Indian River County officials said they believe a suspected drug dealer may have accepted food stamps as payment. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and MACE narcotics unit executed a search warrant at a home in the 8400 block of 63rd Avenue in Wabasso and arrested Anthony Wheeler, 44. Watch the story Sheriff…
Huffington Post Stamps of HonorHuffington PostAlthough I was never that fortunate, I continued to collect stamps for many years and, as many collectors find themselves doing, I became a "niche collector" My "niche" was — because of my specialty in the military — communications-electronics. More: continued here
Under that approach, the federal government would pay the states a lump sum instead of a portion of the programs cost. The Wall Street Journal first reported on Thursday that Senate Budget Committee Chair Mike Enzi of Wyoming and other Republican leaders will include the plan in their fiscal 2016 budget proposal that will be…
Stamp search leads to letters, memoriesGloucester Daily TimesMy fascination with postage stamps began when I was 11 or 12, with a connection arranged by Miss Ena G. Salt, an amazing, eccentric, multi-lingual British woman who was endlessly fascinating to me. She rented the upstairs apartment of a Rockport house … More: continued here
GOP Looks at Medicaid and Food Stamps for OverhaulThe Fiscal TimesSenate Republicans are preparing to reprise their long-standing efforts to achieve major savings in Medicaid and federal food stamps by turning the programs over to the states in the form of block grants. Under that approach, the federal government … More: continued here
Seacoastonline.com Life Lessons and Loves: The year of the stamps— and their many valuesSeacoastonline.comRather than today's 49-cents stamps, I've been attaching ones from 2 to 34 cents, and everything in between. This has been a good-for-me brain exercise at times, putting my feeble math skills to test. I just ran out of the higher-cented stamps,…
World Record Academy Largest stamp mosaic: Spain breaks Guinness World Records world recordWorld Record AcademyMALAGA, Spain — A total of 230,000 original postage stamps were stuck down by adults and children in the Costa del Sol capital's José María Martín Carpena sports centre on a strip of paper 220 square metres in size; it took…
I never cross paths with my postal carrier these days, but I’d wager to say that she probably thinks I’m a little crazy. You see, for the past year, I’ve been leaving her outgoing letters with stamps of varying worths. More: continued here
cleveland.com (blog) FrogTape Earn Your Stripes DIY contest, stamp collectors show and birds in the …cleveland.com (blog)STAMP COLLECTING SHOW: The Garfield Perry Stamp Club celebrates its 125th anniversary with a March Party stamp collecting show, Thursday through Saturday, March 19-21 in Cleveland. More than 1,000 stamp enthusiasts are expected to attend to buy … More: continued…
Life Lessons and Loves: The year of the stamps… and their many valuesGaston GazetteI never cross paths with my postal carrier these days, but I'd wager to say that she probably thinks I'm a little crazy. You see, for the past year, I've been leaving her outgoing letters with stamps of varying worths. Rather than…