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Out Of Control
Super Flower Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
Newfound Regional High School junior Malina Bohlmann, who started training in track and field last year, broke the school record set in 1979 by Kelli Kemery by four inches during an April meet.
Kemery's long jump record was 15 feet, 11 inches, and Bohlmann jumped 16 feet, three inches at a meet in Lebanon. Now Bohlmann is looking to break the school’s high jump record of five feet, two inches.
Bolmann also plays basketball for Newfound.
Out Of Control
A “controlled burn” by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico got out of hand on April 4 and then merged with another fire of unknown origin to become the country’s largest active wildfire, burning 203,920 acres and triggering evacuations in an adjoining county. Firefighters see no way to stop the blaze.
The fire reached a highway that is the only way out of the village of Chacon, according to Mora County Under Sheriff Americk Padilla. An evacuation order for nearby Angostura marked the first evacuations in Taos County.
The region has experienced a more than two-decades-long drought. The so-called Hermits Peak Calf Canyon blaze has burned a 42-mile-swath of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Hundreds of homes have been lost, with about 12,000 households asked to evacuate.
Super Flower Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
An upcoming lunar eclipse, taking place on May 15-16, will last for 85 minutes, beginning at 10:28 p.m. on Sunday. The moon will shift fully into umbra by 11:28 p.m. and will be visible to the naked eye. It will reach full totality at 12:11 a.m. Monday.
May’s full moon is known as the “flower” moon, because, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, “flowers spring forth across North America in abundance this month.” A supermoon occurs when the moon is at at least 90% of perigee (the point in the moon’s orbit where it is closest to Earth). A full lunar eclipse occurs when the earth stands directly between the moon and the sun and the earth’s shadow completely obscures the moon, giving it a reddish hue — hence, the term “blood moon”.
The last lunar eclipse occurred on May 26, 2021, and the next one visible in North America will occur on November 8.
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— Barb G.
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