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		<title>Babe Ruth Baseball Holds Its Opening Day in Greenwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenwood Baseball, the Babe Ruth division of the Peachtree League, held its opening at Greenwood Community Center April 21. The league fielded four teams of boys ages 13 to 15, who chose their team names from minor league teams across the country. On opening day the Grasshoppers played The Thunder in the first game and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crozet Weather Almanac: March 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[April 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather Almanac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Heidi Sonen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roscoe Shaw]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourth Warmest Ever By Heidi Sonen and Roscoe Shaw March finished as the fourth warmest ever when compared to the normal.  We finished an astonishing 9.4 degrees above average. We have 1278 months’ worth of temperature data for this area (106 years) and only three months had a warmer anomaly.  March of 1945 was 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasonal Romance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[April 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clover's Literary Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clover Carroll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madrigal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Morley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Clover Carroll April is in my mistress’ face, And July in her eyes hath place; Within her bosom is September, But in her heart a cold December. This lilting English madrigal, written by Thomas Morley in 1594 based on an Italian text, deftly uses a weather metaphor to convey the vicissitudes of the poet’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redmond Takes Over as  WAHS Football Coach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[April 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Redmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed Redmond, the head football coach at Ithaca High School in Ithaca, New York, for the last four years, is the new head coach at Western Albemarle High School, WAHS athletic director Steve Heon announced March 30. Heon said Redmond was chosen after “a very extensive search and from a capable pool.” He takes over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night Lighting Is Harmful to Our Insects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Ridge Naturalist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marlene Condon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marlene Condon My writing day does not get started until I’ve had my breakfast and exercise, both of which occur very early in the morning. I love getting out onto the roadways when it’s still rather dark so I can hear the natural world awaken and watch the changing palette of colors as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crozet Annals of Medicine: Insuring Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Annals of Medicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[archives of surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health literacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[level-one trauma center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Trauma Data Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obamacare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Robert C. Reiser It looks like spring is here for good after a brief cold snap. Good news for sure for gardeners, maybe less so for ER docs. The influx of pollen-triggered allergies and asthma is not too challenging to deal with, but the spike in trauma is as noticeable as the spikes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAHS Beat: April 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[April 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WAHS Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ace Team]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grades]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parent Portal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[report cards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parent Portal: WAHS Initiates New Grade-Tracking Program by Sophie Webb January 25 was the beginning of the end for the age of paper grades, report cards, and F’s artfully edited into B’s at Western. Albemarle County Public Schools enabled parental access to Parent Portal, an application that allows parents to track students’ attendance and grades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Garden: High on Hydrangeas</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/04/in-the-garden-high-on-hydrangeas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[April 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the Garden]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Charles Kidder Sometimes I just can’t resist the goofy alliteration that most gardening magazines stoop to for their cover teases. Perhaps I could try “Heavenly Hydrangeas.” But, enough already. Let’s just talk about the plant. Hydrangeas conveniently go by the same name in both common usage and scientific terms. The only difficulty arises when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette Vet: Pollen Primer</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/04/gazette-vet-pollen-primer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[April 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gazette Vet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[allergies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DVM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Andersen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pollen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. John Andersen, DVM We Virginians are blessed with extraordinary spring seasons each year and this year seems particularly beautiful to me. I get great pleasure stepping out on my patio each morning and observing everything coming back to life. Daffodils, tulips, and bluebells are in bloom along with dogwood, cherry, and redbud trees. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secrets of the Blue Ridge: Fill &#8216;er Up</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/04/secrets-of-the-blue-ridge-fill-er-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[gas stations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Phil James When Service Was the Hallmark “There’s more to running a business than the ring of the cash register,” Bob Crickenberger stated recently. The comment was a result of his many decades of polite and professional service to the traveling public. The community surrounding Ivy Esso (Exxon) Servicecenter, as well as motorists on [...]]]></description>
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