Thursday, the mailbox contained:
June 4, 2007 issue of Sporting News (The Amazing Disappearing 300-Game Winner) May 2007 issue of Consumer Reports (Most & Least Reliable Brands) June 4, 2007 issue of The New Yorker (How I Spent the War – A teen-ager in the Waffen S.S.) June 1, 2007 issue of Christ Episcopal Church’s ”Parish Home Companion” (Rebecca [...]
Thursday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.859
Mid $2.959
Premium $3.059
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were down 4 cents per gallon today.
For the month of May, the price of regular [...]
Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
June 4, 2007 issue of Newsweek (The New War on Pain) June/July 2007 issue of Mother Earth News (Affordable Small-Scale Wind Power!) July 2007 issue of Car and Driver (20 Cars Worth Waiting For) May 2007 issue of Oncology Net Guide (Are You Googleable? How Much of Your Life is Online?) A plea from FINCA [...]
It’s nearly summer and you can practically taste the farm-fresh produce. Local farmers want to get their produce to your table.
The only problem?
Rain — or more correctly, the lack of rain.
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Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
June 2007 issue of Circuit Cellar (Communications) June 2007 issue of Virginia Wildlife (Preserving the Real World – Can we truly place a cost on the value of saving and protecting Virginia’s wilderness experience?) June 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Bonus Special Collector’s Issue – American Idol) A Birthday Express Catalog [...]
Tuesday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.899
Mid $2.999
Premium $3.099
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were down 6 cents per gallon today.
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While Americans are still recovering from a scandal over poison pet foods imported from China, FDA inspectors report tainted food imports intended for American humans are being rejected with increasing frequency because they are filthy, are contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.
In the past year, the FDA rejected more than [...]
Virginia has the highest percentage of children who leave the foster care system without a permanent family.
The study was funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative. It found that 21 percent of Virginia’s foster children aged out of the system in 2004 – more than 2 1/2 times the [...]
The Old West is said to be dotted with ghost towns, shells of once-thriving communities abandoned because of blight, economic necessity or just changing times.
In rural Maryland, towns have vanished so completely that not even the husks remain.
There are dozens of lost villages in Carroll County alone – communities that exist only in the fading [...]
Saturday, the mailbox contained:
May/June 2007 issue of CA (Minimal Access Cancer Management) June 2007 issue of BBC Music (150 Year of Elgar) June 4, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek (Hot Growth – The 100 Best Small Companies To Watch) An Into The New Brew 2007 Conference Brochure
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Friday, the mailbox contained:
June 1, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Here Comes Trouble – Michael Moore) June 2007 issue of The Sun (Be Not Silent – Sister Joan Chittister Speaks Out On War, Feminism, And The Catholic Church) June 2007 issue of Linux Journal (Interview with Sun’s Chief Open Source Officer) May 27, 2007 issue of St John’s [...]
Thursday, the mailbox contained:
May 28, 2007 issue of Sporting News (Celebrating the Long Ball) July 2007 issue of Nintendo Power (12-Page Wii Sports Spectacular!) June 2007 issue of Business 2.0 (The Man Who Owns the Internet) Summer 2007 issue of Lowe’s Garden Club (Simple Summer Pleasures – Slow down, relax, and enjoy the season) A plea from EarthJustice
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Wednesday, the mailbox contained:
May 28, 2007 issue of The New Yorker (Angels and Ages – Lincoln’s legacy in language) May 28, 2007 issue of Newsweek (The Bill Factor) A MAXIM Design Guide An offer for “99 Fast, Easy Garden Troubleshooters” Summer 2007 Delorme Catalog A camp brochure from the Post School of Ballet A subscription offer from Free Inquiry Coupons from Netflix A [...]
Wednesday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.959
Mid $3.059
Premium $3.159
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Regular gas prices were down 4 cents per gallon. Mid grade prices were down 6 cents, [...]
Tuesday, the mailbox contained:
June 2007 issue of Smithsonian (PETRA – New thinking about Jordan’s mesmerizing 2,000-year-old Rock City) A Northern Tool + Equipment Catalog A Dharma Crafts Catalog A Moore Medical Catalog An All Electronics Catalog A plea from the Christian Seniors Association An offer from the Academy of American Poets A plea from Sesame Workshop City of Salem’s 2006 Water Quality Report An [...]
Kentucky, the horse capital of the world, famous for its sleek thoroughbreds, is being overrun with thousands of horses no one wants – some of them perfectly healthy, but many of them are starving and broken-down. Other parts of the country are overwhelmed, too.
The reason: growing opposition in the U.S. to the slaughter of horses [...]
Monday, the mailbox contained:
June 2007 issue of Southern Living (Recipes Worth Keeping) June 2007 issue of This Old House (18 easy ideas for your outdoor rooms) June 2007 issue of Real Simple (Entertaining made easy: 46 recipes and decorating ideas) June 2007 issue of Paste (Parker Posey – Our Busy Bee) Volume 15, 2007 issue of nso Risk [...]
Saturday, the mailbox contained:
June 2007 issue of Wired (Rocket Boom – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and the dawn of the private space age) June 2007 issue of National Geographic (The Big Thaw – Ice on the Run, Seas on the Rise) June 2007 issue of Field & Stream (Summer Fishing Guide) May 28, 2007 issue of [...]
Friday, the mailbox contained:
June 2007 issue of Fast Company (China’s New Creative Class June 5, 2007 issue of PC Magazine (Special 2007 Edition – Windows Power Tools) May 25, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly (Summer Music Preview) May 2007 issue of RN (Should the family stay?) May 20, 2007 issue of St. John’s The Record (The Time is Now [...]
Friday, the gasoline prices at the BP @ Apperson & Colorado in Salem, VA were:
Grade Price
Regular $2.999
Mid $3.119
Premium $3.239
Diesel $2.799
Kerosene $2.699
Gas prices were up another 10 cents per gallon today.
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