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While recently shoveling aged horse manure around berry vines on my small organic farm to fertilize them, which gives me great pleasure, I thought about what I have learned about the community of the land by farming over the last two decades. I noticed how spreading brown gold–to which I add the green manure of…
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“Oh, my pa-pa, so funny, so adorable Always the clown so funny in his way. Oh, my pa-pa, to me he was so wonderful Deep in my heart I miss him so today.” – Eddie Fisher (1953) Among my favorite Warner Brothers’ vintage cartoons is “A Bear for Punishment,” a Chuck Jones classic featuring a…
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The Hillcats and Indians played a back and forth game in the final game of the first half on Sunday. In the end, the Indians scored a run in the top of the ninth to take the win. Kinston took an early 3-0 lead on the Hillcats. In the first inning, Delvi Cid scored on…
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The short answer: power. There was never any doubt that the New York Democrat was going to have to step down once word of his online behavior hit the headlines. We all have our foibles, but in the case of Weiner, his seem to be at the level of being what you’d have to call…
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A game that was tied three times ended up going Wilmington’s way, as the Blue Rocks beat the Hillcats 4-3 on Wednesday night. Wilmington used a two-run eighth inning to finally put the feisty Hillcats away. Each team scored in the first inning. The Blue Rocks took advantage of a throwing error by Andrelton Simmons…
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The Hillcats and Blue Rocks split a doubleheader Tuesday night, with Wilmington winning the first game 3-1, and Lynchburg winning the second 7-3. All seven runs the Hillcats scored in the second game came with two outs, and the pitching staff combined to allow just one hit. The Blue Rocks were able to take the…
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A two-out, bases-loaded single by Chris Taylor brought Virginia back from the brink of elimination and sent the top-seeded Cavs to their second College World Series in three years with a 3-2 win over Cal-Irvine. The rally began with two outs and two strikes on David Coleman, who singled through the middle off Irvine reliever…
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UC Irvine rallied to defeat No. 1 national seed Virginia 6-4 in game two of the NCAA Super Regional in front of a sellout crowd of 5,050 at Davenport Field. The Anteaters came back from a 3-0 deficit to even the series at one game each and force a decisive game three on Monday at…
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As temperatures rise to dangerous heights, RMH reminds community residents to protect themselves against heat stroke, a life-threatening emergency, and to seek help from local resources that are available for the elderly and at risk. Heat stroke is a condition that develops rapidly and requires immediate medical treatment. The elderly, infants, persons on certain types…
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If there is to be a war, let it begin here. Or in twenty-two other right-to-work states, including Virginia. Or, best of all, in South Carolina. The reasons we will go to war again is the same reason we went to war 150 years ago – freedom. Wars are about freedom. For Civil War II…
