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Spartan green marks annual event JONESVILLE — The fields of corn were green and growing around the farm of Richard Godfrey in rural Hillsdale County last Monday evening. No debating it: Hard work pays off for top students EAST RUTHERFORD -- More than a dozen students from Passaic and Bergen counties received $27,000 in merit scholarships Tuesday night from North Jersey Media Group, which publishes The Record and the Herald News. LOCAL EVENTS SOUTH BAY Spirit of America family festival and fireworks show. Childrens activities, carnival games, student and adult music stages, exhibitor booths and an art gallery. 3-10 p.m. July 4. Church on the Hill, 500 Sands Drive, San Jose. Free. www.churchonthehill.com or (408) 265-9000. Business Calendar To submit items: Send Sunday business calendar events to The Oregonian Business News Department no later than 17 days prior to the event. Fax: 503-294-4079; e-mail: money@news.oregonian.com. Only events sponsored by nonprofit organizations will be printed. Atkinson signs letter of intent Trinity Christian Academy’s Seth Atkinson made the decision to take the next step in his baseball career, as he signed a national letter of intent to play baseball for Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College Monday morning. Brandon Attorney Feels Joy With Every Adoption In February 1989, just a month after Mary Greenwood hung her shingle as a Brandon lawyer, her first adoption walked in the door. I hadnt planned on that, she said, But it was wonderful. By the end of my first year, I had placed 11 babies. Plenty of places around the Bay will light up for Fourth of July HERES A geographical roundup of some Bay Area Independence Day celebrations: East Bay Alameda - With more than 150 entries and an expected 20,000 participants, Alamedas Fourth Steve Beylon, Meteorologist Meteorologist Steve Beylon joined Action 2 News in June of 2006. Before arriving in Green Bay, he tracked everything from blizzards to tornadoes for six years in Topeka, Kansas, and also forecasted the weather for nearly two years in Erie, Pennsylvania. Striving to succeed At first glance, you wouldn’t suspect soft-spoken Gretchen Kasting, 17, to be a black belt in tae kwon do, nor would you peg her as a Dean Koontz fan. Paper, area never far from Connor’s thoughts WILKES-BARRE -- When he came to the Wyoming Valley in 1978, Richard L. Connor expected to stay a few weeks, helping to publish a daily newspaper in Wilkes-Barre. He was 31 and editor of a newspaper in Pontiac, Mich. He brought a camera, figuring he might be used as a photographer. |