Garden Statue Headlines

Billings police turn to online auction service to sell unclaimed evidence, found property

A little gray garden statue that was turned in to the Billings Police Department will soon be offered up for sale to bidders around the world.

Tribal face-off in garden

Tirkey, who reached New Jalpaiguri by train today, said the rebels were trying to intimidate people by creating tension. "Our programmes will be held as scheduled. The onus is on the police to maintain law and order," he said.

Pigeon deterrents: a question of chemistry

If you want your statues clean (and your pigeons healthy), you just need to make them of bronze laced with arsenic As the heavens inevitably cover every mountain peak with snow, so do pigeons unstoppably deposit a protective white layer atop every outdoor statue – or so people believed. Yukio Hirose shocked and delighted the world by disproving one of these two supposedly eternal truths. He used ...

Library statue comes with a story

While passing through the lobby of the St. Charles Public Library, many locals may have noticed a life-sized statue of a little girl holding a book, alongside a cat. The statue was dedicated more than a decade ago, in 2000, and some may not know the story behind it.

Weeding out prostitutes: A garden art business owner is wary of new bus stop

By Bill Stevens, Times Columnist Wednesday, February 1, 2012 Carol Campbell, who owns Everything Outdoors on U.S. 19 in Holiday, says prostitutes moved along at her request, but she worries that a bus stop a stone’s throw away will attract them again. Carol Campbell doesn't have anything against prostitutes, except maybe the one who stabbed her 10 years ago in Michigan. "I'm sure they feel like ...

Robbie Williams - Robbie Williams Wants Statue Of Wife

Robbie Williams is planning to splash out on a life-size sculpture of his wife The Take That star wants a statue of actress Ayda Field for the garden of his Mulholland Drive home in Los Angeles and has even made plans to follow it up with sculptures...