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  • From our archives: Here’s a look back at this week in 1990
  • Building a community: Paula Swepson Avery emerges as a leader
  • LaDonna Browning named Director of Western Region
  • Master Gardeners: A backyard berry patch is easy and enjoyable
  • Four from McDowell make All-District Band
  • Honor student nominated for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston
  • UPDATE: Two charged in McDowell convenience store robbery
  • Bad Beginning: Slow start dooms Lady Titans in regular-season finale
  • Powerful Patriots roll past TitansĀ 
  • McDowell teams wrap up solid JV campaigns
From our archives: Here’s a look back at this week in 1990

From our archives: Here’s a look back at this week in 1990

Editor’s note: This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history.

LaDonna Browning named Director of Western Region

LaDonna Browning named Director of Western Region

Master Gardeners: A backyard berry patch is easy and enjoyable

Master Gardeners: A backyard berry patch is easy and enjoyable

Four from McDowell make All-District Band

Four from McDowell make All-District Band

Honor student nominated for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston

Honor student nominated for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston

Report: Man busted with 80.5 grams of pot

Report: Man busted with 80.5 grams of pot

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Scott Hollifield: A look at Ol' Hank's arrest report, circa 1952

Scott Hollifield: A look at Ol' Hank's arrest report, circa 1952

Scott Hollifield: Recycling the Romantic Note of '95

Scott Hollifield: Recycling the Romantic Note of '95

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  • From our archives: Here’s a look back at this week in 1990
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  • This Australian fashion model is in high demand. She also has Down syndrome.
  • Why Walmart won't stop selling the National Enquirer
  • Country music artist Margo Price navigates an art form altered by America's poisoned politics
  • Building a community: Paula Swepson Avery emerges as a leader
  • LaDonna Browning named Director of Western Region
  • The centuries-old Indian tradition of pole wrestling goes global
  • Master Gardeners: A backyard berry patch is easy and enjoyable
  • Four from McDowell make All-District Band
  • Honor student nominated for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston
  • UPDATE: Two charged in McDowell convenience store robbery
  • A billion-dollar empire made of mobile homes. How private-equity firms, investors are cashing in.
  • Amazon's stormy week will blow over, but debris will stay
  • Rate of maternal deaths in the US is rising; black women face higher risk
  • Vatican defrocks former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick over sex abuse
  • Report: Man busted with 80.5 grams of pot
  • Five civilians dead, five police officers injured in Aurora, Illinois, business shooting
  • Foothills Community School named as 2019 Model School
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Photos: The centuries-old Indian tradition of pole wrestling

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UPDATE: Two charged in McDowell convenience store robbery

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Photos: The AP's best images from the past week

5 killed, 5 cops wounded: See these scenes from Illinois mass shooting

5 killed, 5 cops wounded: See these scenes from Illinois mass shooting

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Photos: See all the styles from New York Fashion Week

Mcdowellnews.com: Obituaries published Feb. 17, 2019

Mcdowellnews.com: Obituaries published Feb. 17, 2019

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From our archives: Here’s a look back at this week in 1990

From our archives: Here’s a look back at this week in 1990

Editor’s note: This feature mines our archives for what was going on this week in local history. Read more

Building a community: Paula Swepson Avery emerges as a leader

LaDonna Browning named Director of Western Region

Master Gardeners: A backyard berry patch is easy and enjoyable

Four from McDowell make All-District Band

Honor student nominated for the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Boston

UPDATE: Two charged in McDowell convenience store robbery

Report: Man busted with 80.5 grams of pot

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Bad Beginning: Slow start dooms Lady Titans in regular-season finale

Bad Beginning: Slow start dooms Lady Titans in regular-season finale

Ā The second, third and fourth quarters were solid ones for the McDowell Lady Titans. The first was an unmitigated disaster. Read more

Powerful Patriots roll past TitansĀ 

McDowell teams wrap up solid JV campaigns

Titan JVs summon magic again, edge West Caldwell

Warriors shoot the lights out against Titans

Lady Titans beat West Caldwell, take over 2nd place in NWC standings

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Scott Hollifield: A look at Ol' Hank's arrest report, circa 1952

Scott Hollifield: A look at Ol' Hank's arrest report, circa 1952

As far as crimes go, is unlawfully tampering with an electric meter worse than illegally keeping livestock within the city limits? Read more

Scott Hollifield: Recycling the Romantic Note of '95

Scott Hollifield: Just your normal everyday invisible pet squirrel

Scott Hollifield: An ode to the Wienermobile and a little more 'Pringles Drinking'

Scott Hollifield: Pringles-and-wine-related Walmart ban could be bad for music

Scott Hollifield: Don't blame me, I'm just the bonehead messenger

Scott Hollifield: Give me back my nunchucks

Scott Hollifield: The Terrifying Tale of the Deadly Dog Leash

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