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		<title>Newcastle novelists write about real life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Read any gripping novels by Newcastle authors lately? If you didn’t know that any existed, the recent efforts of two local writers are meant to change all that. While neither man’s books came by way of a big name publishing company, these authors can both attest that sometimes a story is too good to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1164&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No contest: covers make way for singer’s originals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local musician Chad Driscoll discovered his singing voice at the age of 10. But it took another couple of decades, and a string of talent contests, to uncover it. As the frontman of SexBomb, a cover band that made its name playing the Peterborough bar circuit, Driscoll has paid his dues, singing the hits of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1154&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eaglesmith’s Travelling Show stops in Orono</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Show certainly lives up to its name. When reached by phone two weeks ago, Eaglesmith and his crew – which includes the Fabulous Ginn Sisters from Texas, and Bill Poss and the Useful Tools – had just performed in, and driven through four provinces in as many days. The production, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1142&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The passion of Silvia Ruegger</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Silvia Ruegger is passionate about her Canadian record in women’s marathon. Not just because of what it has meant for her, but because of what it has come to mean for so many others. Twenty-six years after her Canadian record setting win at the Houston Marathon, Ruegger has been propelled into the national spotlight once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1133&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bradleyboy wins Toronto Blues Society talent search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orono’s one-man blues band Bradley &#8220;Bradleyboy&#8221; Mac Arthur grabbed first place at the annual talent search competition hosted by the Toronto Blues Society (TBS) at Nathan Phillips Square on August 18th. Bradleyboy was one of six finalists chosen to perform a 15-minute set on stage in front of an audience, as part of the City [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1122&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gold medal repeat for Tessa Chad</title>
		<link>http://sweigand.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/gold-medal-repeat-for-tessa-chad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orono’s Tessa Chad took home her second gold medal in as many years, as a member of Team Ontario at the Canadian Lacrosse Association’s Bantam Girls Box Lacrosse National Championship last month. The Team Ontario win was made all the sweeter for Tessa, as this was her first year as team captain. The team is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1115&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin Blues skewers stereotypes</title>
		<link>http://sweigand.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/berlin-blues-skewers-stereotypes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sue Weigand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berlin Blues is so funny, it’s easy to forget it’s a cautionary tale. The play, which opened at the 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook last week, explores a First Nations community’s struggle with identity and integrity when faced with a proposal by German developers to exploit their Native culture. And the effects are hilarious. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1108&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bradleyboy&#8217;s music shows true grit</title>
		<link>http://sweigand.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/1099/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orono&#8217;s Brad “Bradleyboy” MacArthur makes music with grit. His new album Salt Gun &#8211; described as “country blues with a heavy foot on the gas” – is a collection of 11 songs that attests to his “raw and gritty” aesthetic. And it is aptly named, for whether he’s playing live as a one-man band, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1099&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artists create a bigger Gift for Newcastle</title>
		<link>http://sweigand.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/artists-create-a-bigger-gift-for-newcastle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 02:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A work of art usually starts out as an idea, gradually taking shape as the artist forms something concrete out of something less tangible. In the case of Newcastle’s not-for-profit gallery A Gift of Art, the idea of founder Ann Harley actually called for concrete. Using lumber, drywall, paint and concrete as their material &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1089&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Injury cuts Bickell out of Game 7 lineup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As his Chicago Blackhawks teammates prepared to fly to Vancouver on Monday, Bryan Bickell was undergoing surgery to his wrist, in what was a disappointingly premature end to the NHL post-season for the Orono native. On Monday evening, various Chicago news outlets reported that Bickell would not be playing in Tuesday’s Game 7 of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sweigand.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6517944&amp;post=1084&amp;subd=sweigand&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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