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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Noting that Pennsylvania's first farmers were Native Americans, the Historical and Museum Commission is saluting those pioneering agriculturalists with an interactive booth at this year's Farm Show. The commission's "Petroglyphs of Pennsylvania" exhibit, sponsored in conjunction with the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology, Pennsylvania Archaeological Council, and the state Department of Transportation, features Bob Winter's Native...
A top Republican who promoted an Atlanta fundraiser for likely GOP presidential nominee John McCain stayed away from the event, The Wall Street Journal said. Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition and a high-profile figure in a scandal involving disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, had e-mailed friends in recent weeks touting the Monday night McCain fundraiser. However, Reed was not at the event and McCain did not mention him during his remarks, the newspaper said. McCain, who...
By The Kansas City Star, Mo. Jul. 20--All this talk about "staycations" has me really looking forward to the beach. Lucky for me, I bought our airline tickets to Florida months ago, before the latest national travel neurosis crashed the summer vacation party. For a country founded by extreme risk takers, we're becoming alarmingly alarmist. After 9/11, well-meaning friends and acquaintances cautioned my husband and me against flying to Germany with our kids to visit family. Terrorists!...
By Matt Gryta State Supreme Court Justice Joseph G. Makowski on Thursday upheld Buffalo's sale of a two-block portion of Fulton Street to the Seneca Nation of Indians against a challenge on environmental grounds. With a crucial federal court ruling days away on the issue of whether the Senecas can legally operate a gaming facility on the nine acres it acquired from the city, Makowski ruled the Common Council took the mandated "hard look" at all environmental issues linked to the project. In...
By Andrew Rafferty William McCullough had some unfinished business to take care of before Seneca Vocational High School completed its final commencement on Sunday. The Class of 1945 graduate had to participate in the commencement ceremony. After three years attending Seneca, McCullough left the East Side school in 1944 to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the South Pacific during World War II. He continued taking classes in the service and attended night classes when he returned home....
By Fie, Shannon M Abstract This paper examines the exchange of Middle Woodland ceramics within the Havana region of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere. Ceramics from six lower Illinois Valley sites and samples of surrounding days are examined using neutron activation analysis. Statistical evaluation of the elemental data reveals the presence of foreign ceramics in all six site samples. The local ceramics encompass a variety of both fine and coarse wares, including several sherds initially...
By The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. Jun. 18--Two housing programs in Hoke and Lee counties were awarded $325,000 in grants to help with repairs and other work. The Lumbee tribe was awarded a $250,000 Community Development Block Grant to install water and sewer lines in its housing development in Hoke County. The city of Sanford was awarded a $75,000 grant to help with urgent home repairs. The state Department of Commerce announced the grants Tuesday. In Hoke County, the Lumbee tribe...
By Alice Thrasher, The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. Jun. 17--When power bills arrive to cover the cost of staying cool during June's record-breaking heat wave, customers may be surprised. "Some of the loads we are seeing are what we usually see for July because we have had a much hotter summer so far," PWC spokeswoman Carolyn Justice-Hinson said last week. "Unless people have changed and are being very conscious of thermostat settings, definitely the hot weather is going to impact their...
By Alice Thrasher, The Fayetteville Observer, N.C. Jun. 17--hen power bills arrive to cover the cost of staying cool during June's record-breaking heat wave, customers may be surprised. "Some of the loads we are seeing are what we usually see for July because we have had a much hotter summer so far," PWC spokeswoman Carolyn Justice-Hinson said last week. "Unless people have changed and are being very conscious of thermostat settings, definitely the hot weather is going to impact their...
By Steve Connor Science Editor Textbook accounts of how the Americas were first populated may have to be re-written after the discovery in Oregon of the oldest human DNA ever recorded. The DNA dates from 14,300 years ago - about 1,200 years before the oldest human artifacts produced by the Clovis people, who were thought to be the first inhabitants of North America. The Oregon find suggests that the Clovis people were preceded by cultures who lived along the west coast of North America...
