Monthly Archives: June 2014

Los Angeles Short-listed for 2024 Summer Olympics

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The Opening Ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Los Angeles is one of four American cities short-listed to be considered for the 2024 Summer Games. (U.S. Air Force) Los Angeles’ effort to host the 2024 Summer Olympics moved forward on June 13, with the U.S. Olympic Committee naming the city as one of four finalists to be the nation’s bidder for the Games.. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C., landed spots on the USOC’s “short Read more [...]

Seniors’ prank ends with local high school listed for sale

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It’s one of those end of the year pranks that might make even some of the most “evil geniuses” blush. Seniors from Henry Wise Wood High School have posted their building for sale on Kijiji. The description reads like a developer’s dream, “120 classrooms, 3 gyms, large field and many multi-purpose spaces, this would be the perfect location for a number of projects.” The covert author of the posting then goes on the write the desks, chairs and tables will all be left behind. In Read more [...]

Official Lakes Festival Weekend Begins Tonight

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The Northern Indiana Lakes Festival weekend will kick-off tonight, Friday, June 13, and will conclude on Sunday, June 15. The festival is the region’s largest lake education event. A listing of the events is listed below. Early registration is necessary for several events and may be completed by visiting the Lakes Festival events page.Warsaw – Saturday, June 14The official Lakes Festival Weekend will be held Saturday, June 14 to Sunday, June 15. From 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, in Warsaw the Read more [...]

Wollongong’s Chifley Hotel listed for sale

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The 4½-star hotel is being sold through global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels. The Chifley is owned by a Brisbane-based company and managed international group SilverNeedle Hospitality.The top-class Chifley Hotel Wollongong is on the market.The 4½-star hotel is being sold through global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels.The sale is open to expressions of interest only but it is believed that a property such as the Chifley is likely to sell for more than $25 million.The Read more [...]

Patrick Leigh Fermor short-listed for travel book award

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The full short list is: The Last Man in Russia – and the struggle to save a dying nation by Oliver Bullough (Penguin) The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor (John Murray) Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain by Charlotte Higgins (Vintage) American Smoke by Iain Sinclair (Hamish Hamilton) Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a cabin in the Middle Taiga by Sylvain Tesson (Penguin) O My America! by Sara Wheeler (Vintage) Travel Read more [...]

Listed three bedroom barn conversion in Ferring

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The Stables is a skilful conversion of a spacious Grade II listed building in the picturesque village of Ferring. This single level property, in Ferringham Lane, is set behind electric gates within a small development of two barns with a shared gravel drive.The property accommodation is designed to provide an open plan kitchen living space with a superb kitchen to the centre. There is also a defined dining area and living area to either side of the kitchen, ideal for Read more [...]

LR to sack 2 listed on sex registry

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House of the Week | Georgetown mansion for $11M

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View Photo Gallery —The Washington Post’s picks of distinguished homes on the D.C. area market. President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy attended a wedding reception at this Georgetown mansion. Lyndon B. Johnson stopped by the house when he was vice president. President Bill Clinton dined here. The prince and princess of Liechtenstein and a former king of Greece also visited. They were some of the notable guests who called on the late senator Claiborne Pell and his wife, Read more [...]