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ROSEMARY CLOONEY'S BABY to Play Mary's Attic, 3/4
Broadway World
Starring Scooty in the Ruth Gordon role, Alien Queen's Ryan Lanning as Mia Farrow, Carpenters Halloween's Libby Lane as John Cassavetes, and JoJo on piano, the show re-imagines the renowned Roman Polanski film of satanic conception as a musical filled ...


Carpenters union local recruiting six new apprentices in North Country
North Country Now
The carpenters' union local will be recruiting six new apprentices in the North Country through early next year. The Empire State Carpenters Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee, Local Union #747 (Watertown) will conduct the recruiting from Feb.

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New York Times

Earthquake Refugee Cottages
New York Times
But as winter rains approached, more than 5000 cottages were built by union carpenters to house 15000 of the 250000 people who had been left homeless. Two green 10-foot-by-14-foot buildings tucked near the Main Post at the Presidio are survivors of ...

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Syracuse.com

Opinion today: War Memorial offerings enriched the region's culture
Syracuse.com
By The Post-Standard View full sizeDavid Lassman / The Post-StandardThe Carpenters in concert at the Onondaga County War Memorial in April 1972. Karen Carpenter on drums with her brother Richard at Keyboard. Philip Dardaris, of Camillus, writes about ...

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Written by Peter Blasl
Riverhead LOCAL
"The carpenters union is bidding on the job," Dickhoff said. "They seem to be right on with their price. The elevator company is union. The plumbing company, a Riverhead company, is union." Dickhoff explained that he is not subbing out the excavation ...

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Protesters picket outside 20 Hawley Street
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
The protesters said the carpenters hired to work at 20 Hawley are being unfairly paid. 20 Hawley management did not respond to multiple phone calls for comment. The 23 picketers carried signs that read, "Future Coating, Inc. does not pay area standard ...


Hip to Be Square: The Explorers Club Will Blow Your Soft Rock Mind
Huffington Post (blog)
The result: a sound so smooth one would swear Richard Carpenter was twiddling those console knobs ("I do love the Carpenters," quips Brewer). "I'm on a never-ending quest to nail that sound," Brewer says of his major influences from the golden age of ...

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BEVERLY JANE COVELL
Hornell Evening Tribune
Arrangements by Carpenters Funeral Home LLC, 14 E. Pulteney St., Corning. Beverly Jane Covell, 66, of 245 Main St., Coopers Plains, passed away Friday (Feb. 3, 2012) in the Corning Hospital after a lengthy illness. Born July 24, 1945, the daughter of ...

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Leland A. Benson
Jamestown Post Journal
Known as ''Poppy'' by family and friends, he was employed in earlier years by the Blackstone Corp. and later as a carpenter by Collum Acoustical. A lifetime member of the Carpenters Union Local 66, Poppy was also a life member and former fire chief of ...


Helen M. Bishop
Corning Leader
Calling hours are 4-6 pm Thursday at Carpenters Funeral Home LLC, 14 W. Pulteney St. Services will be held there at the conclusion of calling hours are 6 pm Thursday. Burial will be held at the convenience of the family in Seamans Cemetery, Savona.

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Press readers share their Steel Pier memories
Press of Atlantic City
The high divers, water skiing, (with a dog), Diving Horse - audience being warned to stay absolutely silent in order for horse to dive - the hilarious Steel Pier carpenters and more. 7. A notable increase of adults properly attired, heading for the ...

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Progressive 'treatment' of Atlantic City is killing the patient
Shore News Today
Before the progressives took over, people who arrived broke and worked as carpenters, bricklayers, cooks and maids could and did earn, save and borrow enough money to buy land, build, and start their own businesses in a few years.


Cape May County Herald (press release)

Habitat Cape May Re-Launches Volunteer Building Program
Cape May County Herald (press release)
Habitat Cape May welcomes skilled carpenters and tradesmen to volunteer on the construction site, as well as volunteers of any ability level who are willing to learn. Online signup is available at www.habitatcapemay.org.

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Kuiken Brothers celebrates a century in lumber business
Dailyrecord.com
They were later joined by another brother, Dirk, and their cousin, Richard, who all worked as carpenters and craftsmen. ?My family began its migration to America about a hundred years after New Jersey received statehood,? said Douglas R. Kuiken, ...

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Houseboat Industry Eyes New Venture For Comeback
Manufacturing.net
During the heyday in the mid-2000s, area workers skilled as carpenters and electricians produced several hundred houseboats each year, Stardust's chief executive estimated. The companies shipped finished boats to Europe, Australia and the Middle East.

