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The Columbus Pearls achieves the world record for the “Largest Collection of Pearls Discovered” Ahead of Columbus Day’s 52
Well, this is a release from the Guinness World Records people, but it is interesting as it confirms accounts of the pearl fisheries in the Caribbean in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia natural y general de las Indias. Lisa GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® certified the ‘LARGEST COLLECTION OF PEARLS DISCOVERED” GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® certified and recorded…
HENNEPIN – Tina Dolder will be shattering a local glass ceiling when she’s sworn in as the new Putnam County clerk and recorder on July 1. Never before in Putnam County’s 190-year history has a woman held the office, according to Dan Kuhn, the latest in the long line of men to have done so. He’s retiring after nearly 19 years in the job. Kuhn kick-started the process leading to that by recommending his part-time deputy after deciding he was ready to step down as he nears 70. His recommendation was echoed by the Putnam County Democratic Central Committee, and the County Board unanimou...
The Marshall County Sheriff's Department will take over policing in Wenona, an Illinois community of about 1,000 people.
TOULON – “An outgoing and lovely girl” who was “a fantastic worker” and “a wonderful mother” whose “whole life was pretty much her daughter.” Those were some of the ways that family and friends of Jessica Patricia Recinos remembered the 32-year-old Springfield woman, who died recently in a two-vehicle accident in rural Stark County. Recinos was driving her 2002 Toyota RAV 4 east on County Road 300N, which is also known locally as the West Jersey Blacktop, shortly after 7 a.m. March 29, police said. At the intersection with Illinois Route 78, her small SUV collided with a tra...