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Kickstart: Lets hear it for leftovers Lets hear it for leftovers Leftovers are a lunch staple. Now Tupperware Brands Corp.s product portfolio of containers has an increased focus on recycled resins, which is just another way of reusing what you already have, isnt it? The Eco+ line includes Lunch-It containers and Sandwich Keepers-brand products along with clear items using Eastman Chemical Co.s Tritan Renew resins. The Orlando, Fla.-based consumer product company first rolled out the Eco+ brand...

MANSFIELD - Facing significant resistance to a bill that would have split Mansfield into five trash collection zones, with each having its own pickup day, council has effectively killed the measure. Although it was scheduled to be considered at least two more times, with a final vote on April 20, the bill was moved up for a final vote on Wednesday and unanimously voted down. (Councilman Phil Scott was unable to attend.) At least 47 emails were submitted for public comment, all opposing the ...

Premium Content Subscriber only The event was held last week, celebrating the milestone of Hervey Bays Edith Mathiesen. Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour and Hervey Bay MP Adrian Tantari were on hand at the citys botanic gardens to mark the occasion. Ms Mathiesen migrated to Australia in 1926 at the age of five. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on March 3, 1921. In 1942 at 21 years of age, she married Oswald Mathiesen and they settled at their farm at Booral, where she would live for the...

Provided by PR Newswire Valsoft Bolsters Presence in Process Control Space with Acquisition of Datastor Systems Limited Valsoft Bolsters Presence in Process Control Space with Acquisition of Datastor Systems Limited PR Newswire MONTREAL, March 5, 2021 MONTREAL, March 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Valsoft Corporation Inc. ("Valsoft"), a Montreal-based company specializing in the acquisition and development of vertical market software businesses, is pleased to announce the successf...

Tim Sharpe inducted into Midwest CRE Hall of Fame Wednesday, March 3, 2021 8:19 AM TimSharpe, a senior vice president with CBRE|Hubbell Commercial, has been inducted into the Midwest Commercial Real Estate 2020 Hall of Fame. Sharpe, who has been with Hubbell for 38 years, is widely recognizes as a leading investment property specialist in Iowa. Over the course of his career, Sharpe has been involved in disposition and debt equity investment property transactions exceeding $1 bill...

Subscribe LATEST UPDATES 9:20 p.m. — Final election results are posted. The City of Tuscaloosa reports 20% turnout for the mayoral race. 8:30 p.m. — Incumbent Mayor Walt Maddox declares outright victory, finishing with 56% of the vote. 7 p.m. — Polls close in Tuscaloosa. According to the latest report from the city, there are 59,301 registered voters inside of the Tuscaloosa city limits. 4 p.m. — City spokesman Richard Rush tells Patch that the city will be publishing election result...

In one of the closest elections in recent memory, Tuscaloosa City Councilwoman Sonya McKinstry has lost her bid for a third term to represent District 7. Unofficial results have McKinstry 25 votes short of challenger Cassius Lanier, a local businessman behind the Lanier Automotive Co., who earned 749 votes to McKinstrys 724. Meanwhile, District 5 incumbent Kip Tyner earned his seventh term on the council by defeating challenger and University of Alabama student Sam Badger by a vote of 1,2...

Bill Wright, Who Broke a Color Barrier in Golf, Dies at 84 In 1959, decades before Tiger Woods, Wright became the first Black golfer to win a United States Golf Association event. Bill Wright in the Amateur Public Links Championship in Denver in 1959. His victory there was a singular moment for Black golfers at a time when the P.G.A. bylaws still had a “Caucasians-only” clause.Credit...Denver Post, via Getty Images Feb. 25, 2021 Bill Wright, the first Black competitor to win a United States...

Matthew Butler, 50, pleaded guilty to rigging his scales with coins at court MailOnline can reveal Butler has a fleet of luxury cars outside his home A court heard that Butler secretly stuck 1.7oz of coins to scales with Blu Tack Caught after undercover trading standards officers visited Muddy Pig Butchers Ordered to pay costs totalling £1,798 and given an 18-month community order 

By Bill Wright and Barry Lawton February 24, 2021 Doris Bunte Doris Bunte, who died on Feb. 15 at age 87, was a wonderful woman, a magnificent mentor, and a prodigious politician. The word that describes her best is “Mother.” Doris was that, yes, and also a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. She was also a mother to many more than her biological offspring. As the first African-American woman elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, she was a political trailblazer who was inv...