Watered-down weather woes (The Naperville Sun)
After dozens of calls for help came flooding in Friday, emergency responders got a break Saturday, when high-water headaches appeared less severe than anticipated. The area was under a flash-flood warning and tornado watch for most of Saturday, and a wind advisory issued until 9 a.m. Sunday projected gusts up to 45 miles per hour.
Original Coney Island Pier For Sale (NBC New York)
Pssst, buddy, wanna buy a pier?It's not exactly the Brooklyn Bridge, but the Coney Island Pier is for sale.And unlike Thor Equities' decision to boot Nathan's Famous and Astroland from the boardwalk, this...
Year to end on snowy, cold, windy note (The Morning Call)
Thousands are without power throughout the region as hazardous weather conditions have arrived for New Year's Eve. And the nasty weather may have contributed to several traffic accidents.
Year in review: Top Federal Way stories of 2008 (Federal Way Mirror)
Properties left vacant, untended (Douglas County News-Press)
Holiday decorations assumed a different look in one Castle Rock neighborhood touched by this year?s rising foreclosure rates. Residents in the Castle North subdivision woke up the day after Thanksgiving to find a pile of debris in front of a home at 803 Valhalla St.
Mound Bayou School District administrators are continuing preparations for John F. Kennedy High School?s gymnasium. (The Bolivar Commercial)
By this time next year, another small Delta community will have a fully functioning sewage treatment plant. Six Bolivar County for-profit nursing homes, all Medicare or Medicaid participants, recently received between one and four stars in the first government five-star rating of such facilities.
Clean green post-holidays (The Meridian Star)
It wasn't that long ago that the term "going green" would probably have had something to do with St. Patrick's day. Now, more people are going green for the New Year by recycling or reusing their Christmas waste.
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