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Eleanor K. Stromberg On Monday, May 3, 2021, Eleanor Stromberg passed away peacefully at the Hadley House Assisted Living in Perham, MN. At her passing, she was just 6 days short of her 99th birthday. Eleanor was born in Egeland, North Dakota on May 9, 1922 to Grace and Melvin Rock. Following high school she went to Jamestown State Teacher’s College where she graduated at the top of her class. After college she moved to Hollywood, California to help with the war effort (WWII). She worked for Lockheed Corporation in several roles including riveting aircraft (she was a “Rosie the Ri...

Gypsy moth spraying has begun on over 200,000 acres of state land Updated 10:28 AM; Facebook Share Aerial spraying of woodlands against impending outbreaks of the gypsy moth has begun across Pennsylvania. A total of 203,569 acres at 146 sites will be sprayed through an effort led by the Bureau of Forestry in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Those sites will include 9 state forests, 9 state parks, 25 state game lands and sections of the Allegheny National Forest in 19 counties. “As the insects emerge and begin feeding, the suppression effort will begin in early May,” ...

It’s time to ‘clean our room’ By Staff | Apr 28, 2021 To the editor: “You can go out and play after you clean your room. You live here, remember?” I can still hear my mother’s exasperated voice on Saturday mornings, my father growling in the background.  Years would pass before I integrated that message — you are responsible.    When Earth Day was founded in 1970, 20 million Americans demonstrated in cities all over the country to draw attention to the growing needs of our environment.  I was not one of them. In 1970, I was graduating from college, heading to basic traini...

State parks in region on the schedule Apr 28, 2021 HARRISBURG — The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn has announced the start of aerial spraying of state woodlands to combat gypsy moth populations poised for spring outbreaks in some sections of Pennsylvania, including state parks in Clinton, Centre and Lycoming counties. “As the insects emerge and begin feeding, the suppression effort will begin in early May,” Dunn said. “Our recent cool, wet springs had emerged as an enemy of the gypsy moth in years past, but populations have climbed ...

Prince Albert Daily Herald A University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher, Dr. Holly Graham (PhD), has been awarded $2.5 million over five years by Public Safety Canada to implement a crime prevention program using culture as the intervention. According to Graham, the crime prevention project provides 10 to 19-year-old students and their families on both Little Pine and Poundmaker First Nations an opportunity to connect to their traditional Cree identity. This will include the use of traditional ways to manage conflict resolution. “It is returning to the Cree traditional worldviews and par...