Image via Siempre Verde Community Garden Facebook page.
Here’s a followup on the push to save the Siempre Verde Community Garden on Stanton Street. Garden activists launched a petition drive to stop a private developer and the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) from building a 16-unit apartment building with ground floor retail on the garden parcels. Three of the apartments would be affordable. Today, City Council member Margaret Chin offered her initial take on the situation.
Later this month, Community Board 3’s land use committee will be asked to consider the proposal. The project would incorporate two city-owned lots – 137 Attorney St. and 181 Stanton St. – as well as 139 Attorney St., a parcel owned by the estate of William Gottlieb, a real estate baron who accumulated a great deal of land in Lower Manhattan. Two years ago, HPD agreed to permit community members to operate an interim garden on the city-owned land until there was a viabl
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By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 18, 2021 Some families at military bases caught in this week’s freezing temperatures are faced with moving from base housing due to broken water pipes and no utilities, while others are banding together to support one another during the crisis. At least eight bases remained closed Thursday in states including Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, with many preparing to stay closed Friday. Most will spend an entire week with only essential personnel on base as extremely cold weather has created dangerous conditions across southern portions of the country. The region is not accustomed to multiple days of below freezing weather, snow or substantial ice accumulation, which has led to unnavigable roads, broken water pipes and overwhelmed utilities.
Heroin dealing pair jailed
Melissa Sampson (Image: Warwickshire Police)
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A heroin dealing duo have been jailed after being caught red-handed in Nuneaton.
Jay Bailey and Melissa Sampson have both started prison sentences after being caught during a police stop and search in the Marlborough Road area of town.