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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Bayshore Gardens Publix reopens after rebuild. What's new inside?
The Publix grocery store in the Bayshore Gardens shopping center reopened Saturday, more than one year after it closed for a complete rebuild. Located at 6030 14th St. W., the newly constructed Publix is nearly 55,000 square feet. It now features: A dining area for shoppers located next to the bakery New made-to-order food options at the sushi counter in the deli, including ramen, rice and poke bowls A catering center Grocery delivery through Instacart A standalone Publix Liquor store with beer, wine, spirits and various soft drinks and drink accessories A pharmacy drive-thru The supermarket giant closed the Bayshore Gardens store in 2024 for a rebuild. It opened in February 1992. The shopping center is also home to Target, TJ Maxx and Chick-fil-A. The Bayshore Gardens store is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Pharmacy hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Friday; 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays. The liquor store is open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Solve the daily Crossword
CBS News
19 hours ago
- Climate
- CBS News
North Plainfield, N.J. residents facing harsh realities following devastating flooding
The cleanup from the floods earlier this month in New Jersey continues, but for many residents, the struggle to rebuild is just beginning. In North Plainfield, the daunting task of hauling away the personal belongings of those losing what they own in floods is top of mind. North Plainfield Mayor Lawrence La Ronde told CBS News New York on Monday that crews will continue to work until every item is picked up. "They are taking everything away. My kid's playset, trampoline, all our furniture that we had downstairs. It's all gone now. Gotta start from zero again," resident Robert Aldred said. Aldred's cars were also destroyed, but said he is grateful because his wife and children were safe after being trapped in house by flood waters. "As I am talking to her on the phone, I could hear the kids crying in the background. They are completely nervous and you can't help but think about what happened in Texas a few weeks ago and I was just at work, helpless," Aldred said. Aldred, who dealt with Hurricane Ida as well, said he has applied for money to raise his home, but if it doesn't come through, he may have to consider selling. On the other side of town, crews were using heavy equipment to pick debris from a house explosion, and some homes in the neighborhood have been condemned. In nearby Scotch Plains, Vernecia Adams' gym, Pretty Beast Mode Fitness & Nutrition LLC., was ravaged by flood waters. "By closer to 7 o'clock, the complete door was blown off from pressure of the water," Adams said. With much of her equipment destroyed, the former body builder says her gym had to be shut down. "To kind of see everything be destroyed, I am not sure if it's salvage as of yet. I am not sure if I am going to be able to open up as of yet," Adams said. She also said it's unclear if her landlord will be able to make necessary repairs. "Part of it is climate change. Some of it is Scotch Plains is pitched a little lower, so a lot of the water was also rushing off of the hills," she said. "Also, the structure of the building, itself, needs work." Adams' boyfriend, Keron Heath, was helping her clean up. "I am just trying to do my best to be here for her and show support where needed. The community has definitely helped," Heath said. "I am really grateful for people who have helped out or tried to donate. If anybody else wants to, please feel free to reach out to me," Adams said.
Irish Times
a day ago
- Sport
- Irish Times
Ashamed to be seen in public just one year ago, Tipperary's redemption story defies belief
After Cork eviscerated Tipperary by 18 points in last year's Munster championship, Liam Cahill fronted up to reporters, as he always does. He ended his press conference by saying Tipperary were 'officially going into a real rebuild job.' Limerick beat them by 15 points three weeks earlier, so by a process of humiliation, they had arrived at ground zero. Cahill also said that he might be laying a foundation for whoever succeeded him and that was a reasonable forecast. Nobody had any grasp of a timeline for Tipp's rehabilitation, though everyone accepted that it would involve pain and patience. Everybody was thinking about worst-case scenarios. As Tipp know from the 1970s and 1980s, time can disappear into a black hole. For Tipp to win an All-Ireland 14 months after that demolition by Cork in Thurles has no precedent in the modern history of the championship. When they won the 2019 All-Ireland, it was only a year after they had failed to win a match in Munster. However, that 2019 team included nine players who had started the 2016 final, which Tipp won. When Liam Sheedy came back for his second stint as manager for the 2019 season, he faced a refurbishment job. To start again, Cahill had to knock down walls and rewire the place. Dermot Bannon might have taken it on, but he'd have blown the budget and fallen out with everyone on site. READ MORE During the off-season, there were 16 changes to the panel, which was more churn than any other elite team. Between the match-day 26 for the Cork game in the round-robin series last summer and the All-Ireland final on Sunday, there were 10 changes to the squad, including seven changes to the starting team. Tipperary's Conor Stakelum savours the moment at the end of Sunday's All-Ireland SHC final. