The 119-acre lakefront park, which is actually a peninsula, not an island, features more than 150 varieties of native plants, 20,000 trees and shrubs, a 5-acre pond, strolling paths, and wild prairie grasses and savanna.
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Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The Pier Village downtown is great for spending an afternoon shopping, strolling, and sipping.
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Valerie Fraser Luesse,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
Perhaps this isn’t new—Star Wars has been taking small moments from the original trilogy and padding them out for decades now—almost everything seen on screen in those first three films has been resurrected, fleshed out with backstories and unnecessary details.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
The stock closed at a record high of $237 — padding out year-to-date gains to 117%.
By treading lightly with finishes, opening up the loft area to more light, and getting clever with storage, Marie channeled the unit’s coastal locale, conjuring up an aesthetic lexicon that suggests the interior of a boat with its clean, functional lines.
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Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
The backlash was so fierce, Anthropic quickly made adjustments to the policy, as Wired reported on Wednesday, highlighting just how carefully the company is treading.
My favorite part of my trip to Omaha, Nebraska, for the College World Series left me wandering in the middle of the night somewhere between the ballpark and my hotel.
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Ken Sugiura,
AJC.com,
20 June 2026
Police in Holly, Michigan, say an 18-month-old boy who was seen wandering on a Ring camera on Friday has been identified and located.
The visuals of fighters warming up inside the White House and sauntering down the Truman balcony, many wrapped in the American flag, was an unusual spectacle indeed.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
Kane somehow manages to be a masterful playmaker and deadly striker at the same time, dropping deep to dictate the tempo of a game or spray a 50-yard pass, before sauntering into the box to top up that goal tally.
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The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
22 May 2026
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