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...Barnatable, Harwich Orleans, and Yarmouth all from of registration for students. Some of began the system last the particulars vary town, the registration are typical...
...American rodent called the coypu (Myocastor coypns), better known as the nutria.* Already the coypu has overrun an estimated 40,000 acres in Norfolk, Sussex and Essex counties, and is munching its way inexorably northward. Its appetite is inexhaustible, and by no means limited to farm crops: a Great Yarmouth farm wife recently complained that coypus were boldly gnawing her window frames, and in some East Anglian river towns, coypus have been known to free boats from their moorings by chewing through the lines. The National Farmers' Union sets England's coypu population...
...family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. "Last fall they cleared out seven acres of my kale and 40 tons of swede [a kind of turnip grown for cattle fodder]." In Burgh Castle, after trapping 460 of the same varments that ate Banham's kale, Farmer John Berry was near despair: "If they carry on the way they do," said he, "they'll be master of the land in three years...
Twombley's boatyard in South Yarmouth, Me. is redolent of clam flats and hot tar, rife with the cries of greedy gulls and little children. At dockside, where scores of boat owners are polishing, scraping and painting, a World War II veteran, paralyzed from the waist down, rolls up to his 32-ft. cruiser in his wheelchair, pulls himself aboard, finds his screwdriver and gets to work...
...Harvard, Mass., said that he was "having a friendly argument" with seismologists at the Weston Observatory as to just where the quake's center was. Leet's calculation placed it in the Ossippee mountains of New Hampshire, while the Weston Center put it out at sea just east of Yarmouth, Maine...