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Long Island Electrical Contractor Roland's Electric Launches Stuff-A-Truck Thanksgiving Food Drive To Ease Hunger This Thanksgiving Season

2014-11-14 03:58:54| econline News Articles

Roland’s Electric, Inc., an electrical contracting company on Long Island, announces the launch of their Stuff-A-Truck Food Drive which runs now on weekdays through Friday, November 21st

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Tiny Pacific island tops world ocean health index

2014-11-05 15:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: An uninhabited Pacific island has come top of the first comprehensive ocean health index, which compares all the world's coastal countries and scores them for how well the seas around them benefit both man and nature. Tiny 4.5 sq km Jarvis island, halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands, was briefly mined for seabird fertiliser in the 19th century but both the waters around it and the island itself have been left more or less untouched since then, which accounts for its top score of 86 out...

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Jackson County allocated $10 million in funds toward purchase of the Rock Island Corridor

2014-11-03 23:37:07| Railroads - Topix.net

According to a press release from Lisa Carter, public information officer for the county, Jackson County has been allocated $10 million in federal highway transportation funds to apply toward the $59.9 million total cost of purchasing the Rock Island Corridor. In addition, Jackson County and the Union Pacific Railroad have extended a memorandum of understanding that gives the county the exclusive right to purchase key transit corridors which have the potential to be used for expanded public transit options in the future.

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Lava stalls short of Big Island town's main road

2014-11-02 00:35:16| Airlines - Topix.net

UPDATES with latest developments; map shows extent of lava flow from Hawaiian volcano; 3c x 4 inches; 146 mm x 101 mm; Lava from Kilauea volcano has stalled just under 500 feet from the main road in Pahoa on the Big Island, officials said Saturday. Los Angeles area authorities say they're looking for a motorist who crashed into three teenage girls trick-or-treating in Halloween costumes, leaving them with fatal injuries and fleeing the scene.

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