| What's up in The Albemarle 01/18
School needs help for Black History Month. Northside Elementary School is organizing black history activities for the month of February. If you or a group have talent you would like to share with elementary school students, call Pam at 335-2033 by Friday, Feb. 1. Perquimans schools early release. The Perquimans County Schools will release students today at 12:30 p.m.. The schools will be closed Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Head Start applications accepted. The Pasquotank/Camden Head Start Center is now accepting applications for the 2008-09 school year. The center is at 409 Bank St., Elizabeth City. For more info, call 335-7698. ECSU alumni to meet. The Elizabeth City State University National Alumni Association will hold a general membership meeting in the theater of the Ridley Student Center Saturday at 10 a.m.
City Council seeks fresh start with Nutter
City Council starts work this morning with three newcomers and the holdovers eager for a fresh start with the new administration. New initiatives expected today include James F. Kenney's bill to allow nonresidents to apply for Civil Service jobs; W. Wilson Goode Jr.'s proposal to phase out the vilified gross-receipts tax; and Darrell L. Clarke's renewed call to explore retail uses for City Hall's public areas. They all coincide with Mayor Nutter's agenda of a more professional government with a sensible tax structure and an open City Hall. Today, Nutter is expected to ask for more than $20 million in transfers - to the school district, information systems, and the law department, among others - held by Council at the end of the Street administration. Nutter has yet to request transfer of $34 million for the Department of Human Services.
NEWS ARCHIVE AUGUST 4-10, 2006
The feud is over the refusal of Christodoulides, and three other former MPs, to hand in to the party the lump money they received on their retirementtotalling 345.000. Akel insists there is a decision taken unanimously in 1991 by the central committee that such money be deposited in the "Solidarity Fund" which provides for needy Akel pensioners. The four MPs argue the money is a form of pension or provident fund, ensured by law, and they should not be obliged to give it up. This was an illegal move by the Akel leadership, taken in violation of the party charter, Christodoulides declared. According to estimates, the four former MPs are entitled to about 85,000 each. Punishment The refusal of the four brought a harsh punishment from the Akel central committee.
Be heard tonight on artificial reef rules
Army Corps of Engineers and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are crafting a plan for future artificial reef projects, both public and private, and you have a chance to share your input on this matter with Robert Turpin, chief of the Escambia County Marine Resources Division.Turpin has been presented with the initial layout from the FWC and will be presenting his rebuttal today at 6 p.m. at the Reef Fish Restoration Association at 1007 Pine St., Pensacola. All interested parties charter boat captains, recreational anglers and divers, commercial fisherman and those with general concern about the future of our fisheries are encouraged to attend.The initial draft by the Corps is alarming. It calls for drastic changes to the program and could effectively shut down private artificial reef production.Items in the draft call for the minimum weight of reefs to jump from 150 pounds to 500 a weight that would be virtually impossible for a private reef maker to deploy.Changes also are recommended for the size of materials used in artificial reefs.
Make NRA pay when someone kills with gun
3/5 of felons polled agreed that "a criminal is not going to mess around with a victim he knows is armed with a gun."21 * 74% of felons polled agreed that "one reason burglars avoid houses when people are at home is that they fear being shot during the crime."22 * 57% of felons polled agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running into the police."23 " .
Retired music teacher making ‘dramatic’ recovery
A former Wausau orchestra teacher hates to miss his son direct the music for a theater production this week but has little choice while he continues to recover from a brain injury suffered in an Aug. 30 collision between his bike and a school bus. Chuck Olsen, 64, is a retired John Muir Middle School teacher who since has traveled the country six to eight months of the year, often on a bicycle. It was while biking with his wife, Pat, in northwestern Indiana that the life-altering crash happened as Chuck rode across a roadway on the Prairie-Duneland Trail and struck the passing bus.
The impact threw Olsen from the bike, shattering his helmet.
Family members from Wausau, Florida and Kentucky traveled to a hospital in Illinois within 20 hours of the crash.
Shoalts: Belak a rental player?
Belak, true to form, delivered a winning bon mot to the media after the game concerning his four-year scoring drought. "That's a long time," he said. "That lockout screwed me up." Hey, maybe the Leafs will sign him when he becomes an unrestricted free agent on July 1. .
Reminders that drivers can be intolerant of cyclists
When I heard the report on CNN a week ago, my worst fear about bicycling on roads was confirmed: The anger of some motorists toward cyclists goes beyond the inconvenience of sharing pavement. In Arizona, a judge sentenced 27-year-old Melissa Arrington to more than 10 years, actually one shy of the maximum, for negligent homicide and two counts of aggravated DUI for running into and killing cyclist Paul L'Ecuyer on Dec. 1, 2006. While the minimum sentence is four years, the judge's decision to give her a harsher penalty was due to a telephone conversation she had with a male friend that was taped one week after the accident. During the conversation, the man told Arrington that an acquaintance believed she should get a medal and a parade because she had "taken out" a "tree hugger, a bicyclist, a Frenchman and a gay guy all in one shot." Instead of showing remorse, Arrington laughed.
2007 Subaru Forester Sports XT Review
"Crossover" means a motor vehicle that offers a cross between carlike comfort and SUV style, with SUV ground clearance. The car is usually some sort of family sedan, and your typical crossover is really the contemporary station wagon. Your typical crossover is practical and roomy, and can hold people and cargo in almost endless variation. Your typical crossover is also, for the enthusiast driver, about as exciting as the family sedan in its ancestry, which is to say "not very". The Subaru Forester XT is a little different, as the car in its ancestry is a WRX. Or, to be more exact, a WRX STi. Coming from that gene pool, boredom is guaranteed to be banished. The Forester debuted a decade ago as the first Subaru made expressly as a crossover, following in the successful footsteps of the Legacy-derived Outback and smaller Impreza Outback Sport.
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