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AMATEUR RADIO ‘FIELD DAY’—Members of the Bristol Amateur Radio Club (VA/TN) and the Mountain Empire Amateur Radio Society (Smyth and Washington Counties, VA) will be participating in the national amateur radio Field Day exercise, Saturday, June 24, at 2 p.m. and Sunday, June 25, at 2 p.m. at White Top...

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  • June 25, 2023

Talented young musicians from across the world are in Sewanee now through July 16 for the 66th season of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival featuring more than 30 performances of symphonic, chamber and vocal music. Many of the concerts are free. To reserve tickets to one of their paid performances,...

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  • June 22, 2023

Beebout Spotsylvania jurors began hearing evidence Wednesday that will help them decide whether to believe a Ruther Glen man’s claim that he was acting in self-defense when he killed 35-year-old Shawn Hastings last year outside a Spotsylvania restaurant. Jesse Dean Beebout, 35, is charged with multiple offenses, including first-degree murder,...

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  • June 22, 2023

Question: Of the thousands of words in the English language, only three English words, according to Webster, begin with the letters “dw,” a number bumped up to at least four if you include proper nouns and names, and specifically one Central Illinois town. Can you name the dw- words? Answer:...

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  • June 18, 2023

Question: Across from the courthouse in downtown Metamora are the statues of Abe Lincoln and a woman, Melissa Goings. Abe we know, but why is Goings there? Answer: In an 1857 trial in Metamora at which Goings was accused of killing her abusive husband, her lawyer, Lincoln, believed the killing...

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  • June 17, 2023

Gracie Hart Brooks Editor A special use permit (SUP) to create a substance abuse treatment center at the former Sevenoaks property has been denied. In April, Dr. Christopher von Elten, Noel Jewell and William Manning of NWC Investments LLC (also known as Addiction Allies) applied for a special use permit...

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  • June 16, 2023