HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-The Thundering Herd has added Boston College transfers Dominick LeGrande and Okechukwu Okoroha to its football program, the school announced Monday.

Both student-athletes, who graduated from BC in four years, have enrolled in graduate school at Marshall and will be eligible to compete for the Thundering Herd this season. Both will be safeties in Marshalls program.

We are excited to have these two young men in our program, said Marshall head coach Doc Holliday. These additions will help bolster the depth in our secondary immediately.

LeGrande (6-3, 211, Staten Island, N.Y./Curtis HS) played in 35 games, starting six for the Golden Eagles. He posted 72 tackles (47 solo, 25 assists), including 3.5 tackles for loss, three fumble recoveries, two interceptions with one sack, one pass breakup and one forced fumble during his time in Chestnut Hill. He also returned kicks as a sophomore, averaging 21.3 yards on his six attempts.

Okoroha (6-1, 205, Lanham, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt) saw action in 21 games and also started six, recording 34 tackles along the way, with a pass breakup, a fumble recovery and a half tackle for loss.

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Civic improvements and financial matters were on the agenda for Oneida aldermen Monday.

City attorney Dan Alcorn said there has been a default judgment in the citys favor with regards to the former Oneida Snack Shack on U.S. 34 in the city. He advised waiting 30 days before the city demolishes the former restaurant.

Ward 2 Alderman Chris Campagna reported he had asked Tyler Bock to mow an unoccupied property which had grown unsightly and presented a bill for $105 for Bocks services, for which the council approved payment.

Aldermen also discussed several other properties in the city which are, or may be, in violation of the citys ordinances with regard to repair of property or unsightly grass and weeds. Photos will be taken and presented to the city attorney for notices to be sent.

Clean Up Day will be Friday with all items on the curb by 7 a.m. If possible, large items need to be broken down and smaller ones need to be in bags or bundled up. Items that will not be picked up are: tires, batteries, oil/fuel, paint, landscaping (tree limbs, brush, grass clippings), automotive parts, structural tear downs (lumber or concrete), hazardous items, electronics, items more than five feet long and items placed by non-residents.

There will be no garbage collection on Clean Up Day.

Ward 1 Alderman Mike Ader reported on the Trees Forever project which was accomplished quickly with the help of Rutledge RW Landscaping and Nursery of Alpha.Ader said planting would have taken much longer without Rutledges help. Local Brownies and FFA members also assisted with the project.City employee Dan Lawson has a schedule for watering the trees at least once a week.

A bid from Mike Cannon of Altona to repair and replace sidewalks in the city was approved. Additions may be made to the original amount of sidewalk to be done so aldermen approved the bid with the stipulation that all work was not to exceed the budgeted amount for sidewalks.

Teresa Welch of Blucker, Kneer and Associates reported on the citys audit which resulted in clean opinion from the accounting firm.

The council also approved:

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012 | 8:08 a.m. CDT; updated 1:16 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, June 5, 2012

BY The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS St. Louis officials say communications mistakes are to blame for the failure to remove a dead deer from near the Gateway Arch for a full day.

A deer bounded into the downtown area Friday afternoon. It was seen along busy streets and even inside a parking garage. It eventually ended up on Memorial Drive near the Arch, where it was struck by a car and killed. Police moved it off the roadway to a gravel area along the side of the road.

But the dead deer remained there until Saturday. City streets director Todd Waelterman says his department would have removed the deer immediately but was never notified about it.

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CASTINE Maine Maritime Academy's volleyball and softball coach, Katrina Dagan, has resigned her position. Dagan, who also serves as the Academy's Senior Woman Administrator, will join the Adams' School Staff as a Physical Education Teacher.

Dagan is the only coach to have headed up the volleyball program at Maine Maritime. Since the program began in 2003, she put together a 152-71 record. Dagan coached the Mariners to the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Championship Finals in each of the past five seasons, winning the league in four of those seasons. Under her direction, the Mariners have won 40 consecutive matches in Smith Gymnasium.

The third coach in the 14-year history of the softball program, Dagan posted a record of 78-107. Her .422 winning percentage is the best on record at the Academy, as are her 78 wins. Dagan's Mariners appeared in the NAC Championship Tournament in five of the last six seasons, advancing to the finals in 2010.

A national search for her replacement will commence immediately.

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Downtown shop owners fear corporate impact

Rising rents are raising concerns among downtown shop owners.Rich Beauchesne/rbeauchesne@seacoastonline.com

While the Golden Arches might not be making an appearance in downtown Portsmouth any time soon, there is always a concern among developers, Realtors and business owners that the city might stray too far from what provides its unique and vibrant character.

Rent can range from $1,000 to nearly $10,000 a month for commercial space downtown. It's a struggle for retailers selling books, T-shirts and trinkets to make enough sales to pay the bills, as the recent move of RiverRun Bookstore and the closure of Earthtec proved.

With rents climbing ever higher and the economy still not back to its pre-recession strength, there are some in the downtown community who worry about the fate of the small, independent business owner. There is anxiety that only restaurants or corporate-backed businesses will be able to afford downtown real estate, and that once a space converts from retail to restaurant, it will never revert back and Portsmouth will have forever lost a bit of its diversity.

In fact, those representing the voices of entrepreneurs, real estate brokers and city officials all agree there are legitimate reasons for concern.

A store going out of business is not a rare sight. Some are fledgling businesses that never quite got off the ground. Others, like Little Timber: The Bonsai Nature Store, were forced to close after being in business for years.

