Envy Apartment

Tense moments in Sudbury on Monday evening after a fire broke out in the city's west end. It happened on Victoria Street off Regent Street on the second floor of a house containing seven units.  Fire officials say the apartment superintendent noticed smoke and flames coming from one of the units, and managed to extinguish the fire before it spread. "I was sitting at home and the fire alarm went off," said Alain Labrecque, apartment superintendent . "(I) saw smoke and then I went in the hallway and saw a bunch of smoke and I opened up the unit. The unit was full of smoke. There were two doors, (I) went to one door couldn't see anything, so (I) went to the other door then I saw the flames and there was a fan that fell down. It caught on fire." "His quick actions knocked down the fire to an extent that the damage was contained to one room, so our guys got here fairly quickly and were able to expel the rest of the fire and ventilate and everyone els...

BANDON — Ten years ago this month, Eugene residents Rex and Carla Smith opened Bandon Crossings Golf Course just south of here on the site of a cattle and sheep ranch a mile from the Pacific Ocean. Nothing in their backgrounds prepared them for the venture. He is a podiatrist, a golf lover who walks the course and plays to a 16 handicap. “As it turns out you don’t have to be a good golfer to own a golf course,” said Carla, a former computer programmer who is at most a social golfer. They thought they would make money, and they haven’t, but they say the course breaks even, not counting their initial investment, which they don’t disclose. They dramatically overestimated the spillover traffic they would get from world- famous Bandon Dunes Golf Resort north of town. “We really thought it was going to be a good economic venture ,” Rex Smith said. “We were wrong about that part.” The plan had been for Rex to retire relatively soon after the opening and run the golf course. “Then once we ...

The Johnstown- area wrestling community lost a young legend on the very same day that it buried another. Gary Pfahler, 26, who became Chestnut Ridge 's first – and to this point only – state champion in 2008, died Thursday morning in Fort Pierce, Florida, according to J Edward Blackburn Funeral Home in Alum Bank, which is handling arrangements. Christine Weekes, administrative manager for the St. Lucie County Coroner and Medical Examiner's Office, said that an autopsy was performed but could not determine the cause and manner of death. A toxicology report is pending. Pfahler captured the PIAA Class AA championship in 2008, his senior year at Chestnut Ridge . A year later another District 5 wrestler – North Star's Nick Roberts – won the first of his three state championships . Roberts died on Saturday at his apartment on the Pitt-Johnstown campus in Richland Township. “It's been a rough week,” said Joe Kimmel, District 5's wrestling chairman . “I couldn...