Fire damages buildings in Westwood
Bergen Record - WESTWOOD - A fire early Sunday damaged two Third Avenue storefronts and a few apartments, authorities said. No one was injured in the 12:02 a.m. blaze, said police Sgt. Rod Fortunat. Hillsdale and Emerson firefighters assisted in battling the blaze
Wal-Mart heralds charity, retail boom
Mansfield News Journal - MANSFIELD — The new Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2485 Possum Run Road is scheduled to open Jan. 31. The store’s grand opening celebration will include donations totaling $35,000 to local charities, store manager Amy Bowen said. The contributions, through
Community Calendar
Budgeteer News - Divorce Care , a divorce recovery group, meets at 6:30 p.m. at Bayside Baptist Church, at the corner of New York Avenue and Belknap Street in Superior. To register, call 394-6002. The Lake Superior Chapter of the Norse Federation annual Scandinavian
Daily Briefing
Asheville Citizen-Times - RUTHERFORDTON U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor, R-Brevard, said Tuesday he has obtained $2.6 million from the federal defense budget for a company with a manufacturing plant here to develop defense products. The appropriations earmark will allow 3TEX to
Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom Offer Award-Winning Pocket PC XV6700
MobileBurn - BEDMINSTER, N.J. and HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Verizon Wireless, the first wireless company to deliver wireless broadband service from coast to coast, and UTStarcom Personal Communications, a division of UTStarcom, Inc
FAMILY: Turning 103 and feeling just fine
Richmond Times-Dispatch - Willie Wells, who turns 103 on Thursday, misses her twin, who died just over a year ago. But she stays active. “We don’t let much grass grow beneath our feet,” her niece says. Stylish in her Christmas sweater and jovial as she headed out the door to
Companies tell seniors to do nothing on Medicare plans
New Hampshire Union Leader - For millions of senior citizens struggling to make sense of Medicare’s new drug coverage, one pitch is enticingly simple: Don’t do anything. It’s a message being pushed by private insurers eager to hang on to 5 million older Americans who already buy
Four million ’should have hearing aid’
Daily Mail - Four million people in the UK could benefit from wearing a hearing aid but are doing nothing about it, according to a new campaign. More than 150,000 people have so far taken a telephone hearing check as part of the Breaking the Sound Barrier
Sequim council asks for prettier second phase to shopping center (01
Peninsula Daily News - SEQUIM — Go ahead and build, but make it pretty. That’s what City Council members told the developer of the Sequim Village Marketplace’s next phase. The unlandscaped space around Home Depot, a Village Marketplace first-phase anchor, “looks like a
Surinder Singh elected
Tribune - Mr Surinder Singh was elected as Mayor of the Municipal Corporation of the city here today. The house voted Mrs Shyama Negi as the Senior Deputy Mayor and Mr Harmohinder Singh Lucky as the Deputy Mayor. Despite minor hiccups, the final result meant a