May 05 2012 - Illinois School Bus Workers Choose Teamsters Union
Drivers and Monitors in Wilmington Unite for Respect and Fair Working Conditions WASHINGTON, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 41 drivers and monitors with Illinois Central School Bus in Wilmington, Ill., have voted by an overwhelming 4-1 margin to join Teamsters Local 179... |
April 10 2012 - T approves fare hikes
WILMINGTON - The MBTA board voted 4-1 Wednesday to raise Commuter Rail fares by $1.25 or more as part of a sweeping price hike on bus, subway, and rail lines. Wilmington T riders will face a 23 percen |
March 29 2012 - School bus catches fire in Wilmington
A quick thinking school bus driver managed to get children to safety after the bus caught fire on their way to school Thursday morning. |
March 28 2012 - Group home fined, admissions suspended after girl's death on school bus
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- The state has fined the group home that cared for a little girl who died on a school bus last month. According to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Cape Fear Respite Home, where eight-year-old Jamiah Batts lived, was fined $10,000. It's a type-A penalty, and the most severe that can be given. The group home is also not allowed to accept any more ... |
March 22 2012 - Students get on bus to learn in lab
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- New Hanover High School biology students found a new way of learning and experimenting today. The DESTINY Science Bus Discovery from UNC Chapel Hill transformed into a classroom for Michelle Huffman's biology class for the day. DESTINY stands for Delivering Edge-cutting Science Technology and Internet across North Carolina for Years to come. Students who normally would ... |
March 21 2012 - Last school bus crash victim released from hospital
A Chesterfield Township sixth-grade student who was seriously injured in a school bus crash that killed a classmate last month has been moved to from Cooper University Hospital in Camden to the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington. |
March 02 2012 - Kids "flip for fitness" with this business
Several local daycares and preschools are working with a company that gets children moving while having fun. Flip Flop Fitness, based in Raleigh (known as Tumble Bus) , came to Wilmington just under a year ago. |
February 25 2012 - Rate hikes, service cuts for Commuter Rail
WILMINGTON – Mounting debt and severe budget gaps are forcing the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) to raise fares and make major service cuts including commuter rail service. |
February 09 2012 - What you need to know about the business of baseball
As I've watched this whole discussion about a ballpark in Wilmington unfold, one thing has become abundantly clear: Not enough people understand the business of baseball. To be sure, I am not a certified expert on this subject, but I do believe based on my love and knowledge of the sport, including its business side, and a lot of what I've heard in the last several days, there's just a lot of ... |
January 31 2012 - Wilmington officials padlock bus company's door
The city's Department of Licenses and Inspections posted a large orange notice on the front door at 3 W. 4th St., declaring the former Double Happyness Bus Station in violation of a section of the city's code that requires a license |
January 31 2012 - Rogue bus company closed by city of Wilmington's order
The city of Wilmington has stepped in to force the shutdown of a low-cost bus service cited for multiple highway safety violations, managing to do what the federal government had failed to accomplish with multiple shutdown orders. |
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