odds ’n’ ends

HAMPTON, NH:

A bottled message sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago has been returned to his daughter.

WMUR-TV reports the message was discovered by Clint Buffington of Utah while he was vacationing in the Turks and Caicos.

Buffington says he found a Coke bottle half-buried in the sand. The note inside the bottle said, “Return to 419 Ocean Blvd. and receive a reward of $150 from Tina, owner of the Beachcomber.”

The Beachcomber was a Hampton motel owned by the now-deceased parents of Paula Pierce in 1960.

Pierce’s father had written the note as a joke and cast it into the Atlantic Ocean.

Buffington flew to New Hampshire to deliver the message to Pierce. She made good on the promised reward. (AP)

ALBANY, NY:

A veteran state trooper and her rookie daughter have become the first mother and daughter to serve in uniform at the same time in the centurylong history of the New York State Police.

Trooper Meagan Hartmann recently graduated from the State Police Academy, joining her mother, Bethany Lamphere, as a uniformed trooper. The mother and daughter work at stations 60 miles apart in central New York.

Lamphere was a mother of three children, ages 6, 10 and 12, when she became a trooper in 2001. She had earned the required college credits to enter the police academy, then passed the state police entrance exam. She was 27 when she graduated from the academy.

Other than a two-year stint as an investigator, Lamphere has spent her career on road patrol in areas of central and northern New York. (AP)

UNITED NATIONS:

The United Nations is getting a museum — on the Internet, in a headquarters to be built in Copenhagen, and in other locations around the world yet to be announced.

The establishment of the “Museum for the United Nations - UN Live” was announced on Monday, the 71st birthday of the world body.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the announcement saying the museum will make the UN’s work accessible to a broader global public and build support for the new UN goals for 2030 “and our efforts to build a better shared future for all.”

The museum will be operated by an independent, nonprofit organization incorporated under Danish law, with support from the United Nations. Its first public events are planned for 2017. (AP)