Month: November 2012

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- A retired Marine major general who lives in Fallbrook, Calif. was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown to take command of California's troubled state parks system, reports the Village News Network.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- The Citizens for the St Sebastian Preserve will host the 8th Annual Horseback Poker Ride and Camp-out on Saturday, Dec. 1, reports TCPalm.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- On Monday, the Seymour City Council gave approval to an ordinance issuing $2.375 million to help finance Cummins Inc.'s expansion of its Seymour Engine Plant. In exchange, the city will receive funding in the same amount from Cummins for education, writes the Seymour Tribune.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- Country Thunder is rolling into Florence, Ariz., April 11-14, 2013, and bringing today’s hottest country stars.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- For the eighth straight year, Cummins Inc. has been awarded a perfect score in the 2013 Corporate Equality Index by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as part of its Best Places to Work initiative, the company announced today.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- In the United Kingdom, national park bosses have unveiled plans to transform part of the Highlands with new campsites, motorhome facilities and commercial kiosks, according to a report in Grough.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- While most ghouls and goblins gathered candy Halloween night, Coast River Business Journal reports the staff at KOA Campground in Hammond and students at Astoria High School collected food for hungry people in Clatsop County.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- StandardNet reports that 30-year-old Andrew Owens Pentz is accused of stabbing his motorhome battery, choking a fellow camper and using a knife to threaten and chase a four-year-old boy at the Spring Hollow Campground in Enterprise.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- At least two members of the city council believe a panel could have done more to avert the failure of the transient occupancy tax ordinance that appeared on the Nov. 6 ballot in Red Bluff, Calif., reports the Record-Searchlight.

(Nov. 14, 2012) -- The Glens Falls Post-Star reports next spring, the Whitehall Marina at Lock 12 and RV Park in New York will open as a full-service marina with boat slips, fuel, a ship’s store and boat-repair services on the west side of the canal.