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The calendar of events ongoing in the Augusta County Library System. Thursday, Nov. 12, 11 am: Second Thursday Book Club. Ages 18 & up. Free. Augusta County Library, Fishersville 949-6354 or 885-3961 Thursday, Nov. 12, 10 am: Momma Goose Rhymes – Lapsit program for babies up to age 2 and their caregivers. Free. Augusta County…
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The losses of Assane Sene and Jamil Tucker will make an already thin UVa. frontcourt that much thinner. “It makes us, I guess, thin, on more of the forward or front-line type of things,” ‘Hoos coach Tony Bennett said on the eve of his first game on the sidelines at the John Paul Jones Arena,…
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Tuesday, Nov. 10 MR. GIBBS: Good morning, folks. How is everyone? Who’s first? Q Two questions about Fort Hood. Just a logistical question: The schedule has the President meeting with wounded troops twice, before and after the service. Are these all troops wounded in the shooting, or is this two different groups?
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Monday, Nov. 9 COACH GROH: We have had a particular interest in Mark’s (Herzlich) circumstances because at one time we were hopeful that he would be here. So we’ve had a lot of personal discourse with him during that time frame. I think you hear even more about the story and it extends to the…
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Inspector Kathy, the detective for Wayne Theatre Alliance’s Murder at Fairfax Hall Mysteries, has order a number of suspects implicated in the death of a prominent local developer to appear at the presentation of Murder on the 13th on Nov 13, 2009 at Fairfax Hall. Implicated in the murder of Bill Hausrath, a prominent local…
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I just found out this morning that a good friend, Tim Baker, is scheduled to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor tomorrow. Talk about sudden – Tim and I play on a rec-league basketball team together, and our last game was two weeks ago. According to his Facebook Wall, he found out about the…
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Staff Report After weeks of steady increases, gasoline prices began to retreat slightly this week. The average U.S. retail price for regular gasoline dropped to $2.68 a gallon on Friday, down two cents over the week and 34 cents above year-ago prices. Despite recent increases, gasoline prices are still $1.43 below the record price of…
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Story by Chris Graham Dave Norris sort of fell into the lap of Big Brothers Big Sisters. And Big Brothers Big Sisters needed something to go right after its most trying year in its 30-year history. “We are extremely optimistic about where we’re headed. Getting Dave on board was huge. We’ve had a year or…
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Let me introduce you to central pain syndrome, a.k.a. CPS. This is a real nasty side effect from strokes and brain injuries. There are other causes of CPS, but let me shed some insight as to my partnership with CPS. CPS does not have to begin immediately after a brain injury, but can come on…
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Every day, I hear from another woman who is losing her job and her health insurance. Every day, I worry. As an obstetrician/gynecologist, I know firsthand what can happen when a woman can’t afford reproductive health care, whether she has lost her insurance or her insurance doesn’t cover women’s basic needs. Cervical cancer develops unnoticed….
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