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Governor announces Film Friendly Texas designation for Breckenridge
December 12, 2024
Breckenridge joins more than 175 Film Friendly Texas Certified Communities that receive ongoing training and guidance from the Texas Film Commission on media industry standards, best practices, and how to effectively accommodate on-location filming activity in their community.
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Wausau Pilot “Letters to Santa” campaign starts now
December 06, 2024
Letters to Santa first began regularly appearing in newspapers around the 1880s. Every December since then, newspapers across the nation have published children’s heartfelt letters as a celebration of the season.
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Did Martinsville become the final resting place for a century-old vampire hunting kit?
October 25, 2024
One vampire hunting kit, never used: A European vampire hunting kit in America? Or a 20th-century version of a 19th-century object that never existed?
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50 years after ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ a question of how the Roanoke Valley could mark its connection to a literary masterpiece
October 11, 2024
Annie Dillard spent a dozen years in the Roanoke Valley, but there’s no official commemoration of her time there or of her Pulitzer-winning book.
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‘Quinceañeras every weekend’: Nebraska’s Latinos are increasingly native born – and eager to keep traditions alive
October 03, 2024
Once fueled by immigration, Nebraska’s growing Latino population is now overwhelmingly native born. Like others before them, these younger Nebraskans are eager to hold onto their heritage.
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Vance, at Christian nationalist revival, says immigration stance is in keeping with faith
September 28, 2024
JD Vance’s remarks in Monroeville, PA, seemed aimed at quelling some of the controversy that sprang up after he and Donald Trump accused Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating townspeople’s pets.
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New Mural Brings Light to the Hoh Tribe
September 23, 2024
The New Old Time Chautauqua traveled 130 miles west from Port Townsend for six days in June during the Hoh Days celebration where the mural project first took shape.
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‘Haitians are not eating pets’: Springfield faith leaders stand with embattled migrants
September 16, 2024
‘It was a tough week,’ said Harold Herard, a Haitian community leader in Springfield and visitor at Central Christian Church on Sunday. ‘But today, we feel free.’
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Victims of 9/11 attack remembered in Kent
September 12, 2024
The town paused in somber reflection Wednesday, Sept. 11, to remember the loss of nearly 3,000 American citizens, 2,753 of them at the Twin Towers in Manhattan, on 9/11.
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Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says
September 09, 2024
A Christian school at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that required Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is appealing a ruling upholding a requirement that all participating facilities abide by a state anti-discrimination law.
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How a drug bust in Wythe County pushed Charley Crockett into a country music career
August 23, 2024
Today, he’s a breakout country music star. He credits an arrest on I-81 with forcing him to focus on music, not running marijuana.
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Weathering Storms
August 13, 2024
An in-depth look at why people don’t leave disaster-prone communities.
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Concerns grow about Christian nationalism in North Dakota
August 06, 2024
Some Christian denominations are publicly or discreetly raising worries about a rise in an ideology known as “Christian nationalism” that desires a brand of conservative Christian dominion over all aspects of American society and politics.
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Five faith facts about Harris pick Tim Walz, a ‘Minnesota Lutheran’ Dad
August 06, 2024
Some are calling his persona “Midwestern Dad” energy, citing his background as a high school teacher and football coach. But Minnesotans know Walz as something even more specific: a “Minnesota Lutheran” Dad.
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Blacksburg runner qualifies for Olympic finals
August 04, 2024
The former University of Oregon star has been training under Virginia Tech’s track and field coach.
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