Community Corner

Five Things for December 7

What's going on around town today.

  • The final plan for the new Wawa slated for construction on Street Road that was scheduled for presentation during tonight's planning committee meeting has been postponed. No new date has been given.
  • The Centennial Operations Committee meets tonight at 7 p.m. at the school district's . The agenda includes mostly construction updates and change orders for the high school and elementary schools.
  • It's going to be rainy day, with the temperature going down to 50 by 5 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
  • Federal Aviation Administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday, three days after he was arrested on a drunk driving charge near his suburban Washington home, CNN reports. In a brief statement released to the media, Babbitt said he had submitted his resignation to his boss, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and that LaHood had accepted it.
  • On this day, Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States.


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