Monthly Archives: August 2014

Recreation events inspire community spirit

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Danielle Eldredge is marketing manager for Gallatin Leisure Services. Contact her at danielle.eldredge@gallatin-tn.gov. (Photo: Submitted )The community that plays together stays together. That’s our motto at Gallatin Leisure Services.One of the primary reasons Gallatin Leisure Services exists is to inspire a strong feeling of community among Gallatin residents. When neighbors gather for fun and recreation, memories are created, community bonds are strengthened and quality of life is elevated.If Read more [...]

Liverpool has the most listed buildings outside London but we must save our …

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The magnificent buildings on Liverpool’s waterfront embody its success as a maritime city in the 19th century. Once England’s second most important port, Liverpool is also second only to London in its array of listed buildings – more than 2,400 of them. But while many tourists marvel at landmarks like the Liver and Cunard Buildings, the Cathedrals and the Albert Dock , Liverpool’s architectural heritage is far from limited to the city centre. And for local historian Stephen Guy, it is Read more [...]

Community Calls for Transparency, Analysis as School Board Considers Sale of …

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As the Long Beach Island Board of Education contemplates a bid for the purchase of the LBI Grade School in Ship Bottom, parents and other community members are calling for transparency, as well as careful re-evaluation of the situation now three years, and one superstorm, since the school was first listed for sale. In fall 2011, following a feasibility study, the board authorized selling the LBI School and consolidating the district’s students in Surf City’s Ethel A. Jacobsen Elementary School, Read more [...]

Noranside housing plans discussed

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Ambitious plans to redevelop the former open prison site at Noranside should bring major conservation benefits, Angus Council members have heard. As the Brechin Advertiser went to press yesterday councillors were being given detailed information about the proposals’ effect on the local amenity and environment.Before the Development Standards Committee were two applications relating to the site at Fern. One concerned the conversion of the prison buildings to provide Read more [...]

Watch: Work starts on clearing parts of Grade I-listed Acklam Hall site

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 Work to develop the only Grade I listed building in Middlesbrough has got under way.Demolition workers have started work at Acklam Hall where they are tearing down buildings as part of the plans to renovate the site.The hall will also be given a new lease of life as a business and conference centre with restaurant and function space.The development will also feature a health and care village, including a new GP surgery, and Taylor Wimpey are to build 56 “executive” homes in Read more [...]

Report: Violence pervasive in NYC youth jails

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Rikers Island juvenile detention facility inmates walk single file to the jail's chapel.(Photo: AP)NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's juvenile jails are extremely violent and unsafe, the result of a culture of violence in which guards routinely violate constitutional rights of teenage inmates and subject them to "rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force," the federal government said in a report released Monday.The report is the result of a 2 1/2-year Justice Department investigation into violence Read more [...]

West Michigan mom claims she was ripped off after entering daughter in pageant

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GRANDVILLE, Mich. — A mother from Grandville claims she signed her daughter up in a beauty pageant only to be ripped off. Amani Osman bought a pink skirt and matching corset for her 6-year-old daughter, Amaya, who was planning on attending the South Elite Teen Pageant in Grand Rapids on July 19. “She’s been asking me to be in a pageant since she was 3 years old,” Osman said. To grant her daughter’s wish, Osman said she came up with the $70 needed to enter the competition. Then, Read more [...]

As the lights go out, their memory burns bright

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Lights were doused for an hour, inspired by the words of the wartime foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, as he gazed at the lamps being lit in St James’s Park: ‘The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” Meanwhile, in Belgium, David Cameron described it as a conflict of “unspeakable carnage, unbearable loss and almost unbelievable bravery” fought “to preserve the principles of freedom and sovereignty that we cherish Read more [...]

Dods planning Tipperary Listed raid with speedy Angel

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Michael Dods: has a high opinion of filly Mecca's Angel   PICTURE: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)   MICHAEL DODS is eyeing the Listed Kilfrush Stud Abergwaun Stakes at Tipperary on Friday for speedy filly Mecca's Angel and the trainer believes she is "a real star in the making". Mecca's Angel was successful in her first two starts this season, including a conditions contest at Hamilton by eight lengths, on her preferred soft ground before finding heavy ground too much for her Read more [...]