Florida celebrates: Life's a beach again
PENSACOLA BEACH — Hotel rooms are nearly sold out here for the three-day Labor Day holiday weekend, bolstering expectations that this will be the busiest weekend since the BP oil spill in April. |
Pensacola Beach getting back to business
Pensacola Beach gearing up for the busiest weekend all summer as Labor Day holiday approaches. |
Reunions - From the Poughkeepsie Journal
Pine Plains classes of 1955-65 reunion - Backyard BBQ Restaurant, Church Street, Pine Plains. 7 p.m. Sept. 10. Class of 1960 hosting an informal get together for the classes from 1955-1965. Call Pat Byron at 1-518-622-2036 for more information. |
Dining Notes: Restaurant openings, closings, menu additions and more
"Top Chef" Season 7 contestant Kenny Gilbert plans to open an island-themed restaurant in Jacksonville Beach in mid November. Gilbert told his followers on Twitter recently that he'd just completed designs for the kitchen ("European Island Style open kitchen with a sweet Raw Bar") and prep area for his planned Nipper's USA restaurant, the first for his recently-formed Culinary Adventure Capital ... |
Earl weakens to Category 1, heads for Northeast
Hurricane Earl sideswiped North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday, flooding the vacation islands but causing no injuries and only modest damage, then took aim at New England as a weaker but still dangerous storm. |
PHOTOS Labor Day tourism for Collier, Lee relies heavily on Florida travelers
Hoteliers in Southwest Florida continue to struggle, plagued by false impressions of dirty water and oily beaches. The long holiday weekend, however, will fill up some local hotels and resorts, with many visitors planning to come from Florida’s east coast, where there’s a better understanding of where the oil went and where it didn’t. |
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KILL DEVIL HILLS — In the annals of North Carolina hurricanes, Earl will be lucky to merit so much as a footnote. Hours after the storm made its way north, vacationers and residents along the North Carolina coast were preparing to celebrate the last long weekend of summer. |
Earl sideswipes Outer Banks, heads for Northeast
Hurricane Earl kicked up dangerous waves and rip currents along the East Coast as it blew over open water Friday toward Cape Cod after brushing North Carolina's Outer Banks, leaving flooding but no injuries on the narrow vacation islands. |
Earl weakens to a Category 1, winds near 85 mph
Hurricane Earl has weakened to a Category 1 storm as it heads for the Northeast and some watches and warnings have been reduced or dropped from Long Island to Maine. |
Flooding on Outer Banks, Earl heads for Northeast
A weakened Hurricane Earl delivered only a glancing blow to North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday on its way up the East Coast, flooding roads on the narrow vacation islands and knocking out power but staying farther offshore than feared. There were no immediate reports of any injuries. |
