Green Spaces, the city public parks action group, announced this week that the derelict Cranford Baths on the banks of the East Patterson River, a dozen miles north of the city center, will soon be converted into a public park…
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Otter Popularity
An occasional survey of jobs both unusual and extraordinary, and the people who make them happen. Juan Booth, 53, has the kind of job that makes your mouth water. For almost forty years, Booth has been Chief Flavor Technician at…
Foreign Takeover of Beloved Cheese-Whip
When Mathias Barnaby, founder of the famous Cheese-Whip factory, opened his original North Falls dairy in in 1899, even he couldn’t have realized how much his enterprise would eventually mean to the city. Since Cheese-Whip’s invention and introduction in 1927,…
Friday Facts: Peelers, It’s the Humidity, Blood
:: When the new Southside High School opens at the end of the month, it will be the first high school in the city built without an Olympic-sized swimming pool in 46 years, after the school district was finally able…
Odds-On Favorite Retires From Column
This week, the News celebrates the 50th anniversary of its longest-running feature, the “I Make the Odds†column penned since July of 1958 by Harvey Preakston. Preakston, a graduate of City College and the son of former rugby impresario Reginald…
The Blotter: Potato Guns Are Surprisingly Illegal
As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. (Note: More violent, standard items do not frequently show up here, as they are covered in the local papers with regularity.) 7:23 am…
Times That the Sword of General Gainsborough has Gone Missing
Though the famous statue of General Archibald Gainsborough in Ataraxia Park is made of bronze, sculptor Jeffery Couveign chose to create the general’s sword as a separate piece, made of stainless steel, hoping the weapon would “shine in the sun,…