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<title>Officer succumbs to injuries from accident
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<description><![CDATA[A Prince George&#39;s County police officer and Bowie resident has died from injuries sustained in an accident Feb. 27, while responding to back up officers.
Patrolman 1st Class Thomas Jensen was responding to assist other officers on a breaking and entering in progress call when his cruiser hit a p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bowie pet lovers argue for a city animal shelter
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<description><![CDATA[Dreams of the Bowie government building a modern animal shelter in the city might have been dashed for the time being.
Despite passionate, emotional pleas from a packed room full of animal advocates, council members indicated that a new facility is not a cost-efficient endeavor.&quot;People in Bowie...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bowie officer shoots dog after being attacked multiple times
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<description><![CDATA[A Bowie police officer shot a dog on London Lane March 8, after the dog got away from its owner and bit the officer.
Bowie police were dispatched to a call for a lost property report in the 14800 block of London Lane at 7:50 p.m. As the officer approached the residence, the dog, a German shepherd we...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Tougher gang legislation could be on the way
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<description><![CDATA[Delegate Gerron Levi (23A), representing Bowie and Glenn Dale, introduced legislation to strengthen Maryland&#39;s gang prosecution laws enacted in 2007, which according to prosecutors across the state, is not working. &quot;We have not had a single successful gang prosecution under the law to date,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Jonathan Nolon: &#39;a leader by example, a true role model&#39;
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<description><![CDATA[A role model to so many, 16-year-old Jonathan Nolon, a Bowie High School student with an infectious smile, was laid to rest Monday in Resurrection Cemetery in Clinton after a memorial service at The Life Church in Camp Springs that drew more than 400 people.
Jonathan died suddenly Feb. 18 during a w...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>&#39;Am I Done Yet&#39; An essay by Jonathan Nolon
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;Mommy am I done yet?&quot; or &quot;I really, really don&#39;t want to read today.&quot; This was what I found myself saying a lot when I was younger. Like any typical five-year-old, I loved running around, playing really just being bad, but at that age who didn&#39;t? When this happened I did...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>City Briefs
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<description><![CDATA[Search for treasure
The city of Bowie has partnered with the Maryland Geocaching Society to offer a new trail activity for its park users. It&#39;s called geocaching, which is a high-tech treasure hunt using a handheld GPS unit. Geocachers hide small &quot;treasures&quot; in containers (called &quot...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Flying in friendlier skies: Car salesman becomes auto pilot
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<description><![CDATA[Car salesmen have the reputation of being &quot;Wheelers and Dealers&quot; doing whatever is necessary to get a customer to buy a car.
A local car salesman lived up to that reputation recently; however, it had nothing to do with selling a car.Instead it was to help a 91-year-old World War II veteran...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>BHS athlete collapses, dies in school gym
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<description><![CDATA[Bowie High School last week lost one of its prized possessions: a student.
Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Nolon collapsed and died while participating in volunteer football training activities Feb. 18. The football team was running laps in the gymnasium and Nolon fell to the ground and was unconscious. L...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Buried hydrant hampers house fire rescue efforts
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<description><![CDATA[A 16-year-old Ukraine exchange student got a little more than an American education Feb. 18.
The student, staying with a family on Maureen Lane, was awakened at 3:30 in the morning by the feeling of intense heat and noticed that her bedroom was on fire.The homeowner and her 18-year-old daughter were...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Delete
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<description><![CDATA[&quot; ... today gave me a reminder that tomorrow isn&#39;t promised today ... life is too short (for) grudges and/or beefs (and) not tellin&#39; those u care about how u feel ... so to all of my loved ones [ily] ... R.I.P. Jonathan Nolon [we weren&#39;t close but u were a kool kid]&quot;&quot;r.i....]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Knights of Columbus honors public safety workers
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<description><![CDATA[&quot;This event is our way of saying thank you and to recognize those special men and women representing our public safety agencies that protect us, our families and our community every hour, every day.&quot;
This was the introduction by Andrew Jacobson, grand knight of the Knights of Columbus Sacr...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>George Washington makes appearance at special Senate session
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<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters was selected by Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller to present a special address in the State House Monday evening, to all 47 members of the Senate delegation.
