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VETERANS' CORNER: Headstones and markers available for veterans Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 8:35AMEDITOR'S NOTE: Veterans' Corner, a column to inform armed-forces veterans about services and benefits available to them, appears the first Sunday of each month.
Volunteers vow to maintain Riverview cemetery Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 6:11AMFlorence Sikes is at again. In her continuing mission to care for an old cemetery on Hackney Road, the 75-year-old Gibsonton resident recently obtained estimates for new fencing and needs the community to help pay for it.
Paul Davis: Donations needed to honor Bryce patients Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 10:12AMHardly a month goes by in which I do not receive an e-mail message from someone searching for a loved one who spent their last days at Bryce hospital, a facility in Tuscaloosa, which for more than a century has housed, or perhaps I should say warehoused, Alabama’s mentally ill citizens.
Holmdel, NJ historic cemetery has tombstones removed by development association Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 9:32AMHOLMDEL — When Terence Wall's 9-year-old daughter told him tombstones from a historic cemetery in their Beau Ridge neighborhood on Laurel Avenue had been removed, he didn't believe her.
Grounds for celebration Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 3:45AMBy Russ Corey Staff Writer COLBERT COUNTY You won't find many Labor Day celebrations that are held in a cemetery, but the Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard is anything but an ordinary burial ground.
Jewish cemetery a sign of growth Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 3:24AMSeaside community preps for new year
Hop riots' aftermath echoes in Wheatland, 97 years later Tuesday, September 7, 2010 @ 2:29AMThe dance platform near where the district attorney, the deputy sheriff and two other men died is gone — and so are the hop fields of what's been called the most notorious farm in California. Only a stone marker in Wheatland and the memorial at the...
Temporary memorial ‘personalizes’ war Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 2:22AMJeri Marie Bennett was jolted Sunday by thousands of simulated grave markers lining the grass along Ruston Way, bearing silent testimony to the lives lost in Iraq .
'Witch's grave' still popular tourist stop in Yazoo city Monday, September 6, 2010 @ 12:00AMWhen April Adams was a young girl growing up in Yazoo City, she often took flowers to the legendary witch's grave in Glenwood Cemetery.
History Lesson: Milton industrialist avoided era's labor strife Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 4:12AMMILTON — If all employers in the 19th century had been as beneficent toward their workers as Isaiah Blood, labor unions might never have been formed. In the nearly 50 years that he operated two Milton factories, not a single employees’ strike took place.
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 5/9 Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 10:26PMVietnam always confirmed that it has abundant workforce that can meet the requirements of economic-social development in the future, however, the quality of the country’s workforce is now a thorny problem, said Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Minister of Labor Invalids and Social Affairs.
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE | Sept. 5, 2010 Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 10:06PMThe passing of Dorothy Amick has touched so many lives in this area. She was a wonderful person and an asset to our community.
Revolutionary soldier to receive formal recognition at cemetery Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 7:36PMCaleb Pratt was a soldier of the Revolutionary War who lived the latter part of his life in Oakland County.
VETERANS AFFAIRS: Veterans groups ask citizens to fly the flag on Sept. 11 Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 7:18PMOn Sept. 11, 2001, almost 3,000 innocent men, women and children lost their lives after attacks on New York City, the Pentagon and aboard a fourth plane that crashed into a field near Shanksville, Penn.
Bones of dead men tell tales at Duffy's Cut Saturday, September 4, 2010 @ 7:15PM Irish Catholic railroad workers swung picks and axes in this tree-choked Chester County valley 178 years ago, seeking a better life.Throughout this sweltering summer, Lancaster dentist Matt Patterson and friends have labored steadily to get the Irish immigrants a better death.Or at least a nobler...
Detroit group hosts grave marker ceremony Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 9:56PMThe Archbishop Allen Vigneron of the Archdiocese of Detroit will officiate at a dedication ceremony for a grave marker organized by the Citizens for a Pro-life Society.
Detroit's archbishop to bless grave for fetuses Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 11:58AMThe head of the Catholic Church in Detroit is to bless a grave marker Saturday at a pro-life event remembering fetuses that were found in 2008 in a Lathrup Village dumpster.
