Elk Grove Egrets Spark Regrets: Neighborhood is Left White With Waste, Smelling Like Pet Store.
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By Lisa Heyamoto, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--To stand on the corner of Emerald Vista and Feickert drives in Elk Grove and look up is to see a sight straight out of a nature show.
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More park stewards in the West are removing outhouses from trails and asking hikers to pack out their own waste.
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By Tran, Tu-Uyan  The Grand Forks city landfill has been the cheapest place for the region to put its garbage for decades. Now that it's scheduled to close at the end of 2008 and the replacement is in court, the region will have to take its garbage elsewhere.
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WEST BEND, Wis. - An arctic fox that a woman bought as a pet created a stink for neighbors who tipped police about an exotic animal in their apartment complex...
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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NORTHBOROUGH, Massachusetts  - The red Victorian home on Maple Street has a wounded, abandoned look: trash litters the yard, the pool has frozen over, old clothes are strewn across dirty floors. Renovations are half-done.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--RALEIGH -- An owl hooted. A goldfinch warbled. And a gaggle of City Council members, city officials and environmentalists wandered across the pasture at Horseshoe Farm Park in northeast Raleigh last week.
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By Katie N. Johannes, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb. 21--BELLINGHAM -- A complex of three ball fields, trails and fish habitat will replace 42 acres of dirt mounds, concrete slabs and dilapidated buildings along Squalicum Parkway -- eventually.
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By FOSBENDER, Erica  SOUTHERN litterbugs were issued a stern warning on Saturday by a group of young people who spent much of the day cleaning up Oreti Beach.  "It's mainly drunk people leaving bottles ...
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At the corner of Eighth Street SE near Pennsylvania Avenue, just steps from the busy Eastern Market Metro station and not far from a pet store called Pawticulars, there is a Starbucks, naturally. Lots of foot traffic. People walking their dogs. Going to work. Coming home. Stopping for tall lattes.
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SALEM, Ore. - Jeff Datwyler thought he was just being conscientious about litter when he stopped to pick up a stray envelope on the streets of Salem...
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By Matt Dees, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 24--DURHAM -- The fire at the Durham Yard Waste Compost Facility -- the cause of respiratory problems among frustrated neighbors as it burned for 13 days -- was extinguished Saturday.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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CONESTOGA, Pa. - To longtime rural residents, the smell of manure is something they hardly notice...
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An animal-rights worker who dumped the bodies of euthanized dogs and cats into a trash bin apologized in court Thursday, saying she threw out the carcasses because they stank.
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By Marian Gail Brown, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 12--HARTFORD -- In Connecticut garbage, there is turf. In some of the state's biggest cities and sleepy-eyed-towns, the turf gets carved up into territories. There is a pecking order. You do those houses on this street.
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SEATTLE  There is no logic behind feeling cheated Saturday, but that pang is still there. Every time a stirring, pixie-dust run like this ends abruptly, an emotional response follows from the aggrieved player or fan, who believe teams with heavy hearts should have divine endings, who deeply feel ...