USDA PROVIDES UP TO $5 MILLION IN CONSERVATION INNOVATION GRANTS FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2005-Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today announced that up to $5 million is available in fiscal year 2005 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This grant competition provides farmers and ranchers with the opportunity, through innovation, to address some of the watershed's most pressing natural resource conservation needs...[Read full story]
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PETAL PUSHER FLORIST
- Come or call early for your selection for that Special someone. WE ARE HERE FOR YOU AS WE HAVE BEEN FOR 15 YEARS. ROSES, CARNATIONS, MANY SPRING FLOWERS, FLOWERING PLANTS, PLUSH ANIMALS, GREETING AND & BALLOONS. Open Friday, 2/11 thru Monday 2/14 from 9-5 for your convenience. Most major credit cards accepted. 9 N. Main St., Manchester, NY (800) 836-0595.
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WELCOME TO THE VILLAGE OF CLIFTON SPRINGS
The Clifton Springs Area Chamber of Commerce recently announced the unveiling of their new Internet web site. The site features a sleeker look and many new enhancements over the previous version...[Read full story]
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CLIFTON SPRINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY - OUR NEW PRESIDENT'S PEDIGREE
George Budd Mueller grew up in New Rochelle, NY and started coming up to his Uncle Norval Budd's farm in "Coonsville" at the age of nine in 1941...[Read full story]
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MIDLAKES STUDENT NAMED "STUDENT OF THE YEAR"
Congratulations to 12-year-old Andre Pelletreau for being selected Student of the Year 2004 at the IOMASDA Karate Academy! Andre is a 6th grader at Midlakes Middle School in Clifton Springs. Besides studying hard at school and being on the high honor roll this year, Andre has committed 4 years of his time after school and on Saturdays traveling to Newark to attend karate classes at IOMASDA Karate Academy in the Wegman's Plaza where he has just earned the rank of Green Belt...[Read full story]
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RED JACKET MIDDLE SCHOOL CAREER DAY
Red Jacket Middle School students and local businessmen and women attended Career Day at the Red Jacket Middle School Classrooms on Friday, Feb. 4...[Read full story]
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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Brian and Angela Smylski, of Florida, welcomed the birth of their first child...[Read full story]
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New Director of Cornell Ag & Food Tech Park to Address March 18 Ontario County Agriculture Appreciation Banquet
Daniel J. Fessenden, Executive Director of the Cornell Ag & Food Tech Park, will address the Ontario County Agriculture Appreciation Celebration on Friday, March 18 in Geneva. Mr. Fessenden, an economic development leader and former New York State Assemblyman, assumed the executive director position for CAFTP in September 2004...[Read full story]
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ARE YOU PREPARED?
Canandaigua - Are you prepared to pass on your personal property as part of the inheritance process? Do you want to find out more about this process? A 13-minute video on how to open discussion on transferring personal property is now available for loan at Cornell Cooperative Extension, 480 North Main Street, Canandaigua. A $5.00 refundable deposit is required. Please call ahead to check availability...[Read full story]
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2005 Vacation Guide
February 1, 2005 Granby, Colorado - The Colorado Dude & Guest Ranch Association now has its 2005 full-color Vacation Guide available. The 2005 Vacation Guide has been completely updated into a new, larger format. The added size makes the Guide much easier and simpler to use. Individual ranches are featured in brightly colored boxes with easy-to-read contact information highlighted for each ranch. Color photos throughout the guide give readers a small taste of dude ranch life at our member ranches...[Read full story]
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
Valentine Symbols
It's not difficult to figure out the connection between the HEART and Valentine's Day. The heart, after all, was thought in ancient times to be the source of all emotions. It later came to be associated only with the emotion of love. It's not clear when the valentine heart shape became the symbol for the heart. Some scholars speculate that the heart symbol as we use it to signify romance or love came from early attempts by people to draw an organ they'd never seen. Anyway, here are some of the other valentine symbols and their origins...[Read full story]
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