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<title><![CDATA[Stokes: 'No' to school-land purchase]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Stokes County commissioners did not authorize the purchase of land for a new elementary school or set aside money for school-capital projects at a meeting Monday night. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Place for Nancy ]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[If the Stokes County school board decides to rebuild Nancy Reynolds Elementary School, it will probably have to buy more land.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Land purchase likely needed to rebuild Stokes school]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[WALNUT COVE
If the Stokes County school board decides to rebuild Nancy Reynolds Elementary School, it will probably have to buy additional land.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:26:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[King police charge two with trafficking cocaine]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Working with agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, King police have seized more than two pounds of cocaine and charged a Pinnacle woman and a Winston-Salem  man with trafficking cocaine.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:05:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stokes County school board asks about costs]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/13/board-asks-about-costs/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The Stokes County school board will not vote Monday night on the fate of Nancy Reynolds Elementary School.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hello From Home]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night, Inez Webb drove over to the Stokes Family YMCA to donate blood. Because of a collapsed vein, she wasn't able to do that. Still in the mood to do something to help others, she dropped by a room at the Y where people were making cards to send to soldiers in Iraq.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[School is deemed unfixable]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[It would be impossible to renovate Nancy Reynolds Elementary School, members of the Stokes County Board of Education told community members during a meeting Monday night. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stokes man inverts U.S. flag to protest Obama's election]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A Stokes County man is protesting the election of Barack Obama as president by displaying an upside-down, X-ed out flag on his property.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stokes County man's use of flag to protest Obama election causes stir]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/nov/07/071654/stokes-county-man-use-flag-protest-obama-election-/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A Stokes County man is protesting the election of Barack Obama by mounting an upside-down X-ed out flag on his property.

Tony Heath said he believes that Obama was only elected because of his skin color and that he is not qualified.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:54:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stokes returns Republican incumbent commissioners]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[In the race for two seats on the Stokes Board of County Commissioners, Republican incumbents Leon Inman and Jimmy Walker both kept their seats. Inman was the leading vote-getter with 12,389 votes in complete but unofficial results. Walker had 11,140 votes. Democratic challengers Richard E. Newsome and Zollie Smith had 8,462 votes and 7,115 votes respectively.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:26:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Early voting today extended by 4 hours]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Faced with a state order to hold a meeting or face suspension, members of the Forsyth County Board of Elections voted 2-1 yesterday to extend the hours for early voting to 5 p.m. today.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Gift from the Corps For All: Depression-era program built the parks]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/21/a-gift-from-the-corps-for-all/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Within the bleak landscape of the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps represented a flicker of light for thousands of young men. For Pete Kulynych of Smithmill, Pa., and Marion James of Walnut Cove, the CCC was a lifeline.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stokes wrestles with fate of school]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/20/stokes-wrestles-with-fate-of-school/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The 85 years of history and the community's sense of connection to the Nancy Reynolds school greatly complicates the decision school officials face about what path to take now that the building needs major work. ]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stokes voters face choices]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/19/stokes-voters-face-choices/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In Stokes County, the four candidates for two seats on the Stokes County Board of Commissioners agree that economic development needs to be a top priority.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New chief of police in King starts today]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/17/new-chief-of-police-in-king-starts-today/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Growing up on a tobacco farm, Paula May learned that she didn't want to spend her life raising tobacco.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Court order ousts judge]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/11/court-order-ousts-judge/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The N.C. Supreme Court issued an order yesterday removing Judge Mark Badgett from the bench for misusing his judicial power in a case where he showed bias against a defendant because of his ethnicity.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[State supreme court removes Judge Mark Badgett from bench]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/10/state-supreme-court-removes-judge-mark-badgett-ben/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The N.C. Supreme Court issued an order today removing Judge Mark Badgett from the bench for misusing his judicial power in a case where he showed bias against a defendant because of his ethnicity.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:37:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PART to begin Stokes/Rural Hall service on Monday]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/10/part-begin-stokesrural-hall-service-monday/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation will begin offering express service in Stokes County and Rural Hall on Monday.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fire & Police Briefs: Man charged with hurting 2-year-old]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/oct/02/fire-police-briefs/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A Winston-Salem man was charged with felony child abuse after a child was taken to the hospital in critical condition.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[King hires police chief]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/sep/30/king-hires-police-chief/news-regional-stokes/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[A graduate of Appalachian State University who was once featured on a Discovery Channel show about detectives has been named the new police chief of King.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:26:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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