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• McNeill family celebrates century on Rollins Road farm (Lake County News-Sun)
5 Sep 2008 at 4:32am
The McNeill family marked 100 years of farming on the same homestead on Rollins Road just outside of Round Lake Beach this month. More than 100 family and friends picnicked around all the old and new tractors.
• Introducing the five city commission candidates (The Dickinson Press)
4 Sep 2008 at 10:10pm
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• Lanai windfarm plan fights local currents (Honolulu Advertiser)
31 Aug 2008 at 4:13am
Plans to build the largest wind farm in the state on Lana'i are part of a vision to make the island a model of renewable energy, but the project is encountering some headwinds in the form of community concern.
• Pitkin County real estate transactions (The Aspen Times)
27 Aug 2008 at 10:19am
A listing of real estate transactions recorded in Pitkin County in 2008 (updated through Aug. 21).
• LBJ centennial sparks renewed interest in his Hill Country sites (San Jose Me...
22 Aug 2008 at 4:51pm
With the 100th anniversary of his birth on Aug. 27, change is coming to the place Johnson called home: the LBJ Ranch and what became known around the world as the Texas White House.
• In Central Valley, the Ruins of the Housing Bust (The Hendersonville Times-News)
25 Aug 2008 at 12:41pm
The experience of Merced, Calif., suggests that recovery from the national real estate debacle will be painful and protracted.
• Ready, set, show (The Sacramento Bee)
19 Aug 2008 at 12:08am
Rural Sacramento County, where you can wedge a Home Depot between houses, is quality goat country. Jake Carlson, 15, and his sister, Abby, 12, wake up at 5 a.m. to get their farm chores done. They have 17 goats entered in State Fair competitions this year. Abby Carlson and her brother, Jake, groom one of their dairy goats to prepare it for the State Fair.
• Windmills split upstate NY town and families (AP via Yahoo! News)
16 Aug 2008 at 10:09am
"Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home. The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air. Sleek and white, their long propeller blades rotate in formation, like some otherworldly dance of spindly-armed aliens swaying across the land.
• 5 Offbeat Paths to Foreign Travel Deals (ThirdAge)
19 Aug 2008 at 4:08pm
You can enjoy a unique style of foreign travel inexpensively -- or at least get a hefty tax break -- if you're willing to volunteer your time, your home or your knowledge.
• Farmers suffer from heat, water loss (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
20 Aug 2008 at 11:40am
REYNOSA, Mexico -- After a lifetime of farming the dusty earth around this northern Mexico city, Juan Pinal understands the value of water and the uncertainty it poses to his livelihood.
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