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From grief to gift: New Glarus airman’s death sparks travel awards for service members

How to help Donations to the Ben Jackson Foundation may be made online at benjacksonfoundation.org. Checks may be sent to: The Ben Jackson Foundation, W5327 Windmill Ridge Road, New Glarus, WI 53574. To apply for a travel award, visit benjacksonfoundation.org/apply. For … Continue reading

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Southwest won’t charge passengers to change planes to avoid the Boeing 737 Max

Botched your tax withholding in 2018? It’s about to get more… The IRS is about to release a new draft of Form W-4, which will more closely reflect the changes stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. For workers, … Continue reading

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A Lesson From 1930s Germany: Beware State Control of Social Media

Read: It’s time to regulate the internet Radio was different. Radio only became central to Nazi aims after Hitler was elected chancellor in January 1933, but Goebbels quickly exercised power over the medium, because the state already controlled its infrastructure … Continue reading

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Phil Julian Hoon – Yakima Herald

Valley Hills Funeral Home Phil Julian Hoon was a Yakima Valley guy. Born in Buena in 1929 he spent the early years of his life living among family and friends. He pursued fishing, hunting and sometimes working in fruit orchards … Continue reading

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Remembering the time that Farmington was ‘bombed’

Jon Cozean holds up a picture of a B-24 bomber. Article source: https://dailyjournalonline.com/news/local/remembering-the-time-that-farmington-was-bombed/article_4e3be010-45bd-530d-923b-f216b46e14f1.html

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West Bexar County man, 71, accused of shooting, killing wife during argument identified

BEXAR COUNTY, Texas – UPDATE: The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect accused of shooting and killing his wife as Louis Joseph Benevento, 71. A mugshot has not yet been released.  The Medical Examiner’s Office idenified the 62-year-old victim as … Continue reading

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Wood | In the skies above Eastern Oregon | Columnists

From a very early age, I have been interested in — or perhaps more correctly stated, enthralled by — airplanes. My grade school drawing-doodles were frequently rudimentary depictions of the “dogfight” scenes (much of which was actual archival footage) I … Continue reading

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