Lacey’s 2010 budget gets makeover LACEY – As the City of Lacey gears up to take its first crack at the 2011 budget, it’s tweaking this year’s budget by $ 2.5 million to account for sagging revenue, carryover projects and grant funding. Read more on The Olympian Local Briefs: Sept. 23 A compilation of news [...]

VDOT receives federal funding for 2009 storm costs The Virginia Department of Transportation will receive $ 6.2 million in federal funding to help pay costs stemming from a severe winter storm in 2009. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Read more on WVVA Bluefield Stags pride of storm-hit Southland The Big Chill be damned. Stag [...]

Russell Single-Track Snow Plow Image by johnwilliamsphd On summer vacation at the Lackawanna rail yard, Binghamton, NY, a single-track snow plow manufactured by the Russell Snow Plow Company in Ridgway, PA. Built between the late 1930s to the late 1940s, these are single-track plows designed to push the snow to both sides of the track [...]

Bradner may install speed bumps BRADNER – In an effort to slow down speeding drivers in the village, council briefly considered installing three speed bumps on Caldwell Street. During their meeting on Sept. 2, Councilman Cody Roth proposed inclusion of the speed bumps within plans to pave some of the village roads, including a portion [...]

Officials prepare for cuts in funding Candidates who kicked off their general election campaigns this week arent eager to discuss specifics on how they will attack a projected $ 2.7 billion budget deficit, but municipal officials dependent on state funding already are preparing for the worst next year. Read more on Wausau Daily Herald HHC [...]

Snow from storm collapses stadium, continues to cause havoc Heavy snow has caused the roof of Invercargill’s stadium to fall in Read more on TVNZ Blinn to consider storm water detention area on Saeger Street Blinn College trustees Tuesday will consider an engineering contract for storm water detention on 32 acres of land owned by [...]

Blizzard preps banhammer for StarCraft II cheaters Bad news for StarCraft II cheaters: developer Blizzard is coming for you, and it’s packed its favorite banhammer. The company today released a statement as a reminder to Battle.net users that cheating in the wildly popular strategy title will only end badly. Apparently, unauthorized mods and hacks that [...]

Springville/Spanish Fork Airport inproving facilities The weather on Thursday, Sept. 9, was a bit worrisome if you thought about flying a small plane in Spanish Fork, but the annual fund-raising event proceeded without a problem. Read more on Provo Daily Herald Proposed bylaw calls for day of quiet And on the seventh day, all Bowen [...]

Airplanes Skidding In A Snow Storm Image by Anirudh Koul You don’t wanna fly from this runway! Was flying of from Montreal to London via Toronto. As luck would have it, my itenary was greeted with a massive snow storm. While trying to take off, the plane started to skid on the runway (plus the [...]

Charleston swept up in a blizzard of waaaahs CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Like an avalanche of snowflakes, blizzard babies are arriving.”We have been very busy,” said Rebecca White, a certified nurse midwife with FamilyCare Health Center on Patrick Street. “We love it. Its been a good month fo… Read more on Charleston Daily Mail Blizzard Schedule [...]