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1. appreciate the return of fall. Fog in the morning, mostly sunny with temps in the mid-60s and you won’t notice the light breeze from Avon. 2. think about the confluence of three important cultural events that happened 36 years ago today. Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham. Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd [...]

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Dating back to earliest times, we may not have been fast, but we could run long. According to the book, “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall, even when weaponless, early men could run a deer to defenseless exhaustion and then feed the family. A Kenyan breezing through a marathon can show how those untiring genes [...]

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The name of Koombana Bay’s newest dolphin calf was announced on Sunday after a competition run in conjunction with the South Western Times. Picture: City of Bunbury Mayor David Smith and Dolphin Discovery Centre chief executive officer David Kerr with the winner of the dolphin naming competition Emilee Christie. Bridgetown’s Emilee Christie wonthe competition and [...]

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— Julie York birthed the idea for the Chickasha Chicken run for Cystic Fibrosis Research after her daughter became friends with a young woman named Dani Dyer, who suffers from the disease. she later found out that a friend in her church had lost her daughter to CF as well. This newfound awareness inspired her [...]

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Alec MacGillis is a senior editor at The New Republic. The Tea Party movement had not yet fully impinged on the nation’s consciousness when Rick Perry stepped to the podium outside Austin City Hall on April 15, 2009, to speak at a tax-day protest. Wearing a big “DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS” pin, a black baseball [...]

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Please join us in welcoming local Mom & blogger, Rebecca Bromels to the blog today. We’re very excited to have her share this post with us. Like many parents, I’ve been feeling increasingly house-bound this summer because of the record heat.  My son Henry, an energetic and sociable 1 year-old, can only run back and forth from [...]

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When you run outside you are risking that your knees or heels will take injury. many runners, like marathon runners, experience these kind of problems all the time. But there is a solution to avoid heel and knee injury. When you have finished reading this article you will know what technique can help you avoid [...]

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