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Graduation day: Veterans receive honorary diplomas

Edsell Gurney Thompson shakes hands with Army Lt. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley WOODSTOCK -- Facing the ultimate multiple-choice question more than 50 years ago, Alvin Irwin chose his country over the completion of his educational journey.
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19th-century goodies, music on menu to honor patriarch

Buckets of ice and lemonade NEW MARKET -- The small crowd spent most of the day playing old tunes on the lawn of an historic home that once shielded an entire family from intense combat during the Civil War
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Battlefield awaits word on tourism certification

NEW MARKET -- Hurry up and wait, New Market Battlefield State Historical Park. Sandra Hicks, the operations manager for Virginia's welcome centers, visited the park Tuesday on behalf of the Virginia Tourism Corp. as part of the process to determine if the site should be certified as a visitors center.
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Frederick schools get history grant

WINCHESTER -- Frederick County Public Schools will receive almost $1 million to improve its instruction of American history for the next three years.
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Battlefield catches eye of tourism corporation

NEW MARKET -- The New Market Battlefield State Historical Park will be hosting some important visitors next week.
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Wheels In Motion

Richard Kleese holds a 48-inch steel wheel STRASBURG -- Planning for a re-enactment of Stonewall Jackson's Great Train Raid of 1861 rolled on Wednesday.
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Panel to use documentary as learning tool

WOODSTOCK -- The small screen is about to help one local group tell the big picture. The Shenandoah County sesquicentennial of the Civil War committee is planning to watch part of filmmaker Ken Burns' documentary on the war to get a better understanding of how people cared for the wounded.
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Proposal could mean demolition of old hotel

WINCHESTER -- The city could lose a piece of its history under a proposal up for consideration Tuesday. The city released documents late Friday afternoon pertaining to the ongoing issue of what to do with the historic, but dilapidated, former Taylor Hotel at 119-129 N. Loudoun St.
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Grants will aid Civil War commemoration

New Market Localities throughout the Northern Shenandoah Valley will receive grants from the Virginia Department of Transportation to fund improvement projects that may promote tourism as the state commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
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Plans to re-enact train raid proceed

STRASBURG -- Planning the partial re-enactment of Stonewall Jackson's Great Train Raid of 1861 may take more time and effort than went into pulling off the original heist.

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