In the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, the oldest Senate room in the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>City Briefs
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<description><![CDATA[Census 2010
The Community Outreach Committee&#39;s Census kickoff event will be held Saturday at 9 a.m. at City Hall. &quot;Movers and Shakers&quot; have been invited to represent their groups, organizations, businesses and schools at this event. Information and ideas will be shared with these commu...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bowie still digging out of record-breaking snowstorm
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<description><![CDATA[Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
This famed line, commonly misidentified as the creed of mail carriers, went out the window after the winter storms of 2010. (Note: The line is actually just the inscription fou...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Blizzard buries Bowie
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<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of memorable things that people of Bowie have stored in their memory banks about the city. In 2001 one of the Sept. 11 terrorists took flying lessons at Freeway Airport. In 2002 a student at Benjamin Tasker Middle School was shot by John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. sniper, and for Dotti...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bowie Cares: Concert for Haiti still a go
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<description><![CDATA[On the heels of the miraculous news of a survivor being pulled from the wreckage almost a month after the first earthquake, plans continue to move forward for the upcoming Bowie Cares: heart 2 heart II event Sunday, Feb. 28.
Additions to the roster of performers include local singing duo Shir Joy, l...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bowie mom, attorney facing new reality; &#39;Amazing Race&#39; starts Sunday
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<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s amazing! This story really is about race.
There are millions who claim to have traveled the world. There are those who even promise themselves they will one day visit &quot;this&quot; country or &quot;that&quot; country. But then there are those people who just cannot refuse the old-fashion...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Ciy Briefs
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<description><![CDATA[Hall of Honor
The Hall of Honor is the city of Bowie&#39;s way of honoring those who have made major and lasting contributions to the city. Nominees to the Hall of Honor must be deceased for at least one year as of the nomination deadline. Contributions made to Prince George&#39;s County as a whole,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Polar Bear Plunge a real freeze-for-all
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<description><![CDATA[The weather may have been even too cold for some polar bears Saturday at the 14th annual Polar Bear Plunge at Sandy Point State Park.
The event, founded and sponsored by the Maryland State Police, is intended to raise money for the Maryland Special Olympics. The plunge is the state&#39;s most succes...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Former teacher pleads guilty to sex abuse
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<description><![CDATA[A former physical education teacher from Harford County pleaded guilty Jan. 27 to one count of sexual solicitation of a minor involving a 14-year-old boy from Bowie. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree sex offense involving another 14-year-old boy.
Harford County Circuit Court Jud...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>City Briefs 
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<description><![CDATA[Census 2010
Bowie&#39;s Community Outreach Committee is planning a Census kickoff event Saturday, snow date Feb. 13, at 9 a.m. at the Town Center&#39;s food court. &quot;Movers and Shakers&quot; have been invited to represent their groups, organizations, businesses and schools. Information and ideas...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Upcoming fund raiser could be hope for mother in coma
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<description><![CDATA[Having a baby is supposed to be a happy occasion, shared with family and friends.
That happiness quickly turned to despair for grandparents-to-be Dorian and Michelle Thomas July 21, 2009, when their daughter Dorielle, 18, incurred complications during delivery of her baby, leaving her in a coma.Dori...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Mayor says Bowie remains state standard bearer
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<description><![CDATA[The outlook remains sunny for the city of Bowie even though the forecast for the rest of the state is seemingly dreary and gloomy, Mayor G. Frederick Robinson said during his annual State of the City address at the Bowie Golf and Country Club Monday.
&quot;Bowie folks know more than most that life i...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Master plan for Allen Pond Park nears completion
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<description><![CDATA[Allen Pond Park will get more picnic and play areas in addition to more parking and vehicular access in the latest version of the long-term plan to renovate the aging park.