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho That was an extraordinary through-put of players in such a short space of time. Even between the first round this year against Limerick and the final on Sunday, there were four changes in personnel and a change at goalkeeper, full back, centre back, centre field and centre forward. Andrew Ormond didn't play a minute against Limerick, neither did Willie Connors. Michael Breen spoke after the match about how 'intense' training had been in January and February. Cahill finished last year listening to complaints that Tipp had trained too hard in the first part of the season and had nothing left for the championship. A similar charge had been levelled at him in his final season with Waterford. Cahill accepted that they had made mistakes in their conditioning programme last year but that didn't mean they were going to ease up. In January, nine days before their first league game against Galway, Tipp played Sarsfields in a challenge match in Riverstown. Sarsfields were building up to the All-Ireland club final and expected to get a hiding, but in the event, they didn't lose by much. Tipperary hurling captain Ronan Maher with Oisín Crowe during the All-Ireland champions' visit to Children's Health Ireland at Crumlin today. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho Cahill was so exasperated by the performance that when the game was over, the Tipp players were made to do a block of running before they left the field. By that stage, they had already lost a challenge match against Dublin. Nobody had them tagged as dark horses. Before the quarter-finals, when there were only six teams remaining, they were still 10/1 shots for the All-Ireland with the bookies. 'I remember meeting Jake Morris a couple of weeks after [Tipp were eliminated in Munster last year] and you're nearly ashamed going around to show your face because the manner in which we went out,' said Jason Forde. 'And we said as a group all year, there's nobody going to come and save us. We had to go back and put in the work and drag ourselves up out of it and thank God we did.' Much has been made of the contribution of Darragh McCarthy , Sam O'Farrell and Oisín O'Donoghue from the Tipp under-20s squad. It flew in the face of all modern trends for players of that age to make such an impactful breakthrough at senior level. On the biggest day of all, McCarthy had his best game of the season. But just as critical was the reinvigoration of Jason Forde and John McGrath. At the end of last season, there was no guarantee that either of them would carry on. Forde met Cahill for a conversation during the off-season and maybe he didn't know which way it would go. Tipperary's Ronan Maher and Bryan O'Mara were both on hand to collect after Cork's Brian Hayes failed to block the sliotar during the All-Ireland SHC final. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho 'He wasn't talking me around anyway,' said Forde. 'It was a very honest conversation. After the season finished, you were meeting people and they were saying were you going to bother going back, nearly writing you off that you were finished. When I met Liam, I just said we couldn't leave things like that, the year that we had. Having played for Tipp for 13 seasons and winning All-Irelands and things like that, to leave it on that note, it just wouldn't have felt right.' Forde, though, had been a regular starter on the team last year. McGrath had appeared just twice in the championship for a combined total of 40 minutes. The last time he had started a championship game for Tipp was in 2022; the last time he had started and finished a championship match was in 2020. Injuries played a part in that, but form was a greater reason. This year, McGrath was reborn. He finished the championship with 7-16, making him the joint top scorer from play alongside Dublin's Cian O'Sullivan. Nobody else scored seven goals. Not only that, but all his goals were consequential: two against Limerick, two against Clare, one against Kilkenny when Tipp were bailing water, and two in the All-Ireland final, when he plunged the dagger into Cork. In 14 months, their world had gone from night to day. In the second half in Thurles last year, Cork outscored them by 3-15 to 0-7; on Sunday, Tipp won the second half by 3-14 to 0-2. Redemption can never have tasted so sweet.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Hurricane risk in Florida is escalating. Flood insurance is harder to get.
