Driving golf carts on streets becoming trend in Hobart (The Oklahoman)
HOBART — Newspaper Publisher Joe Hancock has written about the people and happenings of his hometown for more than 55 years. So perhaps it is only fitting the iconic local figure was the first to embrace a new city ordinance that allows electric-powered golf carts to be driven on public streets.Hancock paid his annual $10 license fee when the ordinance took effect Aug. 31. Since then, 10 other ...
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Golf course to get new clubhouse (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Improvements planned for the Blue Ash Golf Course in the near future will benefit golfers and non-golfers.
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Electric truck is homemade (The Mining Journal)
DEERTON - When Sam Simonetta starts up his Chevy S10 truck, it is as quiet as a mouse. No fumes leave the exhaust pipe and no gasoline is circulated within the body. What does this truck run on? Twenty-six golf cart batteries. Christine and Sam Simonetta of Deerton decided about a year and a half ago to invest in a new vehicle.
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Orchard robotics makes one juicy project (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Even in this high-tech era, people with bushel baskets still climb ladders to pick the apples we eat. Manual labor rules the orchard.
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Police gain new tools (The Bolivar Commercial)
Taser guns, new digital video cameras for patrol cars and possibly even a Segway will be added to the Cleveland Police Department inventory thanks to support by the board of aldermen on Tuesday.
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Another Mini adventure, but this time with the sound off (Mail and Guardian)
To a casual observer, it looks no different from a standard modern Mini, the British classic reimagined, to great plaudits, by BMW. But look closer and there's something different about the Mini E, the latest addition to the range.
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Fore! Winter Garden to allow golf carts on city streets (Sun-Sentinel)
West Orange drivers: Be careful. Winter Garden is about to become the first city in Orange County -- and only the second in Central Florida -- to allow golf carts on designated municipal streets.
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Man builds electric car in his backyard (WLOX-TV Biloxi)
GAUTER, MS (WLOX)- It's a fact of life. You can't hit the road without a tank of gas. But one South Mississippi man is breaking his dependence on the pump. Norman White spent four months and thirty two hundred dollars buying a gas guzzling pickup truck and turning it into a rechargeable machine.
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Southwoods adopts new concept in Chairman's Cup (Philstar.com via Yahoo! Philippines News)
The Manila Southwoods Golf and Country Club is going the traditional way in handling major members' tournaments by implementing a concept that would guarantee more camaraderie in the annual Chairman's Cup set Dec. 11 in Carmona, Cavite.
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Golf carts on city streets? (The Potpourri)
Even though prices are down at the pump, Magnolia residents and City Council members are keeping an eye on the future and ready to discuss whether or not neighborhood electric vehicles should be allowed on city streets.
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