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A new American: An elderly man from Peru sets out to become a citizen, with help from a young friendThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:52AMThey sit across from each other at the table. She asks questions. He answers them. "OK, please stand up," Pamela Vanegas says, and Manuel Torres does. "What did I ask you to do."

Varner attends West Virginia Junior Fire AcademyThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:50AMDurbin resident Jessica Varner has the blood of a firefighter in her veins. As daughter of Bartow-Frank-Durbin Volunteer Fire Department's current chief, Buster Varner, Jessica has been around the fire department her entire life and is a junior member of the BFD.

Mad River Valley's 40th craft fair is this weekend with Rotary Duck RaceThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:47AM09/02/2010 The 40th anniversary edition of the Mad River Valley Craft Fair takes place this weekend at Kenyon's Field in Waitsfield, featuring crafts as well as the annual Rotary Duck Race.

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' may become TV seriesThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:42AMWarner Bros. TV is in the midst of acquiring television rights from sister company DC Entertainment and in talks with several writer-producers about adapting the 1990s comic. Neil Gaiman - Warner Bros - Sandman - Television program - Television

Ethel Mae Alexander PropstThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:39AMMrs. Ethel Mae Alexander Propst, 94, of Athens, AL, and formerly of Shelby, NC, passed away Saturday, August 21, 2010. Services were held at Cecil M. Burton Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed in Sunset Cemetery, Shelby.

Wardlaw-Hartridge Senior Brings Hope to Haiti Before and After EarthquakeThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:37AMAngad Dhindsa of Edison, a senior at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School in North Edison, worked during the summer of 2009 and once during spring break in 2010 in a children's hospital named NPH (Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos) Saint Damien Hospital in Haiti.

Obituaries - Sept. 3, 2010Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:35AMZofia D. Bruno , 87, a former Greenwich resident of Storrs and wife of the late John J. Bruno , passed away after a prolonged illness on Aug. 27, 2010.

Starlets help close Ag ShowThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:35AMTHE final day of the 2010 Heritage Ag Show was “wrapped up good” with two special performances from Grafton country music starlets The McClymonts yesterday.

Garfield's band of brothersThursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:32AMThey met in East L.A. in the 1940s and '50s, kids with little in common but a love of sports and a need for friends. Now they feel like family. Jim Birakos came to East Los Angeles from Greece just after World War II, an 8-year-old wearing what his next-door neighbor called lederhosen, so unfamiliar with America that he thought the Spanish he heard on the street was English.