Jon Stainbrook, the newest chairman of the Lucas County Republican Party, has been known for talking fast and talking long. Left free of interruption, his sentences have a tendency to expand into the sort of breathless, discursive monologues that ordinary people might summon after only a seventh cup of coffee. Industry has yet to build a cell phone that can keep up. Mr. Stainbrook must carry
TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNESidney Torres IV walks amid his current SDT Waste open-air transfer station on Paris Road . He has plans to build a new enclosed transfer station nearby for his company at 5433 Paris Road in Chalmette.
(ARA) - It's reunion season, and if your 10-, 20- or even 30-year reunion is around the corner, you might be contemplating whether you should attend or not. Although the opportunity to see old friends and teachers is appealing, many people find themselves apprehensive about going.
Uncounted scores of fish, largely gizzard shad and lake perch, washed up on the shores of Lake of the Lillies in Point Pleasant Beach overnight Wednesday with no apparent cause.
While the rest of us stayed indoors all weekend, Paul Wysocki and his fellow engineers at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District headed to work, not knowing what they would eventually face - a record 100-billion-gallon downpour that would be the sternest test yet of the $3.5 billion Deep Tunnel flood control project.
The burger is undressed, and served on a good, crispy bun, with lettuce, tomato, onions, and pickles on the side. “Meat smells good,” said one critic, but everyone agreed it was “over-seasoned.”
Breathing. It's something we take for granted. But when it comes to climbing a steep mountain at an altitude of 4,500 metres en route to the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu in Peru, every breath you take is sweeter than honey.
Tree limbs, boards, trash cans and other debris floated in the roads. Traffic lights dangled from wires or lay submerged in the murky water. Some people drudged through the water looking at the damage. Others paddled kayaks or walked while pulling small life rafts and carrying their cats and dogs.
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