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The Garden Island began publication in 1902. It was formerly owned by Scripps League Newspapers , which was acquired by Pulitzer in 1996; Lee Enterprises acquired Pulitzer in 2005. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Oahu Publications Inc., publisher of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser , acquired The Garden Island newspaper from Lee Enterprises in January 2013.
In 1985 Loewen Group went public and, in 1987, the company expanded into the United States. In the years that followed, Loewen rapidly expanded his company, purchasing hundreds of small independent funeral homes. By the mid-90s, the company had 15,000 employees and operated 1,115 funeral homes and was the world's second-largest funeral chain. [10]
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Concha Alós, 85, Spanish writer. [1]Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist. [2]Joe Caffie, 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Buckeyes). [3]Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun (Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth), first nun to seek political office in New Jersey.
Some of the restored trains can be ridden about once a month at the site of the Lihue Plantation Sugar Mill nearby. [12] In the 1990s all sugarcane production ended in the area. A golf course designed for the former plantation called Puakea was partially built when Hurricane Iniki hit in 1992. It opened with ten holes in 1997. [13]
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State Route 329 (Burlington Avenue) crosses the island to south bank of the Wabash. There are about twenty private residents on the island, [1] which is about 17 acres. [2] The island was named for its former owner Horace P. Biddle, a local judge and poet. [3] Biddle's home on the island was a large house built by John Tipton. The house was ...
Swayzee is a town in Sims Township, Grant County, Indiana, United States.The population was 918 at the 2020 census. On its welcome sign, Swayzee claims to be "the only Swayzee in the world." This motto is based on a story about a postcard sent by a serviceman overseas during World War II, which although being addressed only to "Swayzee", with no mention of Indiana or any other information, was ...