Maintenance crews worked throughout the Christmas holiday at William Blount High School to clean up and contain the problem. Students returned to school on Monday. Knox County schools already have a clean air program in place to detect airborne problems before they turn into mold problems. Blount County school officials said they would continue to […]
12/20/02 Mold was a factor in the closing of a Loudon County hotel. The two-year-old Holiday Inn Express near Interstate 75 temporarily closed November first. Problems with mold have been reported this year at schools statewide. Mold occurs naturally and can grow almost anywhere that’s warm and damp. Most common molds generally are -not- hazardous. […]
Students and teachers were supposed to be back in class in Lawrenceburg on Monday, but for safety reasons, school board members voted to keep the doors closed. In a story you saw First on News 2, Christi Lowe filed this report on the school mold mess in Lawrenceburg. Classrooms at David Crockett Elementary were empty because hundreds of […]
MILLVILLE — The city board of education fielded questions about the environmental firm they hired last week to investigate mold concerns at Holly Heights and approved the hiring of a math and science supervisor and the retirement of two teachers Monday. Betsy Cubbage, a parent and member of the Holly Heights health and safety committee […]
by Bill Hirschman and Jamie Malernee, Education WritersPosted August 3 2002 The opening of Park Lakes Elementary in Lauderdale Lakes — promised to minorities but stalled for 13 years — could be delayed again because the builder has not been paying his subcontractors, school officials say. The president of Danville-Findorff Inc. says the work will […]
Tests in campus’ old wing offer no clear answers, district says By Selicia Kennedy-Ross, Staff Writer San Bernerdino.com02/07/03 A possible mold infestation at a mountain high school has prompted a legal claim and an investigation by Rim of the World Unified School District officials. While air samples have proved inconclusive so far, officials said that […]
by B.J. O’BrienOctober 18, 2002 Town and school officials met Tuesday to discuss the recent mold problems that have been addressed at Bethel Middle School and figure out what to do so the situation does not come up again. The meeting was attended by First Selectwoman Judith Novachek, Selectman Robert Legnard and Superintendent of Schools […]
by Louise Koniarski The Daily Courier PRESCOTT – Spray Systems, a Phoenix environmental construction company, will begin removing a patch of black mold Monday from an interior wall toward the rear of Prescott High School. Principal Tim Carter said Tuesday that a workman preparing a wall for painting in Room 301 found the mold behind […]
by Tim Dana – Staff Writer, Eastern Arizona Courier Pima Kindergarten reopened after broken water lines caused mold in the school. This flooding closed the building and forced the two kindergarten classes to move classes. They moved to the Responsibility Center located in the elementary school double-wide trailer. Elementary Principal Lynne Jones said Pima Kindergarten […]
Posted on Mon, Dec. 30, 2002 The Horry County Schools system is spending about $300,000 to deal with a mold problem at Myrtle Beach Primary School. School staff first identified mold on the walls of some classrooms earlier this year. The district hired environmental testers, who in November found water-stained ceiling tiles, dust buildup and […]
by Chad Halcom – Staff Writer, Macomb DailyJuly 19, 2002 Romeo Community Schools may be close to making peace with one contractor and fighting another more aggressively in lawsuits over alleged mold contamination at Washington Elementary School. This week, attorneys met and agreed to delay a settlement conference between the district and Wonder Makers Environmental […]
Canton Township will conduct air quality tests weekly following $100,000 cleanup project by Sheri Hall, The Detroit News CANTON TOWNSHIP — Environmental cleanup crews removed black mold from a hall ceiling in Salem High School last week and will continue weekly air quality tests. The mold grew on tiles and insulation above the ceiling, which […]
by Brian Kuebler11/16/02 Memphis — "He’s the kinda son that I would like to have had. Very studious, very caring individual. He would do more than asked for all of the time," said East High teacher Dennis DeMarco. Donald Mister was the type of kid teachers make into scholars. The type of kid that was more than […]
by J. Sebastian Sinisi Denver Post Staff WriterTuesday, July 30, 2002 CASTLE ROCK – Any architectural design firm can save a client money by cutting corners. But LKA Partners Inc., one of the main architects for the Douglas County School District, manages to save money without cutting corners or diluting the design. Although one of […]
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., 8:42 p.m. EDT August 1, 2002 – There is a demolition project happening in several South Florida schools where workers are ripping down ceilings. Floors and walls are being torn down, not for remodeling, but for rehabilitation. Riverside Elementary in Coral Springs and four other Broward County schools are getting needed repairs […]
Rare Mold Can Cause Breathing Problems, Bleeding Lungs POSTED: 3:45 p.m. CST October 30, 2002 BIRMINGHAM, AL — Constant moisture and humidity may be feeding a dangerous black mold in one Birmingham-area high school. A laboratory in Florida issued a recent report identifying the mold as Stachybotrys. The fungus was found in a hallway at […]
