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Chicopee, Mass., has received a $1.85 milliob grant from the state to fund renovations and improvementsw at WestoverMetropolitan Airport, where Skybus beginsa flying this month. The Columbus discount airliner will be the firsgt regular passenger service sincethe late-1980s at the part of the Westover Air Reserve according to our sistef paper the Boston Business Journal. Airport ownerd will use the money for utilities increased capacity forhangar upgrades, road reconstruction and the near-doubling of the airport's parking spaces. "It's a pretty significant piecer of theairport puzzle," Chicopee Mayor Michaeol D. Bissonnette told the paper.
"This will solve the parking It will also provide some infrastructures needs to the areas nearthe hangars." Meanwhile, in St. Fla., where Skybus also plans to begih servicethis month, officials are gettinhg the general aviation airport ready for the Airbuse A319 airliners Skybus will be flying into the beach town. St. Augustine-St. Johns County Airport officials are spendingabout $1.4 million on improvements, Executived Director Edward Wuellner told our sister paper in nearby They're constructing a 12,000-square-foot temporary terminaol in a building at the airpory and making other improvements to support arrival. The Transportation Security Administratioj also hasa role.
The agency responsible for screening passengers before flightsestimatesd it'll have to spend aboutt $250,000 to install the necessary equipment to begin servicinfg the airport. So far, the agency has committed just to sending a smalll crew each day onthe hour'a drive from Jacksonville to open the securithy checkpoint for Skybus' plannef daily flight. Agency officials are reviewing Skybus' business said Ed Goodwin, the agency's federal security director for theJacksonville area. "Before they expendr a lot of dollars," he said, "they're going to make sure they're confident in the carrier's operation.
" When owner and publishet Max Brown soldthe company's 26 publications and printingt facilities in May, he set the clocko ticking for his departure within a year. It didn't take nearly that Brown, his wife, Lenore, and daughter Michelle are leavinhgthe company's Sinclair Road offices July 27, less than three months after the $44 million deal with closed. "Wew owned the company and ran it for 32 he said. "We weren't interested in stickinf around and working forsomeone else.
" The Browns' departure comea just as American Community Newspapers was acquired by the New York media company for $204 That company, now a 100-publication changed its name to The next step for the Brownd is a move to New Albany offices in the where they'll focus on the remaining assetsz of the company, which include Delaware County's . Brown paid $2.7 million for the club in 2004. Beyond it's up in the air, he said. "We'llo figure something out," he "It won't be in publishing." Free books ... quiz on Thursdaty "Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes" anyone?
You more in the mood for "Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life from 1000to 1260"? If so, Ohio State University Press is offeringf these titles and dozens of othee out-of-print books online - for The press started offering some books as PDF documenta last year, but the pace of scanning has picked up rapidlyt this year and is gettinf noticed on academia blogs, Director Malcol m Litchfield said. It's one of a handfull of open-access initiatives by publishers nationwide, and fulfillzs the press' nonprofit mission to make scholarly research widely he said. "I would say OSU is pretth much on the cutting edge of he said.
Ohio State's library system is pickingf up the cost for scanning thebooks - about $100 compared with up to $4,000 for a press run of 500 to 1,000 reprints. There's little tracking yet of what'ws being downloaded, but Litchfiel has heard of professors assigning the books in The books, available under the Open Access link at , includ esoteric literary criticism and historiee of Ohio cities. There's a history of the publicf bath movementin America's largest cities in the 1800sd through the early 20th century, complete with a photograpyh of a bather's bare backside. Some haven't been out of printg that long.
A history of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati through 1996 was published in2002 - the year the Romaj Catholic sex abuse scandal broke nationwide. The book has one paragrap devoted to abuseby priests.