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Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com

Editorial: Hunterdon County Freeholders keep tightening the budget
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
Looking at the Buildings and Maintenance Department, it might seem easy to eliminate the skilled workers: the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, mechanics and others. Maybe it's cheaper to outsource, especially when pensions and benefits are ...

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PolitickerNJ

LD 2 veteran Myers to run Pascrell's campaign
PolitickerNJ
Congressman Pascrell has already gained the support of elected officials across the district as well as local and statewide labor organizations spanning from police and fire to the carpenters, plumbers, laborers and pipefitters.

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Builders step up spending for fifth straight month
Asbury Park Press
19 photo, carpenters with Cofab Homes Inc., assemble a four section, two story home in Scranton, Pa. Builders increased their spending in December for the fifth consecutive month, offering more evidence of improvement in the battered construction ...

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Cape May County's soup kitchen nears March deadline to raise $50000 to stay open
Press of Atlantic City
Local contractors ranging from carpenters to plumbers to electricians have also helped. ?We built an entire addition to the back of the building and ripped out the kitchen where we'll be cooking,? Jewell said. ?The ceilings there were only 8 feet, ...


CNBC.com

The Dark Side of Germany's Jobs Miracle
CNBC.com
"A lot of my friends work as carpenters, but companies describe them as janitors in their contracts to avoid paying the salary negotiated in the collective wage agreement," said one 33-year-old unemployed man in Stralsund who declined to give his name.

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Bloomberg

Los Angeles's $100000 Carpenters Show Influence of Water Department Union
Bloomberg
$102732 Versus $65201 Water and Power's 50 carpenters were paid an average of $102732 in 2010, more than twice the national norm. That compares with $65201 at the general services department and $82999 at the airports department.
Los Angeles's $100000 Carpenters Show Clout of Utility's UnionSan Francisco Chronicle

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Monday Picks: 'John Carpenter's Escape From New York'
The Flickcast
by Douglas Barnett, Feb 6 2012 This week's pick is yet another John Carpenter classic. Kurt Russell stars as the first ever action hero of the 1980s in Escape From New York (1981). After success with Halloween and the horror classic The Fog, ...


Lady Jr. Cyclones hammer Jefferson
Elizabethton Star
The Lady Jr. Cyclones will await the winner of a Wednesday game between Cleveland and Carpenters. Carpenters is a school located in the Maryville area. Dugger will look to close in on a sectional crown at 7 pm on Friday. ?It's a win and you can't worry ...


ROSEMARY CLOONEY'S BABY to Play Mary's Attic, 3/4
Broadway World
Starring Scooty in the Ruth Gordon role, Alien Queen's Ryan Lanning as Mia Farrow, Carpenters Halloween's Libby Lane as John Cassavetes, and JoJo on piano, the show re-imagines the renowned Roman Polanski film of satanic conception as a musical filled ...


Cleveland News - Fox 8

Golf Course Brawl Could Cost Man His Leg
Cleveland News - Fox 8
According to a report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 48-year-old Clay Carpenter suffered from a punctured femoral artery and massive blood loss in the January 27th fight at the Eagle Mountain Lake Golf Club. Carpenter was released from a Texas ...

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Union protests against company at local construction site
Columbia Daily Tribune
David Basaldua, Keith Murray and Mike Bruckner, members of Carpenters' District Council of Greater Saint Louis and Vicinity Local 1925, stand behind a sign at Vandiver Drive and Parker Street to protest Crossland Construction's use of subcontractor EPI ...


Prep girls basketball roundup: White Swan starts quickly, beat RC
Yakima Herald-Republic
Madison Roberts, Tori Carpenter and Kendra Staymates scored 12 points each for Riverside Christian (9-2, 14-5), which also plays Entiat this week on Friday. Staymates, who also had seven rebounds, topped 1000 points for her career and is currently at ...

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Legacy.com

Karen Carpenter: She'd Only Just Begun
Legacy.com
The death of Karen Carpenter is one of the great tragedies of the music world. Blessed with a warm, friendly singing voice and a natural flair for drums ? but perhaps feeling a lack of control over her life, professionally and personally ? she turned ...


NEWS.com.au

'The Vow' premiere: Making Channing Tatum, Rachel McAdams cry
Los Angeles Times (blog)
The film is based on the real-life tale of Krickitt Carpenter, a newlywed who got into an automobile accident and lost all memory of her husband, Kim. The Carpenters, who attended the premiere, said "The Vow" filmmakers spent time studying video ...
Also opening: 'The Vow'San Antonio Express

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Union Members Picket On-Campus Construction Site
Oklahoma Daily
Protestors were with Carpenters Local Union No. 329 in Oklahoma City, a group that protests for fair wages for workers, according to representatives. The construction company Green Country Interiors does not provide standard wages for its employees, ...

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