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Lehigh Valley residents may see a bevy of military helicopters flying in and out of the area beginning this weekend, but officials say it’s no cause for alarm. The Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority on Thursday announced Lehigh Valley International Airport outside Allentown is serving as a staging area Saturday through Monday, April 6-8, for U.S. Army […]
Artwork from a Canal Exploration Center exhibit shows Captain John Malvin arriving at Lock 38 on his boat, The Auburn. NPS Image John Malvin and Lewis Clarke lived during the 1800s, and their stories connect to the Ohio & Erie Canal. The canal extended from the Ohio River through the . . .
This 1957 Cleveland Call & Post headline reports a raid at Lake Glen. Cleveland Public Library/Cleveland Call & Post Police Raids and Resistance Anti-vice campaigns swept the US during the 1950s. Newspaper articles describe “frequent” raids at Lake Glen and the nearby Cabin Club by Summit County police and health inspectors. The clubs were cited […]
Family behind largest Black-owned bank in US hoping to share the dream Elk Valley Times Source link
Matthew DeSantis knew he had a good shot. DeSantis, the co-founder of the Bhutan Baseball and Softball Association, took a look through the viewfinder, where members of the Thimphu Red Pandas — the first baseball club in the country — were playing in front of Bhutan’s famous Buddha Dordenma statue. As the fog rolled in […]
NPS Photo August 25, 2019 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of the first Africans forcibly brought to English-occupied North America.1 The National Park Service commemorates this historic event, remembering the survival, resilience, and contributions of Black people in American history. During the American Revolution, approximately five-to-eight thousand people of African descent supported American liberty. They […]
CENTER VALLEY, Pa. — The Danube River and its delta runs for 1,800 miles through 10 countries, including Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. Heavily polluted when neighboring countries were industrializing under Soviet rule, the area began to recover in the 1990s. Today, new environmental risks like pesticides, micro-plastics and industrial waste are threatening the […]
I began research on boxwood shrubs as they are a big part of any formal landscape. They are used for boundaries, defining different areas and beautiful hedges. They are used for holiday decorations, like wreaths, bouquets, etc., to bring that rich deep green into homes in winter. But as the keeper of boxwoods, […]
“Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city,” reports the Associated Press, “but they still must win over skeptical voters and local leaders.” After years of ducking scrutiny, Jan Sramek, the former Goldman Sachs trader spearheading the […]
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York: In 2017, Michael Moritz, a billionaire venture capitalist, sent a note to a potential investor about what he described as an unusual opportunity: a chance to invest in the creation of a new California city. The site was in a corner of the San Francisco […]