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Newspaper
The Gaston Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 2002
Page
1
The Gaston Gazette provides phone, web, and email contacts for newsroom and advertising, plus staff roles and service notes. It includes delivery support numbers, subscription payment guidance, postal info, copyright notice, and a 123rd year designation with 106 pages across 10 sections.
Local historian Robert A. Ragan continues a series on Gaston County Civil War regiments. The Gaston Guards organized at Dallas in 1861 under Capt Elias M. Faires. many local families are named among the volunteers. The unit served as Company H, Thirteenth then Twenty Third North Carolina, with leaders including Hill and Ratchford and numerous non commissioned officers. The troops headed to Richmond, then Manassas, witnessing early Civil War combat and the birth of the Stonewall Jackson legend.
Hollywood figures praise director Stanley Donen as ASC announces Feb 17 Board of Governors award. Donen’s credits include Singin in the Rain Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Funny Face and Damn Yankees. Broadway revival of Oklahoma! opens March 21 at Gershwin Theatre with Trevor Nunn directing and Susan Stroman choreographing.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plans a proclamation for Muhammad Ali to mark his 60th birthday on January 17. Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke called it an appropriate tribute to his accomplishments and character amid renewed public attention from the film Ali.
The fragment references AccuWeather data with coastal winds of 10 to 20 knots from the southwest today and northwest later, plus a stray note about a 1983 temperature anomaly. It mentions Albemarle Pamlico Sound and a distant Atlanta low, but the readable content is fragmentary and lacks a coherent event.
A winter weather advisory is in effect this morning as a mix of rain and freezing rain changes to all rain this afternoon. Highs reach the mid 30s with cloudy skies. Tonight will be mostly cloudy with lows near 30. Monday looks mostly cloudy with a chance of a few flurries and highs in the upper 30s. WSOC-TV n13.
Orlando Bloom explains he read The Lord of the Rings and studied the scripts to keep scenes from all three films in order. The Fellowship of the Ring is in theaters, with The Two Towers and The Return of the King planned for December 2002 and 2003 releases.
On January 6 2002 readers are reminded of historical events tied to this day. Notable items include Joan of Arc birth in 1412 and Washington marrying Martha Custis in 1759. Other milestones cover Morse demonstrations in 1838 New Mexico statehood in 1912 Roosevelt death in Oyster Bay in 1919 and the Deckhouse Five operation in 1967.
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