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Greensburg Art Club's home in Hempfield, built in 1883, once was a tiny, two-room schoolhouse.
Choo Choo Johnny's is scheduled to roll into Naperville between Mid-July and August at 3103 Route 59, sharing the same plaza with Caputo's Finer Foods and T.J. Maxx.
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Everybody, it seems, is wearing them. On trains, on the street, at parties. It is impossible to go anywhere in Japan this time of year and not notice—the Japanese love surgical masks and wear them just about everywhere they go.
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TOKYO - Everybody, it seems, is wearing them.
The Widdoes boys, Chandler, 8, and Jonathan, 5, came all the way from Oxford, Pa., to ride on a one-eighth scale model of the historic Tuckerton Railroad on a hot, sunny afternoon Saturday.
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Library raises funds via train show (Asbury Park Press)
But light rail line down Boston Street has official backing Once a gritty neighborhood on Southeast Baltimore's industrial waterfront, Canton has transformed itself into a model of urban chic where million-dollar townhouses overlook the harbor and destination night spots surround O'Donnell Square.
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Canton residents oppose transit plan (Baltimore Sun)
With patience, calm and training, Tracey Westbury of Bellingham, Wash., turns a feral mustang into a trusted horse. The federal Bureau of Land Management helps round them up and turn them over to trainers like her, who ready the horses for the Extreme Mustang Makeover competition and subsequent auction. After 90 days working with the mustang she named Steve Holt!, Westbury fell in love with the ...
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Saving the mustang, one horse at a time (Seattle Times)
Obama aides counter that in dire times, the administration cannot afford not to attack all America's problems at once.
In his high-velocity first 100 days, Barack Obama has sketched the outlines of a presidency of astounding ambition, which would remake the United States at home and transform its role abroad.
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Obama dominates in first 100 days (AFP via Yahoo! News)