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After string of wet days, Western Mass. residents ready for sun
Two dozen buildings were flooded at the University of Massachusetts Thursday. Photo by Michael S. Gordon / The RepublicanTassie J. Plankey of Longmeadow, center, leads her son Connor, 5, left, and Hayden D. Luckert, 5, into the Greenwood Park Center for Park and Recreation Department Day Camp this morning. Rain kept the campers inside This is an 7:57 p.m. update of a story posted this morning at 8:22 and updated at 11:50 a.m. By GEORGE GRAHAM and STAN FREEMAN Staff writers Torrential rains more typical of a hurricane - nearly 8 inches fell in places - swamped the Pioneer Valley since Tuesday. Farm fields were submerged, roadways were turned to rivers and basements were transformed into indoor swimming pools by the often heavy but intermittent rainfall. At University of Massachusetts in Amherst, some two dozen buildings, including the Campus Center, were flooded Thursday. JCC Flooding When a foot of water inundated an equipment room at the Morrill Science Center IV, a $100,000 transformer was blown. "We have got a pretty rare situation," said abc40 meteorologist Eric Fisher. However, today should offer a break to the string of wet days, he said. "It looks to have a good chance to dry out. There should be sunshine and warmer temperatures. Saturday should also stay dry during the morning, but there are thunderstorms back in the forecast Saturday night and into Sunday," Fisher said. The rainfall in recent days was often very localized, with heavy rain falling in one community while light rain fell in the next. Over the 24-hour period starting at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Westfield got 1.45 inches and Chicopee, just 7 miles away, got 3.95 inches. The rain also fell in fits and starts. In Chicopee, at Westover Air Reserve Base, about 7.5 inches of rain were measured from Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon, but 5.8 inches of it fell in just three one-to-two hour periods during that span. A Westfield man, meanwhile, is lucky to be alive after losing control of his Honda Civic on Holyoke Road Tuesday evening and landing upside-down in a creek, Westfield police said. Gary Poole was trapped inside his car for about 45 minutes as the creek continued to rise, police said. "It was coming up," Lt. Lawrence Valliere said. "If somebody hadn't called, he wouldn't have gotten out of there." By the time police and firefighters arrived, Poole had only about 6 inches of airspace left in the car in which to breathe, Valliere said. Up to 10 police officers and firefighters had get into the water and flip Poole's Civic on its side so he could be freed, he said. Poole was listed in fair condition Thursday morning at Baystate Medical Center. In Springfield Thursday, firefighters worked to pump out some 2 to 3 feet of water from the basement of the Jewish Community Center on Dickinson Street. Fire Department spokesman Dennis G. Leger said pumps provided by both the fire department and the community center were pumping nearly 2,000 gallons per minute out of the basement. Nevertheless, "We are still just putting a dent in it," he said as the work went on. In Agawam, a nearly 40-foot-tall retaining wall at the back of the construction site for a new CVS Pharmacy on Springfield Street collapsed into a ravine either late Wednesday night or very early Thursday morning. Employees at a CVS branch operating nearby said there were no known injuries and that the cement-block wall, which was nearly 100 feet long, had apparently been undermined by the recent rains. Farm fields throughout the valley were turned to mud by the rains, endangering some crops, said Ruth V. Hazzard, a vegetable specialist at the University of Massachusetts Extension. "Growers are going to be concerned. I think we're going to see a lot of vegetable diseases increasing. A lot of pathogens can get a foothold when the leaves have been wet for several days and the temperatures are relatively warm," she said. The strong winds that blew during storms last weekend created a different kind of damage, Hazzard said. "Some corn and tobacco got knocked down. And when corn gets knocked down, it becomes virtually impossible to pick. But I think those problems were very localized," she said. George Graham can be reached at ggraham@repub.com and Stan Freeman can be reached at sfreeman@repub.com.
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Zipfizz(R) Announces Distribution With CVS/pharmacy
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Barielle Nails National Distribution for Exclusive Products at CVS/pharmacy
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Marinita Development to Commence Construction on New $24.3 Million Shopping Center in La Quinta, Calif. with Fresh and Easy and CVS/pharmacy to Anchor
Marinita Development plans to commence construction on August 1, 2008 on Jefferson Square, a new $24.3 million, 90,440 sq. ft. supermarket/drug anchored shopping center in La Quinta, CA. Phase one, which will consist of a Fresh and Easy Market and CVS/pharmacy, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. KTGY is the project architect.
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2 Armed Robbers Want Drugs, Not Cash
CPD says two armed suspects enter a CVS pharmacy and demand drugs from the pharmacist. What else did they allegedly demand?
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Police hunt for Oakland CVS robbers
Pittsburgh police are looking for three men who robbed the Oakland CVS Pharmacy and took an undetermined amount of cash.
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Police Release Photos Of CVS Robbery
Arlington County police have released surveillance photos of a man who robbed a CVS Pharmacy on July 10.
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OxyContin robbery thwarted at Fort Worth pharmacy
BY BILL MILLER A gunman tried to rob a west-side pharmacy early Tuesday for the pain killer OxyContin, but police credit the actions of an employee for thwarting the robbery.The incident happened 6 a.m. Tuesday at the CVS pharmacy, 3614 Camp Bowie Blvd., said Lt. Paul Henderson, police spokesman.A man entered the store, approached the pharmacy counter and handed a piece of paper to an employee. On the paper was the word OxyContin.The employee told the man that the paper was not prescription, Henderson said. The man pulled a pistol from his waist band and demanded that she fetch the drug. She struggled with opening a safe where the powerful drug was stored, Henderson said."Here's the smart part on behalf of the worker," Henderson said. "She raised her voice for others to hear and yelled, 'I'm trying but it won't open!' This tactic worked."Several others heard the commotion and came to see what was happening, and the gunman fled, Henderson said.The man was described as a black male, 35 years of age, about 5-feet-7-inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. His image was captured on a surveillance video, Henderson said, but robbery detectives had not yet processed it by Wednesday.No arrests were reported.
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CVS/pharmacy Makes Medication Management Easy with the Introduction of the New CVS.com
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Armored Truck Guard Shot In Leg During Heist
An armored truck guard is shot in the leg by two men who police say ambushed him as he was leaving a CVS pharmacy.
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