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Great Lakes Daily News: 26 September 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.
For links to these stories and more, visit http://www.great-lakes.net/news/
Suburbs in the city
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A popular new neighborhood in Detroit looks more like a suburb than an urban area, which raises the question of what a city should be. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (9/26)
Environmental superheroes
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Drama is a unique way to connect children with their textbooks, which is why a play on the achievements of Rachel Carson is making the rounds of elementary schools. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (9/26)
EDITORIAL: No drilling in Lake Erie
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Natural gas prices are expected to rise brutally this winter, but state and federal lawmakers should not be stampeded into reversing the ban on drilling for gas and oil in Ohio's portion of Lake Erie. Source: The Toledo Blade (9/25)
Biologists fear danger for chinook fishery
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Sharp declines in the numbers of alewives, which make up much of the food base for chinook salmon, and other factors have biologists concerned about a possible crash in populations of the gamefish. Source: South Bend Tribune (9/25)
Six-county group aims to restore grasslands
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An organization covering six central Wisconsin counties has set an ambitious goal of protecting thousands of additional acres of grasslands and a threatened bird that calls the habitat home. Source: Marshfield News-Herald (9/25)
Why you're going to love being inspected by U.S. customs
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At the spanking-new U.S. Customs facility at the International Bridge at Sault Ste. Marie, the 75-foot-long main desk is built with wood debris from the Independence, the first steamship ever to sail on Lake Superior. Source: Soo Today (9/25)
Steamship Mather sails with a tug and a push
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With its 96-year-old captain once again at the helm, the freighter-turned-museum William G. Mather moved to its new berth over the weekend just north of the Great Lakes Science Center. Source: The Plain Dealer (9/25)
10 trips to peek at leaves
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From the Great Lakes to lazy rivers to historic villages, it's easy to findfall colors on scenic drives around the Midwest. Source: Akron Beacon Journal (9/25)
Group wages David-and-Goliath battle to build historic fort replica
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A nonprofit group says it has been stymied for more than four years in its attempt to build a life-size replica of the Abbe Francois Picquet's 1749 Fort LaPresentation on the St. Lawrence River. Source: New York Newsday (9/24)
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