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May 21, 2011

Crab takes

Cassie Guy, left, and Katelyn Roberts, both fifth-graders at Shapleigh Middle School in Kittery, react as a horseshoe crab wiggles its tail Friday at the Explore a Marine Tidepool exhibition, part of the 16th annual Southern Maine Children's Water Festival at the University of Southern Maine in Portland.

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Tim Greenway/Staff photographer

The festival -- organized by a partnership that included the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Portland Water District and Poland Spring -- welcomed 650 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders and their teachers from 15 regional schools to learn about clean water, wetland ecosystems and the importance of protecting Maine's hydrological resources.

 

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