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Friday, May 21, 2010 — We don’t generally run items from our newsprint edition on the web right away, but we wanted to make sure people knew about this in time to plan ahead. One thing that didn’t make it into this item: RiverRun is going to donate $3 from every copy of Matterhorn sold in May and June to VASH, the VA Supported Housing Program. RiverRun Lands Another Big One RiverRun Bookstore continues to attract the best writers working today to read and speak right here in River City. We would profess not to know how they do it if it weren’t so obvious: …

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010 — The following notice just came in, courtesy of John Demos of the Alaska Wilderness League. Thanks for the notice, John. On Thursday, May 20, at 8 p.m., in Market Square, Portsmouth, a Candlelight Vigil will be held to mark the passage of one month since the Gulf Of Mexico Oil Disaster began. With Shell Oil scheduled to drill in Arctic Ocean in less than 40 days, concerned citizens also asking for Arctic timeout. Thursday, May 20 marks one month since the tragic Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion ignited one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Local citizens will …

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Thursday, May 6, 2010 — We’re not trying to compete with the dailies here, but since we have them, here are two views of the bus hostage situation in Portsmouth taken at about 11:30 a.m. First, a view looking northeast up Hanover Street from Maplewood. The rear of a Greyhound bus can be seen in the upper right of the picture. And we have these two gentlemen, apparently police, a few minutes earlier, before they set off in the direction of the bus.

Thursday, April 22, 2010 — In one hour and 22 minutes our proofreaders will arrive … 2004—In Afghanistan, U.S. soldiers shoot former NFL football player Specialist Pat Tillman. 2002—“The Taliban is out of business permanently,” says Dick “Dick” Cheney at a GOP fundraiser in Florida. 2000—Federal agents snatch political pawn Elian Gonzalez from his colorful Miami relatives. 1990—Guilford Co., N.C. postpones Earth Day to April 28th so as not to interfere with the K-Mart Greater Greensboro Open Golf Tournament. 1971—Capitol police arrest 110 Vietnam veterans for serenading the Supreme Court with God Bless America. 1971—Former Navy Lieutenant John Kerry asks Congress, “How do you ask …

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Monday, April 19, 2010 — As objective journalists we are prohibited by law and custom from taking sides on any issue. That having been said we confess to harboring the hope that this day will pass without any extraordinary expressions of patriotism from the confused. Also, we send out a salute across the centuries to Isaiah Thomas, who was once an apprentice to Daniel Fowle‘s peculiar brother Zechariah (See 1775). 2004—A government spokesman reveals that NORAD had run a training exercise based on a hijacked airliner crashing into a building. 1995—RIP 168 souls in Oklahoma City. 1993—For the good of the children, who end up …

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Friday, April 16, 2010 — While rummaging around in the archives recently we came across our little collection of Father Coughlin’s rag, Social Justice; we’ve got eight copies, all published in 1941. It was gratifying to rediscover them, given Father Coughlin’s recent reincarnation. We spent an hour or two trying to read some of this drivel. It was a waste of time, so we gave it up. We hope that whoever may be running the Gazette in 2078 will have the sense to do the same if they should come across a transcript of Glenn Beck’s program.