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Wakefield Reflects
On Long Career

By Martha Slater
     Dave Wakefield says that the best thing and the worst thing about working for himself were the same thing.
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Service People

     Navy Seaman Recruit Heather L. Cole, daughter of Diane E. and Lenn M. Cole of South Royalton, recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Cole is a 2007 graduate of South Royalton High School.
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Multi-media Artist Clara Gilman
Turns 85, But Doesn’t Slow Down

By Cornelia Cesari
     She scoffs at the praise, according to her daughter Rhoda Ackerman, but artist Clara Gilman’s work speaks for itself. Its sheer breadth of media—quilts, hooked and loomed rugs, stained glass, copper-punching, wooden furniture, toys and carved figures—seems impossible.
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Billings and Crockett Win Again!
By Martha Slater
     Gail Billings of Beanville Road in Randolph, and her ox, Crockett, recently took the top prize for the best single ox on the fairgrounds at the Fryeburg Fair in Fryeburg, Maine for the second year in a row.
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Smithsonian To Include Muhly
Among Its ‘Young Innovators’

     Rumor is that Nico Muhly, a 26-year-old composer with Randolph roots, will be included in a special issue of Smithsonian Magazine, "America’s Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences: 37 under 36."
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Johnson Comes to the Rescue Of Stranded Travelers at Coburn’s
By John Freitag
  
     This summer Brian Johnson of Strafford was one of the main workers putting together the new dock at the Lions Club Pond, and recently, he was the one who came to the rescue of a couple from Texas who were stranded at Coburn’s Store.
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