05/25/11 The number three has taken prominence at Gallery 8 this month with the show Trilogy, featuring the talented Salt Spring troika of Pat Bennett, Blye Kaye and Dennice Stambuck.
05/25/11 CHARLESTON - For the first time in over 15 years the Journal Gazette/Times-Courier area has 29 boys set to compete in the 117th Illinois High School Association state track meet in the third year of the three-class system.
05/21/11 In as much as I had covered most of the Klamath River, I received a few questions about where all that water actually comes from. Actually, Klamath Lake is the start of the Klamath River. The main sources of the Klamath Lake flow into the lake some 25 miles to the north of the city of Klamath Falls. Aside from the minor tributaries, there are three main rivers that make up Klamath Lake, the ...
05/20/11 We're Black and Blue All Over: Not long after the Chicago Bears drafted Oregon State defensive tackle Stephen Paea, one of his new teammates reached out to him. Defensive tackle Matt Toeaina, who like Paea is of Polynesian descent, called to welcome him to the team. Since then, the two have spawned a friendship that continued Thursday during a workout in the suburban Chicago area. Jeff Dickerson ...
05/15/11 Newton won the Shelby Boys Open on Saturday with 84 points, but the Ram, with a goal to finish in the Top 5, finished as the runner-up with 58 points.
05/14/11 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON- The bad economy is worsening the already- shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, draining the trust funds supporting them faster than expected and intensifying the need for Congress to shore up the massive benefit programs, the government said Friday. Both Medicare and Social Security are being hit by a double whammy: the long-anticipated wave of ...
05/14/11 Colleges from all over the country sent engineering students to Bozeman to compete in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' annual Human Powered Vehicle Challenge.
05/13/11 A 25-disc, 20th-anniversary set of the nineties TV sitcom Home Improvement, starring Tim Allen, comes in its own red toolbox
05/12/11 2012 NFL Mock Draft Todd McShay Sends Stephon Gilmore to Lions at 16 The Detroit Lions have been starving for a lock-down cornerback since the departure of Dre Bly. All the rest of the pieces are in place, with Matt Stafford, Calvin Johnson, Ndamukong Suh and Nick Fairley. McShay's Pick: Stephon Gilmore, CB, South Carolina McShay said this to say about his selection: Depending on what the ...
05/11/11 I have always been startled and fascinated by the sandlike abundance of galaxies sprinkled across the night sky. The most sensitive optical image ever made by human beings, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, captures some 10,000 galaxies in an area about 1/100th the size of the full moon. Scaled up to the whole sky, such a density implies a total of 200 billion or so galaxies. And those are just the ...
05/11/11 Archaeologist Chelsea Rose carefully scraped away dirt at the bottom of the 4-foot hole in the historic Britt Garden overlooking Jacksonville.
05/11/11 An exciting night of creative electro-acoustic improvised music will be unleashed in Kingston, NY when The Woodstock Quantum Ensemble and the duo Holland Hopson/James Keepnews take the stage at Backstage Productions (BSP) on Saturday June 3rd at 7:30 PM. Admission will be $15 at the door and $10 for students and seniors with valid ID...
05/07/11 In a note to his first book of poetry, "Silence in the Snowy Fields," published in 1962, Robert Bly wrote that he was "interested in the connection between poetry and simplicity. ... The fundamental world of poetry is an inward world."
05/05/11 Today is the 125th day of 2011. There are 240 days left in the year. 1862: Mexican army defeats invading French forces in the Battle of Puebla. May 5 is now Mexico's National Day, Cinco de Mayo.
05/05/11 Naper Settlement is at 523 S. Webster St., Naperville. Sumnmer hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $9 adults, $8 seniors 62+ and $6.50 for youth 4-17. Children 3 and under are free. Call (630) 420-6010 or visit napersettlement.museum. Naper Settlement, a 19th century living history museum, is the only outdoor museum in Illinois accredited by ...
05/04/11 New Jersey State Police practiced making fast-roping descents from a helicopter onto the deck of the Battleship New Jersey on the Camden waterfront Tuesday.
05/01/11 Archaeologist Chelsea Rose carefully scraped away dirt at the bottom of the 4-foot hole in the historic Britt Garden overlooking Jacksonville.
04/30/11 So, skill positions, then. Remember when drafting skill position players early on gave a feeling of impending doom? Sure glad those days are over. Titus Young and Mikel Leshoure became the newest Detroit Lions Friday night, and both are likely to pull mixed reviews. I've already given my grades on Young and Leshoure individually. You can find them here. Click here for Young's grade . Click here ...
04/30/11 The Guthrie Theater's slate of plays for 2011-12 seems to reflect doubt and conflict about its vision of itself.
04/30/11 Porky Vieira scored 23 points, Ron DelBianco 20 and Ernie Petruciano nine, but it wasn't enough as New London nipped coach Ed Reilly 's Central team 58-56 in the semifinals of the New England basketball tournament with big Art Quimby doing most of the damage at the Boston Garden . The Hilltoppers played the last four minutes without three starters because of foul trouble. | 
