Throughout the season, the Batavia bowling programs have been at or near the top of the SBAAC standings. Although both teams fell to Fairfield in a Feb. 7 match…
A cargo vessel lies docked on the banks of Alden s 1:65 scale model of a section of the Mississippi River. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
Mark Twain called it the magnificent Mississippi. He said the river will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.
Garret Dunn is doing his best, anyways.
He s in the river on his hands and knees, rebuilding a wall. It s part of a structure called a sediment diversion, designed to pull water and a whole lot of sand out of the river and into Louisiana s Barataria Basin. It s part of Louisiana s big (and controversial) plan to rebuild and maintain an area of drowning wetlands nearly the size of Delaware.