| National retailer opens store in Auburn
AUBURN - The area's newest national retail store is open, offering a selection of specialty housewares to entice shoppers.
Bed Bath & Beyond, the giant housewares retailer, quietly opened its fifth Maine location in the Auburn Plaza off Center Street last week. The 20,000-square-foot store occupies a portion of the space once filled by Service Merchandise.
Adam Ackerly, regional representative for the New York-based chain, said Bed Bath & Beyond decided to open a store in Auburn because of the number of local shoppers traveling to the retailer's locations in Augusta and Portland.
"We see this as an opportunity," said Ackerly. The store planned to hire about 25 employees.
It carries an extensive inventory of housewares and gifts, including bed linens, bath accessories, window treatments, kitchen linens, as well as cookware, dinnerware, glassware, lifestyle accessories, closet and storage items, and juvenile items.
Lack of beds worries hospital
A 96-bed patient tower going up at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center to ease overcrowding will fail to meet demand with the coming growth at Fort Bragg, officials say. The region’s population is expected to swell by more than 20,000 people after Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command relocate from Atlanta. Cape Fear Valley officials anticipate the hospital will be affected by that growth, and the $118 million patient tower won’t be enough. "It will basically Band-Aid what we’ve got now," Cumberland County Commissioner John Henley said Friday. Henley, a doctor, said 20 elective surgeries were canceled Thursday because the hospital lacked the beds. He said the hospital on rare occasions has to wait to discharge people before admitting others.
Bed and rest for Ritwik
When squash champ Ritwik Bhattacharya entered the court at a recent tournament in Canada, little did he know that he would be wheeled out on a stretcher. The squash ace tore a cartilage in his knee in the midst of a match and had to be rushed back home for immediate surgery. Ritwik is now advised to take bed rest for 15 days. "It was the final match of the tournament. I was up in the air, when suddenly I felt a searing pain in my knee.
I even heard a tearing sound. I'd torn a cartilage," says Ritwik, who is currently recuperating in Mumbai. So will this pose a setback to his soaring career? "After the 15 days of bed rest, I'll start physiotherapy and then slowly begin training again," says Ritwik.
His 'very good friend' Neha Dhupia was at his bedside throughout.
Is Your Mattress Making You Sick?
CBNNews.com - Many people who suffer with headaches, joint aches, and other physical ills on a daily basis reach for over-the counter remedies to quell their pain. Few, if any, would ever suspect their mattress is the cause of their problems. While it's well-known that an older mattress can be a source of allergies - mostly from dust mites or mold - a new mattress would be worry-free. Or would it? There's Something Scary in My Bed Some 30 or more years ago, mattresses were made of untreated, natural materials, but now most come to the store bearing a host of petrochemicals, flame retardants and other additives. The Consumer Products Safety Commission lists the following chemicals as the primary ones used in mattresses to meet current laws: boric acid , formaldehyde, antimony trioxide, decabromodiphenyl oxide, vinylidiene chloride, zinc borate, and melamine. Most people have trouble believing that the mattress industry and the government have put poisonous chemicals in our mattresses to make them fireproof, and think they must use a different chemical.
Retail Center, Homes At Mueller Site
If you drive on Interstate 35 in Austin, you may have seen the old Mueller airport site is turning into a big retail center, and very soon, you'll see homes going up. Only on Firstcast, KXAN went onto the site where the public is not yet allowed to give you a first look. On Saturday, Bed, Bath & Beyond opened its doors. And very soon, many more stores like Best Buy, Marshalls and Chair King will open up. But this is a very small section to the entire redevelopment of Mueller airport. And it is truly amazing watching the old airport turn into a community. "The planning for this project and the neighborhood involvement, which is so fundamental to it, literally started 20 years ago," Matt Whelan, senior vice president of Catellus Development Group, said.
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