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Summerfolk preparing to entertain Owen Sound

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It’s two weeks until Summerfolk, the 49th annual music, arts and crafts outdoor festival on the west shore of Owen Sound.  Organizers are arranging which performers will stay in which hotel rooms, the lanyards for volunteers are being printed and their assignments are going out, festival artistic director James Keelaghan said by phone Friday.  There’s […]

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A Decade After Crisis, Algal Blooms Persist | Great Lakes Now

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A Decade After Crisis, Algal Blooms Persist

On August 2, it will be 10 years since officials in Toledo alerted residents in the early morning hours not to drink, bathe in or otherwise come into contact with tap water from the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant. For nearly three days chaos reigned, as bottled water sold out that first day before dawn and disappeared from shelves in the region the next day.

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