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Could Rob Ford's replacement be name drawn from hat?
MetroNews Canada
To find a mayor turfed for judicial reasons, you have to look back to 1886, when William Howland dealt with personal financial problems by transferring his assets to his wife. That put him afoul of the mayoral property-owning qualifications of the time.

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Toronto Star
If turfed, Ford's replacement could be a name drawn from a hat
Toronto Star
To find a mayor turfed for judicial reasons, you have to look back to 1886, when William Howland dealt with personal financial problems by transferring his assets to his wife. That put him afoul of the mayoral property-owning qualifications of the time.

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North Country Public Radio
Natural Selections: Buckwheat, the un-wheat
North Country Public Radio
Dr. Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College says buckwheat is an example of a common name that doesn't accurately reflect what the plant is related to: “The term buckwheat makes you think, well, it's a kind of wheat, which would be a cereal grain ...

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Professional News: August 29, 2012
UVM News
And Kolodinsky, David Conner, Benjamin King, Erin Roche, Chris Koliba, and Amy Trubek published “You can know your school and feed it too: Vermont farmers' motivations and distribution practices in direct sales to school food services" in Agriculture ...

North Country Public Radio
Michael Scaringe sentenced to seven years for rape of 13-year-old girl
North Country Public Radio
(08/23/2012) A common invasive species, the hover fly, or drone fly, looks remarkably like a honeybee. But in its youth, it carries the loathsome monicker "rat-tailed maggot". Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss Batesian mimicry: innocuous... Go ...

Recovery and renewal one year after Irene
North Country Public Radio
Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss Batesian mimicry: innocuous... Go to full article. It's a beautiful sunny August afternoon and I'm walking across the mudflats of what used to be lake above Marcy Dam, the iconic hiking destination in the High ...

A year after tropical storm Irene devastated many areas in Vermont, this story of a comparable event, the 1927 flood, is a timely reminder of the forces of nature and their impact on our environment.

One of Vermont's most devastating events, the 1927 flood occurred on November 2 – 4, with rainfall averages ranging from four to nine inches total. Excess rain during the month of October had saturated
the soil, and the additional rainfall in early November caused mass flooding all over the state. The flood
greatly changed the landscape and forced a massive reconstruction effort in all counties.
At the time of the 1927 flood, Mary Martin Hopkins was living in Perkinsville, a village located in the town of Weathersfield. Hopkins had been in Perkinsville, where her father managed the general store.
She married Adoniram Judson Hopkins, and their son Ernest Martin Hopkins served as the 11th president of Dartmouth College from 1916 to 1945.
A few days after the flood, Hopkins described her experience in a long letter to her children. Excerpts are included here, with explanatory material in parentheses.

This summer most of the central United States has been suffering the worst drought and highest temperatures in 75 years. These conditions follow record temperatures and reduced snow cover during winter and spring, with low rainfall in April, May and June. Wildfires have been more severe and extensive, and crop losses are expected. Except for the western United States, most states have seen record temperatures for the first seven months of this year.

Vermont has been exceptionally warm in 2012, with January to July temperatures running almost 5 degrees above normal. This was the first summer in years that I have had to water my vegetable garden a couple of times — in most Vermont summers since 2002 we’ve had rainfall well above normal amounts.

The bay, which is part of Lake Champlain, was overrun by blue-green algae.

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Flood Recovery, In Some Cases, Damaged Rivers
Vermont Public Radio
Mike Kline, Vermont's Rivers Program Manager, says the state is in the process now of developing the rules for towns to follow even in the face of a disaster. But he acknowledged that after Irene, with Tropical Storm Lee bearing down, towns had little ...

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W*USA 9
Flooding help on the way for DC neighborhoods
MyFox Washington DC
... include: Councilmembers McDuffie and Graham; District Department of Transportation Director Terry Bellamy; District Department of the Environment Director Christophe Tulou; Department of Public Works Director William Howland; D.C. Homeland Security ...
Task Force To Study Flood-Prone DC NeighborhoodsW*USA 9

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Task Force To Study Flood-Prone DC Neighborhoods
W*USA 9
Other members include council members Kenyan McDuffie and Jim Graham, DDOT Director Terry Bellamy, District Department of the Environment Director Christophe Tulou, Department of Public Works Director William Howland, D.C. Homeland Security ...

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Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager get down to the basics: "How... U.S. and Canada collaborate on Seaway vessel checks. Sep 12, 2012 — Huge freighters from all over the world ply the waters of the St. Lawrence River on their way to the Great Lakes.

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Police believe Lake Placid man's death accidental
North Country Public Radio
(08/23/2012) A common invasive species, the hover fly, or drone fly, looks remarkably like a honeybee. But in its youth, it carries the loathsome monicker "rat-tailed maggot". Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss Batesian mimicry: innocuous... Go ...

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Nature poetry, black poetry
North Country Public Radio
(08/23/2012) A common invasive species, the hover fly, or drone fly, looks remarkably like a honeybee. But in its youth, it carries the loathsome monicker, the rat-tailed maggot. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss Batesian mimicry—innocuous ...

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Scientists grapple with rapidly changing climate on Lake Champlain
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Greg Druschel doesn't recommend scuba diving in an algae bloom. First of all, visibility is 12 inches, “which can be disorienting,” said Druschel Thursday at a conference on climate change adaptation in the Lake Champlain Basin. “We use our lights and ...

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Scientists grapple with rapidly changing climate on Lake Champlain
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RACC researchers are focusing on the health of Lake Champlain because it is “the most economically important asset in Vermont,” said Judith Van Houten, the director of Vermont EPSCoR. But the focus is not just on ... Arne Bomblies, an assistant ...

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Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager get down to the basics: "How... U.S. and Canada collaborate on Seaway vessel checks. Sep 12, 2012 — Huge freighters from all over the world ply the waters of the St. Lawrence River on their way to the Great Lakes.

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North Country Public Radio
Seth Kilburn found dead, after search aided by outside agencies
North Country Public Radio
(08/23/2012) A common invasive species, the hover fly, or drone fly, looks remarkably like a honeybee. But in its youth, it carries the loathsome monicker "rat-tailed maggot". Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss Batesian mimicry: innocuous... Go ...

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North Country Public Radio
New music from "The Road" with Celia Evans
North Country Public Radio
Natural Selections: Red-backed Salamanders (0 mi). (08/09/2012) This northern forest species is so common that its biomass would outweigh all the large mammals and birds in its habitat combined. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager look at forest amphibians.