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The Jacksonville State University Marching Southerners perform during halftime of JSU s football game on Saturday. Photo: Bill Wilson/The Anniston Star More than a halftime show: JSU Marching Southerners' patriotic performance receives praise from World War II veteran, alumnus
JACKSONVILLE — To some, it’s just a show at halftime, a band blasting instruments to choreographed steps, a routine on the football field. But not to E.C. “Baldy” Wilson. Not to this veteran. It shoots chills down his spine.
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Anniston High School students portray a scene from  Camelot  on Thursday. Donovan Yeilding, left, acts as Sir Lancelot, Angelica Montgomery plays Guinevere and Randall Worthy acts as King Arthur. Photo: Stephen Gross/The Anniston Star King for a day: Anniston students get English lesson, Broadway-style
Some Anniston High School students got a taste of medieval royal life Thursday afternoon, complete with a king, queen, wizard and a handful of knights.
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Anniston resident Vonda Holifield holds a sign with  Justice for th People PCB  written on it as traffic passes along Noble Street on Thursday. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star Anniston PCB claimants give feedback on clinics
Anniston residents affected by PCBs addressed the Tolbert claims administrator through anger and tears at a meeting Thursday. Just more than 50 claimants attended the 4 p.m. meeting to share thoughts, complaints and suggestions concerning the Quality of Life health clinic established by a 2003 settlement with Monsanto. More claimants filtered in as the meeting wore on.
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Ted Embry, Northeast Regional Director for the Alabama Children s Homes and Family Ministries, holds 3-year-old Kyle Gillis while Oxford Mayor Leon Smith helps Gillis cut the ribbon Thursday for the Alabama Baptist Children s Home in Oxford. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star Baptists open ministry center for foster care
A new administrative office will enable area Baptists to better serve families in crisis and need, a local official of the denomination says.
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Free swine flu vaccination clinics offered
Local health officials are taking swine flu vaccines to the streets by opening free vaccination clinics in cities and towns around the county. The Calhoun County Health Department will set up shop Monday to give out free H1N1 injections at the Oxford Civic Center from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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Questions raised over Anniston High School financial procedures
The Anniston Board of Education learned Thursday night that Anniston High School hasn’t been following the board’s accounting policies.
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Calhoun County Board of Education: Fighting policy to be revisited
Calhoun County school leaders on Thursday heard from a father who wants the school system to rethink its “no fighting” policy.
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Last-chance buy for this King fan
by Brett Buckner
Special to the Star
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I started reading with the same excited enthusiasm that I'd always had after cracking the spine of a favorite novelist's latest offering. And even after that initial burst of motivation slowed, I plowed through assuming that at some point, I would start to care.
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Local and national bestsellers for the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1.
Book review: Blood's a Rover
by Brian Robinson
Special to The Star
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James Ellroy's Blood's A Rover completes his Underworld U.S.A. trilogy in his usual brilliant verse and tight, complex plotting. It's an incredible journey into events of the 1970s and repercussions from acts taken in the previous two books, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand, both also highly recommended. While it's not necessary to have read those books to enjoy the new one, it will help in understanding the character's obsessions.
Book review: Crossers
by Lance Hicks
Special to The Star
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Philip Caputo's Crossers is set in 2003 and follows the journey of Gillespie Castle, a Wall Street big-shot who, in order to handle the grief brought on by the loss of his wife, moves into a lonesome ranch-house on the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Local and national bestsellers for the week of Oct. 19-25.
Artists in Action: Alabama author to speak at Houston Cole Library
by Hervey Folsom
Special to The Star
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These days, authors are under lots of pressure from publishers and critics. If readers liked the author's initial book, publishers say, then the readers want more of the same in the future.
Book review: Satchel
by Art Gould
Special to The Star
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As the 2009 World Series approaches (it starts Tuesday) it is the time year for baseball fans to reflect on the Game's greatest players. For many followers of the National Pastime, Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige, the phenomenal black pitcher from Mobile, tops the list of elite professional players past and present, black or white.
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Local and national bestsellers for the week of Oct. 12-18.
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