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Article: INFESTATION? THE NOSE KNOWS; PRINCIPAL SAYS SMELL TELLS OF VOLES' RETURN.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2002
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Byline: Fred A. Mohr Staff writer
They're baaaaack!
At least, that's what Mark Slosek's nose tells him.
Slosek is principal of Fulton Junior High School, where small rodents known as voles have infiltrated a section of the downstairs eighth-grade wing of the building.
"We started getting reports of a musty smell in early October," said Slosek. It was the same stench that alerted school officials they had a problem in 2000.
As with the first infestation, there have been no actual sightings of the mouselike creatures, Slosek said. "We've never seen them, but you can tell they're here."
"They come in to nest and leave ...