Please stop me if you’ve heard this one before: I objectively recognize that SIG Sauer is a top-honored manufacturer of high-quality semiautomatic handguns that are accurate and reliable. But they have left me underwhelmed. They’ve never given me the “Yeah, buddy” feeling that I get from competing autopistols by Beretta, CZ, Glock, and Heckler & … [Read more…]
Stuff Monday is set to bring more rain to parts of the North Island and upper South. Heavy rain is expected to continue for parts of the North Island and the upper South Island, following surface flooding in Gisborne. MetService said a low pressure system over the upper North Island will drift westwards on Monday … [Read more…]
US President Joe Biden says he hopes to meet in person with Chinese leader Xi Jinping again in the coming months. “I’m hoping that over the next several months I’ll be meeting with Xi again, and talking about legitimate differences we have but also how there are areas to get along,” Biden said on Saturday … [Read more…]
Officials and players from the African Bombers rugby club in Zwide Township have embarked on a clean-up operation of the historic Dan Qeqe Stadium in Zwide, in Gqeberha. The stadium is in a state of disrepair due to a lack of maintenance by the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. It was also targeted by vandals during … [Read more…]
One person is dead and at least 25 others missing after flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains battering east Nepal, the first known fatality since the annual rains began last week. Heavy rains washed away a hydro-electric project under construction on the Hewa River in Sankhuwasabha district in eastern Nepal where 16 workers … [Read more…]
GREG COTE’S HOT BUTTON TOP 10 (JUNE 18): WHAT IN SPORTS HAS GRABBED US LATELY: Our Sunday Hot Button Top 10 feature had been blog-only but with our blog now retired it moved, re-imagined, to online-only. HB10 means what’s on our minds, locally and nationally, but from a Miami perspective and accentuating stuff that’s major, … [Read more…]
Review by: Katie Pidgeon Indian Ink Theatre Company presents: Dirty Work What do you get when you cross “The Office” with “Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist”? A musical dramedy – “Dirty Work”, a play now showing at Q Theatre. The premise of the show is a workplace under pressure, with a cleaner Joy, muchoverlooked. She cleans and sings, the … [Read more…]
One of the big news stories 21 years ago was that a settlement had been reached on the Cahir Hill industrial sites in Mitchelstown, and there were indications that sites were set to be advertised imminently. A picture of a front page in May 2002 was of Mrs Margaret Harrington at the Curraghagalla National School reunion; she … [Read more…]
GP14 Munster Championship at Tralee Bay Sailing Club – Day 1 by Andy Johnston 18 Jun 05:32 PDT GP14 Munster Championship at Tralee Bay – Day 1 © Andy Johnston Day 1 of the 2023 GP14 Munster Championships saw 26 crews arrive at Tralee Bay Sailing Club. This was the first time over 40 … [Read more…]
:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tronc/JFZ5FTFY3NG3FDOGWNYN36A2A4.jpg "Janice Hayes-Williams: Help us compile an oral history of Crownsville State Hospital")
As we begin to unlock the stories of the Crownsville State Hospital, formerly the Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland, they must be recorded and preserved. The Crownsville State Hospital will be a study for many years to come and the oral tradition will be the only way to preserve the legacy of care, … [Read more…]