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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 going to host a substantial plant sale on June 5 at Donald Little Park.”  Any changes in guideli...

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 correct in feeling misled by the company.  “The court concludes that Google did not notify users that...

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 Mississippi Coliseum. “This moment, to do it here on this court, to work so hard to get here,” s...

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 never stopped tending to the animals, but the lost funds are critical to conservation efforts, renovat...

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 can't ignore the fact that this was a monster dressed a couple of days ago. it still is in scale, and those reading impacts are ...