Villagers Question Decision to Paint Mountain Green
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SHANGHAI, China - Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads after an estimated more than $60,000 was spent to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Mar. 7--BELLINGHAM -- The Fairhaven Highlands developers will pay a consultant to create an environmental impact statement for the controversial project, a decision developers and the city say will provide transparency.
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MSPs are in Blair Atholl to hear from whether the area should be included in the Cairngorm National Park.
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Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads after an estimated more than $60,000 was spent to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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Testing with dye is planned next spring to find out why water in a creek near the East Entrance has turned greenish.
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By Janice L. Habuda  Kenmore officials want to join a growing coalition of municipalities seeking guidance for dealing with vacant properties.  At their Tuesday work session, members of the Village Board discussed joining the Erie-Buffalo Vacant Properties Coordinating Council.
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By Erica Curless, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 26--Fernan Lake Village residents are upset that a waterfront homeowner wants to expand his dock. They fear it will harm the endangered lake and encourage more people to request docks.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 7--JEROME -- It takes a village to raise a child, they say.   In Magic Valley, it'll take a community -- and a native plant -- to save a dwindling species.
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By Jeff Tucker, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 14--Pueblo residents will have one final opportunity to look at options for a large piece of open space on Pueblo's west side. The plan will be submitted to the planning and zoning commission and the Pueblo City Council.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- A local environmental group that is fighting a planned industrial park project in Newhall asked the city Thursday to reconsider a recycling facility that would be the first project built there.
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Here are some of the issues town meeting members will decide:   New middle school  Whether to spend $50,000 toward designing a new middle school. Officials have scaled back the request from $250,000.
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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By HARDIE, Anne  Farmers are often blamed for polluting the waterways, but along the Sherry River they're banding together to improve the environment and the image of farming. Anne Hardie talks with a group that is focused on cleaning up its river.
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By Dave Sheeley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Sep. 6--Lannon -- Village officials will consider Monday holding a binding referendum on Nov. 7 that would allow borrowing an estimated $3 million to create a municipal water system here.
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By Erin Smith, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 18--ALAMOSA -- The more than 200 people attending a meeting on the proposed Village at Wolf Creek at the Inn of the Rio Grande Friday night appeared divided in their support of the project.
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SINGAPORE : Hundreds of people painted the town pink on Friday to help spread the message that early detection of breast cancer can save lives.
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RESIDENTS are invited to have their say on the environment in the next meetings of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's six area environment committees.  They start with an hour-long question and answer segment on issues ranging from community safety to grass cutting.