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The Astronomical Society of Northern New England (ASNNE) held its monthly meeting on Friday, May 6.

Events for May 3.

Four alumni — Jennifer Borcich, Tom Harris, Damon Jones and Chad Peshke — and the 1988 men’s volleyball team are inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame

State and federal wildlife authorities are probing results from an emergency winter feeding of starving Florida manatees.

In December of last year, Florida wildlife officials decided on an unprecedented way to try and save the state’s starving manatees: outright feeding them. Now, as the trial feeding program draws to a close with warmer weather, officials say they can count it as a success. 

One thing wildlife officials have learned during the winter experimental feeding program to help manatees avoid starvation is that if you feed them, they will come.

Manatees have eaten virtually all of the estimated 160,000 pounds of lettuce provided at a warm-water power plant site where manatees typically congregate during cold months, officials said.

Manatees have eaten virtually all of the estimated 160,000 pounds of lettuce provided at a warm-water power plant site where manatees typically congregate during cold months, officials said.

Even as officials feed lettuce to manatees in the Indian River of Brevard County, the death rate there is worse than last year, which was set a record.

Even as officials feed lettuce to manatees in the Indian River of Brevard County, the death rate there is worse than last year, which was set a record.