Word: canton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canton, N.Y., home of the St. Lawrence campus, August finds locals wondering about whether Coach Joe Marsh's Saints can repeat as champions in the upcoming ECAC season, which commences tonight...
Rich Denicourt, a forward, is a fast skater and a hard worker, Morris says. Ed Sable is a forward trying to make the team, and forward Todd Tyo is a junior transfer from Canton College...
From its source on North Carolina's Black Mountain to the town of Canton, 22 miles away, the Pigeon River is a clean and lovely stream, lively with trout and tourists. By the time it leaves Canton (pop. 5,000), flowing toward and finally into Cocke County, Tenn., 50 miles away, the Pigeon has been transmogrified into a sludgy mess that looks like oily coffee and smells as bad as rotten eggs. The cause of this revolting change: industrial wastes that Champion International Corp. has been dumping into the Pigeon since the company opened a paper mill in Canton...
...River Council, which wants to clean up the stink: "It's completely unfair for one county to use the river and have a ((low)) unemployment rate, and 50 miles downstream here we are with one of the highest unemployment rates in the state." In North Carolina the people of Canton have traditionally defended Champion Corp., pollution and all, for the simplest of economic motives: the company has employed generations of workers and now supports some 2,200 families. It is not surprising that North Carolina, officially and otherwise, has long ignored protests from Tennessee, choosing in 1985 to approve...
...hockey team escapes a late-game rally from St. Lawrence and wins, 6-5, in Canton, N.Y. The victory gives the Crimson the regular-season ECAC title...