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Longtime Manassas clerk set to retire
Longtime Manassass residents say the Old Town post office will never be the same. After 42 years on the job, postal clark Edna Lawson is set to retire at the end of the year. The 68-year-old planned to be a nurse but joined the Postal Service after...Tags: Washington Post Co.
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Community events
The Williamsburg Farmers Market will hold a special holiday market 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday in Merchants Square. The holiday market will feature fall produce, meat, seafood, decorations, baked goods and gifts. The Prentice Creek Partners will...Tags: College of William and Mary, Christmas, James City County, Baptist, Dance
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Deputies arrest five in cocaine bust in W. Md.
The Associated PressFrederick County sheriff's deputies have seized 2 1/4 pounds of cocaine and charged five men with drug offenses. The sheriff's office said it made the bust Friday night after getting a tip about a cocaine distribution ring. The tip led deputies to a...Tags: Frederick County (Virginia), Migration, Vehicles, McDonald's, Illegal Immigrants
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Housing market showing 'signs of life'
247-7838The housing market in Hampton Roads is not failing as badly as in many other parts of the country but prices could continue to drop until the end of 2009, an audience at Hampton University's School of Business heard Thursday. A forum on mortgage...Tags: Hampton University, Imperial and Royal Matters, Housing and Urban Planning, Sales, Interior Policy
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Rhoda Amon: 'The Journey Through Hallowed Ground'
Though gas prices have been drifting downward, believe me, they are not going near the $1.25 a gallon we seniors remember from the not-too-distant past. Still, it's fall; the leaves are turning red and gold, the children are in school, the open road is...Tags: Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Tourism and Leisure, Imperial and Royal Matters, Montpelier
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History just a few days away
craig.gordon@newsday.comWASHINGTON - On Tuesday night, history will walk across the American stage, no matter who wins. The United States will send to the White House either the first woman vice president in Republican Sarah Palin, or the first black president in Democrat...Tags: Tampa, John McCain, Scranton, Culture, Columbus
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Monday's agenda
REPUBLICANS •Sen. John McCain will be in Tampa; Blountville, Tenn.; Pittsburgh; Indianapolis; Roswell, N.M., Las Vegas; and Arizona. •Gov. Sarah Palin will be in Lakewood, Ohio; Jefferson City, Mo.; Dubuque, Iowa; Colorado Springs; Reno;...Tags: Tampa, Colorado Springs, John McCain, Indianapolis, National Government
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A toast to the end of Prohibition
Seventy-five years ago last month, Virginia ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S Constitution to repeal national Prohibition. It was ahead of seven states yet to ratify the amendment before repeal was completed on Dec. 5, 1933. This was ironic...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Alexandria (Alexandria, Virginia), Imperial and Royal Matters, Mount Vernon, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia)
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Historic Virginia home etched with history
The Washington PostOn the road from Washington to Manassas during the Civil War, Union soldiers seized a 367-acre farm and its grand new house in Fairfax City as a rest stop and field hospital. Many soldiers left their marks in the house, which have survived to this day....Tags: Falls Church (Falls Church, Virginia), Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Dining and Drinking, Road Transportation
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White Americans play major role in electing the first black president
Beneath some of the sharpest assaults on Barack Obama -- that he consorted with radicals, that he condescended to small-town Americans -- was a lingering question: Would white America help elect a black president? On Tuesday, Obama rode a surge of...Tags: Local Elections, Tampa, John McCain, Lyndon B. Johnson, The White House
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Obama's Election Signifies Hope And Acceptance On Journey To Equality
The Hartford CourantThe night before Election Day dawned, Barack Obama delivered the final words of his campaign in northern Virginia. From the small town of Manassas, he called out to the whole state — a Republican stronghold — to help him open the doors of...Tags: Slavery, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, The White House, Grant Park
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William A. Michael, veteran, APG engineer
William A. Michael, a retired Aberdeen Proving Ground engineer and World War II veteran, died of respiratory failure Oct. 6 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Parkville resident was 87. Mr. Michael was born in Toronto and moved with his family to Covington,...Tags: Anglican, St. George, Havre de Grace, Virginia Tech, Colleges and Universities
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