| Council nixes zone change
LAFAYETTE — The City-Parish Council voted down a zoning change 7-2 Tuesday that would have allowed Mello Joy Coffee to build a new corporate headquarters, distribution facility and coffee roasting plant on Moss Street. Also Tuesday, as part of Black History Month, the council recognized the first black elected officials in Lafayette Parish. Mello Joy Coffee was seeking to rezone the property from general business to light industrial so that the coffee roasting plant would be allowed. The property is just south of Interstate 10, with Schilling Distribution on one side and a neighborhood on the other. A private school’s property line is about 300 feet away. The presence of that neighborhood is what many councilmen said drove their decision not to allow the zoning change.
Operetta 'Die Fledermaus' begins Feb. 20
University Park, Pa. -- The Penn State Schools of Theatre and Music will present their first large-scale operetta on the Playhouse stage, "Die Fledermaus," by Johann Strauss Jr., with guest director E. Loren Meeker, Feb. 20 through March 2 at the Playhouse Theatre, University Park campus. Curtain times are 8 p.m. for all performances, except for a 2 p.m. matinee March 2. "Die Fledermaus," being performed in English, is a comic operetta that tells the story of Gabriel von Eisenstein's frequent dalliances with the lithe young ladies of the corps de ballet. On his way to serve a brief jail term for insulting a public official, Eisenstein attends Prince Orlofsky's party where he woos a glamorous Hungarian countess, who turns out to be none other than his wife Rosalinde, seeking -- and getting -- her revenge for her husband's indiscretions.
Only digital TV will do in a year
Thousands more will have to buy some new gear or lose the use of spare televisions in guest bedrooms, kitchens and dens.
And those battery-operated televisions people buy for hurricane emergencies. Forget about them. Theyll be useless.
The Federal Communications Commission demands that local television affiliates must broadcast only digital signals by Feb. 17, 2009, so the analog signals previously captured by set-top antennas will no longer be available for TV.
The move, the feds say, will free up space for public safety communications such as those by police and fire departments. Some of the available space also will be auctioned to wireless companies that will be able to provide consumers with more advanced services.
People who subscribe to cable or satellite programming wont be affected, at least on those televisions connected to cable boxes or satellite receivers.
Organizers of Sharebike venture aim to provide two-wheelers for area ...
A Roanoke group is launching a bicycle-sharing program that would let people sign out two-wheelers at between five and 10 area businesses and organizations to ride wherever pleasure or work takes them. The not-for-profit venture, called Sharebike, is partly modeled on others that have moved scores of people in Europe and in U.S. cities such as Portland, Ore., and mobilized students on college and university campuses, including at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg. Last summer Paris, yes, the city of light, put 10,000 public-use bicycles on its streets. The goal is to provide inexpensive, environmentally friendly, calorie-burning transportation for people who don't drive, prefer not to or don't need to for where they are going. But other such enterprises have struggled with bike theft, abuse and breakage.
MTB News & Racing Round-up
The pair won the duo pro category, and Janelle was already looking ahead to other endurance events. "I've done so many individual solo races. I'd never done a duo and he asked me to do it," said Ross of their shared 24 hours of Moab experience. Although he is known more recently for his involvement in endurance mountain bike and road events, Janelle raced for much of his career on the road. He was widely loved for his sense of humor and smile. Friends say that he was a joyous person who simply loved to ride. Mike would ride his bike to work winters as a ski instructor at Beaver Creek Resort from his home in nearby Avon, Colorado. A fund has been set up by Janelle's team-mates and friends in his memory in order to support Maribel and their unborn baby.
Skatepark will have to go
Councillor Chris Mote, leader of Harrow Council, told the Byron Skatepark Users Association the current facility at Byron Park, off Christchurch Avenue, will definitely be demolished. He said: "The existing skatepark will have to go - I have got to make that absolutely clear. "We will never please everyone all of the time, this is not utopia, but we want to take an approach that is fair to everyone." The skatepark will be demolished to make way for a new leisure centre and replaced with a new facility on a different location in the park. Members of the users group told Cllr Mote the existing park would cost more to replace than the £300,000 the council has already promised. .
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