June 29– PROVIDENCE– For people who live outside of the city limits, former Providence mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci Jr.’ s odds of taking back the office he twice has been forced to leave due to felony convictions seem laughable. But on the streets of Providence, his allies are not hard to find. Cianci, he said, during a previous administration, allocated city funds to open…
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This is not unusual, according to VDOT. Even in traditional project contracts, as opposed to the public-private deal struck for U.S. 460, the department generally works with a prime contractor and may not know who they use as subcontractors, VDOT spokeswoman Tamara Rollison said. But a joint report on the project by an internal team at VDOT and Virginia’s Office of…
By Prue Salasky, Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) McClatchy-Tribune Information Services June 29–For two implants and two crowns, Raife Nopson…
June 29– Russell Wilson insists his life has not changed much after winning a Super Bowl in February as the starting quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks. Wilson has been working out for 12 hours a day– at least when he is not taking part in the Russell Wilson Passing Academy. Keep in mind, this is considered the NFL offseason.
June 29– TOLEDO– Maria Stachowiak was accustomed to arriving at work to find 10 or 15 emails from her boss, Scott Scarborough. To her sorrow, that will end on Tuesday when he becomes president of one of the community’s most important institutions, the University of Akron. For weeks, “Scott,” as he is known at Toledo, has been spending two days a week or so in Akron, sizing up…
June 29– A 2011 state law that ended most collective bargaining for most state employees went a step further at UW Hospital, where the law known as Act 10 is eliminating union representation for about 5,000 workers. Another large worker group at UW Hospital will be affected in January, when the contract ends for about 2,800 medical assistants, housekeepers,…
June 29– ANDERSON– The Junktion, located downtown at the corner of Harrison and Church streets, has a little bit of everything for everyone. “The customers say it reminds them of the way stores merchandised in the past, and they look forward to driving by to see what is new,” said Tony Johnson, who owns the store along with his wife, Bobbi. He had not planned to open a business…
When former Collierville alderman Tony Sarwar was accused of not living in the town, he said the stress made him lose 12 pounds. A restaurant owner, Sarwar said he was going through a divorce and as a result on a handful of late nights he slept at his parents’ home in Cordova after work rather than wake his then 12- year-old daughter to take her back to his rented house…
June 29– It’s his turn to speak. The class is called the Victim Impact Panel and the class fee goes to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Mike Clegg, 65, has seen all kinds of people, just like them, in his 25 years of speaking.
June 29– Highlands County is well-known for its oranges and cattle, but did you know that before citrus, pineapple was king in Avon Park? Or that the Avon Park Lakes area used to be a ranch and the Avon Park Chamber of Commerce was instrumental in helping sell or market lots there? The 12 Hours of Sebring and the Sebring International Raceway fans have heard all kinds…
June 29– After fixing up a vintage 1964 car this summer, Richard Hajek plans to drive it into Lake Altoona. “I want to get it fully restored and take my big trip across Lake Altoona,” said the town of Seymour resident, who’s in his mid-70s. Hajek’s latest high-profile project was transporting an 18- foot-tall Chinese pagoda several miles through Eau Claire last month.
June 29– In what otherwise was a tragic story, David Zauner was hailed as a hero when he jumped into the East Detroit High School pool in his dress clothes and pulled the near-lifeless body of student KeAir Swift from the bottom last autumn. Now Zauner, a veteran teacher and basketball coach, is suing East Detroit Public Schools and assistant principal and athletic…
“2014 marks the 10th year of our annual Supply Chain Top 25 ranking,” wrote Stan Aronow, research vice president at Gartner. We believe our Predictive Commerce Platform is helping them respond effectively and efficiently to ever changing market demand, “said Jeff Wilson, President of ORTEC North America.” This is an impressive achievement, and we’re pleased and…
June 29– SUNSET BEACH– The Gores of Sunset Beach know better than just about anyone how temporary the shapes of North Carolina’s barrier islands can be. After buying Sunset Beach in 1955, Mannon Gore, and later his son Ed, scraped dunes flat, cut canals to create valuable additional waterfront and piled up sand to build up an entire peninsula of lots on the back side…
June 29– Joe Goodman still is not sure his 63- year-old eyes will believe what they’re seeing this afternoon at the Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon when his 34- year-old law partner David Callahan completes his 52nd triathlon in 52 weeks. Goodman’s been there from the beginning for the Nashville- based charity. And, of course, he was there 18 months ago when…
June 29– When President Franklin Roosevelt created the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933, he wanted TVA to be “a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.” But some TVA retirees fear that TVA’s independence also now threatens the security of the utility’s retirement program for…
June 29– Ryan Cloud knows he wants to be cremated, but he also knows his parents would put his body in a casket if he died before they did. “Make sure that doesn’t happen,” Cloud said to his partner, Randy Rud. For three days last week, same-sex couples could marry in Indiana and suddenly had more than 1,600 rights available to them.
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Stapczynski informed members of the Board of Selectmen earlier this month that he would step down from the Health Benefits Trust of the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association, or MIIA, which has offered Blue Cross/Blue Shield health coverage to the town’s 1,400 employees and retirees since 2010.. The Tufts bid came in at a price well below the MIIA…
