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Affordable?

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by Mark Chapman

Dane Hahn

By Dane Hahn

Real Estate

Houses around Engle­wood are get­ting more afford­able. I have focused on  “afford­abil­ity” in the past, and think that it’s worth look­ing at again in light of the cur­rent con­di­tions. The National Asso­ci­a­tion of Real­tors keeps a ton of data on sales and deter­mines what regions of the coun­try have homes that are the most affordable.

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Englewood man charged with drug robbery

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 by Mark Chapman

An Engle­wood man was arrested at 2:08 p.m. Tues­day, Nov. 1, and charged in a drug robbery.

Ronald W. Mus­sel­man, 28, of Michi­gan Avenue was charged with rob­bery by sud­den snatch­ing with­out a weapon after an inci­dent involv­ing another sus­pect and two peo­ple in wheelchairs.

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International differences

Sunday, October 30th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

Dane Hahn

By Dane Hahn

Real Estate

Recently around the office we’ve been talk­ing about the dif­fer­ences between real estate busi­ness here and in other countries.

For exam­ple, in Aus­tralia, there is no mul­ti­ple list­ing ser­vice, you call the agent whose sign you see on the prop­erty and go see the house with that per­son. This is a huge has­sle for the buy­ers who have to con­tact a num­ber of dif­fer­ent Real­tors if they want to see what’s for sale in a given area.

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First winner revealed in photo contest

Sunday, July 24th, 2011 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy Pioneer Days Committee

“Fam­ily Rides” is the first weekly win­ner in the Spirit of Engle­wood photo contest.

Sub­mit­ted by Pio­neer Days Committee

The win­ner of the first week’s entries in The Spirit of Engle­wood photo con­test  is a pic­ture of grand­par­ents and a grand­child shar­ing a moment together. It’s titled “Fam­ily Rides,” and the sub­mit­ter notes that: “Grand­par­ents get to go on a bike ride with a vis­it­ing grand­daugh­ter — Fam­i­lies! That’s the Engle­wood Spirit.”

But this is just the begin­ning. There are sev­eral weeks to go and a total of 10 top entries will be cho­sen for the final judg­ing at the Engle­wood Pio­neer Days Parade Festivals.

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GOP should not roll over on Medicare

Friday, May 6th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

One of the small plea­sures in life I enjoy is sit­ting down for break­fast with a cup of good hot cof­fee and the news­pa­per. I have a rota­tion of restau­rants I visit and I enjoy the “quiet time.” Usu­ally. But not this morning.

Instead of going to the comics first, I made the mis­take of read­ing the arti­cle the front page of the Sara­sota Herald-Tribune. The par­tic­u­lar story of dis­may was enti­tled “GOP will Shelve Bid to Retool Medicare.”

Here are some items in the article:

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In praise of Skidmore

Thursday, May 5th, 2011 by Mark Chapman

Com­mis­sioner Skid­more is a per­son who will go the extra mile. He is the only Board Mem­ber that has a web site, to inform the pub­lic. You can find out what was on the agenda and how the Com­mis­sion­ers voted. This is a com­plete pack­age for your infor­ma­tion. You can copy this and use it for future ref­er­ence. At elec­tion time you can use this infor­ma­tion to make a good deci­sion. Also this site has mate­r­ial to inform you, to bet­ter under­stand projects. The last one was on Mos­quito control.

We need to be bet­ter informed on the ins and outs of our Board of Com­mis­sion­ers. Com­mis­sioner Skid­more saw this need. Thank you for your extra devo­tion to your job.

Joe Voll,Burnt Store Colony

Buchanan Tea Party survey questions cause ire

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 by Mark Chapman

Mr. Buchanan,

To be per­fectly hon­est, I am extremely offended by your online sur­vey today. You are ask­ing peo­ple if they “sup­port” the tea party or not. I am offended on two counts:

1) First, it shows absolutely no under­stand­ing of what the tea party stands for. You are skew­ing your ques­tion in order to get neg­a­tive reac­tions to the tea party name. This is obvi­ous because oth­er­wise you would ask the same ques­tions the tea party asks you. Do you sup­port con­sti­tu­tion­ally lim­ited gov­ern­ment? Do you sup­port reduc­tion of spend­ing to no more than receipts? Do you sup­port energy inde­pen­dence? Do you believe the con­sti­tu­tion should be the guid­ing force behind all leg­is­la­tion? I dare say you would get near 100% pos­i­tive response. This is NOT ABOUT THE TEA PARTY!!! This is about our gov­ern­ment gone amok and cit­i­zens work­ing to see that it get fixed. When you ask such a ques­tion as ‘do you sup­port the tea party or not,’ you are doing more to polar­ize than bring together. STICK TO THE ISSUES! WE ARE NOT THE ISSUE, WE ARE MAKING A POINT OF SPEAKING TO ISSUES.

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Englewood Red Cross gets new vehicle

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 by Mark Chapman

From left, Response Man­age Sue Gaudett, Emer­gency Ser­vices Chair Bon­nie Jacobs, and Chap­ter Exec­u­tive Direc­tor Megarie van Sickel, present the keys to the new ERV to Engle­wood DAT Coor­di­na­tor Keith Geurts and DAT Lead­ers Ken Keyser and Carla Geurts

Sub­mit­ted by the Engle­wood Red Cross

The Engle­wood Red Cross team has a new Emer­gency Response Vehi­cle (ERV) to bet­ter serve res­i­dents in time of dis­as­ter. The vehi­cle replaces a 1998 donated ambu­lance with more than 200,000 miles on it and was funded by a grant from the William G. and Marie Selby Foun­da­tion. Engle­wood Red Cross Coor­di­na­tor Keith Geurts says; “ The new ERV pro­vides us with a reli­able, cost effec­tive vehi­cle to respond to dis­as­ters in the Engle­wood area.” Con­tinue read­ing this story…