By Linn S. Schulz This is not that kind of a ghost story. It’s not meant to be scary, so if that’s what you’re looking for, go find something else to read. This is just an ordinary, every day accounting of an encounter with a very young ghost… a little girl who has a bit…
Hong Kong Edition of The Epoch Times Suspends Publication After Vandals Attack & Damage Printing Plant
The newspaper Epoch Times has suspended publication of its Hong Kong print edition after four masked intruders stormed into its printing facility at about 4:30 a.m. on April 13, according to reports in the newspaper’s U.S. edition and other publications, brandishing sledgehammers and a knife, forced staffers to leave, and then doused the printing presses…
More Than COVID Cases Are Experiencing a Surge; So Are Residential Real Estate Sales
By Tom Skevin For anyone who has noticed a stream of cars rolling through the neighborhood – full of would-be buyers hoping to get to the next home for sale before it is taken – don’t expect those caravans to go away as the busy spring real-estate season blooms in full throughout the U.S. Real…
Help For Local Weather Forecasting
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has announced upgrading of its Global Forecast System (GFS) weather model to boost weather forecasting capabilities across the U.S. These advancements, it predicts, will improve hurricane genesis forecasting, modeling for snowfall location, heavy rainfall forecasts, and overall model performance. For the first time, the GFS will be coupled with…
Manufacturing Error at Baltimore Plant Impacts 15 Million Doses of Johnson & Johnson Coronavirus Vaccine, Halts Future Shipments
About 15 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine were affected when workers at the Baltimore plant, which recently began production of the medicine, accidentally conflated the ingredients several weeks ago, forcing the regulators to delay authorization of the plant’s production and halting future shipments of the vaccine in the United States, while…
Amtrak Will Use Federal Relief Funds to Restore Daily Service
Long-distance Amtrak trains will soon start making their runs daily again, thanks to a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package passed by Congress. Starting in May, the daily service will be restored to many long-distance Amtrak trains outside of the Northeast which had been cut back to tri-weekly schedules last October, as part of a cost-saving…
Maine’s Moxie Festival Cancelled for 2nd Year
LISBON, Maine — For the second consecutive year, The Moxie Festival, held annually during July in Lisbon, Maine, has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. So decreed the Lisbon Town Council in a decisive 5-1 vote at their March 2nd meeting. The festival has attracted thousands of people to the Androscoggin County community…