Dayna and Matt Fancher lost their home in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, to Hurricane Ian in 2022. One month into this year's hurricane season, the couple is still paying their home insurance policy — now twice as costly — while fighting the firm in court over their claim. The Fanchers, who have lived in their Fort Myers Beach home for almost three decades, said their home insurance provider paid them only a third of what it would cost to rebuild their home, and that adjusters repeatedly disputed their storm damage claims. In the end, the Fanchers say, they took out construction loans to be able to move back into their home. 'We have the same coverage that we had, we're paying double, and we didn't get the assistance that we needed,' Matt Fancher said. The Fanchers' predicament is just one of many linked to the insurance crisis in hurricane-prone Florida. Rates are sky-high and expected to continue rising as catastrophe claims surge and Floridians face few insurance options and increased scrutiny during underwriting. Since 2021, Florida has experienced four major hurricanes: Ian, Helene, Idalia and Milton, and premiums have climbed by nearly 30% statewide. Florida residents can now expect to pay almost $10,000 a year on average in premiums, making the state the most expensive place in the U.S. to buy homeowners insurance. In Fort Myers Beach, a small town on narrow Estero Island off Fort Myers, annual premiums jumped from about $9,000 to almost $14,000 from 2019 to 2024, according to data obtained by First Street Foundation, a climate risk modeling firm. In the wake of Hurricane Ian, Floridians filed more than half a million residential catastrophe claims, according to Florida's Office of Insurance Regulation. Up against an estimated $50 billion to $65 billion in insurance losses associated with Hurricane Ian, several homegrown Florida property insurers were declared insolvent, while major national insurers like Farmers announced they would pull back or no longer offer coverage in the state due to increased hurricane risk. Some legislative reforms have helped stabilize the market for insurance in Florida, according to Mark Friedlander, a spokesperson for the Insurance Information Institute, an industry association for insurers. He said in 2024, the state saw the lowest average statewide premium increases in the country for home insurance and that more than a dozen new insurers had entered the market there. But hurricane risk in Florida is escalating as human-caused climate change warms the atmosphere and raises sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Hotter conditions are trapping moisture and fueling hurricane intensification, creating wetter, more powerful hurricanes that leave Florida increasingly vulnerable to storm damage. During Hurricane Helene, moisture trapped in the warming atmosphere increased extreme rainfall by 10%, bringing rainfall totals as high as 26.95 inches in parts of Florida. Jeremy Porter, a climate risk expert at First Street Foundation, says that rising insurance costs signal the deep impacts of climate change in west Florida, as communities like Fort Myers Beach grapple with recurring damage and costly recoveries. 'Over the last few decades, we haven't kept up with climate risk and quantified it properly in our risk modeling. Now, we're playing catch-up and it's driving up insurance rates very rapidly, and people are feeling that in their household budgets,' Porter said. With scarce options for home insurance, more and more Floridians have started buying insurance from Citizens Insurance Property Corp., Florida's not-for-profit state-backed insurer, and Porter says this rapid movement has also pushed up insurance costs. By 2055, Porter says home insurance premiums could rise by 213% in the Tampa metro area because of hurricane risk. Climate risks are also disrupting insurance markets in other parts of the country. In Sacramento, California, residents may face a 137% increase due to increased wildfire danger, for example. Porter said declining home prices in Florida could also affect home insurance rates and availability. When property values fall in places that are vulnerable to hurricanes or other extreme weather, insurers may interpret that decline as a warning sign of growing physical or market risk, leading to increased scrutiny during underwriting and potential spikes in premiums. According to Zillow data, home values in Fort Myers Beach are down about $200,000 from their pre-Ian prices, and about 86% of sales over the last year came in under list price, a general sign that sellers are having a difficult time offloading their properties. At its peak before Hurricane Ian, the average home value on Sanibel Island, a popular spot in Lee County for beach vacationers, was almost $1.3 million. Today, that value is $868,000, with 93% of all homes being sold under list price, according to Zillow. Joanne Klempner, who has lived part time in Fort Myers Beach since 2016, says that selling her home is not a financially viable option after spending so much on reconstruction post-Hurricane Ian. With little choice but to stay in Fort Myers Beach, Klempner said she worries about how climate change will affect the future of her community. 'At this point, we're in for the long haul because we have to be. I think whether people want to continue to invest in Fort Myers Beach is the bigger question,' Klempner said. 'When you don't have a hurricane for 30 years, the risk feels worth it to live in paradise. When you have three bad hurricanes within 18 months, it becomes questionable.' Jacki Liszak, the president and CEO of the Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce, says that Fort Myers Beach is still a great place to live and visit, and that the community is investing in resilient architecture and building homes well above the flood line. 'The houses have to be built strong and they have to be built high,' Liszak said. 'I think that will help tremendously. People were already starting to come, and I think they will continue to come. People love this lifestyle. It's a beautiful part of the world.' This article was originally published on
New York Times
a day ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Blackhawks fan survey: Are you as confident in the rebuild as Kyle Davidson is?
General manager Kyle Davidson has put a lot of stock in the last couple of weeks of the 2024-25 Blackhawks season, hoping the speed, excitement and competitiveness his suddenly young team showed would carry over into next season and beyond. With Sam Rinzel playing top minutes on the blue line, Frank Nazar scoring at a top-six rate and Connor Bedard closing with three goals and four assists in his last four games, there was a lot to like. The players pointed to a dramatic shootout win over a highly motivated Montreal Canadiens team at the Bell Centre in the 81st game of the season as a turning point — perhaps even a launching point — in the rebuild. Advertisement Davidson is now all in on a youth movement, essentially sitting out of free agency despite a wealth of salary-cap space. No. 3 pick Anton Frondell appears to be headed back to Sweden for the season, and André Burakovsky is the only significant NHL addition the Blackhawks have made. So the Blackhawks should be more intriguing this season. But will they be better? Worse? More watchable? Less? Is the rebuild progressing or stagnating? We know what Davidson thinks. Let's see what you think. Fill out our annual Blackhawks fan survey below, and we'll share the results next week. Use two fingers to scroll on mobile or click this link to fill it out directly. Loading…
