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Mets’ Hall of Fame & Museum opens in New York

April 5, 2010 The Travel Trolley

The New York Mets’ Hall of Fame & Museum, highlighting the team’s nearly five-decade history, officially opened today at Citi Field.

Ouch?

April 5, 2010 The Travel Trolley

Makes one wonder how the pedestrian fared.

Happy Easter

April 4, 2010 The Travel Trolley

Or, is it Hoppy Easter?

Clarksville’s ‘Customs House’ has a deep history

April 3, 2010 Todd DeFeo

The “Gateway to the New South” rose to prominence during the 19th century, in part, because of its tobacco. Even one of the town’s newspapers was named The Tobacco Leaf.

FAA proposes new policy on antidepressants for pilots

April 2, 2010 The Travel Trolley

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it will consider the special issuance of a medical certificate to pilots who are taking medication for mild to moderate depression, conditions that now bar them from all flying duties. On a case-by-case basis beginning April 5, pilots who take one of four antidepressant medications – Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Citalopram (Celexa), or Escitalopram (Lexapro) – will be allowed to fly if they have been satisfactorily treated on

Total air passengers in 2009 down 5.3 percent from 2008

March 31, 2010 The Travel Trolley

The number of scheduled domestic and international passengers on U.S. airlines and on flights to and from the United States on foreign airlines declined in 2009 by 5.3 percent from 2008, dropping to 769.6 million, the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported.

‘Big Red Apple’ reminds of bygone era

March 27, 2010 Todd DeFeo

CORNELIA, Ga. – For years, cotton was king throughout Georgia. But, by the 1920s, apples were becoming an important crop in parts of the state, including Cornelia. Because of the crop diversification, Habersham County skirted the devastating effects of the boll weevil’s destruction of the cotton crop. So, in 1925, Southern Railway donated to the city a monument dedicated to the fruit that helped save their community. The seven-foot-tall, 5,200-pound apple statue was molded in

’54 Columns’: Urban art on display in Atlanta

March 27, 2010 Todd DeFeo

The concrete columns at the intersection of Glen Iris Drive and Highland Avenue isn’t another partially finished residential community. No, this is public art.

Ga. Senate passes pickup truck seat belt loophole fix

March 25, 2010 The Travel Trolley

Pickup truck drivers: Be sure to buckle up. Soon, that may be.

Enola Gay navigator addresses high school students in Jefferson

March 24, 2010 Caboose Chronicle

Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, the navigator of the Enola Gay, address Jefferson High School students on Monday, the Athens Banner-Herald. At 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, during the closing weeks of World War II, the Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on a city. The blast produced a mushroom cloud and killed 140,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, which killed an