Full Range of Activities for the Kids
Front Royal offers a six week Summer in the Parks program by the Recreation Department. About 100 children ages 5 through 12 participate for 50 cents daily at five playgrounds with games arts and crafts. Field trips include the local pet shop fire station library radio station Skyline Caverns Shenandoah sites and Deer Point camps.
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Front Royal
Front Royal Recreation Department
Judith Wellman
Bing Crosby Stadium
Chimney Field
Hill Street
Front
Short Sts
Kerfoot Ave
U.S. Customs
AIFLD
Miss Wellman
Property Tax Cut Takes Effect In California
Prop 13 cuts California property taxes by more than half totaling about 7 billion dollars and took effect Saturday. Lawmakers consider pass back plans to give savings to tenants but critics warn against rent control. Local governments receive state surplus funds to offset budget shortfalls, with schools counties and special districts facing smaller cuts.
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Sacramento
Calif
Bedford Elects First Black Mayor and First Woman Vice Mayor
Bedford city council over the weekend elected Russell Otey as mayor and Gertrude Thaxton as vice mayor, marking the first black mayor and the first woman in the vice mayor role. Other cities named new leaders including Henry Marsh III in Richmond and Newport News voting new mayors and vice mayors.
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Virginia
Bedford
Russell Otey
Lynchburg
Bernard Saunders
Gertrude Thaxton
Richmond
Henry L. Marsh III
G. Stevenson Kemp
Charles Vornum
Martha Ailer
Hampton
T. Melvin Butler
Newport News
Joseph Ritchie
Ritchie
William F. Haskins
Haskins
Jessie Rattley
Richard Gordon
Bristol
John Brown
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Star
Winchester Evening Star
Clay
Susan Burke
The
California Apartment Association
Betty Gwiardon
Vugans
Bryarly & Louthank
Rouls Ave
Breggett
Cora
Dacron
Mercedes
Loudoun St. Mall
Winchester
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