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Rising Tide

June's rains inundated the area.

by Jan Schlain

posted 7/6/2010

"It was a perfect storm," city parks and recreation manager Colin Smith told a meeting at the Leslie Science and Nature Center in mid-June. He was speaking of all the rain--especially the nearly two inches that fell overnight early in the month--but also of the budget cuts that had his department falling behind even before the wet spring made the grass in the

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