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MABELLEarts, a community organization in Etobicoke, broke ground on Saturday for their park transformation project a vision that has been in the making for more than 14 years.Executive director Leah Houston said the groundbreaking signals the start of an "incredible park transformation" at MABELLEpark a vibrant art park and "beating heart" of the community.

Nick Kokonas is leaving Tock, the company he helped create eight years ago.Kokonas launched the portal to help upscale restaurants, like Alinea - the tasting-menu pioneer he launched with chef Grant Achatz - to better manage reservations.Kokonas - a former trader with colorful social media takes that often trigger strong opinions within Chicago's restaurant industry - is known for co-founding Alinea and its sibling venues, Next, Roister, and the Aviary.

In an attempt to solve two environmental problems at once, researchers at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan have found that shredded nappies can be used to replace between 9 and 40% of the sand used in making concrete without reducing its strength.Disposable nappies are a growing source of non-recyclable waste, and cement production is responsible for almost 7% of global greenhouse-gas emissions and consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand each year.

"We've seen the regulators step in to provide real support for depositors, and we agree that was an important step ... and so we're glad that the depositors are going to be protected," Gonzalez-Brito added.But, she said, "we hope that there's going to be just as much attention from the regulators to protect" the agreement.

Mortgage lender and servicer NewRez on Monday launched a special purpose credit program through Freddie Mac that will provide $3,000 or more in closing cost assistance to qualifying first-time homebuyers.Freddie Mac's BorrowSmart Access program will be available to NewRez borrowers through Caliber Home Loans ' national network of branches.

Ask a water expert if California's drought is finally done, and the answers sound something like this:
"Yes and no." "Kind of.""Depends what you mean by drought."The state has been deluged by storms this winter, hit by 12 atmospheric rivers that have led to evacuation orders, rising rivers and broken levees.

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A slew of new Citi Bike stations are popping up around Bed-Stuy.Brooklyn Paper's sister publication Brownstoner found on a recent survey of the neighborhood that the majority of the new stations are filling up gaps in the network east of Lewis Avenue - good news for riders who used to have to walk blocks to stations around Broadway or Lewis Avenue to pick up a bike.

A slew of new Citi Bike stations are popping up around Bed Stuy, Brownstoner has noticed on recent walks around the neighborhood.The majority of the new stations are filling up gaps in the network east of Lewis Avenue, good news for riders who used to have to walk blocks to stations around Broadway or Lewis Avenue to pick up a bike.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.The November election is already here?So you're saying I'll soon finally get some sweet respite from the cheesy political ads interrupting my late-night Hulu binging?This special edition of Mission Moves seeks to demystify (and update) a few of the upcoming housing/urbanist ballot measures.

Multiple factions of the Bronx health care industry arecoming up on nearly $4.2 million in new funding collectively, following a grant program announcement from one of the state's largest health institutions.Mother Cabrini Health Foundation announced Monday it would be donating $165 million in year-end grants to more than 500 organizations working to address the needs of underserved New Yorkers this year- of which more than $4 million will be allocated to the Bronx specifically.

Low-income residents, senior citizens and other eligible customers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will no longer face shutoffs if they are unable to pay their utility bills, the agency announced Wednesday.Under a motion adopted unanimously by the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners, the DWP must halt the practice of water and power shutoffs as a debt collection tool for residents enrolled in its EZ-SAVE program, which offers discounts for income-qualified residents, as well as those enrolled in the Senior Citizen Lifeline Discount Program.

Local The three pharmacies will close one after another in three days, creating inconveniences for the communities they served.Walgreens locations in three Boston neighborhoods will close this week.The three pharmacies will close one after another in three days: Roxbury's 2275 Washington St. location will close Tuesday, Hyde Park's 1329 Hyde Park Ave. on Wednesday, and Mattapan's 90 River St. on Thursday.

With a lifetime in politics behind him, Charles Clarke, the former Labour cabinet minister, edited a book called The Too Difficult' Box about the problems politicians never get around to addressing because they are, well, just too difficult: drugs policy, welfare reform, sex work and so on.I wish to pitch a companion book called Policy Issues That Are Fantastically Obvious With Fantastically Obvious Solutions Which Everyone Appreciates But Still Somehow Never Get Fixed.