MassLive.com Northampton farmers markets seek to double the value of food stampsMassLive.comNORTHAMPTON – The city's farmers markets are teaming up with Grow Food Northampton and the Board of Health to encourage people to spend their food stamps on healthy, locally grown produce. FoodStampsX2 aims to double the value of food …
Read More »186K lbs of food stamps out hunger – WOOD-TV
186K lbs of food stamps out hungerWOOD-TV(WOOD) – The Stamp Out Hunger campaign in Kent County last weekend has collected 185733 pounds of food so far. The food drive took place on Saturday, in which residents placed bags and boxes of food outside their home for letter carriers from the …
Read More »Princess Beatrice’s wedding hat reaches nearly $30,000 on eBay website
LONDON — Online auctioneer eBay says that bids for one of the wackiest pieces of royal wedding headgear have approached 18,400 pounds ($30,000.) Princess Beatrice’s massive, ring-and-bow-shaped hat, turned heads at the wedding of her cousin Prince William last month and has since become an Internet sensation. The Philip Treacy …
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PLANS are progressing to find a new home for Bridgwater’s main post office when it moves out of Martin’s newsagents in the town’s Angel Place Shopping Centre in September. More: continued here
Read More »Princess Beatrice’s hat going for $30K on eBay (Photos) – OnTheRedCarpet.com
Kansas City Star Princess Beatrice's hat going for $30K on eBay (Photos)OnTheRedCarpet.comThe most recent bid for the "gravity-defying hat" Princess Beatrice wore to the wedding of Prince William and Catherine, which was put on auction on eBay earlier this month, is more than $30300. Proceeds from Beatrice's hat's eBay auction, …
Read More »Royal Mail ‘made £3.2 million in five years selling off “lost” items’ – myHermes
Royal Mail'made £3.2 million in five years selling off "lost" items'myHermesRoyal Mail has revealed it has netted a total of £3.2 million over the past five years by selling items that were "lost" in the post. Last year alone, the company made £824000 by auctioning parcel contents off, the Sunday …
Read More »Michigan $2 million lottery winner on food stamps – Reuters
Fox News Michigan $2 million lottery winner on food stampsReutersDETROIT (Reuters) – A Michigan Lottery $2 million jackpot winner from last year is eligible and collecting some food stamp assistance under a loophole state officials have been working for months to close. Leroy Fick, who lives near Saginaw, …Michigan Man …
Read More »eBay “sale” of toddler was just a joke, Mich. babysitter tells police – CBS News
Daily Mail eBay"sale" of toddler was just a joke, Mich. babysitter tells policeCBS NewsA Western Michigan woman caught apparently trying to sell her 2-year-old cousin on eBay told police it was a joke, reports the Grand Rapids Press. 19-year-old Autumn Braden from Allendale, who was watching the toddler at the …
Read More »Senate looks at ways to help post office – BusinessWeek
Senate looks at ways to help post officeBusinessWeekFor the first three months of the year the post office was more than $2 billion in the red and it's facing an $8 billion loss for the fiscal year. Sen. Tom Carper said Tuesday he is introducing a bill to restructure the …
Read More »Post office’s plea: Stop Saturday mail delivery
The U.S. Postal Service is only months away from running out of money, and the end of Saturday mail delivery might be just around the corner. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is asking Congress for the authority to cut service from six to five days a week as part of a …
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