House In Town News

 
50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town
Philadelphia Inquirer
Fifty years ago on Sunday, May 27, 2012, a fire at the town dump spread to a network of coal mines underneath hundreds of homes and business in the northeastern Pennsylvania borough of Centralia, eventually forcing the demolition of nearly every ...

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House budget includes $50k for East Braintree fire station upgrades
Boston.com
By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent The Massachusetts House of Representatives has approved a $50000 appropriation for Braintree to help renovate the East Braintree fire station, legislators announced this week. According to a release, the House ...

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New York Times
Beach Town of Eclectics
New York Times
Occupying the western tip of Coney Island, in Brooklyn, Seagate is a neighborhood of about 800 or so mostly single-family homes, with two gated entry points. It is tempting to call it a gated community, though that distinction seems almost slanderous ...


 
Tampabay.com
Savior with $2.5 million sought for dying town
Tampabay.com
Downtown Toomsboro has been lovingly restored to turn-of-the-century splendor with an old hotel, syrup mill, cotton warehouse and the Swampland Opera House. For a dying, no-stoplight town? Where trains no longer stop? And mangy dogs amble past the ...


 
House budget includes $50k for East Braintree fire station upgrades
Boston.com
By Jessica Bartlett, Town Correspondent The Massachusetts House of Representatives has approved a $50000 appropriation for Braintree to help renovate the East Braintree fire station, legislators announced this week. According to a release, the House ...


 
Fairytale ski town Breckenridge
Herald Sun
The old mining town is dotted with Victorian-era houses, each painted a different colour, and it is not uncommon to see horses plodding down the street pulling carriages. Mary's Mountain Cookies shop reminds me of a gingerbread house so much I feel ...

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Joel Sherburne, founder of town's ambulance service, retires after 40 years
Foster's Daily Democrat
"At the time the only EMS in town was the Fire Department," said Sherburne. The accident at the resident's home got the town concerned about not having its own emergency medical services. By that time, word has gotten around that Sherburne had been ...