Archive for March, 2009

Shiocton-area family taps into spring rite of making maple syrup - Wrightstown Post Gazette

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Shiocton-area family taps into spring rite of making maple syrup
Wrightstown Post Gazette, WI
A half-dozen people emerge from the warmth of a 19th century log cabin and fan out to check the levels of sap in 350 six-gallon plastic buckets hung from spiles, small metal spigots tapped into the maples to collect sap. Inside the cabin, 86-year-old

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A River Prone to Flooding, and Misunderstanding - Star News Online

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

FARGO, N.D. — Predicting the weather has always been at least in part a gambler’s game — a matter of odds and percentages. But over the last week, as the Red River in North Dakota has surged to potentially catastrophic flood levels, setting off …

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Rooting Out Crime Out Of The Log Cabin Nursery - CBS 4

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Rooting Out Crime Out Of The Log Cabin Nursery
CBS 4, FL
Read more in our Privacy Policy The Log Cabin Nursery on Miami Beach’s Collins Avenue helps the mentally challenged with jobs. They call it the Log Cabin Nursery. A rustic old wood cabin is surrounded by plants of every variety on a small piece of

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KE Norcross: Life in the country will be just fine and dandy, once … - Gaston Gazette

Monday, March 30th, 2009
KE Norcross: Life in the country will be just fine and dandy, once
Gaston Gazette, NC
Oh, and there is also a log cabin. A small log cabin with a recently repaired sagging floor, half the size of the home we live in now, with one bathroom. I’ve tried to tell my teenager, it’s not that I don’t like people.

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A River Prone to Flooding, and Misunderstanding - New York Times

Monday, March 30th, 2009
A River Prone to Flooding, and Misunderstanding
New York Times, United States
Other wrinkles of the river’s drainage basin, though, are just now being explored, like the odd legacy of homesteading. The land grant system of the 1800’s divided much of the nation into square-mile sections of 640 acres — a pattern still prevalent,

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Festival promises a taste of what used to be - Athens Banner-Herald

Monday, March 30th, 2009

There are a variety of reason folks come to the Folklife in Georgia Festival, which has been celebrated, rain or shine, at Madison County Memorial Park and the old Danielsville Elementary School gymnasium for the past eight years. Some patronize the …

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Better tactics in drug war - Log Cabin Democrat

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Better tactics in drug war
Log Cabin Democrat, AR
In a related article in that edition, “Stark speaks out on rehab, charges,” Log Cabin Staff Writer, Joe Lamb, quoted Conway Attorney Frank Shaw, “Ninety-nine percent of my criminal clientele has either addictions to drugs or alcohol or mental disease

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Firefighters tackle major pub blaze - Newham Recorder

Monday, March 30th, 2009
Firefighters tackle major pub blaze
Newham Recorder, UK
Such was the danger to crews from the roof collapsing fire chiefs took the decision to withdraw men who were attacking the fire with hand-held water jets from inside the vacant Log Cabin in Stratford. And some remained overnight at the scene in the

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Mary Virginia Smith - Frontiersman

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Long time Alaskan resident, Mary V. Smith, 82, died March 26 at home of natural causes. Mrs. Smith was born Oct. 11, 1926 in Jacksonville, Texas to Joseph and Anna Martin. After graduating from Reagan High School in Houston, Texas, she worked for the …

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Relaxed barbeque aims to break down drought isolation issues - Cowra Guardian

Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Relaxed barbeque aims to break down drought isolation issues
Cowra Guardian, Australia
Drought and support experts will converge on Gooloogong’s well known Log Cabin Hall for a relaxed, community gathering and barbeque this Friday, April 3. The main feature will be Stockinbingal farmer John Harper who has developed an entertaining and

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