A woman in Detroit created a backyard ice rink for neighborhood kids to skate and play hockey on. Her local fire department heard about it and showed up with a water truck to help her make enough ice.…………A retired Marine in New Bern named Christi Davis hit the lottery for half-a-million bucks last month. And she’s planning to use a big…… read more »
The company that delivers most of Canada’s mail has been running a campaign called “Write Here, Write Now” that encourages people to send postcards and stay connected during the pandemic. Now they’re sending blank postcards to everyone in Canada with pre-paid postage. So anyone can send a card for free.………….. A bakery in Austin called Crema has been handing out…… read more »
Fresh water report: The weather is starting to warm up and so is the fishing. The crappie and bass have love on their fish brains as the spawn will be happening soon. Crappie fishing is fair. Best baits are minnow, crappie candy, and jigs. The bass are hitting on Senkos that are wacky rigged along…… read more »
Here’s PETER FRAMPTON‘s take on the ROXY MUSIC tune “Avalon”. It will be on the April 23 release “Frampton Forgets The Words”. Download is the latest music festival to cancel 2021 event, but IRON MAIDEN, KISS and BIFFY CLYRO have been announced as 2022’s headliners. NIRVANA‘s “Bleach” is being reissued as a limited-edition CASSETTE. On April 23,…… read more »
Today is World Compliment Day. So if you want to tell someone how great they are, it’s the perfect day to do it……………. A grandmother in Texas needed the vaccine before she could have open-heart surgery, but couldn’t get an appointment. So she got on the app NextDoor to see if people in her area had any leads. And a total stranger gave up…… read more »
If you know your ECU history, you know about “Coach Stas,” football coach Clarence Stasavich. He’s the man credited with bringing big time college football to Greenville. His youngest son Walter subsequently grew up in Pitt County and later was Greenville’s director of parks and recreation, developing River Park North. Today that property is home to, among many other things, The…… read more »
A single mom in Massachusetts couldn’t afford to fix her roof that was caving in. So a friend started a GoFundMe page. Then the CEO of a construction company saw it . . . put a team together . . . and did all the work for free……………..A tech-savvy 14-year-old in Chicago named Ben Kagan has been helping older people…… read more »
METALLICA will perform on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on March 3. 2023 will mark the 30th anniversary of the COVERDALE PAGE project. DAVID COVERDALE says a proposed reissue could include new music. DEF LEPPARD drummer RICK ALLEN is not only an accomplished musician, he’s a painter too. His current project is a painting of late EDDIE VAN HALEN. ANN WILSON from HEART released…… read more »
As with many events and fundraisers in the age of the pandemic, the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser had to take on a different look and feel for 2021. We stopped by where all of the action and organizing culminated on Thursday, 2/25 at both the Craven Arts Council & Gallery, as well as Temple Church in…… read more »
Two years ago this month, the Boy Scouts officially started allowing girls to join. And this week, around 1,000 girls across the country became the first female Eagle Scouts. Only 6% of all Scouts make it that far…………… Some guy found a woman’s wallet at a Walmart in Florida last weekend, and drove all the way to her house to make…… read more »