He expected to find a store and speak with the manager about how to procure the cigars. Once he was able to buy a cigar he hired a guide and began his trek searching the countryside for the factory that produced them. The tobacco, some of it nearly 50 years old, had been kept in an environmentally controlled warehouse in Miami. Ramos, a one-time cigar roller in Cuban, was a businesses man with the high-powered clientele and great cigars. Instead he arrived at an open-air market in a field...

Fitchburg smoking ban aired again Council to vote tonight on ordinance By Bill Novak FITCHBURG - Anti-smoking advocates plan to pack City Hall tonight as the City Council votes on whether to make Fitchburg the fourth city in Wisconsin to ban smoking in restaurants, bars and other public places. Fitchburg smoking ban aired again Council to vote tonight on ordinance By Bill Novak FITCHBURG - Anti-smoking advocates plan to pack City Hall tonight as the City Council votes on whether to make...

Land preservation mostly fallow here Monroe lags other counties in saving farm acreage James Goodman Staff writer Post Comment (April 1, 2007) Over the past three decades, Rocky Ellsworth has watched as the once plentiful dairy farms on the west side of Monroe County have disappeared. Land preservation mostly fallow here Monroe lags other counties in saving farm acreage James Goodman Staff writer Post Comment (April 1, 2007) Over the past three decades, Rocky Ellsworth has watched as the...

toledoblade.com -- Bond plan called breach of tobacco-settlement promise. And it has earmarked other state funds through 2009 to continue funding other programs dependent on tobacco settlement dollars, including assistance for southern Ohio tobacco-farming communities, a number of other health initiatives, and biomedical research. Money saved in interest would be used to underwrite a huge property tax exemption for 775,000 seniors and the disabled. And it has earmarked other state funds...

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