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Local train collector gets national attention (Montgomery Life)
A close up of a highly detailed miniature town town in Robinson's basement layout. To walk down the stairs and into the cellar of Dick and Roberta Robinson's Fort Washington home is to be taken to a fictional world of toy trains, small villages and the result of plenty of imagination. Local train collector gets national attention (Public Spirit & The Willow Grove Guide)
A close up on the tiny town. To walk down the stairs and into the cellar of Dick and Roberta Robinson's Fort Washington home is to be taken to a fictional world of toy trains, small villages and the result of plenty of imagination. Robert Milton's legacy up in the air (Toronto Star)
Robert Milton is finally set to depart Air Canada after nearly a decade at the controls – just as questions about the future of the stripped-down airline are beginning to fly. In 1918, suburbia had little room for lawns (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sometimes we forget where we've been. We often look to the future with no reference to our past. But every now and then we learn about those who came before us and reflect on what mattered when they were alive. Every so often, we find value in their earlier... Where's Raphael, when Italy needs a culture czar? (International Herald Tribune)
Change in Italy's entrenched culture policy is necessary, most Italians agree, but many feel that it's impossible. Italian cultural paradox: Love it, live in it, leave it to the creaky bureaucracy (International Herald Tribune)
A half-dozen structural revamps of the culture ministry during the last decade haven't really done much except to shuffle around the burden of a creaky and defensive bureaucracy. 'Second-hand spaceship, $36m' - Nasa puts space shuttle fleet up for sale (Times Online)
For sale: second-hand spaceship, one previous owner, launchpad and crew not included. Price: $36 million, plus $6 million for shipping and handling, or £27 million in all. Winter wish (The Bolton Common)
It's said that charity begins at home, and often, as part of the holiday season, we look for ways to give to those less fortunate. Bolton resident Mary Boyd has a respectful suggestion: The Winter Wish Holiday Giving Program, which ensures that each child of the Robert F. Kennedy Children's Actions Corps receives a holiday gift. City to seek injunction against teen club (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
PORTAGE | The city will seek an emergency injunction today against reopening a teen dance club in the former Portage 9 theater building on U.S. 6. Bird a pain in the glass (Coeur d'Alene Press)
COEUR d'ALENE -- When Debbie Moore picked up the phone Tuesday morning, she heard a panicked neighbor calling for help. Get-over-here-in-a-hurry kind of help.
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