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Sooner or later the people of Iraq will begin to equate the so-called “resistance” with the misery that’s plagued that country during the reign and recent fall of Saddam Hussein. The resistance in Iraq, regardless of its size and organization, has one goal. To evict the United States and impose its will on the people…
Last week’s stormy weather didn’t have a lot of good things going for it, but it did bring into focus one aspect of modern life that only became more obvious because of some things that did not work well, rather than those that did. In some key respects (perhaps even life-or-death ways) it came down…
Manassas Park resident Lisandro Jimenez would take his family to today’s Town Hall Workshop, but his father wouldn’t understand. “He speaks English, but doesn’t understand that much,” Jimenez said of his native Spanish speaking father. “That might be the reason he’d say ‘I don’t want to go’.” Other than the language barrier, Jimenez said it’s…
It’s been nearly five years since county supervisors got serious with ATV and dirt bike riders by putting teeth in county no trespassing laws. At the time, residents were complaining about the bike races conducted south of Dumfries in a lot between the north and south bound lanes of U.S. 1. Discussions among county supervisors…
s Teresa Giltner said she had never sewn a stitch in her life before September. After the 9-11 attacks, Giltner said the idea of a commemorative quilt struck her and stuck in her mind. She couldnt shake the vision. “I saw how I wanted it made,” she said. “After Sept. 11, everybody was giving blood…
Starting this week, a new book club, “Central Reads,” will meet at 1 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month to discuss contemporary fiction. The title under discussion on Wednesday will be “St. Dale” by Sharyn McCrumb. A busload of unlikely traveling companions begins a modern-day pilgrimage to honor the memory of NACSCAR champion…