SEVERN TOWNSHIP - An Easter morning surprise has turned into a source of heartache for Sharon Gosse. When the Coldwater woman first met Mama two years ago on a friend’s farm about three miles outside the village, the bird was no spring chicken. She was shocked when her friend called her on April 8 and told [...]
VASSAR, Kan. — Channel catfish are the garbage disposals of the fish world. Take it from Dave Schmidtlein, an avid fan of the bottom-feeding fish. he remembers a fishing trip several years ago at Coffey County Lake that convinced him that catfish will gobble up even the most unlikely of baits. “We had found this [...]
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WELLINGTON, new Zealand — a convention center, sports stadium and performing arts complex are among the big projects planned for a new-look downtown Christchurch after the new Zealand city was reduced to rubble by an earthquake last year. Essentially given a blank slate, government planners on Monday unveiled a blueprint for the city that replaces [...]
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DENVER — a once-thriving Colorado neighborhood of homes and healthy trees has been reduced to a barren expanse of ash and debris. Across the state, a river prized for its trout, rapids and pristine water instead flows as an oily, black brew every time rain falls on nearby slopes charred by wildfire. In new Mexico, [...]
Saturday, July 07, 2012 12:00 AM | Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend | Comments SALISBURY — Triple-digit temperatures and an abnormally dry summer have taken their toll on corn stalks, soybeans and livestock. but local farmers say they’ve seen worse. Kim Starnes, co-owner of four S Farms off Long Ferry Road, said [...]
LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Beggs wanted an easy way for his neighbors to share books. using odds and ends of fiberboard and Douglas fir, the retired building contractor fashioned a hutch the size of a dollhouse. he gave it a pitched cedar-shingle roof capped with copper. The door, trimmed in bright red, opens to three [...]
Saturday, July 07, 2012 12:00 AM | Printer friendly version | E-mail to a friend | Comments SALISBURY — Triple-digit temperatures and an abnormally dry summer have taken their toll on corn stalks, soybeans and livestock. but local farmers say they’ve seen worse. Kim Starnes, co-owner of Four S Farms off Long Ferry Road, said [...]
July 3 The associated Press LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors declined Tuesday to file criminal charges against former U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson, saying he suffered a seizure that was responsible for a trio of traffic accidents. Authorities have said Bryson’s Lexus struck a car on June 9 that was stopped for a train near Los [...]
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SANTA FE — the Santa Fe Master Gardener Association is more than a gardening club. It is an educational association through the New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service that assists the county’s Extension agricultural agent in providing the general public reliable, current research-based gardening information. Many Santa Fe community members are aware of the [...]
LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Beggs wanted an easy way for his neighbors to share books. using odds and ends of fiberboard and Douglas fir, the retired building contractor fashioned a hutch the size of a dollhouse. He gave it a pitched cedar-shingle roof capped with copper. The door, trimmed in bright red, opens to three [...]
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