by Mike Still and Rick Wagner, Bristol Herald CourierOct 19, 2002 New survey at Sullivan East shows stachybotrys limited to single area School officials said Friday that tests at Tennessee High School showed no traces of toxic black mold a week after the the discovery of the same type of mold led Sullivan County school […]
by Steve Harrison and Sonji Jacobs Broward schools construction chief Tom Calhoun said three new schools slated to open on the first day of school ”are on the bubble” and may not be ready Aug. 26. Westglades Middle in Parkland, Park Lakes Elementary in Lauderdale Lakes and Manatee Bay Elementary in Weston may miss their […]
Terri Miles – Editor, Amity Observer WOODBRIDGE – There are worms in the carpet in the guidance wing of Amity High School, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to Bethany resident Lorri Cavaliere, a member of Interim School Supt. Michael Nast’s Environmental Committee. Cavaliere said many students who joined the Summer Theater […]
Springfield, MO – Kickapoo High School students returning on Wednesday and the rest of this week to pick up their class schedules are being barred from some first-floor corridors, classrooms and lockers while workers clean up mold in ceiling tiles, on surfaces and in the air. The whole area is cordoned off by heavy sheets […]
ST. PAUL, MN – Have you found yourself suffering shortness of breath, headaches, acid reflux or are you just not feeling quite right, but you can’t attribute it to any specific cause? Perhaps you’ve found it hard to concentrate and you feel fatigued easily, but haven’t been able to figure out why. If you live or […]
Mold, a common term for fungal growth, is one of the most serious and underappreciated sources of damage to library, archival, and museum materials. Mold will grow on any organic host material offering suitable nutrients, including paper, adhesives, leather, dust, and sooty dirt.
Faster than this fungi can colonize ceiling tiles, it has spread across headlines in Texas. Its alleged effects are nightmare material: respiratory trouble, fever, headaches, rashes, bloody noses, memory loss, infant pulmonary hemorrhage. Its names sound equally insidious: black mold. Toxic black mold. Stachybotrys. But now that black mold traces have been found in dark […]
It’s no secret there’s mold in the Henderson County Courthouse. What hasn’t been clear until now is what kind, how much and how harmful. Now we know: some black mold (known as stachybotrys) and lots of aspergillus mold has been identified; and, yes, both can be harmful. The Athens Daily Review has obtained a preliminary […]
by Catrine Johansson, The Orange County Register A mother says she and her 3 sons were sickened by fungus inside the walls of a Fullerton apartment complex A mother and her three children who claimed that their mold-infested apartment made them sick have won a $900,000 settlement, the latest in a wave of big-money payouts […]
by Thom Marshall, Houston Chronicle How can anyone in Houston, Texas, the AC capital of the entire world, be on the verge of losing his home for following a doctor’s advice to put a little unit in the bedroom window? About four years ago, Mohammad Hashmi’s doctor told him he needs a window-unit air conditioner […]
by Julia Lyon, The Bulletin During lunch on Oct. 25, teachers on the south side of the Early Childhood Education Center complained of a strong, unidentifiable smell. Later office workers all over the reservation began to complain about feeling sick. Tribal officials hired environmental consultants. They monitored air quality in virtually every public building. What consultants found […]
Anyone can be a contractor in an unregulated industry. Bill Thomas bought a $265,000 lemon. The Cherokee County house was supposed to be his dream home: five bedrooms and a full basement on a cul-de-sac lot backing up to a shady stand of trees. Ornate moldings, built-in bookshelves and columns grace the interior. The subdivision, […]
Homeowners, builders and insurance companies increasingly are wrestling in court. Carmel, IN – The kitchen calendar reads January 2003. The clock on the stove perpetually flashes 12:00. The day Mary McKinstray fled her $250,000 Carmel home and her possessions is frozen in time. “My doctor said, ‘If you value your life, never go in that house again,’ […]
By Eloise Aguiar – Writer, Advertiser Windward O’ahuPosted on: Thursday, August 8, 2002 HAU’ULA – Half of the shelves in the Hau’ula Elementary School library sit empty after mold destroyed about $60,000 worth of books and forced the closure of the facility all of last school year because of potential health risks. But finally the […]
When Beverly Hammond discovered black and green mold growing in her hall closet last fall, she wanted her family to evacuate the house immediately. She suspected the gooey fungus was causing her husband’s frequent nosebleeds and her 16-year-old daughter’s sudden memory loss. Toxic mold can cause such symptoms, she knew, but she had no idea […]
By Jules Crittenden : The Herald Sunday, December 14, 2003 It sounds like a horror movie: Black mold that grows out of control on the walls, out of the light switches, sickening everyone in the house and even killing. For several Massachusetts families and possibly hundreds across the country, the nightmare is a reality that […]
by Beverly J. Lydick, Tribune Staff When Nikki Swanson moved into the yellow house on Nickerson Road, she planned to stay forever. After all, the two-story frame house, built in the 1860s, had been in her mother’s family for three generations and Swanson looked forward to raising her own family in the very same rooms. […]
