| Gearing up for spring? Some fish are already biting
The calendar is inching toward that day when the weather and opportunity come together for the first fishing trip of 2008. In the meantime, we sort through the news bits that have crossed my desk in recent days. Here's something interesting. The saugers are reported to be biting down on the Ohio River. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife communications officer Jamey Graham e-mailed an advisory from her Akron office indicating the action was outstanding. “Anglers are hammering sauger," she said. White jig are recommended. Tim Stevens, the division's field officer in Jefferson County, reported that the action has been good around the New Cumberland and Pike Island locks and dams, as well as creek mouths' murky-to-clear-water breaks. Stevens said that in addition to the saugers, some nice walleyes also are hitting.
This Should Mess With The Aliens' Heads
This expensive intergalactic jukebox is destined to wander the heavens until it crash-lands, light-years away, on the back patio of a family of very startled aliens. Voyager's LP features the music of Bach, Beethoven and everyone's favorite modern composer, Chuck Berry.
The problem?
The Beatles song is shooting straight toward the North Star, 431 light-years away, at 186,000 miles per second. The Voyager "album," however, won't "drop" on Planet X until the year — well, whatever year it will be when it gets there at a rate of only 38,000 miles per HOUR! Even with its considerable head start, this gold-plated tortoise won't arrive until well after that little warp-speed iTune out of Abbey Road Studios.
In other words, we may have doomed our effort to get an interplanetary groove on.
Following Terror's Forgotten Trail
It would take America's proud Armenian community back to people and events many would prefer to forget--to bombings and coldblooded murders--and to still-heated charges of genocide that date back 85 years. A man called Moose. Elliott's first task was finding who paid for the locker all those years. He grabbed the paperwork and found three renters going back to 1980, all paying in cash, all named Louise: Louise Sardella, Louise Fischel, Louise Seyranian. Everything about the records appeared false. One address was for an Open Pantry convenience store; a phone number led to a local sports club. A storage employee vaguely recalled a woman who paid the rent, and she agreed to help an ATF artist on a composite drawing. Elliott, meanwhile, ordered traces for the 13 aging weapons.
Gable Oaks violence | Austin: Security is owner’s obligation
Austin said he is trying to arrange a meeting Friday with representatives of Gable Oaks owner, Transom Development, to discuss security at the complex, which was the scene of a shooting at about 8 p.m. Sunday that left a 19-year-old man dead and a 22-year-old man critically injured. Meanwhile, two city officers are regularly patrolling the Colleton Street complex off North Main Street 24 hours a day to "establish some sense of calm and stability," he said. "Residents at this point are feeling uneasy," he said. Mary Myers, president of the Gable Oaks tenants' association, said Tuesday she supports Austin's position "100 percent." "I understand (the owners) don't want to spend money, but they're getting all this money," she said. Efforts Tuesday to reach representatives of The Beach Co.
89-year-old woman to campaign for election in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- A 89-year-old grandma has made headlines in local newspapers after she filed her nomination paper on Sunday to contest a Kuala Terengganu parliamentary seat in northern Malaysia. Maimun Yusof, a grandmother of 19 great grandchildren, perhaps the oldest election candidate ever in the country, was seen these days hitting the roads on her bicycle in Kuala Terengganu, capital of the Terengganu State, to meet voters and canvass for support. Maimun, a cloth trader living all her life at Gong Gemia Village in Kuala Terengganu, prepared campaign posters herself and used her own party name to challenge political heavyweights in the constituency. She attracted support at least from her friends and neighbors.
Bombing Kills 22 at Baghdad Bus Station
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Wal-Mart Supercenter shrinks again
What's going to be the point if it's only 15,000 sf bigger than the current store? It sounds like Wal-Mart is more interested in building one of their Neighborhood Markets and routing out the other grocery stores in town as opposed to giving us Super Center ammenities. " .
Closure in Colusa?
After a few months, with no leads to pursue, Colusa County named her Jane Doe, and then buried her in a local cemetery. More than a quarter century later, the family of Nellie Cornman Flickinger believes Jane Doe is a mother of five who left her children with a promise on a spring day in 1979 and headed west. As he waits for scientific testing, including DNA analysis, the prospect of a match is as startling as it is gratifying, said Michael Nelson, one of Flickinger's children. "I can't sleep at all. It's terrfying. My whole past jumps up in front of me," said Nelson, who lives near Erie, Pa. Nelson, now 38, was 10 the day his mother left him and his four siblings at the Erie home of their grandmother. His mother said she was going to California with a man, possibly a military man, to right her life and eventually send for her children.
Myers will start Phillies’ opener
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Brett Myers will be the Phillies' opening-day starter on March 31 against the Washington Nationals at Citizens Bank Park. Cole Hamels will pitch Game 2 against the Nationals. Though Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said today that Myers was chosen for matchup purposes, it wouldn't be surprising if the club awarded Myers the start for loyalty reasons. The Phils moved Myers, last year's opening-day starter, from the rotation into the bullpen early last season. Myers fell in love with the closer's role, but the Phillies returned him to the rotation this spring after acquiring closer Brad Lidge in a trade with the Houston Astros. Hamels went 15-5 with a 3.39 ERA last season, his first full season in the majors. Myers won a career-best 14 games as a starter in 2003.
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