Trumpeter swans flood Skagit Valley winters in Washington
In Skagit Valley Washington trumpeter swans nesting in arctic areas arrive each November and stay through March feasting on farm leftovers. The count last winter reached 4094 swans including 2275 trumpeters and 1819 tundras.
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Mount Vernon
Wash
Washington
Skagit Valley
Arctic
North America
John Garrett
Skagit Wildlife Area
Skagit County
Mike Davison
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Washington State
Darryl Thompson
Snohomish County
Audubon Society
Thompson
Russia
Wrangel Island
Bering Strait
United States
Woman drives dead mother 1000 miles to Oregon burial
Janet Levine transported her 91 year old mother Mildred Wooten in the car from Colorado to Eugene Oregon to save shipping costs. Authorities say crossing state lines with a dead body without a death certificate is illegal though no charges will be pressed. The body was buried November 10 at a veterans cemetery in Portland after a service in Eugene.
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Portland
Ore
Colorado
Oregon
Janet Levine
Mildred Catherine Wooten
Mike Julian
Jefferson County
Colo
Levine
Frank Ratti
Lane County
Pine
Denver
Musgrove Family
Eugene
TJ. Acierno
Acerno
Wooten
Mark Musgrove
Musgrove
Lon Levine
Boy suspended for gun shaped medallion at Pontiac school
A third grade student at Owen Elementary in Pontiac was suspended under the state zero tolerance weapons law after bringing a 1 1/2 inch gun shaped medallion to class. Officials say the item posed no real threat but could frighten a student. the suspension length was not yet determined.
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Pontiac
Mich
Owen
Donna Poag
Pong
Oakland Press
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Northwest
Seagit Wildlife Area
Fir Island
Russ Canniff
State Department of Fish and Wildlife
Tim Cullinan
National Audubon Society of Washington
Don Kraege
Garrett
Johnson DeBay Swan Reserve
Swansociety.org
Audubon.org
Odessa American