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Real reason
Everyone knows the real reason gas prices are going up. It’s the big oil companies and the investors and a Congress that is voting for them and all their tax breaks because then Congress gets a big donation to their campaign fund.

As it should be

INDEPENDENCE — Students, teachers, administrators and support staff all asked Grayson County supervisors to consider funding the school system above the state’s minimum Local Required Effort to keep principals and aides at all division schools.
Ten concerned citizens spoke during the public hearing earlier this month on the proposed 2012-13 school budget and most had the same message — they like their principals and don’t want to give them up.

Paisley Brooke Snider celebrated her first birthday Feb. 1 with a Princess party at Pleasant Grove Fellowship Hall with family and friends.

Her parents are Curtis and Lorie Snider. She has two older sisters, Palin and Blair Snider. Her grandparents are Danny and Linda Deskins of Dugspur and Harold and Joyce Snider of Dublin and the late Kathy Snider. Her great-grandparents are Pauline Marshall of Laurel Fork and Freida Deskins of Hillsville. She has an aunt, Holly Choate.

Dr. David Harvey and Stephanie Harvey of Hillsville announce the marriage of their daughter, Sarah Booth Harvey, to Eric Mathew Hanson, son of Paul and Jean Hanson of Midlothian, Texas.

Harvey is the granddaughter of Dr. Sidney and Shirley Harvey of Elk Creek, and Lathan and Carolyn Umphlett of Virginia Beach.
The marriage was in Richmond on May 7, 2011, at the Valentine History Museum.
Harvey, a graduate of Radford University, is pursuing a career as a State Farm Insurance agent.