Tone of Labour leadership debate set by Tony Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:12AMThe five candidates for the Labour leadership may have been keen to outline their vision for the party during last night's Channel 4 News hustings, but broadcaster Peter McHugh notes that the debate's biggest player was not in the studio.
Civil War Trail markers dedicated Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 9:32AMA host of dignitaries gathered at the southwest corner of the courthouse, on Aug. 23, to officially dedicate markers, designating important White County sites included in a new map of Tennessee’s ‘Civil War Trails.’
Council to decide on digging up grave Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 8:29AMThe North Platte Telegraph A monument honoring the unknown soldiers of all wars will be installed at the 20th Century Veterans Memorial later this year. On Tuesday, Feb. 17, the North Platte City Council will decide whether or not to allow the Memorial board of directors to dig up the site of an alleged unknown soldier at the North Platte Cemetery to inter with the marker.
Michigan man readies Newville memorial for ancestor Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 8:18AMNo one knows where Yost Railing is buried.
Ray Township cemetery restores grave markers Wednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 3:40AMRestoration crews are at Lee Cemetery this week to finish up the second phase of a two-year project to clean and repair the Italian marble tablets and monuments.
Road workers uncover displaced tombstone Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 9:30PMRoad workers uncover displaced tombstone By brandon loomis The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Sep 1, 2010 03:33PM MDT A grave marker upended in Provo this month by heavy equipment working on the Interstate 15 reconstruction project apparently commemorates a boy buried three counties away in 1904. A Provo River Constructors track hoe operator turned up the stone Aug. 12, and she told the Provo Daily ...
Road workers uncover displaced tombstone Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 7:01PMRoad workers uncover displaced tombstone By brandon loomis The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Aug 31, 2010 08:11PM MDT A grave marker upended in Provo this month by heavy equipment working on the Interstate 15 reconstruction project apparently commemorates a boy buried three counties away in 1904. A Provo River Constructors track hoe operator turned up the stone Aug. 12, and she told the Provo Daily ...
Ancestors' death certificates lead her to forgotten Eustis cemeteries Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 11:20AMMargaret Williams is on a mission to restore a pair of long-forgotten black cemeteries in overgrown shady spots in Lake County. They recall an era when segregation was a part of life, and even death.
Headstone found in construction zone causes controversy Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 10:43AMA headstone found near the side of I-15 in Provo has some UDOT construction workers angry over what happened next. UDOT, however, has an explanation.
Restoring Names to Iraq War's Unknown Casualties Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 1:12AMBAGHDAD -- In a pastel-colored room at the Baghdad morgue known simply as the Missing, where faces of the thousands of unidentified dead of this war are projected onto four screens, Hamid Jassem came on a Sunday searching for answers.
UDOT headstone mystery on I-15 Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 11:20PMCrews unearth century-old grave marker near Provo's Center Street, but nobody is sure how it got there
Patrons have concerns with local cemetery Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 11:16PMSunshine radiates onto the headstones marking the graves of Calhoun County residents long gone, as the sound of a weedeater travels across Greenlawn Gardens cemetery. While the sound seems less than serene, it is one that is welcomed by family members of the cemetery’s permanent residents.
Read and Watch: Landrieu's Katrina Anniversary Speech Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:11PMThis is New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s 5th Katrina Anniversary speech delivered on August 29. This is the text: We are here tonight to mark the anniversary of the day that everything changed. It has been five years since that fateful storm barreled through the Gulf. Five years since the levees broke and drowned our city. Read More Five years, and we still grieve for the one thousand eight ...
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Hurricane Katrina anniversary remarks Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 3:54PMThe following is the text of the remarks New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered at the city's commemoration of Hurricane Katrina's 5th anniversary, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts. The Associated PressNew Orleans...
State-operated veterans cemeteries to provide outer burial containers at cost Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 3:24PMRICHMOND - Legislation passed by the 2010 General Assembly will offer veterans and their families the option to purchase outer burial containers - a concrete enclosure in which a casket is placed - at cost at Virginia's two state-operated veterans cemete
Eudora woman looks for descendents of WW2 soldier Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 3:03PMA Mid-South woman wants a World War Two veteran to receive the recognition he deserves by getting his grave marker to the right person.
