Final Curtain for Stafford Opera House on Broadway
Crowds watched as the century old Stafford Opera House built circa 1910 on Broadway street east of the business district was demolished after a final performance. The Weide Opera Company era gave way to hazardous structure declarations and a 2013 demolition bid. Local figures recalled its stage and past events while a restoration bid failed to raise funds.
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Stafford
Old Opera House
Doug Brown
Opera House
Broadway Street
August Weide
Stafford Opera Company
August
Morey Stock Company
Stafford Courier
Weide
Pratt Tribune
Courier
David Green
Stone Sand Company
Great Bend
Arlene Lickass
Lickass
Clare Moore
Henderson House
Weide Opera House
Moore
Lobsterman's harrowing night afloat ends in rescue
John Aldridge, a 45 year old lobsterman from Montauk, spent about 12 hours in the Atlantic after falling from the Anna Mary. He floated using two air filled rubber boots as flotation devices. Coast Guard crews spotted him near Montauk Point and he was treated for dehydration exposure and hypothermia before returning home to Oakdale.
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Frank Eltman
John Aldridge
Jake
Oakdale
N.Y
Aldridge
U.S. Coast Guard
Montauk
Long Island
Coast Guard
Montauk Point
Falmouth
Mass
Lve
John Aldridge Sr
Pittsburgh researcher arrested in poisoning death of wife
Pittsburgh medical researcher Dr Robert Ferrante was arrested in West Virginia on charges tied to the cyanide poisoning death of his wife Dr Autumn Klein a neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The case shows Ferrante allegedly lacing an energy supplement with cyanide after a text exchange about conceiving a baby.
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Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Robert Ferrante
Autumn Klein
Klein
Ferrante
St. Augustine
Fla
Lou Gehrig
Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office
Mike Manko
Beckley
W.va
William Difenderfer
Florida
Difenderfer
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Boston
Defrauding developer to get early release
Thomas Etheredge, 59, who was jailed for seven counts of securities fraud over the Wild West World park near Wichita, will be released Monday after serving just over three years of a five year sentence. The case centered on overrun construction costs and investor deception during the parks brief life in 2007.
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Wichita
Department of Corrections
Thomas Etheredge
Park City
Etheredge
el Dorado
Winfield
Wichita Eagle
Sedgwick County
Federal Bankruptcy Court
Jack Whitson
Whitson
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Stafford Opera House
Lawrence Lawrence
CABLE
Broadcast
Atlantic Ocean
Boots
Ferante
USA
Fabian Seafood CO
Estee Lauder
Weaver
Niles
Wacoal
Calvin Kleine
le Mystere
Vanity Fair
Kenneth Cole
la Blanca
Lauren Longitude
Southpoint Hobie
Bikini Lab
Orig
Cavers
Massach
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