Fort Bragg - Mendocino Coast Calendar of Events (Mendocino Beacon)

- Public meeting for Crown Hall, Thursday, Jan. 31, 6 p.m., at Crown Hall, 45285 Ukiah St., Mendocino. 937-0672 or 961-1901. - Crab and Wine Tasting for Fort Bragg Food Bank, Thursday, Jan. 31, 3 p.m., Little River Inn. 937-5842.

A hunting haven (The Gazette)

A hunt executed with military precision Sunday on a northern Linn County farm yielded 13 roosters in three hours.That sounds like a lot of birds for a hunt late in the season, which ended Thursday. But it was only a small fraction of the hundreds of pheasants residing ona northern Linn County farm managed to maximize game bird production.Mike Bergman of Mount Vernon, who retired as a colonel ...

University offers 2008 (Adelaide Now)

CHECK out the full list of cutoff ranks from the major South Australian universities and the Round 1 2008 Uni offers.

Acorn may be eco friendly but what happened to manners? (The Ham&High Network)

Happy New Year. I've started 2008 as I mean to go on. The Doomsday scenario in Al Gore's (oh so) Inconvenient Truth has finally sunk in, and I'm going to be so darned green in 2008 you'd lose me in the park.

Higgins Beach is a small beach located in the State of Maine in the United States. It is located in the town of Scarborough in Cumberland County. This small beach is North of Prouts Neck and Old Orchard beach, and South of Crescent Beach State Park.This northeast-southwest trending beach measures approximately .62 miles (1 km) and is approximately 7 miles (11 km) South of Portland and 110 miles (177 km) North of Boston. It lies between bedrocks at the southwest, sometimes known as Thunder Cove, and the Spurwink river on the northeastern end. This small seaside community has about 300 cottages. In addition, the community has two inns (The Breakers and The Higgins Beach Inn), which are open during the summer season.Higgins Beach is most known for four things: good surf for surfers, striper fishing, the beach's quaintness, and the shipwreck embedded in the beach's sands.This is a public beach, but with very little public parking, its use is mostly restricted to local residents. Higgins Beach has managed to retain its small-town characteristics, something that larger beaches in the area such as Old Orchard have lost in return for commercialization and tourism. This beach, by contrast, survives on the small number of visitors who have returned year after year for decades. Some of its current residents began coming to Higgins Beach in this way.