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OUR TIME PRESS THE L OCAL PAPER WITH THE G LOBAL VIEW
| VOL. 23 NO. 36
September 5 - 11, 2019 |
Since 1996
No Match For Nature's Fury
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reeport, Grand Bahama (CNN) Miles of debris from houses smashed apart by Hurricane Dorian stretched Tuesday across the landscape of the Bahamas’ Great Abaco Island as the deadly storm left behind a paradise obliterated.
Dorian was still punishing northern parts of the Bahamas more than a day after landfall. The hurricane — now a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph — was crawling to the northwest, where it is expected to move along the east
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coast of Florida and could possibly make landfall in the Carolinas later in the week. The storm’s death toll, which officials fear will rise sharply, stands at seven people, according to Prime Minister Hubert Minnis. On Great Abaco, high winds remained but
he recent passing of Philip H. Goldman Jr. reminds us of the legacies large and small, quietly left behind by everyday people whose gifts are not always seen nor sung. A tree will be planted in honor of the Goldman family at PS 26, where he was skipped and graduated with honors. (Phil was a supporter and donor to the Magnolia Tree Earth Center children’s programs.) For many years he also volunteered at the Christhouse Clothing Exchange at Concord Baptist Church, and is pictured here, at far left,, in a photo from an April 9, 2015 OTP article with Deacon Clarence Robertson and Mrs. Mable Robertson, codirectors of the Exchange, and Deacon George Combest, also a long-time volunteer. More about Phil on page 8.
the rain had subsided as residents emerged to gasp at the incredible devastation. Huge piles of rubble were what remained of businesses and homes wrecked by the strongest storm to hit the islands, new aerial video shows. Continued on Page 3
Climate Сhange
Global heating made Hurricane Dorian bigger, wetter – and more deadly
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