For one final year, Lee County emergency 'Bunker' must do

Source: The News-Press

Lee Countys emergency operations personnel will spend one final summer in The Bunker. In 1978, well before Lee encountered Charley, Francis, Ivan, Jean or Wilma hurricanes that damaged or struck a glancing blow in Southwes ...
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Diva Di's Cruising Adventures: Day 55 - Solomon's Island, MD

Source: Sail Blogs

Sat 26 May 2012 Docked at Beacon Marina, Solomon's Island, MD [photo: one of many waterfront pubs on the island] It was a great night's sleep once we went below with the hatches closed. Apparently, several 50-something guys that clean other people's ...
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Kokopelli's Travels: Nearing the End of the Cruising Season

Source: Sail Blogs

Alas, the cruising season for another year is nearly over. It's been a long time since my last blog post and I apologize for that as we just spent the last month savoring our last weeks in the San Blas Islands of ...
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Tanker crash shuts down Durham Freeway

Source: ABC11-WTVD Raleigh News

DURHAM (WTVD) -- Parts of the Durham Freeway remain closed after a tractor trailer truck accident. Both northbound lanes are shut down at West Chapel Hill Street. Police said a truck ran off the road while trying to avoid a deer. The truck crashed int ...
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Pyroban unveils 'safe' engine control system

Source: TradeArabia

UK-based Pyroban, a wholly owned division of Caterpillar, said it had launched a new explosion-proof diesel engine control system at Offshore Technology Conference (OTC 2012) held recently in Houston, US. PCS 2 work ...
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Oil addiction generates denial

Source: Energy Bulletin

The major sin of the big oil companies was to get their customers addicted, to set up lobbies to keep them addicted, and to deny the looming shortage problem, including the threat of global warming. It’s easier to f ...
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Grenloch Lake reopens but questions linger

Source: N.J. Courier-Post Online

WASHINGTON TWP. — With a lifeless thud, the dead three-foot carp dropped onto the deck of a small dock on the lakeside property owned by Bob Rezzetti. It surfaced Friday after a boom placed by cleanup crews to ...
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LETTER: People of Montgomery County will pay for hauling Franklin's waste

Source: Leaf Chronicle

Clarksvillians and those who use the Clarksville Gas and Water sewer system in Montgomery County...- 7:26 pm Rossview High School celebrated the graduation of more than 300 graduates at their commencement...- ...
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Year-round pickup of yard waste proposed

Source: Omaha.com

Omaha residents might be able to avoid the annual scramble to dispose of their yard waste before Thanksgiving. Proposed changes to the city's trash collection contract with Deffenbaugh Industries Inc. would all ...
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