With her mother serving as the food editor of The Vicksburg Post for decades, the apple fell pretty close to the tree when Story Stamm Ebersole ventured into the catering business.However, Laurin Stamm’s oldest daughter started out counting beans instead of cooking them. Read more » »

BRUSSELS (EJP)—Samuel Sokol has been appointed as the Managing Editor of the European Jewish Press (EJP), joining the team ahead of a planned redevelopment of the venerable Brussels-based news outlet. Read more » »

ITEM FILE PHOTO Swampscott Town Hall BY GAYLA CAWLEY SWAMPSCOTT — Voters will decide tonight whether Rockland Street becomes the town’s newest historic district. If Town Meeting gives it the green light, Rockland will join Frederick Law Olmsted, Swampscott Cemetery & Andrews Chapel, Fish House and the Railroad Depot districts. Read more » »

Tales of a city by the sea , a play depicting a love story in Gaza, has come under attack from the Victorian Liberal Party and Zionist organisations.They have demanded it be withdrawn from this year’s Victorian Education Certificate (VCE) drama list, which is studied by more than 1,300 senior high school students. Read more » »

Dennis Miller failed as „Monday Night Football’s” resident comedian because, as he once lamented, there wasn’t time for jokes. The game allots 30 to 40 seconds between plays. By the time you get through a replay or two, by the time you give the famous quarterback an opportunity to comment, it only leaves a few seconds for a wisecrack. Read more » »

SWAMPSCOTT — Town Meeting voters Monday night in Swampscott will be asked to decide future plans for redeveloping the sites of two former schools — one a rundown, deteriorating building (Machon Elementary on Burpee Road) and the other stuck in limbo over zoning and legal issues (the Greenwood Avenue School). Read more » »

In this week’s top story, more than one million students sat the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) exams this week, the final one to involve pen and paper. A key focus of this year’s exams is on students’ performance in the discipline of numeracy, following reports of a downward trend in this area. Read more » »

Os músicos Pedro Della Rolle e Daniel Szafran foram a grande atração do Dia das Mães In Concert que reuniu 50 convidados na B’nai B’rith São Paulo, na tarde de 11 de maio, em uma gostosa confraternização. Read more » »