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1 week ago | 
256today.com | Emma Martin
DECATUR – Hold onto your helmets and get ready for a day of exhilarating, side-splitting, gravity-powered fun. Decatur is hosting the inaugural Derby Down Bank soapbox race, guaranteed to be an awesome, goofy day for the whole family. Spectators are welcome to witness this event as competitors race against the clock for the fastest time down the course. “We’re beyond excited to bring this unique and hilarious event to Decatur,” said organizer Casey Hughes.
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1 month ago | 
chattanoogapulse.com | Emma Martin
Get ready to look to the skies as the 48th Annual Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic returns to Decatur, Alabama, this Memorial Day Weekend, May 24–25.
Held at Point Mallard Park, this beloved free event is one of the oldest and most colorful ballooning festivals in the South — and it's an experience you won’t want to miss!
Since its start in 1978, the Alabama Jubilee has celebrated the city’s pioneering ballooning spirit.
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2 months ago | 
madame.lefigaro.fr | Emma Martin
Par Emma Martin Publié le 2 avril 2025 à 11h45 Le jogging Adidas n’est plus qu’un simple vêtement de sport. Edward Berthelot / Getty Images Cette pièce mythique de la firme allemande existe depuis plus de soixante ans. Voici comment bien la porter sans tomber dans la ringardise. C’est une pièce tellement emblématique qu’elle en est devenue un basique du vestiaire unisexe, comme le tee-shirt blanc et le jean.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
aporrea.org | Emma Martin
En la búsqueda de nuevas formas sostenibles de generar energía, un equipo de ingenieros del MIT ha desarrollado un método sorprendente y eficiente para producir hidrógeno. Este gas, conocido por ser un combustible limpio y parte fundamental de las energías renovables, ahora puede generarse de una manera completamente nueva: utilizando elementos tan comunes como el aluminio, el agua de mar y los posos de café.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
glaisyers.com | Emma Martin
Why do we keep seeing 10 second news flashes telling us that musician X has just become £500 million richer? What do they mean they’ve sold the rights to their music? What’s changed, and why the sudden trend?
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Emma Martin
Australia boasts one of the world's highest life
expectancies as highlighted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Several factors contribute to this including a developed healthcare
system, public health initiatives and a high standard of living. However, in 2024 dementia was the second leading cause of death in
Australia as documented by Dementia Australia. It is projected that the
number of Australians living with dementia will double by 2054.
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Jan 28, 2024 | 
roanoke.com | Emma Martin
LYNCHBURG — A town hall Thursday night hosted by the Lynchburg chapter of the NAACP was a gathering of community and faith leaders and concerned Hill City residents, who left no empty seats in the Lynchburg Community Action Group building at 1010 Main St. Neighbors expressed fear and outrage over the racist flyers that were recently distributed along Peakland Place and Cabell Street; leaders answered questions about what can and can’t be done to address what many community members say is a...
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
roanoke.com | Emma Martin
LYNCHBURG — In 1934, the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation built a dam on the Blackwater Creek near Lynchburg College — for both flood control and aesthetics — creating a 44.5-acre lake on the campus of what is now the University of Lynchburg. In 2024, Lynchburg will start the process of unmaking College Lake, now less than 17 acres, by removing the city-owned dam, draining the lake and transitioning the resulting lakebed to a wetlands ecosystem.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
roanoke.com | Emma Martin
LYNCHBURG — New survey data indicates staffing vacancies are making it harder to be a police officer in Lynchburg. City staff is thinking about how to fill those vacancies, and keep current officers with the force. Lynchburg Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Specialist Hollie Jennings presented the results of an anonymous survey of LPD officers to Lynchburg City Council at its work session Tuesday.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
godanriver.com | Emma Martin
A Gretna man will serve 25 years in prison for the 2021 shooting death of an Evington man who had been in a relationship with his mother. Matthew Isaac Critchley, 22, was arrested in August 2021 after authorities found Lawrence Keith Taylor dead at his home in Evington. A jury found Critchley guilty of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony after a two-day trial in July.
