This can lead to the second stage, agricultural drought, when the soil begins to hold less water for crops and forage for livestock. Several of these sites are located in the mountains surrounding Uinta County and recorded precipitation from recent storms. Recent snowstorms brought much needed water to Wyoming, but much more is needed to ease drought conditions. Automated Weather stations called SNOTEL sites measure snowfall and then calculate the amount of equivalent water. Gray said that...

The district hopes to hire a company by June 15 to begin the initial work in adding a fire-suppression system and making the mill accessible to the handicapped, Sabino said. The park district bought the mill in 2005, along with the canal behind the mill, an old railroad depot, an old stable, an adjoining lumber yard, water rights to the canal and Lock 24 on the canal. The mill is open weekdays and Saturday mornings to sell grain, corn meal, animal feed, grass seed, straw and salt. Park...

Bank anglers can find access to the river in the Gladstone/Cross Park area, at Carver near the mouth of Clear Creek, along Clackamas River Rd, at Barton Park, at Bonnie Lure Park, at McIver Park near Dog Creek, and from the McIver Park boat ramp on up to River Mill Dam. Bank anglers can find access to the river in the Gladstone/Cross Park area, at Carver near the mouth of Clear Creek, along Clackamas River Rd, at Barton Park, at Bonnie Lure Park, at McIver Park near Dog Creek, and from the...

Home:News:News:Top Stories Top Stories Experts: County needs horse park By MARIA McBRIDE BUCCIFERRO, For The Saratogian 04/29/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly MILTON - Saratoga County leads the state in the horse industry, and the county should be home to the state's first horse park. Home:News:News:Top Stories Top Stories Experts: County needs horse park By MARIA McBRIDE BUCCIFERRO, For The Saratogian 04/29/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly MILTON -...

in downtown Monticello and the only sounds in an office were a phone ringing and the hushed voice of a politician acknowledging well-wishers with a raspy voice. On that November day eight hours after the polls closed in 1986, Jim Jontz, a little known state senator from Brookston, had pulled off what most everyone thought was improbable a week before that. While scores of Indiana politicians campaigned in parades on floats or atop the back seat of a convertible, Jontz pedaled a beat-up...

Over the centuries, strange lights were seen in the woods along Mary Dunn Road, so named for a former slave who lived along this route and who was burned to death in 1850 in her little cottage half-way between Hyannis and Barnstable on the Indian Trail according to historian Donald G. Over the centuries, strange lights were seen in the woods along Mary Dunn Road, so named for a former slave who lived along this route and who was burned to death in 1850 in her little cottage half-way...

Topics will cover local honeybee concerns and problems, and Africanized honeybee habits, precautions and control recommendations. Program topics will address management practices to improve production and efficiency on the ranch. The first is primarily for city, county, state and federal officials and the second for the general public. Wayne Hanselka, Extension Range Specialists will address "What Does the Ranch Really Produce?" The second program, presented by Steve Livingston, Extension...

Westerners, like most Americans, are deeply in love with their lawns but in an time of increasing drought, the Kentucky bluegrass is going to have to go. The next thing you might hear is a phone call from that same rancher to his or her congressman asking support for a ban on packer ownership of cattle. With all the formerly cool, "undiscovered" small towns now caught up in the New Wests booming real estate frenzy, its getting hard to find an affordable place to call home. The discovery of...

I don t think the Legislature wants to cut schools, either, frankly, but they have no choice we don t have the money, Granholm told reporters this morning. Jennifer Granholm said today that she will order a $125 per-student cut in state aid to schools and a 6% reduction in state payments to doctors and hospitals that treat Medicaid patients because of the state s budget deficits. Still, he said, that would hurt elementary school students who would not receive the final weeks of planned...