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Smithsonian Channel uses Clear Spring's Plumb Grove Mansion to return to past
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comClear Spring’s Plumb Grove Mansion took on the role of the Lincoln White House during filming Monday and Tuesday for a Civil War-themed documentary for the Smithsonian Channel. The documentary will be a three-part series currently called “...Tags: Biscuits, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization, White House, Abraham Lincoln
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Airline that once served Hagerstown cancels all flights
Direct Air, a small discount airline, abruptly canceled all its flights this week at the peak of spring break, leaving stranded passengers wondering how and when they’ll get home.
There was no word Tuesday on when flights might resume, but the...Tags: Air Transportation Delays, Marketing, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Sweetwater
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Happy birthday, President Lincoln
Located in an honored place in the U.S. Capitol is a monumental bust of Abraham Lincoln. It was sculpted in 1908 from a single block of marble by the artist Gutzon Borglum (1867-1941), best known for his colossal Mount Rushmore sculpture. The Lincoln...Tags: Museums, Arts, Unions, White House, Career and Workplace
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This Christmas gift gives back to Nicholas
kauffman@herald-mail.comMorgan Nicholas’ Christmas gift could give her a world championship in a few short weeks. Nicholas, a 10-year-old girl who lives in Hagerstown, will ride Paradigm Pageantry — a horse her parents, Paul and Heather Nicholas, bought for her last...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Holidays, Animals, Rubber Products Industry, Oklahoma City
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Exhibit will focus on early years and people
Editor's note: This is the 10th in a 12-part series about Washington County Historical Society's founders. In late August, the Washington County Historical Society plans to open a Founders' Exhibit on the many accomplishments of the 29 men and women,...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Companies and Corporations, Executive Branch, Insurance, Politics
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Audrey Elliott Beatty
Audrey Elliott Beatty of Chestertown, Md., died Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, after a long illness. She was unable to stand or walk, and was confined to a wheelchair or bed. She was also unable to eat or swallow. She was born Jan. 31, 1930, on the second-...Tags: Christianity, Methodist, Mount Vernon, Chestertown, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Hagerstown airport adding service to South Carolina, Florida
kate.alexander@herald-mail.comHagerstown Regional Airport will be adding air service to Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Lakeland, Fla., starting June 23, Airport Director Phil Ridenour said Tuesday. Direct Air & Tours of Myrtle Beach, together with Sky King Inc. of Sacramento, Calif., will...Tags: Pittsburgh, Air Transportation, Washington (U.S. state), Companies and Corporations, Travel
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Mail Call - Jan. 21
"It's kind of funny that just the next day after the shooting in Arizona, the leaders of the Tea Party movement got on the blogosphere and starting saying 'The liberals are going to blame us.' Well, no, that didn't happen. But it is kind of strange that...Tags: Firearms, Washington (U.S. state), Executive Branch, California, Politics
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State sets hearing dates for online school proposal
A state commission will hold hearings next month as it determines whether to overrule 18 suburban school districts that rejected a proposal for an online charter school. The hearings — one for each of the 18 districts affected — will take...Tags: Charter Schools, Schools
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DePaul arena part of broader plan to boost Chicago tourism
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is expected to unveil Thursday a $173 million plan to build a 10,000-seat arena for the DePaul Blue Demons next to McCormick Place, couching it as part of a broader blueprint for boosting tourism, much of it to be publicly funded. The...
Tags: University of Chicago, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Rosemont (Cook, Illinois), McCormick Place, Public Officials
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All politicians are alike
Members of Congress and lawmakers in Springfield both seem to share one unique aspect. They all answer to themselves and their benefactors, as opposed to those they are supposed to represent, the citizens of this state and country. Nothing of...Tags: Lombard, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Justice System
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Concealed-carry legislation emerges in Springfield
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD — A bill that would set up the rules to allow concealed weapons to be carried in Illinois has started moving through the state senate. The measure would require a gun owner to get a special endorsement from the Chicago police in...Tags: Kwame Raoul, Firearms, Elections, Interior Policy, Gun Control
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