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Theres nowhere to hide in the Mercedes-AMG Driving Academy, writes Glenn Butler Mercedes-AMG makes some of the fastest road cars available, but if you really want to experience what these cars are capable of you need a racetrack. So I joined an AMG Driving Academy day at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit to put AMG’s fastest cars through their paces. What I didn’t realise was that I would be under the microscope as well, and with nowhere to hide. After a short welcome and briefing, the...

View Comments "Warmth, beauty, and curb appeal" has put a Shreveport neighborhood at the forefront of home and garden enthusia nationwide. Three Provenance houses were selected for HGTV Magazine’s “Copy the Curb Appeal” section. The homes and the homeowners are featured in the May 2021 print edition, on stands now. It is viewable as an online gallery at hgtv.com. Another Provenance home is expected to appear in the publication’s June edition. In the article, the homeowners share detail...

SHREVEPORT, La. – What’s being called the “best store Brookshire’s has built” has moved a step closer to construction on a busy corner in the city’s fastest growing neighborhood.

SHREVEPORT, La. – What’s being called the “best store Brookshire’s has built” has moved a step closer to construction on a busy corner in the city’s fastest growing neighborhood. The Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission last week recommended approval of a planned unit development and preliminary site plan for a Brookshire’s grocery store at the corner of Southern Loop and Norris Ferry Road. The Shreveport City Council will have to give the final thumbs ...

Celebrity Cruises Will Return to Sailing in the Galapagos this Summer Photo: Shutterstock.com.  Celebrity Cruises this week announced that three of its ships will resume sailing in the Galapagos later this summer. Celebrity will return to the Galapagos first with Celebrity Flora, the brand’s state-of-the-art mega-yacht, on July 4, and then will follow with Celebrity Xpedition on July 24 and Celebrity Xploration on Sept. 18. All sailings will move forward with vaccinated crew and adult guests...

Advertisement 2 injured in wreck at troublesome south Shreveport intersection Two people were injured in this wreck at Wallace Lake Road and Southern Loop in Shreveport, La. on Thursday, April 29, 2021.(KSLA) Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Two people were injured in a wreck Thursday afternoon (April 29) in south Shreveport. The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. at the intersection of Wallace Lake Road and Southern Loop. The intersection has long been a troublesome sp...

PORTSMOUTH — After hiking most of the winter on Rhode Island’s mainland, I traveled to Aquidneck Island to explore a different landscape. I was not disappointed by the beautiful scenery and the history. The Gentleman Farms — owned in the late 1800s by the Vanderbilt, Taylor and Barstow families — stretched as far as the eye could see and down gentle, green slopes to the Sakonnet River. The stone walls, farm lanes, cart paths, sweeping fields and other evidence of the land’s rich past...

Great winter hiking trails across Pennsylvania Updated Feb 12, 2021; Facebook Share Here are 30 great spots for some cold-weather trekking. Pennsylvania’s Trail of the Year for 2021, the 38-mile Delaware & Hudson Trail in Lackawanna, Susquehanna and Wayne counties, will appear on many lists of prime trails this year. Tracing the former corridor of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, which primarily carried anthracite coal out of the Lackawanna Valley during the second half of the 19th century, th...