From the yard at Spaeth Lumber & Home Center, you can see the 130,000-square-foot Home Depot superstore under construction across the highway. But the giant retailer was already casting a shadow over Spaeths business long before the site for its first Corvallis store was approved.
New York's attorney general told Exxon Mobil and two other oil companies Thursday that he intends to sue them for taking decades to clean up a giant, underground pond of petroleum left by the refineries that once lined Brooklyn's waterfront.
Unless Carter Oil Company beings its monster gas well near Wolf under control in the next few days, the State Bureau of Mines will order that the torch be applied, according to information received here. This report has been current in oilfield circles for two or three days, it seems.
Ducks and geese in Cupertino and Sunnyvale may be wading into some dangerous territory. In Cupertino, ducks at Memorial Park have been a delight to visitors and a drag for city parks staff for years. Ducks have been seen waddling to nearby housing complexes for a dip in their pools and fountains.
Hidden beneath more than 50 acres of homes and businesses, a giant, underground pond of petroleum is a stubborn remnant of the refineries that once lined Brooklyn's waterfront.
On Wednesday police in Jonesboro wade through mud searching for a handgun they believe was used in a double murder.
Photo by Leigh Protivnak - Tim Kozek, 15, of Oil City (front left) and Eric Clark, 17, of Cranberry (front center) participate in an impromptu hockey game Tuesday afternoon with friends Andrew Kozek, 17, and Kyle Guth, 17, of Oil City, and Tyler McFarland, 16, and Ian Flinchbaugh, 18, of Cranberry, on Oil City's West End Pond.
It took awhile for winter to arrive, and as far as vacation was concerned, all this week's storm did was add the finishing touches to what the snowmakers and groomers had achieved.
Bulldozers and earth-movers will scoop out four feet of earth from a South Valley park as part of a plan to reduce the potential for water damage in the flood-prone area.