Remembering Emilie

Remembering Emilie

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Elections, economy biggest stories of 2008

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Woodworking tradition continues at St. John's Abbey

Woodworking tradition continues at St. John's Abbey

With the woodworking shop’s air sweet with sawdust, Brother Christopher Fair, 39, pointed to a square piece of oak being worked on a plane. ...

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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

We begin this New Year, 2009, with a little more pessimism than we have known in years past. Many people both here and throughout the country have...
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