| NJHerald.com
ANDOVER TWP. To the average passerby, Hillside Park may appear to be your everyday playground. But to the residents of Andover Township, it's the beloved center of just about every town activity. There are athletic fields and courts where people come to play soccer, volleyball, tennis, basketball, baseball and hockey. A small outlet of Lake Iliff runs behind the park, creating a perfect spot for fishing, or watching the occasional swan. Even in the bitter January cold, children can be found climbing the monkey bars and playing on the swings after school, while parents chat, watching from the park benches. Come spring, more than 2,000 plastic eggs are hidden around the park for the annual Easter Egg Hunt, and in May, Hillside Park will be the home of Andover Township Day, including live music and a family barbecue.
An Area of Manhattan Takes Step Toward History
An enclave of Rennaisance Revival and Queen Anne-style row houses along Manhattan Avenue between 104th and 106th streets in Manhattan may be designated a historic district. The area took its first steps toward designation last night at a community meeting where building owners and neighbors discussed the landmarks process. "The area has that special sense of place that you look for in a historic district," the director of Landmark West!, Kate Wood, an advocate for designating the area the Manhattan Valley Historic District, said. She said the area above 96th Street has not received the same amount of landmark designation attention as the area below. Gone is the time when drug deals, empty tree wells, and neglected buildings with squatters dotted the sloping area.
Forward.com
Poor Maxine. Somehow she makes it into newsprint and pixels so much less often than Josie does. I'm nuts about her, I swear, but because I've already been through all her developmental stages once, I think they make less interesting copy. (For instance, I was entranced when baby Josie pretended to pluck and eat little bits of fur off the cat. But when Max did it, zzz. Now I believe that infantile feline-mock-pluckage is a common baby grooming behavior, probably an evolutionarily significant throwback to nutritive lice-noshing.) Anyway, to be brutal: Maxine's growth is not news, whereas Josie is perpetually finding novel and fascinating ways to annoy me. .
Abandoned baby's mom comes forward
Saskatoon police Staff Sgt. Kirby Harmon ponders a question during a news conference in Saskatoon on Tuesday. An 18-year-old student living alone didn't know where to turn when she gave birth to a baby girl. Hours later she left the baby on a neighbourhood doorstep. .
MousePlanet's weekly mailbag compilation
In the first group of letters this week, MousePlanet photographer Frank Anzalone responds to letters from readers asking for tips on how to capture those magical Disney moments. Tina D. writes: Thank you! Your article was wonderful and I learned a lot. I will surely use these tips on my next trip (to Walt Disney World in October). August's Disneyland evening pictures from my digital camera were awful. I finally gave up and did, as you suggested, enjoyed the show. I'm glad you picked up a few tips with that low light photography article. The evening pictures are so magical (when they turn out)... Just keep shooting, have some fun and enjoy the time at Walt Disney World. Kathy C. writes: We're planning our first trip to Walt Disney World in April (kids ages 8, 5, and 4) and I just started looking into photo tips.
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