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PORTAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL - A FAMILY
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/3/1991; 700+ words
; PHOTO - 2 Portage Christian School teacher-choir ditector...The 56 high school-age youngsters at Portage Christian School have more than one thing...Hebron. Sarah has spent six years at Portage Christian School. Just recently, however...
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PORTAGE POUNDS CHESTERTON, 21-6
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 10/19/1991; 700+ words
; ...night of cold wind, rain, and even hail, Portage beat Chesterton 21-6 in a Duneland Conference...The same teams meet again next Friday, at Portage, in the first round of Class 5A Sectional 2. Portage completed its regular season at 5-3 overall...
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PORTAGE TEAM FINISHES IN TOP 10
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 8/19/1990; 700+ words
; ...Schererville's team finished fifth overall. Portage finished in sixth place; Hammond in 10th...10, standing long jump - Kelly Rich, Portage, second and Beth Wilson, Lowell, third...Schererville, first; Christine Forrest, Portage, second; Jessica Weinke, Hammond...
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PORTAGE SNAPS UP 2ND PLACE IN DRILL MANN, WIRT SCORE HIGH AT ROTC MEET
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 3/11/1990; 700+ words
; ...compete Saturday in the drill meet at Portage. (Photos by Dave Bartman) Rob Rodriguez, kneeling, and Roberto Leon of the Portage High School team, perform a duet drill...Officers Training Corps Drill Meet at Portage High School Saturday. Among those were...
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PORTAGE LEADER EMBRACES HIS ADOPTED HOMETOWN
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/13/1995; 700+ words
; ...COLOR) Chuck Moseley, president of the Portage Chamber of Commerce, calls the city a...Hebron decided to expand his business into Portage. "I started for business reasons, and...community," said Moseley, 44. Moseley, a Portage resident, credits the quality of other...
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Portage hospital tries to reach full service potential
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 11/10/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the emergency room triage center area at Portage Community Hospital as part of a renovations...worry about finding a hospital bed at Portage Community Hospital. Most days, fewer...Opened a little less than five years ago, Portage Community Hospital -- part of the county...
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PORTAGE LITTE LEAGUE LOOKING FOR A HOME
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/28/1987; 695 words
; ...the people-letters to the editor The Portage Senior League Division, ages 13-18...suitable baseball field even though Portage Little League petitioned the Park Board. Over the past few years Portage Little League has reviewed five potential...
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Portage service groups
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/21/2004; 700+ words
; ...a population of just under 35,000, Portage is the third-largest city in Northwest...information, call 763-1061. Garden Club of Portage meets the second Tuesday at Woodland Park...Crisman Road, 762-9974. Kiwanis Club of Portage meets at 7:30 a.m. every Tuesday...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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No portages, no peace; Boundary Waters multiple-use advocates still can get motorboats into Basswood Lake. But their "truck" portages are gone, and that loss is at the heart of the latest BWCA conflict.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 5/26/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Wilderness truck-portage conflict? Consider...battle for these portages is about land and...Trucks on the portages, particularly Prairie Portage, facilitate the...proposed that the truck portages at Prairie Portage and Four Mile Portage...
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PORTAGE JUNIOR MISS COMPETITION THIS WEEK
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 6/7/1987; 700+ words
; ...organization is sponsoring its annual Portage Junior Miss competition. The contest...three nights of preliminary judging at Portage High School East. Preliminary judging...Stevens. He will assisted by the 1986-87 Portage Junior Miss, Chris Konarski. Entertainment...
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Portages and Water Routes
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...waterfalls, or portages. At heavily traveled portages, people frequently...hauling boats across the portage. French explorer...x2013; Allegheny Portage, or the Maumee...x2013; Wabash portages. From Lake Huron...
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Grand Portage
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GRAND PORTAGE GRAND PORTAGE received its name from voyageurs, who found the nine miles between Lake Superior and the Pigeon River the longest portage in their regular canoe route from Montreal to the Rocky Mountains...
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portage
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...return journey was made much simpler by portage. ∎ a place at which this is necessary: a portage over the dam. ∎ ...only run the rapid if they couldn't portage. ∎ [ intr...
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Portage
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Portage . 1 Town (1990 pop. 29,060), Porter co...Marquette were the first Europeans to use the important portage link in the water route from the Great Lakes to...Zona Gale and Frederick Jackson Turner were born in Portage.
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Portage Lake
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Portage Lake inlet of Keweenaw Bay, c.20 mi (32 km) long and 2 mi (3.2 km) wide, N Mich., indenting the southeast shore of Keweenaw peninsula. An old portage route connected it with Lake Superior, and now a short ship canal, the Keweenaw Waterway, links the two lakes.
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