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City Hall: Furry stowaway, a symbolic arch for the city's oldest park, popular new senior center

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City Hall: Furry stowaway, a symbolic arch for the city's oldest park, popular new senior center

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Members of Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation sedate and assesses a marmot that traveled from its home in Wyoming to Lincoln in the engine compartment of a minivan.

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A yellow-bellied marmot hid inside the engine compartment of a Lincoln family's van when it was in Wyoming and traveled back to Lincoln, where Lincoln Animal Control, Nebraska Game and Parks and Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation, staged a rescue. It will be returned to Wyoming.

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Dr. Sarah Woodhouse, a veterinarian with Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation in Omaha, rescues a yellow-bellied marmot from the engine compartment of a van, where it stowed away and traveled from a Wyoming campsite to Lincoln.

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Members of the South Salt Creek Community Association and city parks officials on Saturday rededicated Cooper Park -- the city's oldest park -- near a new arch at the southern entrance to the park.

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A new arch at the southern entrance to Cooper Park -- the oldest city park -- was created for the city by TMCO, a manufacturing firm just blocks from the park.

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A furry stowaway left his home in the rocky wilds of Wyoming and ended up in a Lincoln driveway — possibly the first (non-zoo-related) visit this sort of marmot’s ever made to the capital city.

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Contact the writer at mreist@journalstar.com or 402-473-7226. On Twitter at @LJSReist.

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Members of Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation sedate and assesses a marmot that traveled from its home in Wyoming to Lincoln in the engine compartment of a minivan.

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A yellow-bellied marmot hid inside the engine compartment of a Lincoln family's van when it was in Wyoming and traveled back to Lincoln, where Lincoln Animal Control, Nebraska Game and Parks and Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation, staged a rescue. It will be returned to Wyoming.

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Dr. Sarah Woodhouse, a veterinarian with Nebraska Wildlife Rehabilitation in Omaha, rescues a yellow-bellied marmot from the engine compartment of a van, where it stowed away and traveled from a Wyoming campsite to Lincoln.

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Members of the South Salt Creek Community Association and city parks officials on Saturday rededicated Cooper Park -- the city's oldest park -- near a new arch at the southern entrance to the park.

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A new arch at the southern entrance to Cooper Park -- the oldest city park -- was created for the city by TMCO, a manufacturing firm just blocks from the park.

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