Hoping to protect 90 acres of woodlands and streams on Parsonage Hill in Haverhill, a land trust needs to raise $218,213 by June 30. With the total cost at $690,000, Essex County Greenbelt has already received $217,600 in state money and $254,187 from former Haverhill mayoral candidate Maureen Corbett, who passed away in 2017. As […] The post With Grant and Corbett Gift, Land Trust Still Needs Over 200K For Haverhill Conservation Project first appeared on WHAV.
Lotte Vietnam promised to dismantle the illegally built part of the Lotte Mart shopping center in District 7 before May 31
An independent school in Edinburgh has been granted permission to construct a new building on its grounds as part of its early years expansion plans. Edinburgh Steiner School at Spylaw Road in Polwarth has been granted permission by the council’s planning department to create a new single-storey, timber-clad structure along the east boundary wall to house two classrooms, a cloakroom and toilet facilities, to accommodate younger pupils. Council planners said the proposals will “preserve the...
Jamestown City Council will vote on issuing $2.7 million bond to cover the completion of the Fleet Maintenance Building project. City Comptroller Ericka Thomas said $4,890,000 has been spent to date on the project, “The BAN that we got last year for the garage was $2,850,000. So, currently we have expenses over that BAN amount […]
The Kansas City Chiefs are being mentioned in relocation rumors following a pertinent vote, and a certain Texas city is being tipped to land them. The Chiefs are undoubtedly the most dominant team in football right now, having won two consecutive Super Bowls, but their home stadium and facilities aren’t the best. And Kansas City …
Build Promise, the initiative proposed by St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy co-founder Amy Betros in 2019, is now under construction at 1297 Sycamore Street on the East Side. The project []
The city of Fresno has found a solution as to what to do with a derelict downtown building: sell it for $1. The Berkeley Building at 887 Fulton St. has sat vacant for years but might soon find new life after the Fresno City Council approved a resolution last week to sell the property for $1 to the Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation. The foundation, which supports local Latino-owned small businesses, hopes to restore the damaged property and convert it to ground-floor retail shops with offices...
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — On Tuesday, Scranton City Council voted no to demolishing a historic building in Lackawanna County. The council voted against the demolition of the Carriage House located on Moir Court. The building is owned by the University of Scranton. Board officials say the reason they voted against the demo was because []
As some communities question the logic of continued investment in the gas system, a new RMI and National Grid paper looks at efforts to find alternatives.
Columbiana County Commissioners approved an annexation so the city could expand a road in Salem.
The Norwich Union building was viewed by many as a brutalist eyesore. among generations of people. It opened on March 20, 1967 and replaced the Victorian Standard Life Assurance building, The new and imposing structure was voted one of Britain's ugliest buildings before being demolished in 1995. These images, telling the story of its rise and fall, are a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service....
An ex-intelligence officer tells the BBC he was permitted to shoot dead those resisting eviction.