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LUCERNE, Calif. – An outpouring of community support that included good ideas and a great deal of enthusiasm led to the Board of Supervisors' unanimous vote to purchase the historic Lucerne Hotel on Tuesday.

By RYAN E. SMITH BLADE STAFF WRITER Staff Sgt. Travis Grime didn't become a Marine so he could sit at home. "I joined because I wanted to go over and cause death and destruction," he said. But after a seven-month tour in Iraq five years ago as a heavy equipment operations chief, that's exactly where the Maumee man found himself: home. It wasn't easy for the rough-and-tumble guy. His employer had ...

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Oley Valley students could sleep an extra 45 minutes a day, if a school board member's suggestion is approved. Dr. Robert J. Cappa, chairman of the board's policy committee, proposed at a meeting Wednesday that district schools move back their start times by 45 minutes.

The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, or BRIC bloc of countries, represent 40 percent of the world’s population and together, a growing economic force. Throughout the next six weeks, Chris Devonshire-Ellis will travel to the four BRIC nations to observe the impact these nations are having on one another, and the impact they are having on the world. In this first article he focuses on the biggest economy of the four, China. By Chris Devonshire-Ellis BEIJING, Sept. 30 –