The Tunkhannock Area School Board is inching closer to a formal commitment to solar energy as a substantial means of energy generation for its school buildings.
Contributed by Ron Russell
Members of the Marine Corps League join in camaraderie and fellowship for the purpose of preserving the traditions and promoting the interests of the United States Marine Corps, banding together those who are now serving in the United States Marine Corps and those honorably discharged from that service.
In early 2000, while shopping in a local grocery store, two Marines, Bill Weidner and Jack Simms, both World War II veterans, met and started talking about the number of Marines they each knew in the Auburn-Opelika area. They decided to form a Marine Corps League chapter in Lee County and invited all Marines they knew to a meeting. Soon a Detachment was formed, and it was officially chartered on Nov. 14, 2000, with Weidner as the first Detachment Commandant.
A favourite saying of casino entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson, whose death was announced on Tuesday, was: “You have to challenge the status quo, you have to change the status quo, and if you change it in any business, success will follow you like a shadow.”
Arguably in this regard, Mr Adelson, founding chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp and its Macau business unit, Sands China Ltd, lived up to his words.
His death was caused by complications related to his treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Las Vegas Sands said in a statement.
Mr Adelson entered casino-building relatively late in his business career, after selling his Comdex events business in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States, at the top of the market.
Contested mayoral races in Elmhurst, Lombard take shape on first day of candidate filing
The line is long with more than 60 people filing as candidates Monday at the election division of the DuPage County clerk s office in Wheaton. Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Kathryn Padberg of Lombard filed early Monday to run for a school board seat in Villa Park Elementary District 45 during the opening of candidate filing at the election division of the DuPage County clerk s office in Wheaton. Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer
Taso Triantaffillos on Monday turned in his nominating papers to run for a school board seat in Addison Elementary District 4 with Jessica Stachniak, registration and vote by mail manager, right, and Stephanie Groenewold, assistant registration manager, in Wheaton.