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Some of the thousands of eggs waiting for cleaning, sorting and packaging at the R.W. Sauder Inc processing plant in Winesburg.

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He drives 30 minutes to work. It costs him $50 a week to get to Winesburg and in his three years working for Case Farms he has received a 2-cent raise.

Some of the thousands of eggs waiting for cleaning, sorting and packaging at the R.W. Sauder Inc processing plant in Winesburg.

More than one hundred frustrated poultry workers walked off the job at Case Farms poultry plant yesterday in a fight for living wages and respect on the job.

Real hospitals might not feature the bed-hopping of 'Grey's Anatomy,' but Julie Salamon's 'Hospital' has all the fascinating chaos of fiction.

Firefighters spent seven hours Sunday containing a blaze that consumed a two-story bank barn situated between a house and a roofing shop.

When customers walk into one of the many retail stores that sell locally crafted furniture, they're often looking for quality first and the product second.

BELLEVUE -- The Bellevue Society for the Arts presents a play which has stood the test of time.

When the big ponds dry up, small ones make good fishing - and reading Would you be the big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a big pond? Like reporter George Willard of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, ...

The Wettest County in the World Matt Bondurant. Scribner, $25 ISBN 978-1-4165-6139-2 This fictionalized tale of Depression-era bootlegging from Bondurant enlists the help of Winesburg, Ohio author Sherwood ...

The Kansas City Repertory Theatre board of trustees approved a $1 million budget hike for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Eric Rosen, the Rep's artistic director, said the budget will jump from $6.5 million ...

Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout Random House, 270 pp., $25 Elizabeth Strout's new book, "Olive Kitteridge," is chock-full of those moments that make you need to close the page on your finger and look up, ...

Morality Tale by Sylvia Brownrigg: This bold, dry, eccentric novel cries out for a descriptive term that can pinpoint its oddness along with its likability. via SFGate

“Aiii! I am trying to think how it goes.”

The Plague of Doves By Louise Erdrich Harpercollins; 311 Pages; $25.95 "The wind will blow. via SFGate

“Nothing that happens, nothing is not connected here by blood.”

Louise Erdrich once described her fiction as "a crazy quilt." As in her previous books, Erdrich's 13th novel, The Plague of Doves , stitches together several of her recent short stories, most of them previously ... via Willamette Week

“There's no carelessness in his writing”

The book signing lasted for hours, an indication that the locals hold no grudges against author Donald Ray Pollock for depicting life here as a grotesque blend of drug abusers, wife beaters and sex fiends. via CBC News

As a book critic, I read a lot. And there are very few books in the course of a given year that I stop reading midway with the urgent desire to LOAN THEM OUT, to friends and relations and the people down the ... via Buffalo News

“The novel tracks him trying to find his place and fit in and having the tough time of it that he does”

Mr. Roth, whose last novel was "Exit Ghost" , the ninth and final book about the author's literary alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, has set the new book during the Korean War. via New York Times

“I started out as a boy 40-some years ago, and that's where I got my start”

Several industrial chicken farms planned in Knox County may prove to have a bolstering effect on the economy here, according to Case Farms housing manager Mike Keefer. via Mount Vernon News