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AMHERST — A new elementary school is an understandably big lift for taxpayers and renters in town, but many residents appear ready to support the $97.5 million project via a Proposition 2½ debt exclusion that’s already subject to early voting and will...
if you live in maryland, you've heard about blue crabs, a chesapeake bay icon. but scuttling along the salty shorelines of maryland's ocean beaches and coastal bays are as many as 35 other kinds of crabs you're unlikely to meet in a crabcake. jim casey was fisheries biologist for 37 years with the department of natural resources fisheries service. he emerged from retirement just to help find some of these crustaceans beyond blue - from tidal marsh to ocean surf. >> jim casey: with the type of habitat that we have, there are many, many more crabs than just blue crabs. many of them whi...
>> woman: we do want to help kids create bonds with the natural world, not just because we want them to grow up and become stewards of the environment, but also for their own benefits... peyton taylor, md conserv. corps & interpretation: ...because there's a growing body of research that tells us that when kids have an opportunity to interact, especially in unstructured play in an outdoor environment, there's a whole host of benefits that come to them, in terms of their cognitive skills, academic abilities, their physical health and well-being, their mental health and well-being, the...