening of the Hemerdon tungsten mine near Plymouth has appointed an alumni of the Camborne School of Mines to its board. Nicholas Clarke has joined Wolf Minerals as an independent non-executive director. He replaces Jim Williams, who is stepping down from the Board to pursue other interests in his retirement. Mr Clarke is a resource sector executive with more than 40 Read more [...]