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If you are an animal in distress, or Willie Nelson, or a friend of Fran Holmbraker, you lost a profoundly loyal and steadfast champion when she died on Apr. 6, 2021, while tending to her beloved gardens. Born Lillie Frances Ritchie on Feb. 13, 1933, to Phillip and Pauline, she was known as Frances or Fran to her family, friends and the animals she loved. (Regrettably, acquaintanceship with Willie was still an unfulfilled goal when she passed.) Fran graduated from Leesburg High School before earning a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Virginia in 1953. (Always growing and learning, she pr...

6139901243001 NEW YORK – Before the sound of traffic locked horns with the music of church bells, and before the building tops soared above its spires, Saint Patrick's Cathedral was the only skyscraper in town.  Nothing says Ireland like the Emerald Isle's patron Saint Patrick. And nothing says New York like St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Irish immigrants to America first brought their devotion to the saint from Ireland to New York.  The iconic cathedral of New York wasn't always in the heart of the city. In fact, the history of St. Patrick's mirrors the history of New York City itself. T...

Tweet Honky Tonk Central, Sept. 6, 2020Photo: Alex Kent In July, as Nashville was hitting new highs for COVID-19 positivity rates and hospitalizations were surging across Tennessee, TMZ published a video of Lower Broadway with the title “No-Maskville.” The nearly 90-second clip taken from a car shows what looks like a normal scene for the street on a weekend night — and that’s what was so confounding about it. Large crowds crammed into small indoor bars, with many more people milling around outside waiting to get in, most of them apparently unmasked. A shirtless ma...

Real Estate Insider: Will Kid Rock's former Detroit mansion strike right chord as corporate retreat? The Crossroads mall in Portage severely underwater, may be deed-in-lieu Leopold joins Agree Realty; Rakolta Jr. rejoins REIT's board CoStar Group Inc.   Controversial rock star Kid Rock's former Detroit riverfront estate remains on the market for $2.2 million, but the listing broker is trying a new strategy. Tim Cook, managing director of Southfield-based BulkREOnetwork LLC, is now marketing the property for sale as a corporate retreat instead of just as a private residence. "I envisioned for...

Proceed with Caution Central Texas Brr, it's cold here in Central Texas, and you can tell this is not our normal! We've heard from our news partners at KWTX  that we should be expecting a wintry mix this weekend, but I don't think anyone expected what we've seen so far today. Across Central Texas we're experiencing scattered freezing rain, and the roads are dangerously icy. I for one, thought that today would be pretty average and that Friday would be the day we saw inclimate weather. Boy was I wrong. Let me take you through my morning. First I got up and ready per usual. Next, I needed to t...