However, iconic landmarks such as the park&#39;s amphitheater and the island gazebo will probably remain as is.Lardner/Klein La...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>32-year law enforcement veteran seeks to be new sheriff in town
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<description><![CDATA[A Bowie resident with 32 years of law enforcement experience has officially kicked off his campaign to become the next sheriff of Prince George&#39;s County.
Rafael Hylton, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, 25-year county police veteran and currently a Prince George&#39;s County deputy sheriff where he h...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Levi runs for county executive
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<description><![CDATA[Del. Gerron Levi (District 23), who represents Bowie, has become the first candidate to enter the race for Prince George&#39;s County Executive.
&quot;For the last 60 or so days, I have been actively exploring a run for county executive,&quot; she said. &quot;After consulting with family, friends, c...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Valentino-Smith vies for Levi&#39;s position with House of Delegates
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<description><![CDATA[As Delegate Gerron Levi announces her intention to run for the office of Prince George&#39;s County Executive, Bowie City Councilwoman Geraldine Valentino-Smith has announced her own intention to run for the seat vacated by Levi in the Maryland House of Delegates.
&quot;I have decided to enter the r...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>City worker has taxing experience
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<description><![CDATA[A truck owned by the City of Bowie Parks and Grounds Division crashed through the front of a store in Bowie Plaza Jan. 14.
At approximately 8:40 a.m., a city employee parked the truck in front of the CVS store in the 6800 block of Laurel-Bowie Road, exited the truck and entered the CVS. The employee...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Barricade incident creates issues in neighborhood
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<description><![CDATA[A barricade incident involving a suicidal man caused headaches for neighbors and created some traffic problems Jan 14.
Bowie police received a call at 12:30 p.m. to check on the welfare of a man in the 4000 block of Emerald Way, who was despondent over divorce proceedings, according to police report...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Share your Levitt history
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<description><![CDATA[In May 2000, the George Washington University Graduate School conducted a study of the Levitt Corp. development concept represented by its construction of Belair at Bowie, and it was a study that has gone on to raise interest in Levitt construction all over the world.
And in just a few months, the p...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A Bowie man and World War II U.S. Naval Air Force veteran, through his persistence and diligence, has paved the way for other military veterans - literally.
Alvin Clark, 86, noticed in June 2006, while entering the Veterans Cemetery in Cheltenham, that the entryway was in poor condition and had seve...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Major Allen Pond Park renovations could soon begin
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<description><![CDATA[Two drastically different visions of a renovated Allen Pond Park that increases parking but eliminates the popular paddle boats and access to the pond&#39;s iconic island were presented to Bowie residents Tuesday night.
City park officials and landscape consultants laid out a couple of plans for cit...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A traffic accident Jan. 5 has claimed the life of a Bowie man. Ben E. Singleton, 68, of the 17000 block of Longleaf Drive, was killed in an accident in Centreville, according to Maryland State Police.
The accident occurred on Southbound Route 301 at Maryland Route 304/Ruthsburg Road at 5:42 p.m. Upo...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Kelly Pierce returns as GBCC&#39;s executive director
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<description><![CDATA[After a 10-month hiatus to handle family matters, Kelly Pierce is back as executive director of the Greater Bowie Chamber of Commerce.
She replaces Jan Butler, who resigned at the end of December.Pierce, who first served as executive director in 2005, then left in February 2009 to take care of some...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Son, 21, assaults father on Christmas morning
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<description><![CDATA[Early Christmas morning, Bowie police responded to a residence in the 14000 block of Dolphin Way for a report of an assault in progress.
When officers arrived on the scene, they observed an adult male suffering from injuries to his forearm and head.According to the victim, he and his son had a verba...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Another year has come and gone in Bowie
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<description><![CDATA[As we turn the page on another year, there are many things that 2009 will be remembered for. Each person will have memories, good and bad, happy and sad, personal and global.
There were many events that although they made headlines locally and nationally, most likely didn&#39;t affect us too persona...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Smaller papers, but still big news - that could be the motto for 2009 when it comes to the Bowie Blade-News, and community publications across the country such as this one.