Landlords "just care about getting as much money as they can," said Valerie Menzies-Murphy of Haverhill, Mass., who owned the Little Timber shop on Congress Street for 20 years before closing it in January. "These little stores can't afford to stay in business."

Menzies-Murphy said her rent, originally $800 a month, went up only sporadically for years. But by the beginning of 2012, it had ballooned to $3,000 a month. Meanwhile, her prices stayed the same and her profit disappeared.

"People loved the store," she said. "There was something for everyone, from little kids all the way on up. I think they'll miss me this summer."

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BUCKSPORT The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said Thursday that the amount of papermaking chemical spilled as the result of a train derailment last week is less than originally believed.

Initial estimates indicated that 4,000 to 6,000 gallons of a liquid latex product known as emulsified styrene butadiene copolymer had spilled into the Penobscot River when four cars went off the Pan Am Railway tracks Friday evening, May 25.

Those tank cars were part of a 32-car train headed for the Verso paper mill.

In an e-mail Thursday afternoon, DEP spokesman Samantha DePoy-Warren said department officials now believe somewhere between 100 and 1,000 gallons of the latex product spilled.

Our estimates are always based on the available information we are provided by our partners and can gather from our review of the scene while also taking into account planning for the worst case scenario, DePoy-Warren explained, and are subject to be updated as new information becomes available.

The two tank cars containing the liquid latex were fully offloaded Wednesday, DePoy-Warren said, with the contents being pumped up a steep embankment and into waiting empty rail cars.

Two other cars containing kaolin, a clay slurry also used in the papermaking process, are being offloaded Thursday and Friday. Some of that product has also spilled into the river, but DePoy-Warren said DEP has been unable to estimate a quantity.

The derailment occurred on a section of track where a steep embankment drops sharply toward the Penobscot River. At high tide, one of the cars is fully submerged, while another car is partially submerged and the end of a third car is also in the water.

One of those cars is leaking a small amount of [kaolin] product when the tide washes in and the water around the cars continues to be visibly milky, DePoy-Warren wrote. She said the material is expected to disperse and dissolve over the course of the tide cycles.

The plan for removing the derailed cars involves patching them and transporting three of them via the Penobscot River to Winterport, where a Pan Am crane will pull them out of the water, according to DePoy-Warren.

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This octagonal home perches on a wooded lot in rural Pennsylvania.

274 Municipal Rd, Erwinna PA For sale: $365,000

At one point, this entire home fit on a flatbed truck.

That was back in 1978, when this octagonal Topsider home was constructed on site from a kit. It was an affordable, but sturdy housing option, perfect for weekend use. Sitting on over six acres on a windy municipal road in Tinicum Township, Pennsylvania, there's plenty of land to gaze out over.

There's plenty of practicality attached to this whimsical-looking exterior.

Despite a somewhat precarious appearance, a Topsider home like this one can withstand hurricanes and earthquakes better than a traditional home. With a smaller foundation area, the homes can perch on fault lines, on the side of hills and in other areas with the aid of steel-reinforced grade beams in the foundation.

Developed in North Carolina in the 1960s as a solution to building on steep mountain lots, Topsiders are a popular choice for beach homes, mountain retreats and wooded spots. Octagonal sides come with floor-to-ceiling windows and 360-degree views.

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Henrietta rules the roost.

A sturdy redhead, she wasnt above taking out a rival in the early days of sorting out the pecking order.

Big boss woman. She doesnt take any crap from anyone, Dawn Schmeckpeper said.

Shes mellowed with maturity, even taking timid blond Chicken under her wing. But newcomers Zebra and Hawk know whos in charge in this yard when Henrietta struts by.

For the Schmeckpepers, having chickens at their North Side home over the past year hasnt just meant eggs. Its entertainment.

Theyre a hoot to watch, Dawn said. Weve had a blast.

La Crosse began allowing residents to keep up to five hens at home in June 2011. The number of people seeking licenses so far has been small only four, though another three were approved May 10 and four more have applied for consideration in June.

Those who have taken the plunge into raising poultry, however, say theyve been worth the investment, though more pet than livestock.

Tending the flock

The Schmeckpepers got their first chicks in July, including Rhode Island red Henrietta, silky Japanese bantams and a buff Orpington they dubbed Chicken because shes afraid of everything. They added Zebra and tan Hawk this year.

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The Kokomo-Howard County Public Librarys Outreach Building is looking good from the outside, but library officials indicated this week theyll need additional funds to complete the project.

Last year, the library board appropriated $875,000 for the new building, which sits just to the east of the Main Library downtown.

Friday, library interim director Peg Harmon said the building project is on schedule and on budget, and said plans are to begin moving into the building this summer.

But board members heard Monday about another $36,000 in proposed additions to the building, items which werent included in the building plans.

The biggest chunk of the additional expenses is for telecommunications infrastructure, including phones, cabling and a Wi-Fi system. Also being considered are $5,450 for shelving and $4,425 for a door access system.

The new building will house the librarys collection management and outreach departments.

Collection management catalogs new materials and prepares them for the librarys public collection, and also culls dated materials from the shelves. Outreach deals primarily with the librarys two bookmobiles.

A large garage where the bookmobiles will be parked is included in the building.

Harmon said the board received information on the additional items Monday, but didnt take any action.

Board members originally hoped to complete both the renovation of the Main Library and the outreach building for a total of $4.5 million.

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