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Nature events Saturday, June 22: Native plant walk, osprey watching gets you outdoors exploring things
Join Helen Hamilton on a plant walk at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 22, to see aquatic wildflowers and grasses. Meet at College Landing Park, 2100 South Henry Street, Williamsburg. For information and to register call 757-564-4494 or email helen48@cox.net....
Tags: College of William and Mary, York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Warner Music Group Intern Wants Money for All That Coffee Brewing
ReutersJun 17 (TheWrap.com) - A former intern of Warner Music Group Corp. filed a Class Action Complaint Monday in New York County Supreme Court against the company for unpaid wages from Oct. 2007 to May 2008. Justin Henry -- through his attorneys Virginia &...Tags: Lawyers, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, York (York, Pennsylvania), Warner Music Group Corporation
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Politics as Usual
Toomey reaffirms background check support Six months after the Sandy Hook murders of 20 children and six adults, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., reaffirmed his support for expanding background checks on firearms sales, and said he hopes the Senate can...Tags: Democratic Party, Arts and Culture, Allentown, Ceremonies, Culture
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Back Story: Restoring historic stretch of railroad
For quite some time now, enthusiastic volunteers have been whacking brush, clearing debris and replacing ties and rails on the old Pennsylvania Railroad's Northern Central Division, one of the nation's most historic stretches of railroad, which courses 10...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Railway Transportation, York (York, Pennsylvania), Transportation
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Insects: Virginia master naturalist shares stories about creepy crawlers Saturday morning at New Quarter Park in upper York County
Clyde Marsteller, certified Virginia master naturalists, Historic Rivers Chapter, will unpack a suitcase-sized menagerie of insects at New Quarter Park on Saturday, June 1, from 10 a.m. to noon, for kids of all ages to inspect up close. Come see all of...
Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Dominion paid $142 million in local taxes in 2012
Dominion Virginia Power says it paid nearly $142 million in taxes to Virginia cities, counties and towns. The company paid more than $40 million in taxes to localities in Hampton Roads. That’s an increase of about $10 million or 7.6 percent from...
Tags: Gloucester County, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia), Suffolk (Suffolk, Virginia), Surry (Surry, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Black bear spotted in York County
A York County resident reported seeing a black bear near Old Williamsburg Road, county officials said. Local animal control officers responded to the Lackey area of York County, but they couldn’t find the bear, according to a news release....
Tags: Lackey, York (York, Pennsylvania)
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Chambersburg-area farm involved in bacteria outbreak is ordered to stop raw milk sales
waynesboro@herald-mail.comA Chambersburg-area farm involved in a bacteria outbreak last year is the subject of a new warning from the Pennsylvania departments of health and agriculture. Five people who consumed unpasteurized milk from The Family Cow, 3854 Olde Scotland Road,...Tags: Farms, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, York (York, Pennsylvania), Health, Family
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Virginia slavery took root in the rich soil of the York
Old Point Comfort and Jamestown may have the distinction of being the first places associated with the arrival of Virginia's first Africans in 1619. But it wasn't until decades later that slavery really took off -- and when it did it was the south...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Yorktown (York, Virginia), York (York, Pennsylvania), Memorial Day, Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
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Saturday, May 18, FREE gardening/nature events for families and anyone interested in great outdoors
Learn and Grow Series with Art in the Garden Linda Miller, Artist and Virginia Master Naturalist, will help children 7 and older create a botanical portrait in colored pencil or watercolor from plant materials they select in the Williamsburg Botanical...
Tags: Animals, Physiology, Arts and Culture, Science, Foods and Beverages
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Master gardener training: May 31 is deadline to register for fall classes on the Peninsula
May 31 is the deadline to register for Peninsula-based master gardener training that begins in September and typically ends with graduation in November. "We are volunteers for Virginia Cooperative Extension, helping the public and the environment with...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), York (York, Pennsylvania)
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A cradle of slavery on the York
When the director of the Middle Passage port markers project arrives in Yorktown to give a talk about slavery Friday night, she'll find herself in the perfect place. Though Old Point Comfort and Jamestown can lay claim to the first Africans in English...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Yorktown (York, Virginia), York (York, Pennsylvania), Memorial Day, Colonial Williamsburg
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