| Perilous Profits
Ah, for the good old days in the springtime of the Barnett Shale boom, when the words royalty check were enough to get homeowners to sign away their mineral rights and everyone still thought the 3 a.m. screech of drilling equipment was just the sound of money. When no one thought that wells could possibly send property values tumbling or turn well water brown, before drilling sites and pipelines had started leaking, burping, and blowing up. When there were no neighborhood groups ganging up to demand higher royalties, tighter controls, or say it aint so trying to stop wells outright. Thats what some residents just south of downtown Fort Worth decided to do, when they realized that Four Sevens Resources wants to put eight gas wells in a half-mile stretch along 8th Avenue near the railroad tracks just across the street from the expensively restored gateway to historic Ryan Place and nearby Fairmount neighborhoods and even closer to Mistletoe Heights and Berkeley neighborhoods.
Fans' support for Cardinals is 'red hot'
GEORGETOWN-SOUTH (aka Rupp Arena) -- Scott County fans at the Sweet Sixteen proudly wore their message on their backs: "WE ARE BASKETBALL." And it almost said it all. With 16,094 in attendance at yesterday's game, clearly more than half there in Cardinal red, a good chunk of the county's 41,000 population had shifted temporarily south. But while Scott County is one of the fastest growing areas in the Bluegrass, adding roughly 10,000 new residents in the last six years, at Rupp Arena yesterday you'd have been hard pressed to find a fan without some personal connection to the team. Because, while the program has gone big time, it's not gone big town, said Leeann Claiborne, who graduated from Scott County High in the 1980s. "So much has changed.
Historic Harmony Heritage Awards branch out to Zelienople, Jackson
Robert Householder believes supporting historic renovation on Zelienople's Main Street not only makes aesthetic sense but also makes environmental and economic sense. His latest project, a new facade for the 1930s structure that houses the Kountry Kitchen restaurant, has won him his second Heritage Award from Historic Harmony, a nonprofit preservation association. In a previous life, the building housed an Isaly's restaurant. Alan Miles and Beth Nicklas, of Jackson, are this year's other Heritage Award winners for their restoration of an early 19th century bank barn at their home on Textor Hill Road. In 1999, Mr. Householder won a Heritage Award for his renovation of the former First National Bank of Zelienople into "The Corner Building." The landmark structure on North Main Street, which dates to 1906, had been boarded up, and the project included replacement of 48 windows.
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