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Boat tour reveals threatened area
By TAYLOR KUKENDALL - Staff Writer
Sat,06/05/10-11:00PM , 116 Reads
VENICE, La. - I awoke on Memorial Day in a small, cash-only motel in New Orleans, disoriented and an hour behind schedule.
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Lowell to join cast of ‘Help’
By TAYLOR KUKENDALL - Staff Writer
Sat,06/05/10-11:00PM , 177 Reads
Various Hollywood sources are reporting that Chris Lowell of the television show “Private Practice” will be joining the cast of “The Help,” which is set to begin filming in Greenwood in July.
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A tricolored heron wades in the marsh on the opposite side of Grand Isle from where tar balls and patties have washed ashore. The water appeared clean, but less than 100 yards away, clean-up crews were filling plastic bags with oil-soaked sand. (Photo by Taylor Kuykendall)

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Optimism in the face of disaster
By TAYLOR KUKENDALL - Staff Writer
Thu,06/03/10-11:00PM , 228 Reads
GRAND ISLE, La. — Satisfying our desire to find oil-soaked beaches along Grand Isle before noon last Sunday, we decided we deserved a break from the misery of what appeared to be the future of the Louisiana coast.
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Arthur Ware shows the oily paste stuck to his hands after handling one of the tar balls that washed along the Grand Isle, La., shore. Tar balls and patties were scattered across the beach ranging from the size of a dime up to two feet in diameter. (Photo by Taylor Kuykendall)

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Evidence of Gulf oil spill ‘all over the beaches’
By TAYLOR KUKENDALL - Staff Writer
Wed,06/02/10-11:00PM , 119 Reads
GRAND ISLE, La. — It had been a long, caffeine-fueled ride from the Mississippi Delta to Venice Beach, La., and then Grand Isle. After more than 12 hours of driving, searching and not sleeping, Arthur Ware and I had seen nothing closer to the oil spill than the gasoline at the gas station.
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Greenwood, 38930, MS

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Current Temp

73°F

Chance Showers And Thunderstorms

Chance of Rain: 90%
Max Temp: 81°F
Min Temp: 68°F
Feels Like: 79°F
Dew Point: 66°F
Humidity: 81%
Sunrise: 6:21 AM
Sunset: 6:02 PM

Wind Speed: 5 to 10 mph
Wind Direction: SSW
Wind Gust: 15 mph
Sky Cover: 66%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dew Point: 66°F
Moon Rise: 10:27 PM
Moon Set: 8:16 AM

A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 11am, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 11am and noon, then showers and thunderstorms likely between noon and 1pm, then showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could be severe and produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy. High near 81, with temperatures falling to around 73 in the afternoon. South southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

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