weekly stories, facts, trends and other information from around the globe February 18, 2005  
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Industry News

Knoxville fence maker sold to Penn. company
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN - Feb 14, 2005
By LARISA BRASS, brass@knews.com. Fi-Shock, the 37-year-old Knoxville maker of electric fencing, pest control systems, buckets, cattle ...
Texas Fence Association Teams Up With Grand Slam For Youth ...
Send2Press (press release) - 1 hour ago
City of Houston's Hidalgo Park and Magnolia Little League to be the First Youth Field and Youth League Helped with Fencing Needs under the Program ...

Fences and Neighbors

Fence goes up at dealership
Coos Bay World, OR - Feb 16, 2005
The inventory at Tower Ford in downtown Coos Bay is going to be better protected, with the installation of a new 7-foot-tall chain link fence. ...
Fence divides neighbors in Babylon
Newsday, NY - Feb 17, 2005
The spit of land where South Little East Neck Road dead ends by the Fred Shore Beach Club is not itself particularly scenic. But along the residential Babylon Village shoreline, where most views belong to private owners, this beach grass-matted fringe offers something relatively...
Cape Marco's South Beach fence within code
Marco Island Sun-Times, FL - Feb 17, 2005
... During construction of the Cape Marco condominiums, beach goers often found chain-link and contractors' fences interfering with their easy access to the beach....
Currituck plans to fence off its land near lighthouse
Virginian Pilot, VA - Feb 14, 2005
COROLLA — Currituck County officials plan to build a fence between the Whalehead Club and the Currituck Beach Lighthouse, a move that could eliminate ...

Fences and Animals

Farm seeks deer fence for protection
phillyburbs.com, PA - Feb 18, 2005
Each day as the sun is setting, Janice Shimeck looks out her back window to find at least six deer...
MDT resets meeting; Dearborn I-15 deer fence to be discussed
Great Falls Tribune, MT - Feb 14, 2005
Plans for a fence to keep deer off Interstate 15 near the Dearborn rest area will be discussed at a public meeting at 5:30 pm Thursday at the Dearborn Country ...
Bruno gives approval for prairie dog fence in park
Boulder Daily Camera, CO - Feb 15, 2005
City Manager Frank Bruno said Monday the city will proceed with plans to build a prairie dog containment fence in the North Foothills Community Park within the ...
Fort Wayne zoo fined for escape
Indianapolis Star - Feb 17, 2005
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A federal agency has fined a zoo for allowing five wildebeests to escape, after which two of the large animals were euthanized because they broke their front legs.
How to Select, Install Electric Fence
Practical Horseman Magazine - Feb 15, 2005
Advice from an electric-fencing expert on selecting and installing it for maximum security and safety for your horse. Plus, a maintenance checklist for you ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Being Inducted into the Barbed Wire Hall of Fame
Voice of America - Feb 17, 2005
Think of an item, any item - from buttons, to bells, to beer bottles - and somewhere in the world you will find someone involved in collecting, or trying to collect, all of the multiple varieties of that item. ...
Pensioner impaled on fence dies
Yorkshire Post Today, UK - Feb 16, 2005
A MAN aged 83 has died nine days after slipping and impaling his head on a metal fence-post in his garden. The post was removed ...
A quintessential aesthetic fence for rural home sites
commercialappeal.com (subscription), TN - Feb 13, 2005
... field all across America. Once the cabin was built, the next task was to split rails for livestock fence. Young Abraham Lincoln ...

International

Fencing: an art, not a chore
Warrnambool Standard, Australia - Feb 18, 2005
TO the untrained eye a fence is a fence but to Neville Prince a really good one is a work of art. Demonstrating the art he learnt ...
Human rights agency rejects fence proposal:
New Kerala, India - Feb 15, 2005
15 : The president of Mexico's human rights commission says the proposal to erect a fence at the US-Mexico border is problematic, El Universal reported Tuesday ...
Fury over £1.3m estate fence plan
Camden Chronicle - London, UK - Feb 16, 2005
RILED residents are up in arms over plans to turn their estate into a gated community - at a cost of £1.3million. Angry tenants ...
Fence dispute stalemate
Hawkesbury Gazette, Australia - Feb 17, 2005
FENCE feuds are nothing new, but Greg Sullivan of George Street in Windsor said his fence dispute was over urinating drunks and accumulating rubbish. ...
Critics slam bill that exempts fence from environment laws
San Diego Union Tribune - Feb 14, 2005
... Included in the bill was language to exempt the final 3½ miles of a controversial fence project along the US-Mexico border from all state and federal ...
San Diego border fence approved by the House
San Diego Daily Transcript, CA - Feb 14, 2005
The move was the political equivalent of a wrestler's body slam...

Community Concerns

Fence height bylaw sure to spark debate
Cape Codder, MA - Feb 18, 2005
Eastham fences may be in for a trim. In response to complaints concerning the height and appearance of recent fence installations, the planning board has unveiled a set of provisions that would limit the style, size and location of your white picket border...
Plea ends Pittsford dispute on fence
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY - Feb 18, 2005
(February 18, 2005) — PITTSFORD — The case of the too-high picket fence installed in March 2004 to protect an autistic child was resolved in Pittsford Town...
Railroad fence up for repair
Daily Free Press (subscription), MA - Feb 15, 2005
The fence separating Babcock Street from the CSX-owned railroad tracks, where a train struck and killed two College of General Studies students last week, will ...
Development grant proposals discussed
Fitchburg Sentinel, MA - Feb 16, 2005
FITCHBURG -- The Planning Board met to make recommendations on the upcoming year's community development grant proposals ...
Fence going up at airport
Capital News 9, NY - Feb 14, 2005
Mraz said a fence is needed to control access to the Fulton County Airport in Johnstown. He said it's a way to keep out deer and/or snowmobilers. ...

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