DANBURY: Middle School Student has Things in FocusSaturday, March 13, 2010 @ 9:03AMJoey Lounsbury had never taken a photograph before a teacher at Mill Ridge Elementary School handed him a camera and asked him to take pictures of classmates for the fifth-grade yearbook.
Clemson's Spiller ready to make transition to NFLSaturday, March 13, 2010 @ 1:14AMFor well over an hour Friday morning C.J. Spiller signed autographs and posed for pictures at First Presbyterian Church in Greenville, where he spoke to a packed gym at the annual Turner Memorial Prayer Breakfast.
The Nightingale ProjectFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 10:27PMLifestyle and kids photographer Barbara Peacock of Westford, Massachusetts spent several weeks last summer teaching art and photography in Cambodia. Peacock is the founder of a nonprofit organization called The Nightingale Project, which helps the disadvantaged through art.
Nduom Campaign team vrs Agyeman Badu Akosa - Press ReleaseFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 3:53PMThe Nduom for President 08 Campaign Team ordinarily would not respond to what Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa says about the CPP’s 2008 campaign and about the Party itself in public, especially where it has come from since 1992. But we see danger around the corner that must be nipped in the bud.
Local ladies have sold hundreds of daffodils in fight against cancerFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 10:33AMLOCK HAVEN - Dedicated. That's the word that best describes the 42 years of service in the Daffodil Days Program by Marylou Smith of Mill Hall and Teresa Lock of Lock Haven. Next week is Daffodil Days of Clinton County, and Smith and Lock will continue their contribution to the fight against cancer.
Make me a cane as nice as you canFriday, March 12, 2010 @ 7:25AMTHERESA CAMPBELL Staff Writer THE VILLAGES -- Instead of canvas, Patti Auchter's detailed paintings are on walking canes. The Villages resi ...
LG KICKS OFF NATIONWIDE ‘LG CARAVAN SABAI STYLE HEALTH+’ ROAD SHOWTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 11:46PMFollowing the successful launch of its Health+ Inverter air-conditioner range last year with famous news anchor and investment analyst Mr. Buncha Chumchaivat as its brand ambassador, LG Electronics (T
A different kind of sarong party girlMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 10:25PMUntil my father pointed out to me recently that cotton batik skirts are not considered formal, I was unaware of that fact.
Taking Edmonds in strideSunday, March 7, 2010 @ 2:29AMFour hundred cookie jars, an exhibit of 100 years of paper dolls, a co-op art gallery that has operated for 48 years, an underwater park, and public art are in the mix of attractions in Edmonds.
Interview: "Family is my strongest backing": Russian famed female rectorSaturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:22PMNurtured as a boy in childhood, put under spotlight for her perseverant legal fight against Russian oligarch, Irina Khaleyeva, a Russian educational strongwoman, said her personality originated from her father. On the eve of the centennial international women's day, Khaleyeva, who has been rector of the Moscow State Linguistics University (MSLU) for over 20 years, also told Xinhua in an ...
Longtime Ganado teacher turns 100Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 10:19PMGANADO - Johnie Koonce still gets around faster than some of her nieces and nephews.
Pledge to cut EU gender pay gap after 15 years without progressFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 2:39PMOffice workers in London. Women in the UK are paid 79% of male rates, while across the EU the figure is 82%. Photograph: Linda Nylind The pay gap between men and women in Europe has barely changed f...
Community Calendar: Find A Friday Fish FryFriday, March 5, 2010 @ 12:20PMCheck WTAE Channel 4's calendar to find upcoming events around Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania. You can also ask us to add your community event to the list.
Ukraine's leading English-language newspaper since 1995Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 1:44PMIt is almost midnight. A wife is staggering back home drunk to find her cute husband drying tears with his kitchen apron. He says he stayed in all day cooking, cleaning and waiting for her. He got so worried that he called all manicure and spa saloons in town looking for her.
Bob Elmore: Kelley's Raiders & Getting Paid For Civic Work (Excerpt 16)Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 6:19AMOne night Mayor Kelley called me and asked if I wanted to go steal a train. At first, I thought he must be drunk. He was serious; he wanted to go re-capture the famous Locomotive, The General.
Iraqi PM accused of handing out guns in bid to buy tribal votesSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 6:06PMThe Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, says that the deliveries of weapons along with cash payments were not improper. Photograph: Qassem Zein/AFP/Getty Images A senior Iraqi spy has accused the...
Local missionary prepares for Haiti tripSunday, February 28, 2010 @ 5:07AMCOATESVILLE — Stardetta "Starr" Hatton's dream came true. She will soon leave for Haiti where she will provide aid to earthquake victims for a month.
