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- Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley High - Berkeley Daily Planet
Class of 2008 Says Good-Bye to Berkeley HighBerkeley Daily Planet, CA - 2 hours agoAll eyes were turned on the stage when Robert McKnight, chair of the African American Studies Department at Berkeley High, appeared to make a speech. ...
- At our best - Corvallis Gazette Times
At our bestCorvallis Gazette Times, OR - 6 hours agoWendy Deptula, an eighthgrader at Talmadge Middle School, has won an Honorable Mention in her category in the Oregon State Youth Poetry Contest, ...
- Ciara McKnight - a photographer who lets the horses tell their stories (Orangeville Citizen)
Ciara McKnight thinks, breathes, lives for and takes pictures of horses. By her own reckoning, she started riding rather late in life, compared, as she says, to the other riders at the stables: she started riding at the age of 10.
- Write on! (Concord Monitor)
Kids looking for a break from the traditional marshmallows-and-mosquitoes summer camp experience may be interested in Plymouth State University's day camp for young writers.
- Charlotte memorial recalls slain students - Democrat and Chronicle
On their last day of school, students at Charlotte High School came together to remember two fellow students who were killed earlier this year and to dedicate a newly created Peace Garden. As part of their math, art, and science and social studies ...
- Posted By KELLY SMITH - Orillia Packet & Times
Posted By KELLY SMITHOrillia Packet & Times, Canada - 6 minutes agoIn August, there will be a poetry contest based on one of these themes: By My Own Hands; The Animal in Me; Bullying; Friends or Foes; Me and My Words; ...
- Brooks & Dunn at top of their game in Blossom Music Center `Cowboy ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The partnership of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn may be Nashville's most successful marriage since Johnny and June. Sunday night, the duo renewed their vows before more than 10,000 worshipers at the the Blossom Music Center altar. The tour is called ...
- Coral Gables - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
As Toby Barlow points out, epic poetry all but died out some time ago, and there hasn't been any hint that it's coming back. So for someone who works in advertising (he handles the Ford Motor Co. account), Barlow's choice of free verse for Sharp ...
- The Revenger's Tragedy: The bloody classic is given a modern twist (Independent)
Joe Orton used two lines from The Revenger's Tragedy as the epigraph to What the Butler Saw – "Surely we are all mad people, and they/ Whom we think are, are not". It's easy to see why he liked the horror-comic Jacobean vision of moral anarchy, with its depraved Italian court, its dysfunctional ruling family, its extremes of virtue and vice, and its tone of sardonic fascination. In Loot, Orton ...
- Boy, 6, hailed a hero after saving drowning friend - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Focusing on price fires up Wal-Mart's results Fayetteville, Ark. —- Wal-Mart executives said Friday that a reinvigorated focus on price has allowed the world's largest retailer to beat out competitors in a challenging economic environment... Wal ...
- Musical brainstorming pays off at Jazzfest - Ottawa Citizen
The idea to put a group of jazz musicians together for a week or so to see what they come up with in the way of new compositions first gained popularity in New York's so-called loft scene in the early 1970s. Some ground-breaking avant-garde jazz by ...
- Let's go to camp - Georgetown Record
Let's go to campGeorgetown Record, MA - May 21, 2008Teens can produce a short film; learn 3-D illustration or a new dance step or two; act in a play; write a song, a poem, or a story; paint; draw; ...
- Teen poets to appear in HBO documentary - The South Florida Times
Teen poets to appear in HBO documentaryThe South Florida Times, FL - 2 minutes agoA sophomore at Deerfield Beach High School, he developed his interest in writing poetry from his love of and exposure to rap music. ...
- Faculty and staff vacate Antioch College campus this week (Yellow Springs News)
The laboratory where Antioch College geology professor Peter Townsend taught for 37 years was a mess of beakers, textbooks and research last week scattered half in and half out of the boxes scheduled to leave the science building.
- Gail Borden to celebrate Dia de los Niños (The Courier News)
Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin will join hundreds of libraries across the nation in celebrating a different take on Dia de los Niños , or Day of the Child. The event will focus on literacy. Dia de los Niños/Dia de los Libros is a celebration of the child and reading, said Tina Birkholz, Gail Borden's coordinator of Hispanic family programs and services.
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