by Henry Brean, Pahrump Valley TimesAugust 24, 2002 But levels at Gabbs, Round Mountain low compared to other areas BEATTY – Toxic mold spores like the ones that shut down Pahrump Valley High have been discovered at three more Nye County schools, but apparently not in significant enough quantities to warrant more closures. The toxic […]
Mold Endangers Children’s Health; A Mother’s Dream When Michelle Harless finally scraped up the money for her first house, she thought she was prepared for the rigors of home ownership. But within months, her Glendale dream home became her worst nightmare, the stuff of that nightmare: mold fed by a leaky pipe. Four months after […]
$1.5 Million Project To Be Completed Within 20 Months POSTED: 6:02 p.m. EST December 16, 2002 CLEVELAND — Officials said that mold has been attacking the county’s shelter for homeless women and children, creating a dangerous environment. NewsChannel5’s Joe Pagonakis reported that the city of Cleveland teamed up with Cuyahoga County on Monday to announce […]
by Candice Williams, The Express-TimesWednesday, August 07, 2002 FOUNTAIN HILL — Claims of unsanitary living conditions in a senior citizen high-rise and a possible illegal boarding house topped residents concerns at the regular council meeting Monday. Four residents of the Clarence Aungst Towers at 1101 Seneca St. appeared before council to plead for help in […]
by Andrew Laxon13.09.2002 Developers and builders have made plans to evacuate more than 100 residents of a leaking housing development which they fear may be contaminated with toxic mould. Herald investigations have established that the 65-unit Silverfield Terraces site in St Lukes is leaking badly and a consultant’s report shows moisture readings of up to […]
Toxic mold will soon be a household phrase. Insurance companies are under siege with claims from homeowners who say this mold is making them sick, and it could cost billions to clean it up. Recently a jury awarded a Texas family $32 million when they claimed mold in their home caused them to have neurological […]
ORLANDO, FL – As Floridians recover from the damage caused by Hurricane Charley they are being advised to be on the lookout for mold growth in buildings. Disaster officials caution that standing water and prolonged dampness from Charley’s heavy rains can lead to mold growth that is unhealthy for humans. Water-damaged carpets, wallboard, insulation, padding, […]
by Nicholas Wade : NY Times One of the most remarkable examples of symbiosis, the interdependence of different species, involves a tropical ant called the attine, or leaf-cutter. The ants grow a mushroomlike fungus in vast underground gardens, and they protect the fungus against a devastating mold with antibiotics produced by a bacterium that lives […]
Dozens of palms diseased; cost in tens of thousands by Hala Ali Aryan, Staff Writer : Union-Tribune August 1, 2002 DEL MAR – The city will remove at least 10 and potentially dozens of palm trees along the coast during the next few years after finding that at least 25 are infected with a fatal […]
It’s now official: El Nino is back. It’s not the powerful, climatic juggernaut of 1997-98, but a milder, weaker version that may begin affecting weather in the United States by Fall 2002, according to NOAA’s National Weather Service. The agency’s climate experts today said mature El Nino conditions likely will develop in a few months. […]
6/1/02 Washington, DC – More than 20 million Americans breathe toxic chemicals that expose them to cancer risks at least 100 times “acceptable” levels, according to voluminous data released quietly Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency. Those most at risk are mainly city dwellers, but virtually everyone who breathes outdoor air in the United States has […]
by Aaron Zachmeier : The Natchez Democrat Published Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:46 PM CDT VIDALIA, La. – With July’s precipitation totals just below average, the drought of the early farming season is a melting memory. But the effects of the dry spring are still being felt across Concordia Parish. Parish County Agent Glen Daniels […]
Cool early season temperatures have prompted soybean plants in a number of fields in certain Iowa areas to develop symptoms of iron chlorosis in 2002. Soybeans plants that have iron chlorosis usually first show up in low and wet areas of soybean fields, says X.B. Yang, an Iowa State University extension plant pathologist. These fields […]
The Texas Department of Health offers the following mold precautions for people returning to their water-damaged homes after recent flooding in Central and South Central Texas. Flooded homes should be thoroughly dried out, a process that may take several days or weeks. Wet carpet and padding should be removed and discarded. Porous materials(those that absorb […]
by Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D. A tantalizing unsolved mystery of the Persian Gulf War took place on the early morning of January 19, 1991, the third day of the Coalition air campaign against Iraq. Nearly 750 construction specialists (Seabees) with the 24th Naval Mobile Construction Battalion were housed in two camps near the port of […]
In June 1990, we moved into our dream home. Two story on a acre lot with a country setting in the middle of the big city. Lost world of Mother Nature not touched by humans. We had the only gravel road in this world of tar and cement. Over a long 10 years we built […]
We need to tell you our story so that maybe this problem won’t happen to another innocent family like ours. In 1993, we applied to Habitat for Humanity of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania so we could achieve our dream of owning our own home and providing our children with a safe and healthy environment to live […]
 
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