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Friday Nov 6 | Daily Dispatch

Autumn Arts Show on display through Nov. 13 at Vance-Granville Community College

Entries in Autumn Arts 2009, the 34th annual juried art show sponsored by Vance-Granville Community College and the Kerr Lake Art Society, have been judged and are on display at Vance-Granville. The public is invited to view the artwork, which is on display on the second floor of Building 7 on the college's main campus in Vance County through Nov.

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Thu Oct 29, 2009

Medford Mail Tribune

Soupy Sales

Even though the occasion is sad, there is something oddly bracing in setting out to write about a man who called himself "Soupy." We need more Soupys in this self-important, don't-you-dare-throw-that-pie world - and now there is one less, Soupy Sales having died Thursday at the age of 83.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Daily Dispatch

Teens arrested for trashing school

Four 17-year-old boys are out on bond after being arrested for allegedly vandalizing Granville Central High School on Sunday morning, Granville County Sheriff Brin Wilkins said.

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Sun Oct 25, 2009

Daily Dispatch

Granville County Sheriff's Office Log

Arrests a Nannie C. Stovall, 46, of 505 Henderson St., Oxford, was booked Oct. 15. Two counts of failure to appear.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

News-Star

Soupy Sales dies at age 83

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian who made an art form out of taking a pie in the face and delighted a generation of Detroiters with his loopy TV show on Channel 7 in the 1950s, died Thursday night in New York.

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Wed Oct 14, 2009

Rod 2.0

180 Day Sentence in "Gay Panic" Killing of Maryland Man

Before issuing his sentence, Judge Rafael Diaz acknowledged many of the letters written to the court from gay rights groups and Hunter's family asking Diaz to sentence Hannah to the maximum 180 days.

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Tue Oct 13, 2009

WRAL.com - Local News

Over-the-counter drug ring has Triangle epicenter

Prosecutors have reached plea agreements with two more players in a complex, multi-million dollar over-the-counter drug ring, which has an epicenter in the Triangle and spans the East Coast.

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Sat Sep 12, 2009

Triangle Business Journal

Clayton to get $60M hospital

Johnston Health's Clayton campus is poised for growth. CLAYTON Johnston County hospital leaders are putting the finishing touches on a plan that would deliver a $60 million, full-service hospital to the growing community of Clayton.

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Wed Sep 02, 2009

News Observer

To his surprise, they farm full-time

Years ago, Bob and Ginger Sykes' Turtle Mist Farm near Franklinton was home to an amusement park called Arkland.

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Sun Aug 30, 2009

News Observer

Soul festival offers refunds after no-shows

Hundreds of frustrated concert-goers lined up for refunds after several advertised acts at a music festival on Saturday failed to show up.

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Wed Aug 26, 2009

Columbus Dispatch

Critics fear car racing at Coop could wake dead

If Cooper Stadium is turned into a motor speedway, mourners at the cemetery next door wouldn't be able to hear graveside services shouted 2 feet away.

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Tue Aug 11, 2009

WRAL.com - Local News

Thieves target farm equipment in four counties

Posted: Today at 6:26 p.m. Updated: Today at 6:27 p.m. Police have arrested seven people they said were connected with two separate theft rings targeting farm equipment in four counties.

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Thu Aug 06, 2009

WRAL.com - Local News

Thieves target farm equipment in four counties

Posted: Today at 6:26 p.m. Updated: Today at 6:27 p.m. Police have arrested seven people they said were connected with two separate theft rings targeting farm equipment in four counties.

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Tue Jul 21, 2009

Triangle Business Journal

N.C. awards $45 million in stimuls money

A total of 40 communities in 31 counties have been awarded more than $45 million in stimulus funding for drinking water, stormwater and wastewater projects, Gov.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

News Observer

Schock to lead Rocky Mount

Richard "Dickie" Schock, who last year coached Orange High to its first football conference championship in 24 years, is returning to Rocky Mount as its football coach.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

Herald-Sun

Parents of late Granville County girls to appeal suit dismissal

Parents of late Granville County girls to appeal suit dismissal BY WILLIAM F. WEST : The [Henderson] Daily Dispatch Jun 12, 2009 OXFORD -- A Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the parents of two Granville County girls killed Dec.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

WFMY 2 Greensboro

Volunteer Elementary School Tutor Charged With Soliciting A Child

Alamance County sheriff investigators have arrested a man they say was soliciting a child by computer.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Burlington Times News

Local bands win awards

The second annual Got To Be N.C. Festival, held May 29-31 at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, gave two area bluegrass bands reasons to celebrate.

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

Anderson Herald-Bulletin

Liberty Christian hires new superintendent

Liberty Christian School has named Jeremy Cowin to be the school's next superintendent.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

News Observer

Lawn mower racing is NASCAR for suburbanites

Pete Sullivan tends his one-acre lawn in North Raleigh with a riding mower. Back in his garage, there are four more machines, but none could cut a blade of grass.

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