Author raises a storm about the handling of Hurricane Katrina
Vindicator - Ivor van Heerden is angry. He is angry because years of warnings about the hurricane danger to New Orleans were largely ignored. He is angry because federal disaster planners dismissed his recovery proposals a year before Hurricane Katrina struck
A soggy goodbye for Nipmuc grads
MetroWest Daily News - U PTON — In years to come when the Nipmuc Regional High School Class of 2006 looks back on graduation day, one of the main things they’ll remember is that it rained cats and dogs. Even though the school’s 46th commencement was held in the school gym
A bears picnic
Brampton Guardian - Flower City Kiwanis presents Family Fun Day and Teddy Bears’ Picnic June 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Gage Park. Come with your favourite teddy and enjoy games, music, entertainment and refreshments. All children’s activities are free. Teddy bears
No room for cross dressing in a marriage
Southeast Missourian - HE SAID: “You can wear my pajamas, honey.” Oh, yeah. You read it right. Perhaps the six most feared words in the weekend trip vocabulary. Callie and I had just made the 2-hour trip to Van Buren, Mo. It was a late Friday night, and we had just said
Mixed Signals
NPR News - Today is Friday, which always means Mixed Signals will have a movie review coming up from NPR’s Bob Mondello. And so this is as good as any a time to start a conversation about movies and politics — two things close to my heart. Often political
Though expensive, stone finds a niche in American houses
Vindicator - Digging rocks for fashionable homes is a growth industry in Montana. THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. (AP) Paul Chambers’ quarry at the base of the Cabinet Mountains is a hard-rock bazaar. Choose your look: Smooth slabs? Stackable stones? How about some
City pools ready to make a summer splash
Journal-News - HAMILTON For the sixth season in a row, a local family is donating the cash needed to keep Hamilton s four city pools up and running. Pat and Donna Carruthers have again donated $140,000 to the city of Hamilton to go toward the operations of
