11.   Midnight mania is changing things in this sleepy river town, the performer says.

12.   Mount Hood, which dominates the plateau above this river town, is one of the few ski mountains in the United States with decent snow in August.

13.   One night we were trucked into Echternach, a Luxembourg river town.

14.   Other communities along the river were inundated, however, and with more rain expected on Sunday, river towns in western Kentucky were bracing for more high water.

15.   Several hours later, the brooms were out in this river town as the Blues completed their sweep of the Stars.

16.   Siem Reap, the dusty river town on its doorstep, is less than an hour by plane from Bangkok or Phnom Penh.

17.   Technically, the message says it comes from the Democratic Party in Missouri, across the Mississippi from this river town.

18.   The little river town of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., thought it had seen everything.

19.   The mayor of one small river town even sent pages from the diary he kept during those weeks of rain, rising water, sandbags and heartbreak.

20.   The river towns may not be.