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Did you know those rhythm and blues specialists and masters of blood harmony, the Bee Gees, featuring older brother Barry Gibb and four-yearsyounger maternal twin brothers Robin and Maurice, wrote on the same day the songs Too Much Heaven and Tragedy in an afternoon off from the making of the Sg...

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While most of us think that Juneteenth is a new holiday, it is not. Juneteenth is June 19th, but observed publicly on Monday, June 20th this year. It is also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, commemorating the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. The celebration began in 18...

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Correction: In the May 26 issue we mentioned that Sam Handy and crew cleaned up the Fairview Cemetery in the Silver Star Community. We were accidentally given wrong information, it was Casey Handy and his farm crew that cleaned up and removed some old fence around the cemetery. Casey and crew ...

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The Leader provides a UPS drop off point for packages outbound, for no compensation. It’s just a drop place for packages that already have shipping labels. The Leader DOES NOT provide a place to leave packages for the USPS. We continually ask that people stop in and show the label before...

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While driving through road construction is not something any of us want to do, some construction folks handle the traffic better than others. We give a shout out and kudos to the crews working on Highway 13 South between Scobey and Highway 2. We drive that road, doing a round trip once a week. ...

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“Rude Awakening” recently wrote this in an online comments section: “PHYSICAL SILVER BULLION IS OVER 50% off its all-time “high!!!” All experts (who are NOT in the precious metals market or selling a book) and geologists agree that there is a silver shortage! The Federal courts have prov...