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Michael Friedlander, Urban Architect of Offbeat Designs, Dies at 63 He was best known for the Spring Street Salt Shed, a crystalline structure that appears, with a little imagination, to form a coarse grain of salt. Michael Friedlander in 2007 with a model of what ultimately became the Department of Sanitation building at the corner of 55th Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan. He worked for the department for 40 years.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times April 1, 2021 In the 1970s, Michae...

Officials grill water utility over response to earlier Luke AFB spill Luke Air Force Base recently alerted nearby residents to the presence of chemicals PFOA and PFOS, which were used in base firefighting for decades, in their drinking water. The base is providing bottled water and working on solutions with local utilities, but the Arizona Corporation Commission wanted to know why some companies were not doing more. (Source: U.S. Air Force) By Haleigh Kochanski | March 4, 2021 at 12:59 PM M...

West Valley water company first learned of Luke AFB contamination in 2016 Arizona Corporation Commissioner Anna Tovar announced Monday that an investigation is underway after contaminated water was detected from Valley Utilities Water Company near Luke Air Force Base. On Thursday, the U.S. Air Force said it was giving bottled water to 1,600 West Valley families after it discovered toxic chemicals, which are no longer used at Luke Air Force Base, managed to make their way into the water supply....

Thousands near Luke Air Force Base had tainted drinking water; investigation underway Published  Luke AFB distributing bottled water due to chemicals finding According to a news release on Feb. 23, sampling of the water indicated the presence of 2 chemicals at levels above the EPAs lifetime health advisory for drinking water. LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. - The Arizona agency that regulates utilities is calling together water companies near Luke Air Force Base in metro Phoenix, where drinking wat...

Feb 27, 2021 PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says it will be distributing bottled water to thousands of residents and business owners near its base in suburban Phoenix until at least April, marking the latest case of chemicals from military firefighting efforts contaminating the water supply in a nearby community. Luke Air Force Base announced this month that studies showed high levels of contaminants had affected drinking water for about 6,000 people in roughly 1,600 homes as well as a fe...

Reply In this April 14, 1999, file photo, F-16 Fighting Falcons sit on the tarmac at Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Ariz. (Ken Levine/Associated Press, File) PHOENIX — The U.S. Air Force says it will be distributing bottled water to thousands of residents and business owners near its base in suburban Phoenix until at least April, marking the latest case of chemicals from military firefighting efforts contaminating the water supply in a nearby community. Luke Air Force Base announced this m...

Posted: Jan 23, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 23 The COVID-19 vaccine isnt mandatory for health-care workers in Canada. Some believe it should be.(Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP Photo) As COVID-19 vaccinations slowly roll out across Canada, some are asking whether they should be mandatory for people working in health care, long-term care and retirement home settings.  Professors of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa recently published an article in the Canadian Medical Associatio...

MARSHALL, Texas - Earning the top title in collegiate fishing and making history at East Texas Baptist University, the Tiger Bass Fishing team was named the 2020 Tackle Warehouse School of the Year on Monday, December 14, by Fishing League Worldwide (FLW). This title annually goes to the school with the highest year-end point total at the completion of the regular Abu Garcia College Fishing season presented by YETI. Points are awarded to the top two finishing teams from each school that compete...

ETBU Bass fishing team wins 2020 Tackle Warehouse School of the Year ETBU Bass Fishing Team (Source: FLW) By Sydney McBride | December 14, 2020 at 9:53 PM CST - Updated December 14 at 9:53 PM MARSHALL, Texas (ETBU) - Earning the top title in collegiate fishing and making history at East Texas Baptist University, the Tiger Bass Fishing team was named the 2020 Tackle Warehouse School of the Year on Monday, December 14, by Fishing League Worldwide (FLW). This title annually goes to the schoo...

Superb Dallas-Brewed Beers to Sip This Season Its winter. We want burly ales, oatmeal stouts, and brews that remind us of gingersnaps. Don’t miss these local favorites. Plus, a few ciders. By Eve Hill-Agnus Published in Food & Drink December 14, 2020 11:30 am Local brewers lately have been making entire breweries smell bewitchingly of orange peel and baking spices so we can quaff beers that make us think of wreath-making and snow drifts. Give us some figgy pudding, and all that: hear, hear! ...