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News Calendar: March 12-27 (The Salem Gazette)

News Calendar for Salem, March 12-27, including nonprofits' meetings, an environmental forum, auditions for actors, a farm-goods share and much more.

Troubling: Paterson’s Future & Monserrate’s Fate (Queens Tribune)

The trials and tribulations of Governor David Paterson have so dominated the NY State political scene that little else remains.

Chambersburg's Friendship Engine & Hose Company faces eviction from McKinley Street station (Chambersburg Public Opinion)

Chambersburg Emergency Services Chief William FitzGerald has ordered Chambersburg s oldest volunteer fire company to shape up or ship out.

Community Calendar (Proviso Herald)

The Proviso Herald welcomes items for the Community Calendar as well as for columns including Business Briefs, Campus s, Community Briefs, School Digest and smakers. Items must be received a minimum of 10 days prior to publication; earlier is better. E-mail to oakpark@pioneerlocal.com; fax to (708) 383-3678; or mail to Pioneer Press, 1010 Lake St., Suite 104, Oak Park ...

Mann Bites Dog (Discovery Channel)

What did the "Climategate" scandal really expose -- a problem with climate science, or the modern media echo chamber? A special article from the pages of Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

Mardell's America (BBC News)

'Open carry' activists do weekly shop with a gun

Check on Ohio State gunman found no criminal past (AP via Yahoo! News)

Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison.