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The Kingston Springs Gazette is here to spotlight the stories that matter most to our community. Our new column, Word on the Street, features updates about our neighbors, local businesses and important events. Check out the Word on the Street for May 31 below. Do you have a bite-size piece
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“I sing the body electric,” said Walt Whitman. “I sing the body figurative,” says me. So stick with me. Have you ever noticed how many figures of speech — comparisons and descriptions — are based on parts of our bodies? Well I have. And because I have copious spare time and no
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As befits a romper room rock star, Velvet (“Miss Velvet”) Collier concluded her 25-year reign as the “Storytime lady” April 24 at the Kingston Springs Library to a packed house of young enthusiasts and their grateful parents. Well before the program started, pre-schoolers were roaming inquisitively around the room, many
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Addresses alone seldom convey a sense of splendor and majesty. Oh, sure, there's some glitter attached to “10 Downing Street” and “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” but that's about it. While it may take a “heap o' livin'” to make a house a home, it just
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The Kingston Springs Gazette is here to spotlight the stories that matter most to our community. Our new column, Word on the Street, features updates about our neighbors, local businesses and important events. Check out the Word on the Street for May 3 below. Do you have a bite-size piece
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In spite of being terrified of speaking in public, I've always been drawn to acting and stage production, partly by the actual performances, of course, but mostly by the nuts and bolts involved in bringing a play to opening night. I'm kind of like the circus
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The Kingston Springs Gazette is here to spotlight the stories that matter most to our community. Our new column, Word on the Street, features updates about our neighbors, local businesses and important events. Check out the Word on the Street for April 5 below. Do you have a bite-size piece
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The concept of the “butterfly effect” is that a small stimulus — say the flapping of a butterfly's wings — can with time, distance and accretion result in a large consequence — say a tornado. Ray Brack was our family's butterfly. Between 1960 and 1970, I had taught writing,
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The ARK Community and Resource Center is building a community garden in the green space behind SKYKING Pizza on Main Street. ARK director, Mike Turpin, is partnering with local Whitney Gorbett, the founder of Woven Philanthropy, to connect the community to the project. The duo has also built out two
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I don't know how I came to love words more than material objects. But that's how the cards fell. To me, words were palpable. I could pick them up, hold them to my ear, twist and turn them this way and that until I got just
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Whenever some guy boasts that he's “gone outside” his “comfort zone” to deliberately risk life and limb, my instinctive response is “Better you than me.” I did not spend years constructing MY comfort zone (which boasts climate control, cushioned furniture and a well-stocked bar) to depart from it