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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In a resounding victory, the North Carolina Court of Appeals today upheld the revocation of a permit for a rock quarry near the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, which runs through North Carolina and 13 other states. This common sense decision upholds the purpose of the Mining Act and protects one of the most beautiful places in the entire southern mountains," said Don Barger, Southeast Regional Director of the National Parks Conservation Association, who along with the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Southern Environmental Law Center, and a local citizens' group joined the state in the appeal. "The state took the right action and should be commended.
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REDLANDS You can be pro-life and still be pro-choice, says Alice C. Smith. Smith, a special education counselor in Redlands, supports American troops in Iraq but does not feel they should remain there.
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Local food advocates meet Citizen Action Group meets at 5:30 p.m. today at 1500 Dixie St. to discuss locally produced food. Please bring a potluck dish to share. Attendees discuss plans and projects for local food production and use. Call 304-346-5891.
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With a study of a popular website offering adult advertisements for "escorts," a young human rights group in Memphis is calling for action to reduce human trafficking in the local sex industry. The group, Operation Broken Silence , this week released a report that studied Memphis-area female escort listings for the final three months of 2010 placed on the classified advertisement website backpage.com .
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ACORN, the community action group that has come under intense scrutiny nationally for allegations of voter registration fraud and offering advice for prostitutes, had a local office here for about four years, but it has been absent from Buffalo for more than a year. Nonetheless, the organization still elicits strong opinions from local supporters and detractors -- and the area's representatives in Congress.
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Helping Roanoke City Public Schools is a task that local interfaith volunteer group Congregations in Action has taken up as a mission. Whether it's assisting school children with reading, providing socks for students during winter or helping teachers out in the classroom, Congregations in Action has made a difference in Roanoke- area elementary schools for the past six years.
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Community meeting slated on results of asbestos tests The Environmental Justice Action Group is hosting a community meeting to hear results of asbestos testing requested recently by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority for Kensington Heights. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave.
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The City Council has postponed action on a measure that would have allowed a group additional time to gather signatures in support of an effort to have police ease off enforcement of marijuana possession laws. The council on Monday decided to hold an October workshop on a proposal to align the city's citizen-initiated referendum laws with the state's rules. Maine laws give those gathering referendum signatures an additional 10 days to get names if they turn in the required number of signatures on time, but fall short because some of the signatures are found to be invalid.
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As the afternoon's crowd started to trickle in to sample the Taste of Syracuse's dollar dreams, Bobby Green performed a variety of funked-up blues tunes, including a cover of Maxwell's 1996 hit "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)." Green demonstrated his amazing ability to sit in a groove and jam until the cows come home, which is, apparently, on any given stage. Green, who has been known locally as a legendary guitarist for the past five decades, won the award for Best Soul or Rhythm'n'Blues Instrumentalist or Vocalist in 2001, and was inducted into the Sammys Hall of Fame in 2005. Two hard-rockin' groups followed, pulling the fun closer to the climactic award show. Prime Time pulled off contemporary covers such as Maroon 5's "Sunday Morning" as well as Billy Preston's "Will It Go Round In ...
... by the public, while favorite band The Action! drew enthusiastic applause from local fans of ska...
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POTTSTOWN, Pa. Sept. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The national Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) is marking the Second Annual AD/ HD Awareness Day tomorrow (September 14) by offering a series of instructional programs including free informational teleconferences from 10 am to 10 pm EST. In addition to the teleconferences, there will be free, on-site evening AD/HD 'Focus Fairs held at Montgomery County Community College West near ADDA headquarters in Pottstown, Pennsylvania; Loyola University (Water Tower Campus) in Chicago; and at the 95th Street Library in Naperville, Illinois. Visitors will be offered free adult AD/HD screenings as well as information on coping with and overcoming the challenges presented by AD/HD (for details including pre-registration for the teleconferences, ...
