Great Pond Mountain Trust Seeks Final Funds
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ORLAND - Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust's Campaign for the Wildlands has raised $2.49 million toward its goal of $2.86 million. The money will be used to conserve the 4,200 acres on and around Great Pond Mountain that the campaign purchased 18 months ago.
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By Anthony A. Mestas, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 6--HOLLY -- The city has been awarded $22,000 to apply to the development of a 5-mile community trail.   The grant is part of the National Park Service community planning project.
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Town officials are hoping the state can unearth $1.4 million to help bring sewers to the Medway 495 Business Park. Otherwise, they say, some 250 area jobs may be lost -- not to mention thousands of dollars in annual tax revenue.
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By THOMAS J. GILMORE  THE FUTURE of the Garden State Preservation Trust, New Jersey's funding mechanism for open space, farmland and historic site preservation, is uncertain.
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Switzerland is to give $2 million (SFr2.29 million) to help rebuild a village in Thailand which was devastated by last week's tidal waves.
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Jay Agarwal of Concord has donated $250,000 to establish the Elizabeth Smith Agarwal Diabetes Center, which will be part of the Center for Specialty Care that Emerson Hospital is building on Baker Avenue in Concord. Agarwal, whose late wife had been treated for diabetes at Emerson, is a consultant to major corporations on metals, minerals, and energy matters. New bank ...
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The assets of 35 pension systems, including those of Plymouth County, the Essex Regional Retirement Board, Newton, and Andover, would come under the control of a state trust in a proposal by the Patrick administration to boost returns, improve pension management, and provide fiscal relief to cities and towns, according to a new analysis prepared by the state retirement commission.
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By John F. Bonfatti  While the state Department of Environmental Conservation finalizes a management plan for its nearly 3,000 acres in Zoar Valley, the Nature Conservancy is adding property to its holdings in and around the scenic Cattaraugus Creek gorge.
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A CAMPAIGN to restore a church's boundary walls has been bolstered with a donation from freemasons. The Worcestershire-based Mark Masons handed over a cheque for pounds 250 to the Church of St James the Great in Shirley, which is trying to raise funds for the essential repairs to be made.
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By NICK SAMBIDES, JR.; OF THE NEWS STAFF  LINCOLN - Now that the Town Council has accepted a $38,000 federal matching grant, the town's economic development assistant and zoning enforcement supervisor will start working with an engineer to design a children's fishing pond, she said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The two founders of the Pilgrim-Baxter mutual fund family have agreed to pay $80 million each to settle regulators&#39; charges of improper trading of their funds to benefit themselves and friends at the expense of longer-term shareholders, the
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By Anonymous  Job done Creation of wetland area Contractor UPM Tilhill  Value Pounds 50,000  UPM Tilhill has built a new wetland area to protect and boost a local population of water voles.
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By David Ranii, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 10--More than 2 1/2 years after the nonprofit Golden LEAF Foundation agreed to invest $30 million in a venture capital fund with local ties, that fund has yet to invest any money in a North Carolina business.
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Berkshire businessman gets a bargain but will have to spend Â£20m to revive ailing holiday village
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By Chris Conrad, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore.  Feb. 17--Imagine Tom Lowell's surprise when he set out to log a parcel of  land just outside Gold Hill and found that someone else had done the work for  him -- and reaped the benefits.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 6--The Grand Forks County Historical Society recently received $160,000 through sale of farmland from the Harry A. Romberg Trust. The funds will be used to preserve and promote local history.   Romberg, who farmed near Inkster, N.D., died in 1976.
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By Shanna Hogan, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 5--Conservationists spent more than a year gathering 300,000 signatures to get an initiative on the November ballot that would preserve 694,000 acres of state trust land.