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  • Royal Pipes and Tobacco adding Cohiba Lounge Sunday, August 29, 2010 @ 2:02AMNORMAN — Forty years ago Robert Summers founded Royal Pipes and Tobaccos Ltd., 105 E. Boyd St., because Norman didn’t have a proper tobacconist. Liberty Drug Store had a small selection, but the OU personnel director was from Chicago and used to the big shops there such as Iwan Ries and Co.
  • All the fun of the fair: The eccentric British country show is alive and kicking Friday, August 20, 2010 @ 6:08PMSome people achieve transporting bliss through meditation, prayer or exercise, but I've found that a pig competition in a village show does the job for me. It's hard to explain, but the spectacle of boars, sows and gilts (females yet to have a litter), whether snoozing in their pens, rooting for food or trotting round in competition, induces in me a profound sense of happiness and contentment.
  • Seniors hold key to successful soccer season at RU Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 7:50AMWith a little more continuity right from the beginning, expectations are running rampant that 2010 can truly be a special season for boys soccer at Redford Union.
  • New, moving or expanding: New Waite Park shop sells skateboard gear Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 12:44AMAnother new Waite Park store sells jewelry, art and beeswax soaps
  • Williamsburg sewer repairs will cost more than $1 million Wednesday, August 11, 2010 @ 7:26AMThe Williamsburg City Council got some good news and some bad news in regards to its efforts to fix problems with its storm sewer system during its monthly meeting Monday night.
  • Phish Fan Crawls Through Sewers For 2 Days To Evade Cops Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 2:56PMVia Passed Out Wookies Barton Gray, a 31-year-old Connecticut resident, topped off a June 22nd Phish show at Great Woods in Mansfield, Massachusetts like any other phan: selling nitrous oxide in the parking lot of a Red Roof Inn, throwing rocks at the cops who came to bust him, then running off into the woods. And as a perimeter of police closed in around him, Gray disappeared into the sewers ...
  • Feeling flushed Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 2:22AMMANSFIELD - A Phish fan looking to dodge the cops last month may be rethinking his decision to squirrel away in a sewer drain after he got stuck and was forced to crawl through the cramped pipes for two days.
  • Pipeline project is under way Wednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 4:07PMOfficials ask residents to steer clear of area
  • Briar Branch desilting project reveals easement issues Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 2:49PMAn upcoming project to clean out an overgrown Briar Branch will force many property owners along the drainage channel — including the Spring Board Civic Pool and the Spring Branch ISD maintenance facility — to relocate fences and other structures built on decades-old easements.
  • Area Scene: Chasing Bear to fight Thursday Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 3:06PMRapid City boxer Emerson Chasing Bear’s next boxing match is setfor Thursday at the Coeur d’Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho.
  • Unforgettable Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 12:55AMAileen Ayerst waited 25 years to share what she saw in the Barrie tornado. Now 83 years old, Ayerst kept pictures of the storm's devastation — taken by her husband Austin (Corky) and nephew Harry — secreted in a photo album, until now. "You don't want to frighten people," she said Sunday from her [...]
  • Skaters Hold Demo In Purcellville Monday, May 24, 2010 @ 7:48AMSupporters of the Purcellville Skate Project joined skaters from across Loudoun and throughout the region Saturday afternoon for a skateboarding demonstration at Town Hall.
  • Skaters Hold Demo In Purcellville Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 7:15AMSupporters of the Purcellville Skate Project joined skaters from across Loudoun and throughout the region Saturday afternoon for a skateboarding demonstration at Town Hall.
  • Grand Opening of Diamond Crown Lounge at Briar Patch Loehmann’s Plaza Apr. 29 Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 6:39PMBriar Patch at Loehmann’s Plaza, the area’s newest destination location for premium cigar and pipe smokers, will celebrate the grand opening of its exclusive Diamond Crown Lounge on Thursday, April 29. Loehmann’s Plaza is located at 2529 Fair Oaks Blvd in Sacramento, California. (PRWeb Apr 20, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/Briarpatch/prweb3896674 ...
  • Grand Opening of Diamond Crown Lounge at Briar Patch Loehmann’s Plaza Apr. 29 Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 5:15PMBriar Patch at Loehmann’s Plaza, the area’s newest destination location for premium cigar and pipe smokers, will celebrate the grand opening of its exclusive Diamond Crown Lounge on Thursday, April 29. Loehmann’s Plaza is located at 2529 Fair Oaks Blvd in Sacramento, California.
