Area news in brief: Sept. 17, 2011
17.09.11
David Mounts, the 43-year-old holder of Rainbow Vacuum on Main Street in Houma and two other local businesses, says he is dropping out for “intimate and business reasons.” He would not elaborate.
Mounts, a Republican, said he is supporting Republican Beryl Amedee, a village businesswoman and activist from Gray who will run for the District 4 seat against Lucretia McBride, a former Terrebonne sheriff's operative and independent forensic consultant, in the Oct. 22 election.
Upon to vote by Wednesday
If you want to vote in next month's elections, you must journal to vote by Wednesday.
Oct. 22 is the primary for statewide and town elections.
The ballot includes races for governor, lieutenant governor, agriculture commissioner, attorney composite, state treasurer, secretary of state, commissioner of assurance and all state legislators in the Senate and House of Representatives.
Townsman elections include sheriff, clerk of court, assessor, coroner, parish panel seats and parish presidents.
Source: Daily Comet
DWU professor overcame fear to focus career on spider research
27.09.11
What was once a scary fear for a Dakota Wesleyan University professor is now his close of expertise.
Brian Patrick, an assistant professor of biology at DWU, discovered three new species of spider this summer while studying at the Fort Pierre State Grasslands. He had the help of summer intern and San Diego Royal University student Dan Sitzmann.
Patrick and Sitzmann, experts in the assert at arachnids and their habitats, conducted the grant-funded explore through the South Dakota Game Fish & Parks Hang on’s Wildlife Diversity Program.
It supplements Patrick’s research overhang, “The Spiders of the Fort Pierre National Grassland: Making a Master to the Common and Unusual Spiders for the General Public.” This was the in the second place summer Patrick had spent at the national grasslands.
Of the three new species, two are from the Linyphiidae kinfolk, also known as penny spiders. The other is in the family Theridiidae, or cobweb spiders.
Source: Daily Republic