| Board OKs sales lot, retail expansion
WILTON - The Planning Board approved the application for Sandy River Homes and as well as a retail expansion for a wood-products business on Depot Street on Thursday.
The new modular and mobile home sales lot, proposed by Dale Leighton and Marty Pike of Farmington, will be on Route 2 East, across from the Big Apple. KBS Modular Homes of Paris and mobile homes by a new company, Eagle River, will be featured. Pike said he wants the business to open by early June.
The retail expansion request, submitted by Michael Deschenes, included a 35- by 70-foot storage building. .
Country Lane Homes honored
LEWISTON - Skyline Corp. has presented its Platinum Commitment of Excellence Award and its 2006 Top Volume Dealer Award to Peter and Sandra Hinkley of Country Lane Homes, 1211 Sabattus St., Lewiston.
Country Lane Homes received Skyline's Volume Dealer Award based on volume purchases in 2006. Country Lane received Skyline's Platinum Commitment of Excellence Award based on superior satisfaction ratings from homeowners who purchased their manufactured home from Country Lane Homes in 2006.
Country Lane Homes was No. 1 in New England and No. 7 in the nation out of approximately 1,400 Skyline manufactured home dealers for their customer satisfaction ratings. This is the 11th consecutive Commitment of Excellence Award achieved by Country Lane Homes, which has been a Skyline dealer since 1983.
Wind, heavy rain pummel East
NEW YORK -- A powerful nor'easter pounded the East with wind and pouring rain Sunday, grounding airlines and threatening to create some of the worst coastal flooding some areas had seen in more than a decade. The storm flooded people out of their homes in the middle of the night in West Virginia and trapped others. Other inland states faced a threat of heavy snow. One person was killed as dozens of mobile homes were destroyed or damaged by wind in South Carolina. The storm system was blamed for five deaths on Friday in Kansas and Texas. The Coast Guard had warned mariners to head for port because winds of up to 55 mph were expected to generate seas up to 20 feet high, Petty Officer Etta Smith said yesterday in Boston. .
'Good tears' flow after surprise gift
WINGATE -- Leslie Shivery felt guilty leaving the bedside of her critically wounded husband, Marine Cpl. David "D.J." Emery Jr., to accept an award from Centre County's Marine Corps League -- or so she thought -- on her husband's behalf Friday. She doesn't regret the trip anymore. Shivery was stunned Friday when she was taken by limousine to a manufactured home in the Blarney Stone development to find dozens of friends and family waiting for her, along with the Nittany Leathernecks Detachment of the Marine Corps League and several active-duty Marines in full dress uniforms. She cried when she saw the Marines. She cried even harder when she was told the house in front of her now belongs to her and her husband. The manufactured home was paid for by "An American Angel," a proposed new television series produced by Centre County native Bea Clapp, with Discretion Entertainment.
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