Saturday, the mailbox contained:
October 9, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek (HP Controlling The Damage) October 6, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly (If We Ran Hollywood…Kate Winslet Would Call Her Own Shots (Oh, right, She Does!)) October 2006 issue of Virginia Wildlife (A Sanctuary Amid the Sprawl – Dyke Marsh – an environmental oasis worth saving.) [...]
Saturday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $1.979
Mid $2.079
Premium $2.179
Diesel $2.699
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were down another 2 cents per gallon today. Gas prices decreased 46 cents per [...]
Friday, the mailbox contained:
October 9, 2006 issue of ESPN (Pure Joy – The Best Shortstop in New York is About to Do Something Amazing) November 2006 issue of Car And Driver (First Test! Speedy Mazda 3 – 263 Horses, 155 MPH, Under $23,000) October 2006 issue of the American Journal of Nursing [...]
In order to meet Title IX requirements, JMU is eliminating 10 sports. The mens teams being eliminated are archery, cross country, gymnastics, indoor track, outdoor track, swimming and wrestling. Womens archery, fencing, and gymnastics will be dropped.
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Franklin County’s Homestead Creamery is hoping to revive the old-time tradition of milkmen and is banking on a new generation of customers, many of whom are increasingly busy and picky about where their food comes from, to buy into their new home delivery service.
In June, the company launched the service as a trial run, targeting [...]
Thursday, the mailbox contained:
October/November 2006 issue of National Wildlife (Orcas On The Edge: A Puget Sound Mystery) Fall 2006 issue of National Parks (Saving the Great Lakes – Preserving the Parks Along their Shores) October 2006 issue of The Sun (Dream A Little Dream – Bill McKibben On Reforming Our Supersized Society) September 2006 issue of JDJ [...]
Within the annual growth rings of old longleaf pines, scientists are discovering a previously unknown record of hurricane activity in the Southeast.
A University of Tennessee-led team has found that hurricane rain can leave a chemical mark in the woody tissue of these shallow-rooted trees that can date when storms occurred. That might provide a [...]
Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
Holiday 2006 L.L.Bean Home Catalog An offer from American Compass An offer from Ancestry.com A subscription offer from Bon Appétit A membership offer from the IEEE A plea from Audubon
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Wednesday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $1.999
Mid $2.099
Premium $2.199
Diesel $2.699
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were down another 6 cents per gallon today. The last time gas prices were [...]
The crab prices paid to watermen have remained flat for the last 20 years, and because of this, many watermen are having trouble making ends meet and are leaving the business.
“The old days used to be you could make a living off the water, but not anymore,” he said. “Every day we hear that the [...]
Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
October 2, 2006 issue of Newsweek (Annie Leibovitz – My Life in Pictures) November 2006 issue of SEED (9 Revolutionary Minds) A box of No Depression Back Issues A calendar and plea from the African Wildlife Foundation Coupons from Mailbox Savings
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A cave network with large passages and rooms — many more than 50-feet wide and some containing ancient animal skeletons — has been discovered within the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in central California, the National Park System announced.
Its still unknown how far the network goes, but the find is “so significant,” the agency [...]
Tuesday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.059
Mid $2.159
Premium $2.259
Diesel $2.699
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were down another 4 cents per gallon today.
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The worlds booming shark fin trade is killing up to 73 million sharks per year—about three times more than the official catch number reported to the United Nations, a new study concludes.
Scientists worry that the demand for shark fins could soon outpace the abilities of sharks to reproduce. This is probably already happening for one [...]
Monday, the mailbox contained:
October 2, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek (click fraud – The Dark Side of Online Advertising) October 2006 issue of Fast Company (3rd Annual of Masters of Design) Fall 2006 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR Portfolio – The Holocaust: Remembrance and Forgetting) September 10, 2006 issue of Oncology Times (New Evidence that Exercise [...]
Walking may not be enough on its own to produce significant health benefits, research suggests.
Researchers compared a 10,000-step exercise program with a more traditional fitness regime of moderate intensity, and they found improvements in fitness levels were significantly higher in the second group. They told an American College of Sports Medicine meeting that gentle [...]
Saturday, the mailbox contained:
September 29, 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Battlestar Galactica) October 2006 issue of Smithsonian (The Search for New Planets) October 2006 issue of Wired (The Thin Pill – How Big Pharma turned fat into a disease – and then invented a drug to cure it) October/November 2006 issue of Cook’s Country (Best Mashed Potatoes) Fall 2006 [...]
Saturday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.099
Mid $2.199
Premium $2.299
Diesel $2.699
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were down another 4 cents per gallon today.
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