| Shiver me terrors:Halloween gets underway with annual parade | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 7:05:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | Last night's Haunted Happenings parade in Salem drew thousands of spectators from around the North Shore, hundreds of costumed students and teachers carrying school banners and a few molecular biologists dressed as pirates. "We all left work early," said Jim Gillispie, one of nearly a dozen employees from Dyax, a Cambridge biotechnology firm, who marched in the parade. Dressed as Capt. Jack Sparrow from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean," Gillispie was here for the Pirate Fair a few weeks ago, bumped into a parade official and was invited back to march in the Haunted Happenings parade in the lead division behind Mayor Kim Driscoll. "We were dressed like this at work," said molecular biologist Judy Jacques as she hurried down Congress Street to catch up with her fellow pirate-scientists.... | |
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| | | Column: Laughter Is His Legacy | | Posted Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:04:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | I had a light-hearted column all ready to run this week when I received word Monday morning of Jim Sloans death. Hed been working in his yard in Brandon Sunday, probably relishing the manual labor after a hellish two weeks spent covering the primary. Somehow, I couldnt bring myself to run a humorous column although no one appreciated a good laugh more than Jim. Thats something we all agreed on Monday as I listened to the stories Brandon Tribune staff members shared as they gathered in the conference room at lunchtime. In the next room, Jims desk remained untouched, as if hed walk back in, sit down and start doing one of his cherished crossword puzzles at any moment. His wry sense of humor remained memorialized in classic Sloan quotes on index cards taped to a pole in the middle of the newsroom.... | |
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| | | Taking a fresh, new look at some old ideas | | Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 5:04:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | Innovative, inventive and wholesomely funny are three ways to describe Brampton resident Tom Stewart. This description also applies to the role he plays in the new reality television series Patent Bending, which airs Tuesday nights on Discovery Channel. It's been almost six years since Stewart last had his name in the headlines. He had invented a transportable soccer goal for his daughters called the Flexnet. His invention went on to rake in more than $1 million in sales worldwide. Now the successful backyard inventor is onto his next project, joining fellow inventors Russell Zeid, a science educator, and Rick Minke, an industrial engineer, to head up the cast for the prime time show. The premise behind it has the three men scouring through the last 100 years of patents to find seemingly bizarre inventions, which they then attempt to recreate in the hopes of making them work.... | |
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| | | Council OKs new truck for fire dept. | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 1:09:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Ironton Fire Department will be getting a new truck while the police department will have to wait a little longer to get another cruiser.The Ironton City Council voted on Thursday night to purchase a new fire engine from the Sutphen Corp. at the cost of $254,801. The new engine will replace an engine that has been in service since 1979. That price was the lowest of six bids. The money will come from the fire fee that city residents have been paying for nearly a decade, not the city's general fund.Chief Tom Runyon spoke to the council before they voted. .... | |
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| | | Bucs' | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 3:02:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's the kind of performance that typifies the second half of a preseason opener. An obscure figure finds some spotlight in addition to some daylight. Moments after the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the New York Jets 16-3 on Friday night at Raymond James Stadium, Carey Davis enjoyed such a moment. Davis gained 67 yards on 14 carries (4.8-yard average) as rookie quarterback Bruce Gradkowski engineered two impressive second-half touchdown drives. The odds are against Bucs coach Jon Gruden ever spending part of another post-game news conference gushing about the former Illinois fullback in his third year of searching for full-time NFL employment. But, hey, it's why they play the games - even the exhibition games. "Carey got pressed into service as a halfback," Gruden said.... | |
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| | | Respect Marines -- they made history here | | Posted Friday, July 28, 2006 9:01:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now, I must speak up and say something on behalf of my beloved Marine Corps. Reading and listening to a lot of nonsense about my Corps, I hear people say "money isn't everything" and they're right. Years ago when the Marine Barracks closed, we lost part of our history and lost our Marines. One day, a few years ago, an elder in our organization asked me and the other younger Marines to promise him that, when he dies, he would have a Marine Corps funeral -- a right that all Marines should have. Unfortunately, we don't have any more Marines on Guam, aside from the recruiters. .... | |
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| | | Clinton's Foshee wins '06 pageant | | Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 3:07:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | During a TV commercial break before the start of the talent competition, Miss Byram Tri-County Taryn Leigh Foshee of Clinton took a seat at the Baldwin piano that had been rolled to center stage of the Miss Mississippi Pageant here Saturday night at the Vicksburg Convention Center. She confidently smiled at those in the audience, as if maybe she knew something they didn't. Foshee tore through the rollicking Spanish number El Cumbanchero with the speed and efficiency of a Jerry Lee Lewis, not a note turning sour. Fans roared their approval as she stood and bowed. At that moment, Foshee admitted later, she had a feeling she might win. And she did. Foshee, a 5-foot-4, blue-eyed brunette who graduated from Hillcrest Christian School in 2003 and attends Mississippi State University, was crowned Miss Mississippi, completing her dream after finishing second runner-up the past two years.... | |
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| | | HOCKEY: Facial mask spooks but Tuis prevail | | Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 1:12:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Like the mild-mannered Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carey) character from the film The Mask, it appears hockey player Bevan Somerville has found a mask that may transform his teammates' personality. In the 1994 comedy, a green-faced, unassuming Ipkiss discovers a superhuman alter ego on wearing a mask. Bay Independent defender Somerville on Saturday slipped on a mask to minimise the risk of shattering any facial bones from Akina Rovers Tuis drag flick specialist Kurt Richards. While the Napier side succumbed 5-2 to Tuis to surrender the top rung after the first round of premier men's hockey competition at Kelt Capital Hockey Stadium in Park Island, Napier, it appears Somerville's facial outfit has left the Tuis somewhat spooked. .... | |
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| | | AROUND SOUTH MISSISSIPPI | | Posted Sunday, July 02, 2006 11:06:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a regular session on May 10 the Board of Trustees of William Carey College unanimously approved the recommendation to change the name of the institution to William Carey University to honor its growth and enhance its potential in an increasingly global environment. The charter has been approved. This name is the fourth in the 100-year history of the institution. William Carey will now offer expanded educational opportunities to students. Additional graduate programs, off-campus classes, and increased use of technology will provide more course offerings for both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to the 120-acre main campus in Hattiesburg, William Carey on the Coast is in Gulfport, and the School of Nursing has a program on the campus of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.... | |
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