  • Gas supplies in Welwyn Garden City to be improved Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 12:22PMWORK to improve the gas supplies in WGC has begun today (Monday). The multi-million pound scheme will see 18km of metallic gas mains replaced with new hard wearing plastic pipes in roads around the Garden City.
  • Walker Briar Works in Manchester restores fine pipes Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 8:47AMServing nearly 700 customers worldwide, Walker Briar Works is one of only five specialty pipe repair shops in the country. What began as a cross-generational love of pipe smoking turned into this prosperous local business venture.
  • Local hockey squads aim to make noise at national tourneys Tuesday, March 30, 2010 @ 4:05PMThe Ashburn Xtreme youth hockey club will get two chances to bring home its first national championship when the nine-year-old organization sends a pair of teams to USA Hockey tournaments starting April 7.
  • Women's lacrosse: Kelley leads Fitchburg State in rout Friday, March 19, 2010 @ 5:55AMSubmitted report North Middlesex Regional graduate Kaitlyn Kelley registered a game-high six points as Fitchburg State College ran past the Sweet Briar College women's lacrosse team, 20-9 in West Palm Beach, Fla.
  • St. Charles County moves fast on fake pot ban Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:53AMMonday afternoon in Joe Aiello's smoking lounge, gray-haired men in dress shirts puffed cigars as they reclined in leather chairs, watching a flat-screen television. It was not the image usually associated with K2, or "fake pot."
  • Smoke gets in your soul, pipe lovers say Sunday, February 21, 2010 @ 1:12AMMASHPEE — Yesterday was International Pipe-Smoking Day. How did you let that one slip by?
  • From Chaucer to Hemingway to Whistler Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 4:01PMIt might have been Chaucer who penned the lines eons beforeNaismith tacked those peach baskets to opposite walls and picked upa soccer ball for the pre-game shootaround.
  • Pipe Smoking Celebration to Visit Missouri Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 8:45AMRelax with your pipe this Saturday. That is the mantra of the third annual International Pipe Smoking Day.
  • IPCPR Tobacconists, Pipe Smokers Celebrate Intl Pipe Smoking Day, Feb. 20 Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 8:14AMSt. Louis, MO. – St. Louis, Missouri will be a center of the pipe smoking world at noon this Saturday, February 20. That’s when International Pipe Smoking Day will be celebrated at the 22nd Annual Gateway Area Pipe Show at the Heart of St. Charles Banquet Center.
  • Jimmy's Smoke Shop sold Tuesday, December 29, 2009 @ 9:59PMNEW BRITAIN — A landmark on East Main Street for 81 years, Jimmy’s Smoke Shop has been the place to pick up a newspaper, a pack of cigarettes or, when a celebration calls for it, a box of good cigars.
  • Road watch for Lee County, Southwest Florida Friday, December 18, 2009 @ 3:54PMHere are road construction projects in Lee and other Southwest Florida counties.
  • Robert Frank's The Americans still shocks, 50 years on Monday, November 30, 2009 @ 10:10AMWhat makes a great photography exhibition? The question came into my head as I left the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York a few weeks ago, after spending around two hours wandering through Looking In: Robert Franks' The Americans . It may well be one of the most perfectly formed shows I have ever attended.
  • Dyer closer to tackling one drainage project Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 7:03PMDYER | The project for the Briar Crossing retention area isready to go out for bid, but solutions for the Sandy Ridgesubdivision will require a few more meetings, stormwater officialssaid at the board's November meeting.
  • At Home briefs Sunday, November 15, 2009 @ 1:02AMShort news items on topics related to home, family and gardening
  • 11 bodies in Cleveland home found; 1 identified Thursday, November 5, 2009 @ 12:54AMBy VICKI SMITH
  • Council Legislation Thursday, November 5, 2009 @ 12:53AMNov. 3, 2009
  • Findlay Council OKs Hunters Creek improvements Wednesday, November 4, 2009 @ 2:40AMA flood-plagued Findlay neighborhood will be getting some relief in 2010 after City Council agreed Tuesday to help construct drainage pipes.
