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Disaster Funds Approved: 2012 Flood (Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Apr 2016
21, 2012, nearly half the town of Talkeetna evacuated due to rising river water from a relentless fall rainstorm. The night before, angry Montana Creek took a bite out of Yoder Road and turned its roadbed into a river ... The revetment that holds back the Talkeetna River from the low-lying town was partly repaired after the flood....

Fishing report for April 8

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 08 Apr 2016
JAMES/APPOMATTOX/ CHICKAHOMINY RIVERS ... At a tournament last week, the weights were huge, showing the river is coming back strong. A lot of crappie are being caught on the river....

Health & Wellness Fair in Iron River on April 27 (Bayfield County, WI)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Apr 2016
The Iron River Lions Club in partnership with the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of the North will host a community wide Health and Wellness Fair on Wednesday, April 27, from 9 a.m ... at the Iron River Community Center, 8275 East Mill Street, Iron River, WI ... Members of Iron River and the surrounding ......

Fort Worth leads the way - Letters to the Editor

Edit The Dallas Morning News 08 Apr 2016
I am ready to move to Fort Worth where the land along the Trinity River in and around the downtown area has been developed into several beautiful parks. There is even a “float down the river” event on Thursdays during the ......

Bethlehem IDA holding public hearing on Carver Laraway's $4.9 million port plan

Edit Times Union 08 Apr 2016
The Bethlehem Industrial Development Agency holds a public hearing Wednesday on Carver Laraway's plans for a port facility on the Hudson River at the site of Harris Rebar off River Road near the Albany city line. The hearing will be at 5 p.m. at Town Hall on Delaware Avenue. Laraway, who owns the Port of Coeymans, is seeking $197,000 in tax breaks for the $4.9 million project ... ....

For Jeannine Rivers, 'Iridescent October' is personal

Edit The Examiner 08 Apr 2016
Photo used with permission of Jeannine Rivers....

Can 'pay as you glow' solve Malawi's power crisis?

Edit BBC News 08 Apr 2016
Roughly 9% of the population are connected to the grid - in rural areas, this falls to about 1%. The population is growing about 3% a year, meaning that every year the country is falling further and further behind. The state utility, Escom, produces most of its grid power from hydroelectric installations on the Shire river. But falling water levels have hampered the reliability of this source ... Power at a price ... ....

Fed'l watchdog to interview Flint residents on water crisis

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 08 Apr 2016
The inspector general's office at the Environmental Protection Agency says more than 100 people submitted complaints to the agency or the White House between April 2014 - when the city's water supply was switched to the Flint River - and January 2016....

Scott signs waters restoration bill

Edit Tampa Bay Online 08 Apr 2016
“The Legacy Florida program will allow us to provide clean water to Florida’s growing population and will aid us in completing the decades-long restoration of the River of Grass,” House Speaker Steve Crisafulli, a Merritt Island Republican, said in a statement....

Carl Jocumensen in first place in his first Elite Series on Winyah Bay

Edit The Examiner 08 Apr 2016
Welcome to low country ... Some folks compare the jetties to the Taj Mahal, did they say ruins? Beautiful estuary brackish fishing basin, rivers, creeks channels, feeder creeks, canals and backwaters. Shallow heart land home to wetlands, old rice fields, old forest swamps, rivers and marsh, this area is the third largest estuarine waters on the east coast, fishing and the fish are close ... This treasure is held in trust ... ....

Refugee crisis: Hamburg’s wealthy take to the streets in posh protest at planned migrant hostel

Edit The Independent 08 Apr 2016
Overlooking the river Elbe on Hamburg’s leafy western fringes, Blankenese’s luxury waterside villas are home ......

Before Groome wowed scouts, there was Tom River's Gold

Edit Asbury Park Press 08 Apr 2016
Barnegat lefty Jason Groome draws an army of major league baseball scouts every time he pitches, just like Toms River North's J.M. Gold 18 years ago.        .   ... ....

Defending champion Jack Sock advances in Houston

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 08 Apr 2016
Houston • Defending champion Jack Sock beat Australia’s Matthew Barton 6-2, 7-6 (5) on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals in the U.S. Men’s Clay Court Championship. The fourth-seeded American won last year at River Oaks for his first ATP Tour title. He will face the winner of a match between seventh-seeded Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus and Fernando Verdasco of Spain ... Lopez will face Tim Smyczek, a 6-... ....
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