Norfolk artist's Blarney stone commissionSaturday, February 27, 2010 @ 7:09AMAs the legend goes, Ireland's fabled Blarney Stone has the power to bestow conversational eloquence on anyone who kisses it. But even if the promised “gift of the gab” fails to materialise, there are plenty of other gifts at the souvenir shop to remind the visiting millions of the experience.
Giving away the bride, groom and everything elseFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 10:16PMSomething borrowed, something blue, something old, something new and, for one lucky couple, the whole thing for free.
What's On in Aylesbury and the Vale - Your Diary Dates for February and MarchFriday, February 26, 2010 @ 11:41AMWalks, talks, quizzes and more - updated every Friday. FILM: Filmnight at the Limelight Theatre, Aylesbury. The Time Traveller's Wife. Evening includes film, food and licenced bar. Starts at 8pm. Box office: 01296 424332.
A New Look At an Old DrugThursday, February 25, 2010 @ 11:01PMHeroin: Teen’s Drug of Choice Today’s image of a heroin addict is no longer an unkempt, dirty loser with needlemarks on their arm, but a smiling, smart teenage Prom Queen. That was the message to parents and teens attending a heroin forum, “Not My Child” presented by Kristin M. Fexas, deputy bureau chief from District Attorney Kathleen Rice’s office as she spoke in the St. Dominic High School ...
Beijing issues new ethics rules for party officialsWednesday, February 24, 2010 @ 11:10AMChina's Communist party issued a new ethics code for its members Wednesday, in advance of next week's annual session of "parliament" in Beijing.
BLOG: Christian Chapel helps impoverished in GhanaTuesday, February 23, 2010 @ 12:22PMBy CHRISTIANA NIELSON neighborhoods@ColumbiaMissourian.com Building schools, digging wells, working with orphans and helping to save children from human trafficking are probably not the typical activities for most people living in Columbia. But these were some of the activities that 13 people from Christian Chapel undertook when they traveled to Ghana from Jan. 26 to ...
Victims face hard choicesMonday, February 22, 2010 @ 3:28PMThis is part two of a three-part series examining domestic violence on the Big Island.
in the galleries calendarSaturday, February 20, 2010 @ 5:16AMHere's a sampling of the happenings at the region's art and history galleries. Admission, lectures and receptions are free, unless otherwise noted. "Mongolia!," photographs by Barbara Paul , Borders Books, 1499 Post Road. Fri-Jan. 31. 203-256-1619.
Cheers and Jeers/Feb. 20Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 8:27PMCheers : To Larry White Jr. of Aledo and Coors Distributing of Fort Worth not only for their record-
Leader-Post Christmas Cheer Fund sets recordFriday, February 19, 2010 @ 4:51PMYou did it again! Your generosity resulted in our most successful campaign to date. Donations to the 2009 Leader-Post Christmas Cheer Fund totalled $178,000 — topping last year's record-breaking total of just over $138,000.
What It Takes to be an Olympic AthleteFriday, February 19, 2010 @ 12:25PMShane Murphy, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and associate professor of Psychology at Western Connecticut State University. He is the founder of Gold Medal Psychological Consultants, which teaches business and sport organizations the competitive skills that lead to success. Dr. Murphy was head of the U. S. Olympic Committee's Sport Psychology Department from 1987 to 1994 and associate director ...
Letters to the editorFriday, February 19, 2010 @ 2:41AMThe arrogance displayed by Ron Corwin , chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission ( P&Z ), at last Thursday night's meeting of the P&Z was unbelievable.
Beware of Tory co-operativesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 7:59AMIs David Cameron is an unlikely convert to workers' control. Photograph: Getty Images
School NotesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:56AMWINNETKA DISTRICT 36
School NotesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:46AMDISTRICT 65
School NotesThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 4:38AMHARPER SCHOOL
In sickness and in healthThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:50AMWhen Emily Fitz Randolf met Ron Wiedenhoeft during a singles group event, she was struck by his charm, intellect and traditional Bavarian outfit.
Jim Six: The face of love behind a veilThursday, February 18, 2010 @ 2:03AMWhen I got married, it was for love. Well, medical insurance was mentioned, but it was mostly for love.
Food strike at Vancouver AirportWednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 9:22PMLess than a week into the Olympics, about 300 workers at Vancouver International Airport walked off the job Wednesday morning, closing 16 food and retail outlets in what the union is characterizing as a dispute over job security. The workers, members of Unite Here Local 40, set up pickets at the departures level at YVR, but union director Lynn Flandera said the line was designed not to affect ...
Looking Backward: Somethings Up on Downer Street Part OneWednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 10:12AMSpiritualism swept across the western world in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a movement, its popularity peaked in English-speaking countries on both sides of the
In a Challenge to Rangel, an Echo of His RiseTuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 8:01AMThe banker Vincent Scott Morgan is running against his former boss for the Democratic nomination in the 15th Congressional District.