Cornerstone may be used to mark grave of architect: Fan calls him 'the Frank Lloyd Wright of the Calumet Region.' Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:08AMHAMMOND -- The designs for some of Hammond's most prominent buildings and majestic homes started with a simple stroke of his pencil, but more than 20 years after his death, Louis Hess doesn't have but a simple stone to mark his final resting place.
Libation ceremony honors local Revolutionary War patriot Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 7:16PMThe gathering at First Burying Ground cemetary on Wooster Street for a dedication of a grave marker for Revolutionary War dragoon Maj. Frederick Whiting. The ceremony included the 2nd Regiment of Continental Light Dragoons.
Veteran remained true to self-appointed mission Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 5:35AMMILLBROOK --- Warren McEachern was a veteran who devoted much of his life making sure those who served their country in times of war and peace were not forgotten at their final resting places.
One-of-a-kind WWII Memorial Dedicated on Pacific Island of Yap, July 2010 Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:00AMThe Yap Visitors Bureau (YVB), Yap State Government, U.S.
Halgrimson: Memories of dairy on the prairie Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 12:05AMWhen I first started college in Fargo, it was called North Dakota Agricultural College. The following year, NDAC became North Dakota State University of Agriculture and Applied Sciences when a proposed amendment to the state constitution was passed in the 1960 election. Talk about this topic
Fans visit Stevie Ray Vaughan's Oak Cliff grave on 20th anniversary of his death Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 2:40AMTyler Trbovich talked about eternity: "When you and I are gone, Stevie Ray will still be there having an impact."
Medal of Honor recipient buried in Quincy Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 4:27PMThe Medal of Honor is the highest military declaration award by the U-S Government.
Holt festival inspired by late bluesman Johnny Shines Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 3:39AMThe late great bluesman Johnny Shines knew every road ran two ways, including the one on which he lived out the last two decades of his life, 11th Street in Holt, now Johnny Shines Street.
Tribute for fallen Camden deputy on Saturday Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 1:09AMWOODBINE - A decade after he was gunned down during a traffic stop on Interstate 95 , the painful memory of Camden County deputy Sgt. Dan Jenkins' death remains fresh to those who knew him. "Ten years ago, we bought bracelets, and we're still wearing them," Sheriff Tommy Gregory said. "Dan gave his life to protect the citizens of Camden County. He made the ultimate sacrifice." Saturday, on the ...
Roxcy Bolton Remembers A Lifetime Of Service Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:09PMThursday marked an important day in the history of women's suffrage. It was the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote. A feminist pioneer responsible for creating this day of tribute is Roxcy Bolton.
Preservationists seeking 'angels' to watch over cemeteries Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 5:23PMA cemetery can spook some people, making them imagine they’re being watched. After today’s Cemetery Watch kickoff at the Evergreen Cemetery Chapel, someone will be watching. Or at least that’s what Dianne Hartshorn and Ingrid McDonald are...
The death of a West Roxbury street sign Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 9:17AMIf there’s any evidence that speeding on lower LaGrange Street is out of control, then the crosswalk sign at Westmount Avenue is surely it.
Lighthouse faces 'grave' situation Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 7:09AMPlans by the Lighthouse Recovery Center to expand and remodel its facility on CR 250N have been put on hold because the area the center wants to build on may be a human burial ground.
At Annetta Cemetery, no rest for the living Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 11:15PMMickey Hoefer, 75, mows lawns, plants trees and even helps rectify unmarked graves.
County budget still tight Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 5:12PMNEW CASTLE - As an Army veteran, Perry Township resident Roy Magee said he is serious about the job of placing markers on the graves of deceased veterans in Mountville Cemetery.
From the Comments: Cemetery theater project sparks anger and admiration Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 4:28PMReader: "I was taught to respect the final resting place of people in a cemetery."
Customs agents find 50 pounds of pot hidden in tombstone Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 1:39PMCINCINNATI -- When Customs agents in Cincinnati took a closer look at the tombstone for "Delroy Senior" last week, they found it offered more than kind words for the dearly departed.More than 50 pounds of marijuana was packed inside the hollowed-out grave marker.Officers at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport tagged the shipment as suspicious because they couldn't figure out ...