Elmore barn is one for the ages
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010ELMORE -- There's a reason locals call the Elmore Historical Society Barn the village's attic.
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Douglass man carves out retirement plan
Friday, August 20th, 2010Staff photo by Andrew Rogers Dale Caldwell sits at his dining room table surrounded by wooden models he made himself. Caldwell started out making wooden toys but now says he prefers to make wooden models as accurate as possible.
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Douglass man carves out retirement plan
Fountain in courtyard is focal point of writer-director’s house
Sunday, August 15th, 2010Screenwriter, best-selling novelist and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" director Nicholas Meyer has put his Pacific Palisades house up for sale at $7.3 million. The two-story Cliff May design, built in 1937, has been his family home for 15 years.
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Salem area’s garden railroads will be on display
Friday, August 13th, 2010Railroads hold a universal appeal, captivating and bringing smiles to the faces of just about everyone, from small children to senior citizens. If you've ever spent time around the train table at A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village or Mission Mill during Magic at the Mill, you've felt it.
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John D. Vassar Sr.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010PITTSBORO, N.C. John Dixie Vassar Sr., 86, passed away Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010, at his residence following an extended illness. He was the son of the late John Dixie Vassar and Janie Venable Vassar Norfleet of Craigville, Va.
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Love bites into pizza franchise
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010When Jay Love lost his bid to become a U.S. congressman almost two years ago, he decided not only to refocus his attention on his position in the Alabama House of Representatives but in becoming a full-time franchise operator again.
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Model railroaders draw crowd at fair
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010The Washington Model Railroad Club has its own building at the fairgrounds in which to take refuge from the blazing sun. The club has been at the fair since Monday and will be there until Thursday, showing off its trains and other models in the building. The club can run a dozen trains at a time that are of different styles and sizes and from different eras in the history of the locomotive.
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Family Fun in the Valley from Virginia.org
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010On top of Roanoke's Mill Mountain, off the Blue Ridge Parkway and alongside the famous Roanoke Star, is the Mill Mountain Zoo with 55 species of mammals, birds and reptiles. Kids can ride the ZooChoo train, and families can picnic overlooking the beautiful Roanoke Valley.
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DC-3 honored for 75th anniversary
Saturday, July 17th, 2010A game changing aircraft that was designed to compete with trains in the 1930s and later played a legendary role as a transport plane during World War II will be honored at AirVenture as it celebrates its 75th anniversary.
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High-tech mannequin trains hospital staff
Sunday, July 11th, 2010The SimMan, an advanced patient simulator, has been implemented at Washington County Hospital to improve team training and further student education, hospital officials said.
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