Flower shows are in bloom Mar 13, 2010
Callaway Gardens, in Pine Mountain, is 60 minutes southwest of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. http://www. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Copper City Sign & Awning Mar 7, 2010
Business Spotlights are short, upbeat news stories about successful businesses in southwest Montana. To suggest a business to be spotlighted, contact Paula J. McGarvey, Montana Standard correspondent, at 782-6510 or e-mail paulajmc. (Montana Standard, MT)
Upper Midwest Braces For Severe Spring Flooding Mar 6, 2010
Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 30 mph ... West southwest winds 15 to 25 miles per hour ... Southwest winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts to 30 mph. (KFOXTV.com, TX)
Golden Named Interim Golf Coach Feb 26, 2010
She earned All-America second team honors in 1989 and was a three-time All-Southwest Conference First Team selection (1987-89). Golden was named to the Southwest Conference All Decade team for the 1980's and won three collegiate events during her career. (Seminoles.com)
Downtown Winter Garden’s oldest building faces foreclosure Feb 25, 2010
Built in 1912, the building at the southwest corner of Plant and Main streets has belonged to Shirley Smith since she purchased it and opened Shirley s Trailside Antiques in the 1990s, prior to the downtown s redevelopment. Today, some of the store s windows are boarded up and it faces foreclosure. (Winter Garden West Orange Times, FL)
Haiti offers conflicting counts on number of quake deaths Feb 11, 2010
A third of Haiti s 9 million people were crowded into the chaotic capital when the quake struck just to the southwest a few minutes before 5 p.m. Many were preparing to leave their offices or schools. Some 250,000 houses and 30,000 commercial buildings collapsed, many crushing people inside, according to government estimates. (Boston Globe)
Live and livelier Olympian offspring Jan 17, 2010
6804 Southwest Marine Drive. 604-822-9666. (Boston Globe)
San Carlos man shooting age, playing best golf ever Jan 15, 2010
Weekly stories of Southwest Floridians to shoot their age ... Other Southwest Florida golfers to shoot their age or better ... Other Southwest Florida golfers to shoot their age or better. (The News-Press -- Sports)
Ex-Fresno council member wins Peters award Jan 13, 2010
Candidates for Coalinga City Council say they hope to focus on bringing businesses and jobs to town and make improvements to the limited water supply to help the southwest Fresno County town prosper. They are seeking election to a council that has been embroiled in controversy in recent years over the council's firing of the city manager who refused to fire the police chief. (Fresno Bee -- Business)
Five Reasons to Visit Swakopmund Jan 10, 2010
The small Namibian city of Swakopmund known as Swakop to the locals has a discernible Germanic flavor and design, dating back to Namibia's colonial days as German Southwest Africa. Today, the trappings of a beach resort are mixed in with that Old World charm. (Time.com)
Things to do Jan 10, 2010
Southwest Branch Library's gallery space continues its run of success. Mobile's Brannon Skidmore rocks Lulu's Saturday night. (Pensacola News Journal)
Escape the cold in the Caribbean Jan 10, 2010
Pomato Point Restaurant, on the southwest shore, is known as much for its museum of shipwreck artifacts as it is for its swordfish and conch dishes (284/495-9466, entr;es from $20). At the nearby Neptune's Treasure hotel, paintings of boats on stormy seas hang in the nine rooms, set about 150 feet from the water (, from $95). (CNN)
