| Burlco eyes Web auctions
Burlington County plans to join other local governments in auctioning government surplus items on the Web. The Burlington County Freeholders authorized its treasurer's office to sign an agreement with GovDeals Inc., which operates an Internet auction site called www.govdeals.com. The freeholders said they will sell vehicles and office equipment to the public online to make more money, save time and attract more bidders. Sharon Brauckmann, county purchasing agent, said the auction would be held later this year and not until the state Department of Community Affairs gives its approval. She said the state must approve a county application to waive the normal local public auction using an auctioneer. Kurt Brock, the county's chief financial officer, said the state is approving Internet auctions of government property only on eBay and GovDeals.
Poor stadiums and England bid can yet scupper Brazil
BRAZIL has won five soccer World Cup titles and exports hundreds of players to leagues around the world but has hosted only one World Cup tournament (in 1950, losing in the final to Uruguay). If statements from FIFA headquarters in Zurich are credible, it will be awarded the 2014 World Cup this year probably. "The concept of Brazil, or someone else from South America, is not a problem," Chuck Blazer, the only American member of FIFA's powerful executive committee and the general secretary of CONCACAF, said this week. CONCACAF, based in Manhattan, represents 40 national associations in North and Central America and the Caribbean. "One of the reasons the World Cup has grown has been the level of competition in the bidding," Blazer said.
Five Bids For Five Netball Franchises
The franchise make up for next year's trans-Tasman netball competition look to be a fait accompli, with Netball New Zealand receiving five expressions of interests for the five New Zealand places in the competition.The five likely franchises are based along similar lines to rugby's Super 14 competition.Netball North, Auckland-Waitakere and Counties Manukau have lodged a submission while Waikato and Bay of Plenty are set to make up another franchise.Wellington, Tasman, Eastern Netball and Western netball another, Canterbury the fourth, and Southland and Otago the fifth franchise.Netball New Zealand chair Don MacKinnon says he is heartened by the cooperation between the provinces to come up with the five bids and over the next two weeks Netball New Zealand will meet with the regions involved.Netball New Zealand is expected to ratify the five franchises by mid-May.
Auctions | Americana sale reflects collector's pioneering spirit
The third weekend of April is shaping up to be such a busy one for area auctioneers that it makes sense to take advantage of the Easter lull and get a head start on the events scheduled for then - beginning with Pook & Pook's sale of the Pioneer Americana collection of Esther and Donald Shelley. Pioneer is the operative word in the two-session sale April 20 and 21 at Pook & Pook's Downingtown gallery. As Ron Pook writes in a foreword to the elegant 200-page hardbound catalog, there was little guidance for collectors of Americana when Donald Shelley, a native of York, set out to master the field after his graduation from Penn State in 1932 with a bachelor of fine arts degree. "Tulip Ware and Hornor's Blue Book documented furniture by means of local Philadelphia lineage," Pook writes, "but the majority of reference books of the period were long on pictures and conspicuously short on scholarship." Over the next 70 years, Shelley (along with his wife, whom he met in the 1930s at Columbia University Teachers College) pursued an academic career focusing on the origins of Pennsylvania decorative arts that took him to posts far and wide, notably a 24-year stint at the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Michigan, and finally in Oley Valley.
Rogersville officials seeking bids for Hale Springs Inn renovation ...
Rogersville officials will open construction bids May 3 at City Hall for the Hale Springs Inn renovation. Pictured is the back of the inn. TImes-News file photo. -------------------------- ROGERSVILLE - It seems like every time the Hale Springs Inn renovation project takes one step forward something happens to send it two steps back, but officials say it's now headed back in the right direction. For the second time construction bids for the project have been advertised, and potential contractors will have a chance to walk around the 183-year-old inn Friday when the city of Rogersville hosts a pre-bid conference there. The project has been four years in the making since the Rogersville Heritage Association purchased the building. The next crucial date for the project will be May 3 at 2 p.m.
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