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A stay on Kiawah Island combines South Carolina’s charm with an oasis of natural beauty along with five championship courses designed by the world’s leading golf course architects. The island is home to a per capita income of $168,369,

Community gardens are set to be trialled for two years on council-owned open space in Keysborough and Springvale. Subject to […]

By Cam Lucadou-Wells After months of red-tape delays, a proposed Keysborough community garden’s $20,000 of council funding is now under threat. Maralinga Community Garden had been allocated the funding as part of the City of Greater Dandenong’s 2020-’21 budget. But the project in Chandler Road Reserve had stalled due to awaiting council approval while the council enacts a community garden policy. The money is not guaranteed to carry over into 2021-’22, council corporate services directo...

May 1, 2021 A Bedford man accused of killing a man in Snake Spring Township on April 24 was taken into custody Friday, Pennsylvania State Police reported. Tico Franklin, 38, was arrested in Baltimore, Md., about 2 p.m., a news release stated. Maryland State Police and the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force assisted state troopers in locating and detaining Franklin, the news release stated. After investigating the death of 62-year-old Bryan Hunter, police accused Franklin of shooting an...

Let ‘em fly: Mullet Toss returns to the Flora-Bama this weekend Updated 10:38 AM; Facebook Share It’s almost time to fling some fish: The Flora-Bama’s annual Interstate Mullet Toss opens Friday and runs through Sunday. As the accompanying images illustrate, the central activity is a competition in which children, adults and local beach celebrities go for distance records as they fling small fish from Florida into Alabama. Between participants, spectators and collateral activity such as l...

By Cam Lucadou-Wells Fledgling community gardens have been stalled by Greater Dandenong Council after a “challenging” VCAT ruling and doubts on the future of Chandler Road Reserve. Maralinga Community Garden (MCG) had been set to move into its digs at the reserve after securing $20,000 in council grants as a pilot project in Greater Dandenong. MCG organiser Bryan Hunter said the council appeared to be “back-tracking” after the group had “jumped through all the hoops” for the past tw...

WINTER HAVEN — The Winter Haven City Commission gave initial approval Monday for a controversial development near County Road 653. The commission approved a request from H.R. Baxter & Sons Enterprises Inc. to rezone four parcels covering approximately 190 acres from single-family residential to planned unit development. According to the fact sheet, "the property is located east of County Road 653, north of Old Bartow Lake Wales Road and west of McClean Road" and "consists of former citrus ...

R3 Cayman Foundation Closes Out 2020 With Over CI$1.3M Distributed In Grants 08 January 2021, 05:19 AM General Established in May 2020 with the mandate to help the Cayman Islands proactively prepare for, resiliently cope with and sustainably recover from natural or manmade disasters and emergencies, R3 has distributed over CI$1.3 million to 21 local non-profit or non-profit exempt organisations in its first seven mon...

- The first beds for Maralinga Community Garden are ‘shovel ready’ after a South East Water community grant. The garden planned for Chandler Reserve, Keysborough received a grant for 10 Biofilta Food Cubes – one-square metre beds made in Melbourne from recycled chip packets. The beds are each capable of holding 110 litres of water and producing $250 of produce a year, garden member Gaye Guest said. President Bryan Hunter said after two years of working on the project, the group was “rea...