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		<title>Henley Students Head to Destination ImagiNation Global Finals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After winning honors in regional and state tournaments, three Henley Middle School teams have earned the right to travel to Destination ImagiNation’s Global Finals—the largest creative thinking and problem solving competition in the world—to be held May 23-26 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Destination ImagiNation, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides educational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Plantings Aim to Produce Blight-resistant Chestnut Trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Chestnuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jack Marshall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some 160 sprouted American Chestnut nuts were planted in a deer-fenced field on the Fried Farm in Brown’s Cove April 7, part of a effort by the American Chestnut Foundation to breed an American Chestnut with the blight-resistance of a Chinese Chestnut. The American Chestnut was once the dominant tree in America’s eastern forests, numbering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open House at Crozet Park May 5 Marks YMCA Debut</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[May 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claudius Crozet Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crozet Gators]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[grand opening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthy Kids Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Maslaney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Crozet Park Aquatics and Recreation Center, alias Crozet P.A.R.C., a joint venture of The Piedmont Family Y.M.C.A. and Claudius Crozet Park, will showcase its programs for western Albemarle Saturday, May 5, when the YMCA hosts a special open house event at the park from 2 until 5 p.m. Tours of the renovated facility will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Batesville Store Location Reopens As Plank Road Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[May 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aris Cuadra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batesville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batesville Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[country store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crozet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Cuadra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kathy Johnson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plank Road Exchange]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kathy Johnson What do a Brontosaurus, a Buffalo Bird, a Fuhgeddaboudit and an Asian Persuasion have in common?  They are all among the new signature sandwiches available at the Plank Road Exchange, a café/market, that opened on April 21 in downtown Batesville. The “soft opening” at the location of the old and popular Batesville [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: Tea Party Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Pesch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tea Party Defense Jefferson Area Tea Party (JATP) policy is that when we encounter untruths, misconceptions, and baseless comments about us, we respond to clarify the record in the interest of truth and to educate the public about our mission. Such is the case with comments made by John Douglass, U.S. Congress Democrat hopeful, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: The Academics of Play</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/05/letter-to-the-editor-the-academics-of-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 02:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Albemarle County Public Shools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alliance for Childhood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Academics of Play This letter supports the petition (www.ipetitions.com/petition/increase-acps-kindergarten-recessplaytime) to increase recess/playtime in Albemarle County kindergarten classrooms. Currently the Board Handbook, page 20, states: “Elementary students have a total of 30 minutes of recess per day.” The question is not whether or not kindergarten teachers teach playfully. Our kindergarten teachers are masters in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Editor: U.S.A.: Under Surveillance Always</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/05/from-the-editor-u-s-a-under-surveillance-always/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Homeland Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Marshall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S.A.: Under Surveillance Always We’ve gotten used to cameras watching us in banks and some stores. We know the government records our phone calls and has the originals of our text messages and emails archived. We know web browsers record every click and keystroke we make so that their knowledge of us will ultimately be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babe Ruth Baseball Holds Its Opening Day in Greenwood</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/05/babe-ruth-baseball-holds-its-opening-day-in-greenwood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babe Ruth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grasshoppers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Greenwood Community Center]]></category>
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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>Storm Water Wetlands Serving  Downtown Crozet Nears Completion</title>
		<link>http://www.crozetgazette.com/2012/05/storm-water-wetlands-serving-downtown-crozet-nears-completion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allie Pesch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crozet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crozet Avenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crozet Master Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Environmental Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Harper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jarmans Gap Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimley-Horn and Associates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Powells Creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivanna River Basin Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storm Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The project to detain and filter storm water falling in the 50-acre watershed that drains most of downtown Crozet is expected to be complete by July. The project on the south end of downtown, begun in December, is converting a triangular section of bottomland along Powell’s Creek into a six-cell wetland that will hold storm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Big Acreage in Eastern Crozet Slated for Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crozet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crozet Master Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Benish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Avenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foothill Crossing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Brooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lickinghole creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Park Ridge Road]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riverside Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shifflett Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westlake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westlake Hills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A plan to build as many as 145 houses on what was formerly the Shifflett Farm, the last large undeveloped acreage in eastern Crozet, was considered at an Albemarle County planning department review meeting April 19 and the plan, dubbed Westlake Hills, has gone back to the drawing board for revision. The by-right plan, one [...]]]></description>
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