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PORT ALLEN - While many local festivals are being canceled again for the second year in a row because of Coronavirus, the Sugar Fest at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen went on as scheduled Sunday.

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Cubs oldest, youngest debuts by pitchers By JohnW53 on Apr 6, 2021, 7:19am CDT + Many baseball fans know that Satchel Paige was the oldest pitcher to make his Major League debut. Paige is listed as having been 2 days past his 42nd birthday but almost certainly was older when he threw 2 innings for the Indians against the Browns on July 9, 1948. He was 59 plus 80 days when he concluded his MLB career with 3 scoreless innings for the Athletics against the Red Sox on Sept. 25, 1965. ....

DAVE MOSIER/ independent/submitted information A number of people, including U.S. Representative Bob Latta, County Commissioners Thad Lichtensteiger, Stan Owens, and Todd Wolfrum, several other county officials and downtown development representatives, kicked off this year’s celebration of the county’s 200th anniversary — albeit a year late. Lichtensteiger noted that the state legislature had designated the County of Van Wert on April 1, 1820, in honor of Revolutionary War hero Isaac Van ...

A 1920 photo of the Staytonville Church Staytonville Methodist Church and Cemetery, located about six miles south of Milford, is in need of support, according to Milford historian Dave Kenton. Located in what is now just a crossroads where Staytonville Road, Memory Lane and Sun Street meet, the small church and cemetery have a rich history that could be lost to future generations without intervention. “This cemetery was a project in 2006 for the Jonathan Caldwell Chapter of the DAR and severa...

By Regan Miner, For The Bulletin In collaboration with the Connecticut League of History Organization, the Norwich Historical Society is sponsoring a free virtual winter lecture series based on topics from our Walk Norwich Trail system (walknorwich.org). The four-part lecture series is from January through April and is free and open to the public. The lectures will be recorded and available on our website and social media platforms for on-demand viewing. The first lecture in our virtual winter ...

AM Best-rated captives continue to outperform commercial insurers The operating results of captive insurance companies rated by AM Best in Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Barbados continue to outperform the segment’s counterparts in the commercial casualty insurance sector. In 2019, pretax operating income of these captives reached the highest level ever recorded, according to a market segment report by the rating agency. The AM Best-rated Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Barbados (BCIB) captive compo...

Captives in Bermuda, Cayman, Barbados outperform: AM Best 21-12-2020 03-04-2014 The operating results of captive insurance companies AM Best rates in Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Barbados continue to outperform their counterparts in the commercial casualty insurance sector, according to a new report by AM Best. The pre-tax operating income for this group reached the highest level ever recorded. The rating agency’s new report, called ‘Bests Market Segment Report, Rated Bermuda, Cayman Islands...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Best’s Market Segment Report: Rated Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Barbados Captives Sustain Outperformance Over Commercial Insurers December 18, 2020 GMT The operating results of captive insurance companies AM Best rates in Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Barbados continue to outperform the segment’s counterparts in the commercial casualty insurance sector, and in 2019, pretax operating income for this ...