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Kindergarteners to sing '60s TV theme songs for Grandparents Day

There will be 72 kindergarten students bringing their audience back in time with a musical presentation of TV in the Sixties, created just for their grandparents and the community.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Grandparents Day, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Charlotte Channel 9

N.C. Police Say More Arrested In 'Mayberry' Murders 2 hrs ago

Police in North Carolina say two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of four people in the town used as the model for Mayberry in "The Andy Griffith Show." Mount Airy police say 56-year-old Kathy Young Barnette and her son, 34-year-old Gregory Brandon Holt, were arrested Tuesday in Patrick County, Va.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

The Courier-Journal

Incredible Inman: Andy in space

Hi Dave: My husband remembers a show Andy Griffith starred in after he finished "The Andy Griffith Show." He says Andy ran a salvage company that went into space to retrieve old satellites and other scrap from space.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

Mon Nov 09, 2009

FOX16.com

Kraft makes new, lowered bid for Cadbury

Andy receives a letter from an ex-con he helped send to jail, who says he's coming to pay Andy a visit.

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Related Topix: Kraft Foods, Food, Country, Northfield, IL

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Asheville Citizen-Times

What's your hurry?

Several weeks ago, I was walking out of the post office. I could hear someone walking quickly behind me to the point that I felt I was in their way.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

Fri Nov 06, 2009

KWTX

Highway Name For Country Singer Donna Fargo

Country singer Donna Fargo jokes she was "afraid three people would show up" as a highway in North Carolina was named in her honor Thursday, but instead, about 500 fans from all over were there, which had to have made her the happiest girl in the whole USA, to use the title of her 1972 hit.

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Related Topix: Country, Entertainment

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Daily Southerner

Ex-con charged in four shootings in a Mayberrya

A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show," police said Monday.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country, Mount Airy, NC

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Associated Content

Mike Bloomberg and Bill Thompson: New York City's Dreadful Mayoral Choice

If Mike Bloomberg doesn't have a Lonesome Rhodes moment in the next 24 hours, he's a shoo-in for a third term as New York City's mayor.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Gotham, WI, A Face in the Crowd, Drama Movies, Country

Arkansas Online

Kidnapper charged in 4 fatal shootings in N.C. town

A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series The Andy Griffith Show, police said Monday.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

AZCentral.com

Ex-con charged in N.C. shootings

A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show," police said Monday.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country, Scottsdale, AZ

Mon Nov 02, 2009

VDARE.com

Hispanic Kidnapper Arrested For Shooting Four People In a oeMayberrya

Mount Airy, NC, is the site of what may be the latest Immigrant Mass Murder. It was the inspiration for the town of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show.

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Related Topix: Mount Airy, NC, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

Tribune/Sunday Ledger Tribune

Man charged with killing 4 in Mayberry model town

Police arrested a man early Monday in the parking lot slayings of four men shot in the North Carolina small town that was the inspiration for Mayberry in television's "The Andy Griffith Show."... Add a comment on this story Premium Jobs $299 MOVES YOU IN $299 Moves You In with $99 Deposit! Just in time for the Holidays.

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Sun Nov 01, 2009

The Advocate

Old-fashioned letters, phone calls a dying art

My sister-in-law does what Aunt Bea probably did on the old 'Andy Griffith Show.' She clips articles from newspapers, stuffs them in envelopes and mails them to friends and family.

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Related Topix: Country

Fri Oct 30, 2009

The Herald Bulletin

The last cut, shaves ended long ago

When Jack Melling locked the door on his barber shop Friday, it was for good. After 60 years.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country

MSNBC

See ghosts? There may be a medical reason

Spooky footsteps, faint figures, the feeling of being watched - " these unsettling signs of a ghost are as familiar to us as the goose bumps on the back of our arm .

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Related Topix: Supernatural, Comedy, The Andy Griffith Show, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, Country

Thu Oct 29, 2009

WMBF

NC highway named after singer Donna Fargo

Andy Griffith now has some company in Mount Airy. The state dedicated almost 6 miles of N.C. 103 as the "Donna Fargo Highway" on Thursday.

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The Morning Call

Paul Carpenter: Protest validates status as a liberal

In Mayberry, N.C., when Floyd the barber learned the vacationing visitor was from Pennsylvania, he asked if he knew where Coopersburg was.

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Related Topix: Coopersburg, PA, Comedy, Entertainment, Drama, Television, The Andy Griffith Show, Country, Markleysburg, PA

Tue Oct 27, 2009

TV Squad

TV Land is creating original sitcoms now

Everybody has a love/hate relationship with TV Land these days. We love that they still show sitcoms like The Andy Griffith Show and we like the idea of TV Land, but we also hate that movies and reality shows seem to be taking over the network.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Drama, The Andy Griffith Show, Country, Will and Grace

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Media Week

Mr. TV: Jury Duty

I have to be honest: Last week was not exactly the best five days for me, as I anxiously awaited word on whether I had to serve on jury duty.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, 30 Rock, Drama, The Andy Griffith Show, Country, Opinion

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Flyer Group

Mayberry Cafe celebrates 20 years

Businesses tend to come and go. Christine Born has seen her share of that from her perch at the corner of Main and Jefferson streets on the square here.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Comedy, The Andy Griffith Show, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Home, Home Listing, Country

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