Explore More New York City is preparing for the worst — extending its contract with local hotels to help house migrants for up to three more years at a staggering added cost of more than $1 billion.
And the revised contract’s projected new total $1.365 billion price tag — nearly five times what the original deal called for — would just pay the rental fees to more than 100 hotels converted into emergency migrant shelters. Read More...
Peggy Kirk Bell, a leading golf instructor who owned Pine Needles resort and spent a lifetime as the premier advocate for women’s golf, died Nov. 23 at her home in Southern Pines, N.C. She was 95.
Kelly Miller, her son-in-law and the club president at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club and the Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club, both in Southern Pines, announced the death. No cause was reported. Read More...
Minnie Riperton, an American singer-songwriter who lived from November 8, 1947, to July 12, 1979, was best known for her 1975 hit “Lovin’ You” and her four-octave D3 to F7 coloratura soprano range. She is renowned for her usage of the whistling register and has been dubbed the “Queen of the Whistle Register” by the media.
Riperton was raised in Chicago’s South Side Bronzeville neighborhood where she was born in 1947. Read More...
