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Newspaper
The Gaston Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 2002
Page
2
The Gaston Gazette announces its 123rd year, issue No. 121, 6 sections and 38 pages. Contact numbers for delivery issues and newsroom, with notes on mail subscriptions, carrier independence, and copyright disclosures.
The Gaston Gazette states it strives for accuracy and will publish corrections in this column. Readers are invited to report mistakes by contacting the newsroom.
Barbara Voorhees recalls her mother’s strict but devoted piano driven tutoring that started at age five and evolved into a family passion. She details early singing, reading music, and instrument lessons for sisters Lois and Jean, who pursued piano violin cello and orchestra. The piece celebrates enduring family musical achievement and cites the Glenn Foundation executive director.
TLC plans a fourth album and ongoing performances without replacing Lisa Lopes who died in a Honduran car crash. Rotonda Thomas and manager Bill Diggins confirm no new member. Lopes would have turned 31 next May. Funeral set in Lithonia as band notes Lopes contributed to several tracks on the upcoming release.
Film critic Roger Ebert slipped on a waxed floor in the University of Illinois student union and sustained hairline fractures in his left shoulder while attending the Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign. He completed the festival with his arm in a sling. Earlier, he had thyroid cancer surgery.
In Gretna Louisiana Judge Martha Sassone revoked rapper C-Murder s two million dollar bond after prosecutors alleged he tried to hire friends to harm witnesses in his second degree murder trial. Corey Miller known as C-Murder is accused of killing 16 year old Steve Thomas at a Harvey nightclub on January 12.
New York ABC will devote all programming on September 11 to marking the attacks with Good Morning America at 7 a.m. and a prime time minute by minute reconstruction. David Westin called it a major news event and stressed restrained, heavily contextual coverage without graphic images. NBC and CBS are considering plans.
A warm front will move through by lunchtime, breaking clouds. Expect heat and humidity this afternoon with highs in the low 80s. Tonight under fair skies, lows fall to the mid 60s. South Pass City WY.
May 1 marks events from Mozart premiering The Marriage of Figaro in 1786 to Amtrak's 1971 service launch and Elvis and Priscilla's Las Vegas wedding in 1967. Notable 20th century moments include the 1960 U-2 shootdown, 1931 Empire State Building dedication, Citizen Kane premiere, North Korea founding, and Pope John Paul II beatifying Edith Stein.
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