Envy Apartment

It has been a busy few weeks for the Wagoner Elks Lodge , and members are excited about what they are doing in the community. In July, the Lodge partnered with Autumn Wood Apartments Manager David Nickerson and the Women of Wagoner to help supply children in the apartment complex with much needed school supplies . “Thanks to the ENF 150th Anniversary Grant , the Women of Wagoner and the support of Elk’s members, we were able to fill 81 backpacks with school supplies ,” member Betty Cox reported . Elks Lodge members Ann Gendron , Debi McGlothlin, Penny Kumrow, Marilyn Nickerson , Betty Cox, Debbie Baugh and Brett Baugh were joined by Elroy the Drug Dog to help hand out bags. They also served a free hotdog meal to all the families who attended. “We are proud to be a part of supporting our youth of tomorrow,” Cox said. In other Lodge news, members held their annual Lake Poker Run Saturday , Aug. 5. While the weather was nice, some stops had to be moved due to the wind....

click to enlarge Bridgeview Village apartment complex for several days. - DUSTIN WATERS" /> Dustin Waters Flooding closed off the main entrances to the Bridgeview Village apartment complex for several days. As days of heavy rain swelled the Cooper River, residents of the Bridgeview Village apartment complex were trapped. Even Monday evening, the community’s two main exits on North Romney Street remained impassable for most vehicles. With the help of police, residents of the 300-unit complex say they were able to move the dumpsters blocking a single-lane road that cuts through the woods surrounding the complex. Although it doesn’t have a name, that road now serves as the only way in or out of the neighborhood. But for the first few days, even it was too flooded to use. “They opened that up Sunday. So Friday, Saturday, Sunday — it was three days we were stuck here,” says Charles Smith, age 69, whose apartment looks out onto the knee-deep wat...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...