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Teen takes part in daytime dramatics It wasn’t too long ago Chandler Massey was landing key parts in high school plays and visiting Gainesville to see his grandparents, Kayanne and Abit Massey. 
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Raised dots raise the bar for students Kayla Mulling, 10, would need a wheelbarrow to take all her books home from school each night.
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Growing up colorblind: Next generation doesn't consider friends' skin color From the abolitionist Harriet Tubman to the writer Zora Neale Hurston and even entertainer Bill Cosby, Brenda Colbert’s fifth-grade class at Fair Street International Baccalaureate World School is studying African-American trailblazers during the month of February, in honor of Black History Month.
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Let these guys call your sweetheart Sometimes, the love you have for someone is so deep, it’s hard to express it in words. |
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Churches learn to spread the wealth Every day, mission groups, nonprofit organizations and churches have to create a budget that divvies up donation dollars into equally needy places.
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Make your TV a feature presentation One of the joys of owning a shiny new flat-screen TV is in its display.No, not the TV picture — although, yes, that is pretty cool. But figuring out a place to put it is half the fun, too.
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Happiness comes from a can of hash Like many divine personalities, Mary Kitchen has a past shrouded in mystery. No one really knows if the goddess of corned beef hash is based on a real person or not, and why the name was chosen. Though Hormel Foods is marking the 61st anniversary of the brand in 2010, it’s likely we’ll never know for sure.
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A 'melting pot' of flavor Not just folks from New Orleans will be celebrating the fun loving, free spirit of Louisiana this weekend — people across the country will be reveling as the New Orleans Saints take the field against Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.
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A groundhog's day in the sun Consider the groundhog, that chomping, rotund rodent with several aliases, included woodchuck and whistle-pig.
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Putting their skills to work As students from five area high schools crouched over computers recently at Johnson High School, they not only focused on creating a logo for a new product, but they also were honing in on skills for a career after high school.
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Experts share tips on taming your bad boss The office is no place for a whiny, bratty child. Especially when that child is middle-aged and screaming about a deadline that was absurd to begin with. Not all employees have a horror story of a bad boss, but there are plenty of them out there. And with an economy the way our is right now, it’s not so easy to say “see ya later” when you find yourself faced with a coworker or boss ...
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Advice for anyone stuck in a bad job When he was in high school, Andrew Darragh recalled, he had a particularly horrendous night while working at the local pizza shop.
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Local sausagemaker gets supermarket distribution Local Flowery Branch businessman Mike Balson recently got a little boost to his sausage business when Kroger supermarkets agreed to sell his products beginning Jan. 1 in 40 local stores.
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Fried morsels: Stars of the American road RALEIGH, N.C. — Blame it on John Hartness. At a local reading in November, writer Hartness hurled the bomb: A Shell station at Eastway and Shamrock streets in Charlotte, N.C., has better fried chicken than Price’s Chicken Coop. He said it. I was there. I won’t mess with Hartness’ claim about Price’s. There are third rails of food that you just don’t touch. But go to a gas station to try the fried chicken? That, ...
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