‘Trouble on Scioto’s Waters’ new book from Orange Frazer Press; author paints violent picture of early frontier life along river
The cover of the new book from Orange Frazer Press.
WILMINGTON Author Janet Shailer’s new book “Trouble on Scioto’s Waters; Soldiers, Frontiersmen, and Native Americans, 1725-1815” ($22.95 Orange Frazer Press) takes place along the now tranquil waters of the Scioto River and its tributaries.
These were once hotbeds of activity as Prehistoric and Woodland Indians/Native Americans used them as major transportation routes.
Later the European fur trappers and frontiersmen understood their significance, followed by soldiers from three different countries.
FSB webinar to help push local online sales By Calum MacLeod Published: 15:53, 24 January 2021
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Independent businesses are to be helped to get a share of the growing online retail market in a webinar organised by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the trend towards online shopping, with figures from the British Retail Consortium showing that non-food online sales jumped by 44.8 per cent in December.
The FSB webinar, which will take place between 10am and 11.30am on Thursday, January 28, is aimed at helping businesses begin or add to an online shopping presence.
A Yorkton fugitive is finally in custody following an on-and-off, four-hour chase with Regina Police and RCMP October 31 that ended with an attempted car-jacking. William Crawford, 28, faces 18 new charges including drugs and weapons offences, robbery, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, flight from police and breaches of a court order. In addition, he has numerous outstanding charges related to a two-and-a-half month period of evading law enforcement. Crawford was originally wanted in Yorkton for trafficking, drug and stolen property possession and weapons offences when Prince Albert RCMP spotted him on August 17. He fled police, who broke off chase due to policies of protecting public safety. At that time Yorkton RCMP issued a press release seeking the public’s help in locating Crawford. Yorkton municipal RCMP commander Staff Sgt. Greg Nichol said Crawford had been known to threaten to kill police officers and advised the public he was being treated as being armed an
Webinar aims for online sales rise By Calum MacLeod Published: 06:45, 21 January 2021
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Independent businesses are to be helped to get a share of the growing online retail market in a webinar organised by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the trend towards online shopping, with figures from the British Retail Consortium showing that non-food online sales jumped by 44.8 per cent in December.
The FSB webinar, which will take place between 10am and 11.30am on Thursday, January 28, is aimed at helping businesses begin or add to an online shopping presence.
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DETROIT (CN) A federal judge granted preliminary approval Thursday to a massive settlement for Flint residents who were poisoned by contaminated water.
The settlement is currently worth more than $641 million and has been described as the “most complex settlement I’ve ever seen” by U.S. District Judge Judith Levy, a Barack Obama appointee who is overseeing the negotiations.
“Generally, a settlement between an adult plaintiff and a defendant does not require court approval. But because this settlement presents a hybrid structure that includes a class component for unrepresented adults and involves a substantial number of potential claims of Minors preliminary approval of certain aspects of the proposed settlement is both appropriate and necessary,” Levy wrote in an opinion released Thursday morning.