Sentences with phrase «lakes region last»

Broker Andrew Wood was showing clients Steve Pinney and his wife Judy a century home in the scenic rolling countryside of Ontario's Kawartha Lakes region last fall, when Steve suddenly fell to the floor and turned blue.

Approximately 6.9 million domestic visitors traveled to the Finger Lakes region last year, the governor's office said.

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Two Shedd Aquarium researchers published a study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research last weekend on a little - known amphibian that resides in the Great Lakes region, the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), as part of a multi-year research project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory.

In the last three weeks, violent clashes with the police have triggered fears of a new civil war and destabilisation of the entire African Great Lakes region.

Senator Pamela Helming, a Republican who represents the Finger Lakes region, said last week that she returned two checks, uncashed, for stipend money for a position she did not hold.

The panel — which is composed of Law, former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson, Paul Francis, Dennis Glazer and Hofstra University President Stuart Rabinowitz — has heard presentations over the last several months from developers who want to build resort - style casinos in three regions of the state north New York City: The Catskills / Hudson Valley, the Capital Region and the Finger Lakes / Southern Tier.

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 announced the launch of «Operation Last Hold», the Special Operation to tactically and offensively flush out remnants of Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad region totally.

General Olonisakin hereby assures all Nigerians and the International Community that, the Nigerian Military would continue to sustain and improve its strategy and operational procedures through the Multinational Joint Task Force and Operation LAFIYA DOLE, to bring lasting peace to the North East and Lake Chad Basin Region.

LAKE PLACID — Titans of North Country business, education, tourism and politics gathered at a ballroom here last week to finalize and vote on the projects that they hoped would net the region millions in state funds next year.

Federal disaster aid will be available to counties across western New York and the Adirondacks that were impacted by the lake effect snowstorm that buried parts of the region last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office announced on Monday.

The Gaming Commission last month selected winning bidders to operate three casinos — one in the heart of Catskills, one in Schenectady in the capital region and a third in Seneca County in the Finger Lakes region, not the Southern Tier.

Under a state constitutional amendment approved by voters last year, a total of four casinos will be allowed on non-Indian land in three regions of the state: the Hudson Valley - Catskills, comprising Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties; the Albany - Saratoga area; and the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes area.

Last year, the Finger Lakes region won a special $ 500 million award through the Upstate Revitalization Initiative.

In the Finger Lakes region, which includes Cayuga and Onondaga counties, tourists spent $ 2.7 billion last year.

The Nigerian Army is to launch «Operation Last Hold» in Borno North and Lake Chad Region to restore socioeconomic activities in the areas, as...

The board voted last month to allow a casino in the Catskills, one in the Capital Region and another in the Finger Lakes, the latter appearing to come at the expense of the Southern Tier.

The results showed the frequency of very long - lasting ones increased by about 4 percent per decade, most notably in the northern half of the central region — just below the Great Lakes.

Last month's news that the invasive silver carp had crossed the electric barrier in a canal in Chicago — and were only a short day's swim from invading Lake Michigan — caused outcries from the outdoor community and tourist industry across the Great Lakes region.

That maneuver, NASA told USA Today will be the probe's «final opportunity for up - close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon's northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface.»

The Capital Region largely sits on clay and silt deposited by a lake that swallowed the area during the last Ice Age, said Andrew Kozlowski, an associate state geologist at the State Museum and director of the state Geologic Mapping Program.

In the last 10 years, the Coast Guard has transferred or leased dozens of lighthouses in Alaska, Virginia, North Carolina, Washington and the Great Lakes region to be used as everything from homes to museums or even cozy hotels.

Raised in rural Massachusetts, Wegman has long been influenced by the landscape of New England, spending his summers in the Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine for the last three decades.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Last year, Siberian wildfires also came far too early — impacting a broad region near Lake Baikal, Russia during late April.

Lakes of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, in northeast Canada, are showing evidence of abrupt change in one of the last Arctic regions of the world to have experienced global warming, according to Canadian research...

That last line isn't as easy to yell as the first, but it's a common refrain among environmental groups and politicians in the Great Lakes region.