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In the summer of 1933, 14 Hilltop business owners ran a full-page ad in The Herald announcing the Pleasantville Merchants Picnic, held on Aug. 16. Each 25-cent purchase netted a raffle ticket good for a grand prize of $50, to be awarded the evening of the concert and dance at the Odd Fellow’s Hall. Free coffee and doughnuts were served all day.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)In West Sayville, N.Y., the Malankara and their parade have assumed a mysterious, almost mythical status.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Before I went to Budapest, a friend told me that for her it conjured images of Eastern European dissidents and women with hairy legs. I hadnt considered either. What I knew about Budapest could be summed up in a few phrases: Eastern European, recently communist (until 1990), a relatively new NATO member. And always the refrain I heard from people who had been there: “The women are beautiful.”
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)“Hey, Red, you owe me a nickel!” Frank was playing pinball at Liberty Cafe on the North Side when the short, red-haired waitress bumped into the machine. A red light flashed “tilt” and the game was over. Reaching into her apron pocket, Susan pulled out a nickel and flicked it to him before waiting on her next customer.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)While hymns no longer echo through Zion United Church near Thamesford, the building will soon be filled with music of a different sort. Expressions Dance Arts Inc.[...]
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Peter and Christopher Hitchens have never been close, but perhaps nothing separates the brothers more than their views on faith.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)MUSIC fan Kim Tinkler has re-written her last will and testament just to make sure her all time chart-topping hero will help to bring down the final curtain on her life.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)In the days after the Haiti earthquake, Alescandra Simin found strength by singing with a group huddled around a single candle in a Port-au-Prince park. Months later, Simin and her daughters living in the same park, hungry and with little hope left.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)Ben Lacy, who founded a fiddling group that played all over southern Colorado for years, died July 12 at Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo. He was 90.
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If you like this post, please buy me a beer for $3 8-)The Church of England has embraced cyberspace with an online wedding planner that is now used by one third of couples.
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