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It was summer of 1957, and Forest Ripley, already the owner of Ripley Buick, had snagged the Springfield franchise for Ford’s newest model: The Edsel.
More here: Architect helps find new use for building he designed in 1957 (Springfield News-Sun)
Points of interest: - Government refuses Kiwi Rail’s request for subsidies, want $90 million a year for next five years - “Kiwi Rail is not in good shape”, but the government will “make the best of it as we promised” - Government’s goal ...
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Q+A interview: Transport Minister Steven Joyce (Scoop.co.nz)
MONTREAL - So who actually won the IBF super-middleweight title fight early Saturday morning?
Continue here: Controversy reigns as Bute keeps IBF title despite being floored by Andrade (Yahoo! Canada Sports)
Blood drives BLOOD DRIVES: 2-6:30 p.m. Sept. 25 at Wright City High School, 520 Westwoods Road; 3-7 p.m. Sept. 28 at Warrenton Baptist Church, 202 S. Highway 47. Sponsored by the American Red Cross.
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Medical calendar for Sept. 23 (Suburban Journals)
While Komal Safdar has flown under the radar most of the season, the Ursuline junior has proved herself to be among the top girls' tennis players in the area.
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Ursuline star proving to be singular talent (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama could have made a stronger impact at the United Nations Summit on Climate Change in New York last week had he trumpeted another environmentally laudable proposal in addition to his declared goal of Japan cutting its greenhouse-gas emissions by 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020: riding bicycles. A national push for bicycle riding, if it succeeded in steering people ...
Continue here: Let's Bike! (The Japan Times)
The Gulf Coast Model Railroad at Shell Point Retirement Community in south Fort Myers will re-open Friday after the summer hiatus to complete...
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Shell Point model railroad reopens for visitors Friday (The News-Press)
State House Roundup is a recap and analysis of the week in state government, this edition covering Sept. 19-25 ....
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State House Roundup: You never know where your next coalition’s coming from (Marblehead Reporter)
A member of the government's transport accident investigation commission leaked a draft report about the fatal 2005 Amagasaki train derailment in Hyogo Prefecture to West Japan Railway Co., government officials revealed Friday. Koichi Yamaguchi, then a member of the Aircraft and Railway Accidents Investigation Commission, handed the panel's draft report to Masao Yamazaki, then president of JR ...
Continue here: 2005 accident report leaked to JR West (The Japan Times)
A member of the government's transport accident investigation commission leaked a draft report on the 2005 fatal train derailment accident in Hyogo Prefecture to the…
More here: National › Panel member leaked draft report on fatal train crash to JR West (Japan Today)