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- Former Highway Superintendent Found Dead Shortly After Receiving Prison Sentence (East Aurora Advertiser)
Former Marilla Highway Superintendent David Pierce is the victim of an apparent suicide, the Erie County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed. Pierce on Monday was sentenced to seven months in prison for improper use of Highway Department equipment and personnel and the theft of town funds through a fraudulent invoice scheme. The judge also ordered him to make payments well over $20,000 in restitution.
- The Big Ugly Review: Fight or Flight Issue Release Party - San Francisco Chronicle
The Big Ugly Review: Fight or Flight Issue Release PartySan Francisco Chronicle, USA - 1 hour agoThe poets read from their works. 7:30 pm Wiegand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. (650) 508-3595. ...
- War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane? - International Herald Tribune
War and sex: Who's afraid of Sarah Kane?International Herald Tribune, France - 7 hours ago"I try to take the burden off myself to communicate the metaphorical poetry of the play. I remember it's not actually my job. I just function within the ...
- Celebrating a local legend:Parks celebration slated to host ... - Fort Scott Tribune
Fort Scott TribuneCelebrating a local legend:Parks celebration slated to host ...Fort Scott Tribune, KS - 7 minutes agoThe winners of a fifth grade poetry contest and the winners of a creativity contest for area high school students will also be announced at different times ...
- NEA Chairman Dana Gioia to leave in 2009 - FOX News
NEW YORK — The confident baritone of Dana Gioia sounded a little hoarse during a recent telephone interview, as it often has since he became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a job that has exhilarated and exhausted him. "I have ...
- New book on South Asian history focuses on people's past (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
Chandigarh, July 29 (IANS) Dissatisfied with the available social history of India and Pakistan, two teachers of Panjab University here have come up with a new book that aims to highlight 'the untouched, humble and obscure corners of the people's past'.
- Wednesday Best Bets - MetroMix
'Throw' down: Score a free flick at The Grant Park Music Festival. The alfresco series amps up its concert formula with the U.S. premiere screening of Franz Osten’s 1929 Indian silent film, “A Throw of Dice.” The Grant Park Orchestra, led by ...
- Bird cam’ to beam live during world-first pigeon event - West Online
The birds and the bards are the words this weekend in a unique event linking poets and some feathered friends near Wollongong. A “bird cam” will beam live pictures of the event billed as the world’s first pigeon-powered poetry competition. The ...
- UVU opens ethics debate to the larger community - Salt Lake Tribune
These and other questions will be debated as part of Utah Valley University's Ethics Awareness Week, which gets under way Sept. 15 on the Orem campus and continues through Sept. 19. All sessions are free and the public is encouraged to join students ...
- Academics unearth UK's oldest joke - Times of India
LONDON: A 1,000-year-old double-meaning wry observation is what British academics consider to be their country's oldest joke. They found it in the Codex Exoniensis, a 10th century book of Anglo-Saxon poetry held at Exeter Cathedral. It reads: "What ...
- Shh ... Not! - Cleveland Daily Banner
This summer, the main room of the library may be the quiet refuge you remember from your childhood, but down the hallways and stairways of the Cleveland Public Library, you might be surprised what kids are doing. Cooking classes, craft projects and ...
- Couples can cut wedding bills - Courier-Post
It wasn't your typical rehearsal dinner, but it was everything Liz Jones and Josh Dilworth hoped it would be -- authentic, casual and relatively cheap. Guests by the dozens gathered in a barn on the Jones family farm for a simple picnic-style meal ...
- Young artists shine in debuts with Cleveland Orchestra - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Young artists shine in debuts with Cleveland OrchestraThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 10 hours agoEvery phrase was filled with poetry or verve, as the music demanded. Fischer traveled seamlessly from intimacy to blazing fire, molding Tchaikovsky's ...
- Airing my dirty laundry - Regina Leader-Post
Airing my dirty laundryRegina Leader-Post, Canada - 6 hours agoThis behaviour is well-documented in tomes of bad poetry penned in that period, which have since been suppressed for the good of everyone involved.
- The Face: Azhar Abidi - The Australian
The AustralianThe Face: Azhar AbidiThe Australian, Australia - 26 minutes agoPoetry, politics and magic provide a balance between heroic battle and beauty. Azhar Abidi grew up in Pakistan reading those tales. ...
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