After a day of battling the huge beasts, Caitlin Luebke, 21, a student from Portage, Wis.

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In Portage County, home to Windham, dozens of researchers on Chesapeake's payroll have crowded the recorder's office since September, poring over land records.

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Corp said it received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration related to quality concerns at its Portage, Michigan facility.

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They said a milelong portage around the private inholding takes less time than paddling across the tract via the interconnected Lilypad and Mud Ponds and Shingle Shanty Brook.

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Tuesday's ruling said paddlers also had the right to make a 500-foot portage on the private land along the Mud Pond waterway to get around a stretch of rapids.

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Ranger Delbert Jeffery, who had traveled the route days earlier, again stopped to scout the rapids before deciding whether to portage around or canoe each one and choose a likely route.

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The Emerson Foundation, former operator of the Seward House Museum in Auburn, announced last week in a letter to supporters that Thomas Cole's 1839 landscape titled "Portage Falls on the Genesee" had been removed and stored in a secured location.

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William Koberna, 19, pleaded not guilty on Monday to aggravated menacing, a misdemeanor, in a brief hearing by video conference from the Portage County Jail, and a preliminary hearing was set for Friday on the felony charge of inducing panic, according to court records.

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