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Indiana Bat
(06/14/07) Fort Drum has bats. The Army base in Jefferson County is home to nine species of the night flyers, including the endangered Indiana bat. Researchers are studying the flying mammals. Jonathan Brown has more.
(06/01/07) Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division who die in Iraq and Afghanistan will no longer receive individual memorials at Fort Drum. Army officials announced this week that the base will hold monthly memorial services to honor the sacrifice of service-men and service-women. Brian Mann spoke with Lt. Colonel Paul Fitzpatrick, who says the shift isn't tied to rising casualty rates.
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Lowville Band, early 1900s
The Edison cylinder recordings used to create this concert were brought to the NCPR studio June 28, 2005 by Rebecca Hopfinger of Clayton, along with a gramophone decorated with roses by her Aunt Bertha.
(06/28/05) Following the late picnic dinner with family on the Green, and before the fireworks display, the bandshell next to the memorial fills with brassmen from all around. Tunes both popular and patriotic carry all the way to the courthouse on the cooling summer air.
Concert Program: U.S. Army Lancers Third Figure Smiler Rag, 1907 Reed Bird The Thousand and One Nights Waltz, Strauss Barney Medley Bachelors Button Turkey in the Straw Medley, 1904 Fol-the-Rol-Lol Medley, 1906 El Capitan March, Sousa Chinese March Sweet Sixteen's March American Republic March, 1900
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Blacksmith David Woodward sets in place the final piece of the weather vane he made for the Adirondack Carousel in Saranac Lake, which opens Saturday at 1 pm with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo: Mark Kurtz.
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  In Joseph Kanon's new spy thriller, <em>Istanbul Passage</em>, former intelligence aide Leon Bauer is caught in the complexities of post-World War II life, in a story of moral compromise and shifting loyalties.  U.S. oil production has been on the rise, and that's been widely noted. But the same is true throughout the Americas, which are now home to four of the world's top nine producers.  Spaniards love their soccer and it has provided a diversion during the economic crisis. But a government desperate for cash is now demanding that teams pay taxes they were evading. The alderman in the 49th Ward became the first elected official in the country to hand over the purse strings to his constituents in 2009. Three years later, the "participatory budgeting" experiment is still attracting in new residents to...  Patrick Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who went after the Gambino crime family, al-Qaida and the White House in court — not to mention several Illinois politicians — is leaving his job as U.S. attorney in Chicago.  Canada Top Stories
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