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  • College DJ celebrates 25 Years on air (FR's raccoonradio)

    03/13/2006 11:05:27 AM PST · by raccoonradio · 7 replies · 254+ views
    Salem (MA) News ^ | 03/12/06 | Amanda McGregor
    Twenty-five years ago yesterday, Bob Nelson was a bright-eyed sophomore at Salem State College, anxiously broadcasting his first radio show. That was when the college station went back on the air after a five-month hiatus because a wind storm had knocked down the antenna. It had taken months to get the money to rebuild it. "I remember catching up on stuff we missed after five months off the air," Nelson recalled. "John Lennon and Yoko Ono had just released an album ('Double Fantasy') before he was killed and I remember we were playing those songs." That was March 12, 1981,...
  • Republicans say they ve become force in W.Va.

    04/24/2002 10:39:42 AM PDT · by Timesink · 48 replies · 335+ views
    The Herald-Dispatch ^ | April 24, 2002 | Bob Withers
    <p>HUNTINGTON -- President Bush took West Virginia in the 2000 general election, the first nonincumbent Republican presidential contender to do so since Herbert Hoover in 1928.</p> <p>At the same time, fellow Republican Shelley Moore Capito -- the first Republican member of Congress from the Mountain State in 18 years -- defeated Democrat Jim Humphreys for the 2nd District congressional seat that Bob Wise gave up to run for governor.</p>