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A new role for Offaly's old Tullamore DEW warehouse Reporter:  '); It’s six months now since William Grant announced the closing of the old Bonded Warehouse Visitor Centre at Bury Quay, Tullamore. The company that makes the world-famous and second-largest selling Irish whiskey, Tullamore DEW is going to concentrate its energies on a new visitor centre at the 2014–17 purpose-built Tullamore DEW distillery at Clonminch and understandably so. The idea of a visitor centre at Bury Quay was conceived in the early 1990s as a way of attracting visitors to Tullamore town. Tullamore had been desi...

Longford County Council issues apology for 'sheer heartbreak' Longford mothers went through at hands of Mother and Baby Homes 'They deserved better than this' Reporter:  '); Longford County Council has issued an apology for the involvement of a former council in the "cold and callous" treatment of Longford women in Mother and Baby Homes. Speaking at a meeting of Longford County Council this afternoon, Cathaoirleach, Cllr Paul Ross stated: "Following the publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, An Taoiseach Micheál Martin issued a forma...

Bradford County commissioners voted Monday to push the search for a county manager to their April 5 meeting, leaving the county without a full-time manager for at least another two months. In a 3-2 vote, the commission decided to push the search to its first meeting in April. Until then, the county’s nine departments will continue under the oversight of Will Sexton, the county attorney and interim county manager. It also solidified plans to set up meetings with nearby current and former county managers to gain more insight into the search process. Commissioner Kenny Thompson was sympathetic...

  Asheville has not seen a year like 2020 in a hundred years — literally.  On March 11, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Not since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919 has the world — including our corner of it — experienced this kind of public health challenge. Working with Buncombe County health officials, City of Asheville employees rolled up their sleeves, crafted creative solutions and showed up to serve this community. The year was also marked by national and local social unrest following the death of George Fl...

Jillian: it will be days if not weeks to get these roadways cleaned up and get them open to see if there's any damage to the roads themselves. >> yes. but before they can allow line crews to put the power lines up it has to be safe for them. they have to clear the roadways and inspect roadways especially small bridges or anything like that that may have been struck by trees to make sure they can still handle the load of those big trucks weather an alignment or construction trucks or anything like that so we are told to expect the this before the storm i spoke to county managers and they were t...