Page 28 - William Billy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The Daily Herald The historically significant events between Feb. 25 and 26, 1946 in Columbia involving residents of the predominantly black neighborhood, the Bottom, and state authorities have been called many things, including a race "riot," eliciting rumors that several police officers were shot with real bullets, for example. However, the Herald seeks to dispel some of those myths through information gathered from the Maury County Archives, local historians and other historic resources. Below are a few main points that have been distorted in many ways throughout history.  No one wa...

It is with great sadness to announce the passing of Stan Potts, loving father and grandfather, on February 4, 2021 at the age of 92. He passed away at home with his children by his side following a brief battle with cancer. Stan was born in Bobcaygeon to Roy and Augusta Potts where he grew up in the family home along with his younger brother Doug. At an early age, Stan started working at his grandfather’s logging company. As a young boy, Stan had the opportunity to work as a guide at a fishing lodge where he got to meet members of the Toronto Maple Leafs who would come to vacation. ...

How 100 years of the Democratic rule has shaped the city of Albany FacebookTwitterEmail Albany County Democratic boss Dan O'Connell, undated. (Bernie Kolenberg, Times Union archives/Courtesy William Kennedy) ALBANY — One can argue whether the Albany Democratic machine was good or evil or how much of it remains today, but this much is indisputable: It has etched itself into American political history as one for the ages. It has been 100 years since the O’Connell-Corning Democratic machine seized control of City Hall in 1921 by defeating the entrenched Barnes Republican machine. The Democr...

LAKE WALES — Although her given name was Mary Leigh Reid, everyone knew her as “Mimi” Hardman. That’s the name of the new Mimi Hardman Collections and Research Center, founded by the Lake Wales History Museum to house its permanent collections and to be open to the public as a research facility. The dedication is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at the facility, 104 S. Scenic Hwy. The Mimi Hardman Collections and Research Center is located in the restored 1916 Seaboard Airline Freight Station, one of the buildings in the museum's historic corridor on South Scenic Highway. ...

WandaVision episode three introduced a very important character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Warning – spoilers ahead. There’s a lot going on in this week’s WandaVision – most of it concentrated right in the last few minutes, which says something when the preceding 20 took the show into a brand-new, technicolour era and covered a full-blown pregnancy. After teasing the obvious – that all is not what it seems – WandaVision episode three burst the bubble, confirming Wanda has some sort of control over the sitcom reality (she can rewind time, and appears to have ejected Geral...