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Pink Tulip Festival and plant sale returns May 24, 2021 on News ELLSWORTH — Last year, for the first time in nearly 20 years, the Ellsworth Garden Club did not host its Pink Tulip Festival or plant sale, but this year Club President Monica Moeller has announced a modest and measured return to the festival. “We are already starting to get queries about the sale, and we have a huge backlog of perennials because we had no sale last year — so working within Maine CDC guidelines, we are...

Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) (CN) — Google remains on the hook in a privacy dispute as a federal judge ruled a case involving the company tracking users despite the use of incognito mode while browsing can proceed.  U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh denied a motion to dismiss from the Silicon Valley titan late Friday, ruling that plaintiffs who believed they were safeguarding their privacy by taking a specific step were corr...

Four local schools punch tickets to the “Big House” Four local schools punch tickets to the "Big House" By Taylor Curet | February 27, 2021 at 11:13 PM CST - Updated February 27 at 11:13 PM HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - History was made at Oak Grove High School on Saturday night when the Warriors punched their first ticket to the “Big House.” Oak Grove took down Gulfport 55-40 to advance to the school’s first “Final Four” appearance in Jackson’s Missis...

Aquarium campaign aims to shrink multi-million dollar revenue shortfall from COVID-19 closure NC Aquariums By Kendall McGee | December 20, 2020 at 5:16 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 4:40 AM FORT FISHER, N.C. (WECT)- The pandemic has had a massive impact on nonprofits, and the North Carolina Aquarium Society is not exempt from the struggle to raise funds. The states’ aquariums were shut down for nearly six months to visitors, leading to a combined $12 million revenue shortfall. Staff ne...

The devastating flooding from the 20 plus inches of rain, may be up to 30 inches as it comes a lunch for >> shannon: jay, having written about this and having an historical context for these kinds of storms, a north carolinian yourself, what message do you have for the people of the carolinas as they try to survive this and start over? >> you are hearing it consistently from the reports tonight, just because the storm has dropped in intensity on the simpson scale, we cant ignore the fact that th...

>> you know what? 50 people lost their lives in that storm. then there was fran. fran was in 1996. extensive flooding and damage all the way from south carolina to ohio. look at those images. 26 people died. >> its just gone. its shifted off the foundation. everything is broke. everything youve worked for for the last 22 years is just gone just in the matter of an hour or so. >> a matter of moments. then most recently isabel. in 2003, packed the greatest storm and wind surge in half a century. >...

>> so florence, its a strong category 3 at this point, and it could bring a storm surge of up to 13 feet, jay. do any of these past storms that hit the carolinas look like what were already seeing with florence? >> well, one thing that the history does tell us is that each storm is unique in its own way. every storm has a different size, intensity, forward motion, and track. and you can do some comparisons. hazel was a category 4 at landfall. fran perhaps would be a good comparison as a cat 3 in...

Than with past storms? >> well, i think that one of the differences as the years roll by, we have more people and more property in harms way. thats really one of the stories thats emerging as the coastal regions of our country continue to grow. were going to continue to see more large-scale evacuations and really have more dollar damages in the aftermath of some of these, particularly in the more populated regions. but, you know, all of the north carolina coast just like the rest of the u.s. coa...

And in 1955, north carolina was hit by three hurricanes within six weeks. so there are some examples like that, but lets just hope that florence is going to be the last we see of this for 2018. >> jay barnes, i learned a lot with you. thank you very much. i hope the audience did as well. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. when we come back, a massive stockpile of bottled water sitting unused on a puerto rican airfield, raising yet more questions about how the federal government handled hur...

Florence is going to be the last we see of this for 2018. >> jay barnes, i learned a lot with you. thank you very much. i hope the audience did as well. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. when we come back, a massive stockpile of bottled water sitting unused on a puerto rican airfield, raising yet more questions about how the federal government handled hurricane maria. were going to have the story behind those bottles. thats next. but theyre different. its nice to remove artificial ingredi...