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Suspicious package sent to daycare operator
STAMFORD A suspicious envelope filled with an unidentified clay-like substance was sent Tuesday to the owner of the embattled daycare closed in August due to unsafe and unsanitary conditions. Collette Barnes, of 61 Frank St., contacted police at 9:45 p.m., after her family received a suspicious package. "The package was a manila mailing envelope addressed to Collette Barnes," said Lt. Sean Cooney, spokesperson for the Stamford Police Department. He added that there were several suspicious things about the package the postage did not appear to have been canceled, there was the name of a sender a woman who had sent her child to the daycare center but no return address, and the alleged sender denied ever having sent any package to the Barnes residence. The package, said Cooney, was opened by the Stamford Police bomb squad remotely using a water cannon.
Faulty valve, leak shut down Raccoon Mountain plant
The Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant shut down and TVA evacuated the underground facility Friday when a faulty valve began leaking water from the reservoir atop the mountain. Operators working within Raccoon Mountain just west of Chattanooga reported loud noises in one of the generating units about 9:30 a.m. Friday, Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman Gil Francis said. Plant workers identified a malfunctioning valve in one of the four generators and sealed off the water flowing to that unit. As a precaution, TVA shut down the only generator running at the time, and all nonoperating personnel were ordered out of the plant, Mr. Francis said. Two hours later, the plant staff returned to work after operators conducted a walk-down inspection and detected only a small leak from a valve in the Unit 2 generator.
Ruby on Rails 2.0 Now on Track
After four years of work, version 2 of the Ruby on Rails framework has officially debuted this week. Besides a number of features that simplify use, streamline the framework, or step up security is one headliner: support of REST. Announcement of the 2.0 version was made by David Heinemeier Hansson of consulting firm 37signals, the creator of the Rails framework, in a blog earlier this week. .
Collegedale to get new sign after years of discussion
Collegedale commissioners on Monday night solved a dilemma that was unthinkable until earlier this year: where to install a new city sign. Residents and elected officials had talked about the need either to move or build a new sign/community message board since City Hall relocated from Apison Pike to Swinyar Drive about 17 years ago. A new sign remained nothing but talk during those years, and each week a city employee would change the letters on the old sign located near Southern Adventist University. "We have talked about it ever since I've been elected," Vice Mayor Tim Johnson said. "That's been more than seven years." Talk turned to action this year. A successful fundraising campaign assured the city will get a new sign -- possibly before the new year -- and shifted talk to where the sign should, and could, be placed.
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