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WHITE PLAINS - High winds knocked a construction worker into a stairwell and caused police to close off traffic around the high-rise hotel construction project in the center of downtown this afternoon. Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Daniel Jackson said workers were trying to clear all loose building materials from the site of the Ritz-Carlton hotel project, which began blowing off the building as high winds picked up this afternoon when the man was injured. "The building inspector ordered everyone off the structure and we're going to keep the streets closed until the wind dies down," Jackson said. "It will probably be for the whole night and this is going to cause a lot of congestion downtown." Main Street eastbound at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Mamaroneck Avenue northbound at Martine Avenue have been closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic until further notice, jackson said.
Jeanna Gibson has joined Jarrard Nowell & Russell as a staff accountant. She holds an associate degree in accounting from Trident Technical College and an associate degree in technology from Excelsior College. Previously, she was a nuclear electronics technician on active duty in the U.S. Navy. Banking R. Wayne Hall has joined First Financial Holdings, the parent company of First Federal Savings and Loan Association, as executive vice president of financial management effective Dec. 1. He has more than 20 years of experience in accounting and risk management, most recently as executive vice president and chief risk officer for Provident Bank in Baltimore. He holds a bachelor's degree in finance and a master's degree in accounting from Virginia Tech and is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking.
Atlantic Eagle Nest teachers will become mentors to these schools and help them develop similar construction education programs, according to Jerry Crocilla, Academy Coordinator at Atlantic High School in Delray Beach. "The school district made the decision to put the construction program in the South area last year and Atlantic Community High School had a tradition of having a strong technological program. So it was a natural that they put the program here," Crocilla said. Eagle Nest, in close partnership with the city of Delray Beach, is building a three bedroom, two-bath home on NW 12 Avenue. The Delray Beach home will be part of the city’s Housing Renaissance program for affordable housing. Eagle Nest recently participated in a statewide showcase of exemplary high school programs called the Innovation Fair.
Summary: A mid-40s woman faces eviction from Punta Gorda's FEMA park on Oct. 31 after Hurricane Charley turned her life upside down. Ellie Cousino is a portrait of tortured pain. The 47-year-old mother of four grown boys now resides in Punta Gorda's Federal Emergency Management Agency's mobile home number 349, in the park off I-75 and Airport Road. She knows she has only 11 more days to find another place to live. Just thinking of it brings tears from heavily lined eyes. They spill down hollowed cheeks in salty trails. Her long, slender fingers trace patterns on her facial skin as she scrapes and rubs and shields herself with her hands. Her speech is halting, nervous. Ellie Cousino has so many problems. There is no trace in her neat mobile home of the woman who before Hurricane Charley was a fitness instructor with the Lady of America chain, a woman who with her boyfriend moved here and bought a houseboat, a woman who once was confident and filled with laughter.
A 38-year-old home improvement contractor from Annadale, who is charged with committing more than a dozen crimes, including seven counts of second degree grand larceny appeared in state Supreme Court today, where he was remanded to Rikers Island without bail. Jim Cartrette is accused of accepting payments for work he had no intentions of doing - costing Staten Islanders more than $1 million, according to District Attorney Daniel Donovan. .
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