The Symbol of Madrid
The bear and the strawberry tree – the symbol of Madrid since the middle ages.
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Town of Hamburg Comprehensive Plan Update
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Tonight, Amanda and I attended the Town of Hamburg’s first public meeting on the update of it’s Comprehensive Plan. This plan, adopted in 1997, is the long term “master plan” for the town. The plan was meant to be revisited every five to ten years, and the Hamburg Town Board initiated this review to address…
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Thanks!
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Merry Christmas!
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Goo Goo Trivia
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No doubt
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And people wonder how anyone can doubt the “crisis” of global warming… The Washington Post reviews the work of top United Nations scientists, November 20: “The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has…