Month: May 2023

From the Apopka Police Department Missing/Endangered Persons Alert Update: According to the Apopka Police Department, missing and endangered person Peter Lewis has been safely recovered. ***** On May 20, Peter Lewis was last seen in the area of ​​Jecenia Blossom Drive in Apopka. Mr. Lewis was at his residence and then left on foot in an unknown direction of travel and was recently diagnosed with dementia. The family of Mr. Lewis advised that he has a tendency to become disoriented and confused. Mr. Lewis was last seen wearing glasses, a cut-off blue Nike T-shirt, blue checkered shorts and black dress…

BREAKING NEWS: SCROLL BELOW FOR A NEWS FLASH ON THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE NEW SHORT-TERM RENTAL ORDINANCE THAT THE COUNTY IS GOING TO PASS By Jerry Keene, Editor, The Oceansider Old Cape Meares Loop Road is now closed to the public Tillamook County Public Works Director Chris Laity has announced that the blocked portion of the old Cape Meares Loop Road near the lighthouse will be closed to the public until further notice. Earth movement made that stretch of road impassable for traffic a decade ago. Since then, the forest trail has become a popular spot for some ocean-goers…

Salman Rushdie has led tributes to Martin Amis after the famous author died aged 73. Rushdie said that Amis, who died on Saturday at his home in Florida, had a unique literary voice and that it was “unwise to try to imitate him”, adding a piece for the New Yorker: “He used to say that what he wanted to do was to leave behind a bookshelf, to be able to say: ‘From here to here, it’s me.’ His voice is silent now. He will be greatly missed by his friends. But we have the shelf.” This shelf includes 15 novels,…

Greece’s conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party was on course for a decisive victory in Sunday’s general election but fell short of the majority needed to lead a one-party government, setting the stage for another vote in a few weeks since mr. Mitsotakis seemed to rule out forming a governing coalition. Mitsotakis described the preliminary result as a “political earthquake” that called for an “experienced hand at the helm” of Greece and said that Any negotiations with divergent potential coalition partners would only lead to an impasse. with 93.7% of the votes have been counted On Sunday night and his…

PUTNEY – The Southern Vermont Sister District Project has reached its $100,000 milestone in political donations. Created and energized in response to the 2016 national election, the Southern Vermont Sister District Project’s purpose is to empower local individuals to play a role within larger political systems and to do so by supporting grassroots change in progressive issues in state legislatures across the country. Through creative fundraising during a series of targeted election cycles, Southern Vermont Sister District has raised a total of $100,000. Recognizing that Vermont was a sustainable Democratic blue state, the Southern Vermont Sister District Project has used…

Who is Kyriakos Mitsotakis? A former bank executive, the 55-year-old Harvard graduate was born into a political dynasty that produced a former prime minister, a former foreign minister and the current mayor of Athens. Mitsotakis has led New Democracy, Greece’s center-right pole for the past half-century, since 2016, bringing it closer to the political center with a pro-reform and pro-business agenda. Elected prime minister in 2019, he is credited with Greece’s successful handling of the pandemic and two crises with neighboring Turkey, while overseeing high growth and job creation. But a wiretapping scandal and a rail disaster damaged his ratings….

KINGSTON, Mass. — One person was taken to a hospital and the state police bomb squad responded to a home in Kingston after an explosion inside the residence Sunday, state police said. The person’s condition or the extent of the person’s injuries were not immediately available Sunday. Emergency crews responded to Nobadeer Circle in Kingston early Sunday afternoon, Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said in a statement. The state police Fire Investigation Unit and Crime Scene Services Section and Kingston Police and Fire officials also responded to the home, Procopio said. The investigation into the incident is ongoing, he…

A report surfaced Monday revealing the Biden administration’s plans to reverse course on moving the headquarters of the US Space Command to Alabama because of the state’s abortion law. The report received strong backlash from Alabama’s congressional delegation. Former President Donald Trump chose the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville as the new permanent home for the Space Command. Since then, Arsenal has repeatedly ranked at the top of the list of potential locations for the space command over its current location in Colorado. According to Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville), the decision to move Space Command to Redstone should be…