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Tent show steps back in time
The North Platte Telegraph “Can you hear me?” Will Rogers asked the crowd at the start of the tent show at Thursday night’s Chautauqua. “It will be easier to disagree with me if you can hear me.”
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Idea WF Starts This Fall, Organizers say Start Coming up with Ideas Now
Anyone in Texoma who has ever dreamed of starting up their own business can submit a business plan to idea Wichita Falls this Fall.
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Press Releases: Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at Event Marking World Refugee Day on June 18
Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at Event Marking World Refugee Day on June 18 Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC June 17, 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver remarks at a World Refugee Day event, co-hosted by the Department of State and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), on Friday, June 18 at 10:00 a.m. in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the …
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Fantasy racing results: Week 15
Points 1. Bob Hollman, Midlothian 418 2. Robert Trimmer, Richmond 418 3. Daniel O’Rourke, Midlothian 408 4. Michael Lambert, Chester 408 5. Bertha Watson, Richmond 403 6. Alan Gulash, Chesterfield 402 7. Dink Slaughter, Richmond 400 8. Diane Malone, Richmond 400 9. Robert Clary, Amelia 400 10. Thomas Creed, Chesterfield 400 Tiebreaker margins: 1. 15.153; 2. 17.786; 3. 1.386; 4. 7.086; 7. 1.280 …
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North Iowa Hospice golf event draws participants
Story created Jun 10, 2010 – 09:39:15 CDT. FOREST CITY – The new golf clubs she received from her husband couldn’t get her to the course but the Hospice of North Iowa benefit golf classic Saturday in Forest City did.
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House passes bill to improve program performance
The bill would strengthen the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and would put parts of an executive order on performance management into law.
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Obituaries – June 18, 2010
Donald J. Bainton, 79, Korean War veteran, Greenwich resident and former president of Continental Can Company , died peacefully on June 13, 2010 in Boca Raton, Fla.
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Wimbledon and Polo Ralph Lauren: a perfect match?
It might be football that’s billed as “the beautiful game”, but really the epithet should belong to tennis, too. The iconography of tennis fashion – the summery grace of crisp white skirts, polo shirts and plimsolls – has the edge over soccer any day. After all, Anna Wintour cuts into her beauty sleep to play in the mornings and Chanel has seven styles of tennis racket to choose from. It’s also …
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Brockton’s Ashfield School names third-term honor roll
Local students earn scholastic honors
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Our guy’s got the goods — and title of Mr. New York
STATEN ISLAND — He’s the man! Jeoffrey Watson of Great Kills, Mr. Staten Island 2010, has nabbed the title of Mr. New York in the inaugural competition that saw 12 men from around the Empire State compete on Sunday in…
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