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		<title>Look Who Came Through the Door Today (a day in May)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bethia, a friendly acquaintance, and 2 friends came in the store wearing their helmets.  They may be in their sixties but they have bodies like girls of 14 (actually not so many girls of 14 are that lean and toned).  A testament to bicycling.  They&#8217;d just cycled around the reservoir&#8211;starting somewhere on the other side [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/10/20/this-was-a-day-in-may/</link>
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		<title>A  Sign or a Mural?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proprietors of a recently established shop in town, selling furniture&#8211;some of it  antique&#8211;interesting oddities and jewelry, decided to decorate the side of the building which housed 4 businesses (now 3), with an antique trompe l’oeil painting they’d acquired at a regional auction.  They liked how the subtle grays of the oversized window rendering (there being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/10/20/a-sign-or-a-mural/</link>
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		<title>Heard and Seen from the Balcony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 7:20 p.m. on Sunday evening (6/28), we&#8217;re sipping wine on our balcony and hear a clop-clop-clop sound.  A man and a woman are driving by in a cart pulled by two draft horses&#8211;maybe Percherons?&#8211;and for a second I think the horses might spook as a car approaches in the opposite lane.  And then I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/06/29/heard-and-seen-from-the-balcony/</link>
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		<title>Rainy Days Are Fun in Andes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve blogged alot in my head and on various scraps of paper over the last few months.  Wonder if I can ethically back-date a few posts.  Will ask Randy Cohen when I see him. Meanwhile, this is very current: it&#8217;s raining and dreary again, tho it&#8217;s the summer solstice, and in our dreams, if not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/06/21/rainy-days-are-fun-in-andes/</link>
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		<title>Coyote Alert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Recent early morning reports at Hogan&#8217;s indicate a loud barking presence right in the hamlet, and sightings by rural roadsides of groups of coyotes.  There was also a report of a missing pet rabbit on Main Street.  Could there be a connection?  So the Andes Gazette decided to park a clipboard at Hogan&#8217;s where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/02/11/coyotes-alert/</link>
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		<title>Great Turn-out for Dairy Farms of Andes Showing at ACS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   On a Saturday evening in late January we went over to the school to watch the &#8220;premiere&#8221; of Dairy Farms of Andes, an Andes Central School Production of The Cinema Class.  The pre-show music was provided by a bluegrass-type band (teacher Ed McGee is a member&#8211;wish I could remember the band&#8217;s name) which also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/02/11/great-turn-out-for-dairy-farms-of-andes-showing-at-acs/</link>
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		<title>Those Andes Grads Have it Good!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  You may have to wait for the end of this post to understand the Andes connection.  But, here goes.  I received an email from a woman whose name I recognized, someone I went to high school with and hadn&#8217;t seen or heard about in 30 years.  She reached me via Facebook, even though I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2009/01/12/those-andes-grads-have-it-good/</link>
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		<title>Kitchen Testing Needed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a mea culpa. People in national leadership positions may not be able to say they were wrong and that they apologize. But I will do that. It doesn&#8217;t feel great to admit we goofed, but maybe we&#8217;ve all got to be able to do it. Here&#8217;s my story: I, along with other Andes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2008/11/21/kitchen-testing-needed/</link>
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		<title>They Saw a Basket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw them smiling over the market baskets on the porch. When the couple entered they explained that they&#8217;d  been living in Ghana until last week and had sent many of those same baskets home to relatives in the U.K.  It was a slow time so we got to talking. Natasha who was originally from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2008/11/08/they-saw-a-basket/</link>
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		<title>Brooke Alderson of Brooke&#8217;s Variety gave us a leg up and left a legacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brooke Alderson recently sold her building&#8211;owned jointly with Rick Shaver and Lee Melahn of Mercantile&#8211;and is retiring as shopkeeper in Andes.  But &#8220;retiring&#8221; doesn&#8217;t feel like a word that fits this energetic, creative, and let me not omit to mention funny-to-the-third-power woman.  When she retired from acting twelve years ago&#8211;the public&#8217;s loss and Andes&#8217; gain&#8211;she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judy.andesgazette.net/2008/11/06/brooke-alderson-of-brookes-variety-gave-us-a-leg-up-and-left-a-legacy/</link>
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