Help Allie Gator, Barney Backhoe, and their friends as they work together on Merriweather Farm and in Deerfield Valley preparing for the upcoming holiday, making new friends, and enjoying springtime in these new interactive board books!
Barney Backhoe is building something new and it's a big surprise! In this new movable parts format, kids can push, pull, turn, and slide the tabs to help Barney, until the reader can see--it's a new playground for Barney's friends.


FRANKFORT -- Nine of 43 pieces of stolen heavy equipment were recovered in Lewis County in part of two separate theft rings that spanned three states, according to police.
Lewis County Deputy Dwayne Stone assisted Kentucky State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation investigators in the recovery of a Caterpillar bulldozer on March 11. Investigators returned to Lewis County on March 14 and recovered eight additional pieces of equipment including three backhoes, a dozer, skid loader, excavator, ditch witch and equipment trailer, according to a press release issued by the Kentucky State Police.
Twenty-three pieces of equipment were recovered in Carter County and 11 were recovered near Portsmouth, Ohio, police said. The recovered equipment was valued at an estimated $1.3 million.
The investigation began on March 5 when Carter County Deputy Sheriff Richard May, acting on information from the FBI office in Huntington, W.Va., located 19 vehicles with vehicle identification numbers obscured at a private residence near Grayson. The discovery led to the arrest of an unnamed male subject on two charges of receiving stolen... Source
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