Is history being lost on studio’s sale? (Albany Times Union)

State actions said to hurt effort to capture stories of New York’s military veterans SARATOGA SPRINGS The former director of the state’s Veterans Oral History Project says he knew the program was in trouble when its facility for recording interviews was sold this summer on eBay. Michael Russert, who conducted …

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Canadian lake rescue turns tragic (Moldova.org)

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are reviewing a weekend lake rescue effort in Alberta that led to a 5-year-old girl drowning under a rescue boat.A 911 call was received around 5:30 p.m. Saturday from a family in distress on a boat on a lake about 90 miles southeast of Calgary, …

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