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20 hrs ago | Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY

Our View: The Fourth is about freedom

This Fourth of July as we all watch fireworks and eat at backyard barbecues, we all need to remember what the holiday is really about - honoring the sacrifices of those who have allowed all of us to maintain our rights and independence.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

NewsAdvance.com

Celebrate the Fourth in Central Virginia

Festivities abound in the Lynchburg area today to mark the day - including at the homes of two of our nation's best-known patriots.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Fredericksburg.com

We Experienced a 'Great Spiritual Development'

Textbooks have pictured President Coolidge as an accidental, dim-witted president who said little, and thus was dubbed "Silent Cal." Yet he was the most popular political figure of the 1920s in America, and he should be known as "thinking" Cal Coolidge.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Roanoke Times

The Declaration of Independence

'The right of the people' Thomas Jefferson's "Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America" was a radical document that changed the world.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Independence: Jeffersona s Declaration Was an Appeal to the Heart

This morning, on Independence Day, Americans will turn on their televisions or radios and hear Thomas Jefferson's ringing affirmation of human dignity: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...

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Roanoke Times

Happy birthday, U.S.A.

The Roanoke Times Music for Americans is just one of many Fourth of July events around the Roanoke area.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

NBC12

Educational Editorial: Patriotism and July 4th

Educational Editorial: Graduation & emancipation Educational Editorial: Beware of video games Educational Editorial: Teaching tolerance, not love? Educational Editorial: Grading scales in public schools Educational Editorial: Social Studies Educational Editorial: College Graduates This May, college graduates will be launched into a world of ...

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Cybercast News Service

An Endangered America

"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!" said Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and our third president.

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Galax Gazette

Woman dies in fatal crash

The Virginia State Police reports that a 20-year-old Grayson County woman was killed in a wreck on U.S. 58 near Mouth of Wilson on Thursday.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Daily Progress

Group honors Monticello for hiring of refugees

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation was awarded the sixth annual Employer Leadership Award from the International Rescue Committee on Friday.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

Galax Gazette

Town trashes county's garbage fee proposal

Grayson County is proposing to charge all residents of the county $3 a week for trash pickup, but Independence Town Council members feel they should have been included in negotiations.

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Sat Jun 13, 2009

Conservative News Service

Challenging Obamaa s Claim U.S. is Secular Nation, Congressman...

Rep. Randy Forbes believes that the United States is a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and hopes that his sponsorship of a bill designating the first week in May as "America's Spiritual Heritage Week" will make that belief official.

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Galax Gazette

Pursuit ends in charges

A driver faces four charges in Grayson County after allegedly attempting to elude police officers the night of June 3. According to Cpl.

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WDBJ7

Grayson Co. pharmacist accused of helping dentist get drugs illegally

June 10, 2009 Grayson Co. pharmacist accused of helping dentist get drugs illegally There are more details on a Grayson County dentist accused of illegally distributing drugs.

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Tue Jun 09, 2009

Galax Gazette

Independence dentist faces drug charges

A two-month investigation by the Bureau of Drug Enforcement Services of the Virginia State Police has resulted in charges against an Independence dentist.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

WDBJ7

Grayson County dentist charged

June 8, 2009 Grayson County dentist charged A Grayson County dentist is accused of illegally distributing prescription drugs.

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

Millville News

Antonia Stocki Rausch, Ruth Forster, James E. Derda

Antonia Stocki Rausch died Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at Green Knoll Care and Rehabilitation Center in Bridgewater.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

Kansas City Star

Ramp from southbound Interstate 29/35 to Paseo will close Wednesday

The exit ramp from southbound Interstate 29/35 to the Paseo and Independence Avenue will close Wednesday for about a year.The closure, part of the project to replace the Paseo Bridge, will allow crews to begin grading work for a new ramp to northbound I-35. The new northbound ramp is scheduled to be completed by fall 2010.Traffic headed to ...

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Thu May 28, 2009

The Mountain Times

Hammer pleads guilty in tree-farm slaying

Frederick Philip Hammer, 49, of Crumpler, walked into the Grayson County Courthouse in Independence, Va., shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Friday, May 22, shackled and dressed in a red prison jumpsuit.

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Wed May 27, 2009

Mt. Airy News

Freddy P. pleads guilty

INDEPENDENCE, Va. - Following the discovery of additional evidence by guards at the New River Valley Regional Jail, Frederick P. Hammer entered into a plea agreement with state prosecutors to five counts of capital murder Friday at the Grayson County Courthouse.

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