  • Briar Patch Smoke Shop Grand Opening October 29th Friday, October 9, 2009 @ 11:24AMBriar Patch, the newest destination location for premium cigar and pipe smokers in California, will celebrate its grand opening on October 29 in Sacramentos Loehmanns Plaza on Fair Oaks Boulevard
  • AG wins OT thriller Wednesday, October 7, 2009 @ 1:06AMWhat started as a defensive battle between the two top water polo teams on the Central Coast ended in a firefight.
  • This dude gave up pizza to sell smoking stuff Tuesday, September 29, 2009 @ 10:08AMA customer used the B-word, not just once, but three times while referring to a glass pipe. So the clerk had to ask her to leave, and Tim Ward lost what would have been his first sale of the day on Friday.
  • Community Milestones Saturday, September 26, 2009 @ 11:00PM□ Blake Carter of Winston-Salem has completed Campbell University's Lundy-Fetterman School of Business' Summer Program in Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. The program introduces high school students to the fundamentals of market-based economics, free enterprise and entrepreneurial skills.
  • The Telstra ultimatum, or how to embrace the 21st century Friday, September 18, 2009 @ 9:19AMA nother kick in the guts for Telstra shareholders. That's the way this week's decision by the Federal Government to force the telecommunications group to split itself in two largely was portrayed. The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, invariably was described as a bovver boy in steel-capped boots offering the hapless and hopelessly underperforming Telstra ''an offer it couldn't refuse''.
  • WHS plays well at Hoosier Cup Monday, September 7, 2009 @ 8:06PMThe No. 12 Washington Hatchet soccer team had a successful weekend of Hoosier Cup soccer at Karst Farm Park, just outside of Bloomington.The Lady Hatchet soccer team finished second at Hoosier Cup in Bloomington over the weekend, going 1-1-1.
  • Andover hopes to bring 1,000 jobs to area Saturday, July 25, 2009 @ 10:06AMAfter negotiations to bring a company to Conneaut went on the rocks in June the village of Andover stepped in to help make the business a reality, said Andover Mayor Bernie Baranowski.
  • Failure to yield causes 3-car crash Saturday, July 25, 2009 @ 8:25AMA three-car accident at the intersection of Route 46 and Route 6 closed both roads, and knocked down two utility poles Thursday evening.
  • GMR still leads Saturday, July 25, 2009 @ 8:17AMGMR maintained a one-game lead in the Wednesday Night Men’s Bocce League.
  • Councilwoman wants beach bathrooms fixed Thursday, July 23, 2009 @ 8:23AMA city councilwoman implores her fellow council members to spruce up the facilities at Walnut Beach.Ward 3 Councilwoman Betty Kist wants the renovations done before the Wine and Walleye Festival, slated for Aug. 22-23 at Walnut Beach.
  • WAVING ’EM DOWN Thursday, July 23, 2009 @ 8:22AMNathan Avenue residents are up in arms over speeders, big trucks and a flagrant disregard for bicyclists on their street.
  • Local man finishes 100-mile race Thursday, July 23, 2009 @ 8:17AMGENEVA — For more than 24 hours, Seth McElroy put one foot in front of the other, climbing hills in the dark and descending mountains at sunrise in an attempt to run 100 miles through southern Vermont.
  • Sandlot Roundup: Lexi zaps County All-Stars Thursday, July 23, 2009 @ 8:17AMLexi Zappitelli recorded all 12 outs with strikeouts in a four-inning no-hitter and also pounded out four hits, including a double, scored three runs and drove in two runs to lead Conneaut’s 10-11 softball team to an 18-0 victory Wednesday over Ashtabula County.
  • Buckeye BOE hires two new teachers Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 11:51PMThe Buckeye Local Schools Board of Education is doing its part to bring down the county’s unemployment rate.
  • Family reunites rescue personnel Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 8:23AMEight-year-old Austin Ruscoe’s blue eyes were bright with excitement as he was seated inside of the University Hospital’s MedEvac helicopter Tuesday at the South Central Ambulance District’s headquarters while his parents took photos.
  • Idle school could rise and transform lives Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 8:22AMDisadvantaged women and children in Ashtabula County may have new hope.
  • Geneva Pipeline digs up success Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 8:22AMDuring a time when other companies seem to be buried under the weight of the economic downturn, Geneva Pipeline continues to dig its way to success.
  • County will collect hazardous waste Wednesday, July 22, 2009 @ 8:22AMAshtabula County hazardous waste collection will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 19 at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds, North Poplar Street.