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The North Sydney Bears would be the perfect expansion for the NRL, but only if they moved away from the NSW capital. In this week’s edition of Let’s Talk Sport 4RO’s Aaron Stevens joined CQ Today and Gladstone Today journalist Liam Emerton to continue their chat about our national leagues expanding. Aaron: A lot of … [Read more…]
High-profile art advisor Lisa Schiff was hit with a second lawsuit from longtime client and close friend Candace Barasch, who claims Schiff owes her at least $2.5 million plus interest and damages for a series of art purchases Schiff was meant to facilitate for Barasch that were only partially completed or never completed. This second … [Read more…]
Lily Gladstone has been highly respected in the independent film scene since her breakthrough role in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women (2016), in which she more than holds her own in her shared scenes with Kristen Stewart. Reichardt cast her again in 2019’s First Cow, but many more people are going to discover Gladstone because of … [Read more…]
Neil McKenna Faber priced £12.99 REVIEW BY NEIL MACKAY IT’S an interesting historical coincidence that much of Britain’s first “trans panic” was centred on Scotland, just as much of today’s current panic finds its locus here too. Back in 1870, John Safford Fiske, the debonair American diplomat who headed up the US consulate … [Read more…]
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An MRI of the brain of a person with Alzheimer’s not connected to the new study. BSIP / Contributor via Getty Images For decades, scientists have studied the members of an extended family in Colombia, who tend to have a genetic mutation that leads to early-onset Alzheimer’s. Several people in that family develop symptoms of … [Read more…]
Staff writer Joe Curley will begin live game coverage from Blair Field in Long Beach at 1 p.m. 10 a.m. Fillmore baseball’s unlikely postseason run reaches Long Beach After finishing fourth in the Citrus Coast League, the Fillmore High School baseball team took a rare, winding road to today’s CIF-Southern Section Division 7 final at … [Read more…]
Joyce Harbourt, who served as personal secretary to Gov. William T. Cahill from 1970 to 1974, died on April 2. She was 82. Herbourt worked in the statehouse from 1960 to 1975, where she met Olaf W.B. Harbourt, a state trooper assigned to Gov. Richard J. Hughes. In 1970, Herbourt made headlines when she was … [Read more…]
A house in Longport that sold for $875,000 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Atlantic County between May 8 and May 15. In total, 51 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $332,528, $230 per square foot. The … [Read more…]
At every turn, during a recent visit, in rooms with colourful walls (including one that’s bright orange, which may cause consternation among those who prefer their galleries taupe), familiar artworks, awaiting installation, were propped on foam blocks, like so many Paddington Bears beside the lost-property office, sporting labels attached by string. Here is Oliver Cromwell, … [Read more…]