| Nixon orders local home dealer to make good on contracts
A Springfield manufactured homes dealer who failed to deliver homes or provide refunds on two contracts has been ordered to do so in a preliminary injunction obtained Thursday by Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon. Michael Jackson of Branson, who does business as Dogwood Homes, 3800 W. Sunshine, and his mother, Kay Jackson, the business office manager, are defendants in the case. Thursdays order requires Dogwood Homes to make good on a contract with a Springfield man who paid $52,000 in October for delivery of a modular home and demolition and cleanup of his original home, which burned down. The company has not completed any of those jobs, and to date has refunded $2,500 of the customers down payment. Dogwood Homes must complete that job by May 7, according to the order. The company also must refund within a week a $500 deposit to a Wisconsin man who ordered a mobile home in 2005.
We'll drink to that: unlimited water for $150 a year
CANBERRA could be free of water restrictions for the next 50 years or more for less than $3 a week per household and without having to drink recycled sewage. The current water crisis in Canberra is not due to climate change. Nor is it due to drought. It is entirely due to deliberate ACT Government policy. The ACT's dams were built to supply 450,000 people with no restrictions but the ACT Government ordered that our dams be emptied throughout the drought by way of very large environmental flows during recent years of lower-than-average rainfall. Between 2000 and 2004, 109GL (112 years' supply) was emptied out of the dams, benefiting downstream users (who paid ACT water users nothing for the water released). These outflows were continuing as late as November last year.
Residents Strive to Keep Town's Piece of Maryland Waterfront
On a warm afternoon recently, the narrow lanes of Selby on the Bay were teeming with traffic -- foot traffic. Couples strolling hand in hand passed large dogs on leashes, exercising their owners. Basketball-toting kids headed to the community's private eight-acre waterfront park, where a sandy beach and expansive views of Selby Bay draw folks unwinding from school or work. .
School board election set for Tuesday
Maynor added, “The students of Bamberg School District One and Two (are) our hope to ensure our towns in Bamberg County grow and continue to grow. With my passion for the education and social success of our students and my political background, I am confident that I can assist the Bamberg School District 2 Board of Trustees. And, I have never been known as a 'yes man.'"Maynor served in the U.S. Army and is a Vietnam veteran. He is an active member of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Olar, where he serves on several auxiliaries.Maynor is married to Mary Reed Maynor, and they are the parents of four children and five grandchildren.Beverly Hicks-FrazierAlso vying for Seat 5 is Beverly Hicks-Frazier who graduated from Denmark-Olar High School in 1994 and from Claflin University in 1998.“There is a need to come together and support our school district, our children and our teachers," Hicks-Frazier said.
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