The recession, the economy, the real estate market, and a host of other factors (Internet, anyone?) have all contributed to wha...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oh, the weather outside is frightful....
And it snowed, and it snowed, and it snowed some more Saturday, crippling the city in the white fluffy stuff.According to several Web sites, the average city in the United States is hit with approximately 25.2 inches of snow per year. The same reports say tha...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Bowie Florist, located in Whitehall Shopping Center on Laurel-Bowie Road since the 1960s, reopened its doors for business Dec. 14 after a fire destroyed the business Feb. 15. Fire investigators believed the cause to be attributed to a computer and estimates put the loss in excess of $50,000.
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Some Bowie residents have expressed a concern about the recently installed &quot;Quick Curb&quot; in front of the entrance to the city of Bowie Public Works on Annapolis Road just west of Route 3.
Leslie Chrisner, a longtime Bowie resident and regular traveler on Annapolis Road, was surprised to see...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A film production company, Beaver Dam Productions, based out of Bowie, is reel-ly excited right now.
&quot;Law &amp; Disorder,&quot; their first feature film, won the Best Feature Award at the 2009 Pare Lorentz International Film Festival last weekend.The screenplay, written by Ken Beaver, is an ada...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Holiday safety tips for shopping, the road and home
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<description><![CDATA[Tis the season for enjoying time with family and friends and being smart and safe, both at home and while out, will make the time spent with loved ones even more enjoyable.
Although the Grinch was a fictional character who was determined to ruin the holidays for the people of Whoville, there are som...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bowie all aglow with winners in annual Holiday House Decorating Contest
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<description><![CDATA[A very illuminating tradition continues its popularity in Bowie this time of year.
The winners of the City of Bowie&#39;s annual Holiday House Decorating Contest have been announced, and to make your holidays even brighter, check out the list of winners (information provided by Matt Corley, special...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>The Buffalo Soldiers: U.S. and Bowie history in the making
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<description><![CDATA[Albert Curley II has a story he&#39;d like to tell.
And it&#39;s a story so many probably haven&#39;t heard before, a story that so many need to hear.Curley&#39;s father is one of the last surviving original Buffalo Soldiers, serving in the 9th Horse Cavalry.Although he learned to fight from horseba...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>South Bowie library set to open in 2011
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<description><![CDATA[The new 44,000-square-foot south Bowie branch of the county library system will be opening in a couple of years, county and city officials announced.
County Executive Jack Johnson and County Council members Ingrid Turner and Samuel Dean joined city and library officials Tuesday morning for the groun...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Local teen receives no jail time in gun case
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<description><![CDATA[Dec. 4, 2008, Clyde Tyrone Smalls III, then 18, was a senior at Bowie High School. A school security officer observed Smalls and another student involved in drug activity. While escorting Smalls to the front office, Smalls ran from the security officer and exited the school.
As security personnel ch...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Prominent restaurateur, thoroughbred owner, Harry Karukas dies at 82
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<description><![CDATA[A prominent member of the Bowie community from the 1960s through the 1980s and former owner of the Bowie Inn, Harry Karukas, died Thanksgiving day at the age of 82 of heart failure after complications from a surgical procedure to repair a broken hip.
Karukas began his career in the food business at...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Service station closing after nearly 50 years
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<description><![CDATA[Since 1962 there has been a gas station at the intersection of Stonybrook Drive and Annapolis Road. In 1982 the station was bought by Dick Arnold, who operated it until 2004 when Kathy and Jim Sood, Arnold&#39;s daughter and son-in-law, took over the operation.
Nov. 30, 47 years later, the last soda...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 1962 there has been a gas station at the intersection of Stonybrook Drive and Annapolis Road. In 1982 the station was bought and operated by Dick Arnold, until 2004 when Kathy and Jim Sood, Arnold&#39;s daughter and son-in-law, took over the operation.
Nov. 30, 47 years later, the last sodas a...]]></description>
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