Toni Thorpe, a long-standing and experienced agent in the sale ofcountry and equestrian property throughout Essex, has joined theleading specialists, Zoe Napier Country & Equestrian.
This is considered a very popular move for Toni (pictured right),by Zoe herself and also many longstanding clients who believe thatthe new team of key players, Zoe Napier, Eve Reed and now, Toni,offer an unrivalled and heavily bespoke service.
Zoe Napier …
ALBANY, N.Y. - Rat poison was found in pet food blamed for the deaths of at least 16 cats and dogs, but scientists said Friday they still don't know how it got there and predicted more animal deaths would be linked to it.
After the announcement, the company that produced the food expanded its recall to include all 95 brands of the "cuts and gravy" style food, regardless of when they were produced. The company also said it would take responsibility for pet medical expenses incurred as a result of the food.
The substance in the food was identified as aminopterin, a cancer drug that once was used to induce abortions in the United States and is still used to kill rats in some …
Worshippers in eight dioceses around the country have banded together in a last-ditch effort to ask the Vatican to instruct bishops to negotiate with them over the closures of their parishes and to stop them from "wrecking the Catholic Church in America."
Peter Borre, co-chairman of the Boston-based Council of Parishes, formed in 2004 to oppose parish closings, was in Rome on Monday to hand-deliver a letter asking that the Vatican tell bishops to promptly enter into mediation with 31 parishioner groups in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Boston; Buffalo, New York; Cleveland; New Orleans; New York City; Scranton, Pa.; and Springfield, Massachusetts.
The …
The second drought in four summers has left most area homeownerseither with brown grass or high water bills.
But a hardy southern grass that's creeping north can giveChicagoans green grass with no sprinkling.
The grass, called tall fescue, sends its water-seeking roots asdeep as 6 feet. By comparison, roots of Kentucky bluegrass and ryegrass blends common in the Chicago area grow less than 2 1/2 feetdeep, seed company president Jon Loft said Sunday at the NationalHardware Show at McCormick Place.
"Tall fescue has really caught on in Ohio and southern Indiana,and there's no reason it can't catch on in Illinois," Loft said."When you have heat and no …
NEW YORK (AP) — B.J. Upton and Carl Crawford each drove in two runs in a seven-run sixth inning as the Tampa Bay Rays punished CC Sabathia in his much-anticipated rematch with David Price in a 10-3 win over the New York Yankees on Thursday.
Price (18-6) labored through six innings but Sabathia (20-7) struggled even more. The Rays beat New York for the second straight day, splitting the four-game set and pulling within a half-game of the first-place Yankees in the American League East.
Yankees reliever Javier Vazquez equaled a big league record by hitting three straight batters in the seventh as the Rays added two runs without getting a hit.
Ten days earlier, Sabathia and …
Colorado Rockies reliever Matt Herges says he's actually glad he was implicated in the Mitchell Report on doping in Major League Baseball because it led him to clear his conscience over his "dirty little secret."
In the report, former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski said Herges bought human growth hormone on two or three occasions in 2004-05, when Herges was with San Francisco and Arizona. Herges said he used it in the offseason.
"I didn't used to be this way, but I'm at the point where I know what I did was wrong 100 percent, no excuses, no justification, no rationalization. I screwed up and I crossed the line," the …
'The Mysteries of Harris Burdick'
Opens Thursday, to May 25
WNEP Theater, 3209 N. Halsted
Tickets, $15
In his many children's books, author-illustrator Chris VanAllsburg looks at the world from unexpected angles, transforming thefamiliar into the vaguely grotesque, the ordinary into the eerie. Hisdrawings and text meld into a wonderland of the possible andimpossible.
One of these books, 1984's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, went astep further with the creative process. The book's large black-and-white drawings were accompanied by only a line of explanation,allowing the reader to advance the story through the powers of …
