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Life in the ˜Beach Corps’ (Cadillac News) Follow Kayla Kiley as she visits her best friend, who is in the Peace Corps in St. Vincent. • Why did you join Peace corps? In high school I was a Rotary Exchange Student in Brazil for a year, which started my passion for traveling and learning from people of all backgrounds. us.rd.yahoo.com
Football: Boynton Beach 22, Santaluces 0 (The Palm Beach Post) The motto for the Boynton Beach football team this season is "finish." us.rd.yahoo.com
Book Review: Matrimony by Joshua Henkin (Blogcritics.org) Wonderful autumn reading, the perfect antidote to all that beach reading that filled up your summer months. Matrimony, the second novel by writer Joshua Henkin, opens with Julian Wainwright, a rich kid who wants to be a writer, as he enter his his freshman year at Graymont College in Northington, Massachusetts (a thinly disguised Amherst, as far as I can tell) to study under the charismatic ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Football: Dwyer 13, Royal Palm Beach 7 (The Palm Beach Post) Senior running back Donald Russell scored on a 10-yard run with 1:42 to play to give Dwyer a 13-7 victory over host Royal Palm Beach on Friday night. us.rd.yahoo.com
Despite travels, Riley hasn't forgotten roots (Albany Times Union) SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ? Dismiss the designer suits and slicked-back hair and SoCal/Midtown/South Beach cool. Put aside all the NBA titles if you want, if you can. Forget the celebrities and the superstars he calls friends.Pat Riley is still in many ways just one of the guys from Linton, a hard-nosed Schenectady kid fiercely loyal to his hometown, even if he's an icon on the national stage. He's ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Beach Report | (The Charlotte Observer) New diner ‘a home away from home' Charlie Raptis used to be a corporate man, but he is now excited about being a diner gentleman. Raptis will open Prince Creek Diner in Murrells Inlet, S.C., come October. Folks in and around his neighborhood are already coming by to read his sample menu posted at The Shoppes at Tournament Boulevard at 11907 S.C. 707, where the eatery will be. “I moved here a ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Arts & Entertainment Calendar (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder) n Harry’s Night Club and Beach Bar, 690 Cypress St., Pismo Beach, hosts live music Friday and Saturday from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. This weekend, the headliner band will be Soulamente. Cost is $5 at the door. us.rd.yahoo.com
For Number 12, a gilded age (Boston Globe) In his wilderness days as an NFL nobody, Tom Brady often stopped at a roadside café on his ride from work to his vinyl-sided, cookie-cutter condo town house in Franklin. No one recognized him but the kid behind the counter. us.rd.yahoo.com
UNH torch has been passed (Boston Globe) Like every California kid of imagination, R.J. Toman has an easygoing attitude, a love of the beach, and a crown of sun-struck blond hair. What's he doing quarterbacking the University of New Hampshire football team? us.rd.yahoo.com
Water parks splash ahead (Florida Today) As a kid, when Jenny Masada of West Melbourne went to Wet 'n Wild with her parents, it was a relatively simple outing. Her mother would pack towels and suntan lotion and other stuff into a locker when they got to the Orlando water park. Then it was off to the water slide. us.rd.yahoo.com
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