 03/12/10 Gray wolves are back, gliding through the forests of eastern Washington and the Cascades. The Lookout pack is producing pups in the Methow Valley, near Twisp. Seven wolves, an alpha male and female, a yearling and last year's four pups, have been traveling through 350 square miles, eating black-tailed and mule deer primarily, but also munching the occasional muskrat or beaver. Last year, on the ...
 03/11/10 IN LL WEEKLY--- Trust Issues : How accountable is D.C.'s funnel to youth nonprofits? Greetings all. Here's a piece of welcome municipal correspondence, obtained by WaPo's Nikita Stewart : "Dear Chairman Gray: Pursuant to our practice of the last three years, enclosed are tickets and parking passes to Suite 61 of the National Park [sic] for the 2010 baseball season.
 03/11/10 ( American Institute of Physics ) The March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) -- the largest physics meeting of the year -- will take place from March 15-19, 2010 in Portland, Ore., at the Oregon Convention Center and the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel.
 03/10/10 US First Lady Michelle Obama wore a creation by designer Prabal Gurung, an alumnus of Delhi's National Institute of Fashion Technology, while donating her inaugural gown to the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
 02/22/10 Situated on the Northwestern fringe of United States, Portland slightly extends into the Washington ...
 02/21/10 Educational travel tours headed for Washington D.C. or New York City are an excellent way to stimula...
 02/19/10 A popular tourist destination in the North West, Leavenworth is the home of a collection of high end...
 02/17/10 Wa-ha! Just the Deftones news you were waiting for of a Monday morning. The band have confirmed that they've got a new one out in a couple of months. What will it be called, though? Diamond Eyes , apparently. It'll hit the shelves on May 18.
 02/17/10 Coheed and Cambria will embark on its first North American headline tour since fall 2007
 02/12/10 West Virginia American Water has issued a precautionary boil water advisory for customers in portions of Barboursville, Salt Rock, Milton and West Hamlin in Cabell and Lincoln counties.
 02/08/10 BirthNetwork National BirthNetwork National, a source for mothers with questions about pregnancy, birth or early mothering will hold drop-in hours from 11 to 11:45 a.m., Wednesdays through June 16, 2010, at the Mandell Jewish Community Center, 335 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford.
 02/05/10 Earl Robinson Photo Gallery Earl Robinson, a two-sport star for California in the 1950s who played both basketball and baseball for the Golden Bears, will be inducted into the Pac-10 Hall of Honor at a ceremony during the Pac-10 Men's Basketball Tournament in March.
 02/05/10 The fewer than 50 members of South Florida's Super Bowl Champions Club -- players who were born in Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward or Palm Beach counties, or went to high school there -- span from the Florida Keys to a Chicago suburb to Liberty City, and beyond.
 01/30/10 BRIDGEPORT Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo , 1875 Noble Ave. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Tiny Adventurers Wed 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. Admission $11; $9 ages 3 to 11, seniors.
 01/30/10 BRIDGEPORT Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo , 1875 Noble Ave. Hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Lecture on horseshoe crabs Wed 7 p.m., free; Tiny Adventurers Sept. 23 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. Admission $11; $9 ages 3 to 11, seniors. 203-394-6565, www.beardsleyzoo.org for details and upcoming events.
 01/30/10 Greece Arcadia, the top-ranked team in the Democrat and Chronicle poll, edged Gates Chili.
 01/24/10 The town closed out 2009 on a high note, with the purchase of the Miller-Kingsland property, a historic site on Vreeland Avenue where a developer had hoped to build homes.
 01/23/10 The recent Cabell County Grand Jury has returned the following indictments. The charges were unsealed Friday afternoon. An indictment is merely a formal accusation of guilt, and accused defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
 01/22/10 Instead of tiptoeing to Tunisia with her stolen millions, Harriette Walters hoarded designer bags. The former tax manager -- and the most brazen embezzler (embezzleress?) in city government history -- bought purse after purse on the taxpayers' dime. When she was arrested in 2007, the crime scene at...
 01/22/10 Bonny Zanardi's Art Notes looks at monotypes, constructions at Peninsula Art Gallery
 01/21/10 Joe Fain, a local community volunteer and Chief of Staff for King Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer, announced Monday that he is running for State Senate in the 47th District. Fain said his campaign would focus on growing jobs and small business, controlling government spending, and improving public education.
 01/21/10 Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon make a decent fist of South African accents in Invictus. But they are the latest in a long line of actors trying too hard As someone who was born and brought up in South Africa, I was particularly interested to discover how Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon managed with the notoriously difficult South African accent in Clint Eastwood's Invictus. Actually, there are many ...
 01/14/10 This is a triple dose of bad news for real estate in Everett. These three separate bits of informati...
 08/22/09 Submit items one week in advance for the Outdoors Calendar, a weekly listing of hiking, mountain biking, paddling, running and other activities in Western North Carolina. |