BARBARA

The COVID-delayed Tokyo Olympics opened a year ago on July 23, 2021.

For nearly 30 years, Virginia Rubio has lived in a trailer park in Forks, Wash., where monthly rent teeters around $350. Now it's shooting up to $1,000. Rubio, a retired home-care aide who lives on food stamps and $860 in Social Security each month, says there's no way to make the math work. She owns the mobile home she shares with her partner and adult daughter but will soon have to give that up if she can't afford to rent the plot of land underneath it.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for

Surging home prices and rents are cascading down to the country’s mobile home parks, where heightened demand, low supply and an increase in corporate owners is driving up monthly costs for low-income residents with few alternatives.

BUYING NEW | Base prices for the single-family houses range from $719,000 to $789,900.

Tributes poured in for Reid, who died Tuesday at 82, from across the Democratic spectrum, among them progressives who’ve described Reid as one of theirs, but also as a guide. They and others frequently used “fighter” to describe the former boxer.

As well as his TV career, Alan Hawkshaw was in the Shadows and toured with the Rolling Stones.

Former President George W. Bush took to Instagram Saturday to announce the birth of a new granddaughter.

Barbara Olson, was onboard American Airlines Flight 77 when hijackers took over the plane on Sept. 11, 2001, from Washington Dulles airport to Los Angeles, where she was heading for an appearance on Bill Maher's TV show.

Pandemic restrictions are falling away almost everywhere — except inside many of America’s nursing homes.

Operators of the cable car near Lake Maggiore said maintenance and checks were carried out regularly.

The brain of the former NFL player who killed five people in South Carolina before fatally shooting himself will be tested for a degenerative disease that has affected a number of pro athletes.

Authorities are trying to figure out why former NFL player Phillip Adams shot and killed a prominent South Carolina doctor, three of his family members and a repairman before taking his own life.

The world also said goodbye to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement who died in July. Other former political figures who died this year include Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Arizona Gov. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2020 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___David Stern, 77. The guitarist who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four. He fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music.

Thanks to Barbara for sending us today’s Picture of the Day out fo Smith Mountain Lake!

This weather is nuts! Thanks for sending us this photo, Barbara! Copyright 2019 by WSLS 10 - All rights reserved.