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BUFFALO TWP The popular Butler-Freeport Community Trail will soon get just a little bit longer. A lease agreement between Buffalo Township and Norfolk Southern railroad will allow for a 0.6-mile ext. ....
With the recent news that Freeport Borough and Gilpin Township are looking to consolidate their police departments, geography becomes an issue. But what if the original plans to build a bridge between the two municipalities would have come about? There were plans in the early 1960s to build a bridge ....
Questions about DOC s efforts to rid the environment of lead came up at a recent West Coast Conservation Board meeting in Reefton. Board member Jonathan Clearwater asked DOC Western South Island operations director Mark Davies for an update on the lead programme, including plans to switch out lead shot for tungsten ammunition in the annual tahr cull in national parks. Earlier experimentation with the tungsten shot had resulted in a couple of near misses, when it appeared to ricochet and hit helicopter rotor blades, Davies said. “A lot of ballistics work has been done since then, but we have to be very careful, for health and safety reasons.” ....