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      <title>Hillclimbers Stadium Lights Stay On Late Enough to Start Neighborhood Diplomacy</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Washington Ave brightness as foreign policy.</description>
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      <title>Mumford&#x27;s Potato Chip Bag Opens Louder Than Expected at Church</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The sermon continued. Dignity did not.</description>
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      <title>Celebrity Pastor NFT Baptism Declared Theologically Complicated</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A high-profile ministry experimented with digital collectibles tied to spiritual branding, uniting atheists and deacons in shared confusion. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Christiansburg Man Describes Clark County Line as &#x27;A Vibe, Not a Border&#x27;</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>South county philosophy, unsolicited.</description>
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      <title>Gloria Theatre Late Seating Results in Entire Row Performing Emotional Calculus</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Culture requires knees and apologies.</description>
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      <title>World Bank Warns of Debt Spiral; Households Say Join the Club</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Economists flagged rising sovereign debt risks as families nodded along from under their own interest rates. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Crybaby Bridge Closed Overnight; Ghost Stories File for Temporary Relocation</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The asphalt is real. The screaming is flexible.</description>
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      <title>Man on SR-245 Claims Ohio Caverns Stalactite Made Eye Contact</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Geology with social anxiety.</description>
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      <title>Streaming Service Adds &#x27;Skip Intro&#x27; to Real Life via AR Glasses Prototype</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A tech demo suggested wearable software that could skip small talk, ads, and possibly your uncle&#x27;s stories, raising ethical questions and hope. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Mayflowers Takeout Bag Spotted at Township Meeting, Sparking Soft Power Analysis</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Diplomacy smells like lo mein.</description>
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      <title>Triad Cardinals Boosters Nearly Split Over Whether Red Is &#x27;Too Much Red&#x27;</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Spirit wear is a blood sport with zippers.</description>
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      <title>Scientists Teach Rats to Drive Tiny Cars for Science and Content</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Researchers reported rodents navigating miniature vehicles, a study equal parts neuroscience and something you forward to your group chat. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Carmazzi&#x27;s Regular Claims He Can Date Candy by Smell Alone</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Science, if science were nostalgia with a sweet tooth.</description>
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      <title>Lonesome Road Residents Demand Official &#x27;Little Smokies&#x27; Highway Sign for Davey Woods</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Branding, but for trees.</description>
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      <title>National Spelling of &#x27;Canceled&#x27; vs &#x27;Cancelled&#x27; Reopens Civil Cold War</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Style guides and social feeds reignited the one-L versus two-L fight, proving America can divide over anything with vowels. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Line at TeaBaggers Debates Whether Second Saturday Counts as a Personality</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Downtown Urbana energy, performed at coffee volume.</description>
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      <title>Woodstock Man Declares Village Meeting &#x27;Basically Congress&#x27; After 40 Minutes</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Woodstock does not have a filibuster. It has opinions.</description>
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      <title>Smart Toilets Promise Health Data; America Declines That Level of Friendship</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Connected bathroom fixtures that analyze biometrics hit the market, a product category that assumes you want your plumbing to gossip. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Graham Wrestling Room Adds Sign Reading &#x27;This Is Not a Participation Hallway&#x27;</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The sign is laminated. The standards are not.</description>
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      <title>Man at Crabill&#x27;s Pays With Exact Change Like It&#x27;s a Character Reference</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The cashier did not ask for a character reference. He provided one anyway.</description>
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      <title>Man on the Monument Demands Paid Vacation, Threatens to Face Dayton Until County Agrees</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The statue is bronze. The grievance is somehow more solid.</description>
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      <title>Billionaires Race to Buy Glaciers &#x27;For Conservation and Also Bragging&#x27;</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ultra-wealthy buyers are acquiring polar and alpine assets framed as climate stewardship that also photographs well on yachts. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Woman wins unofficial yard-sale championship with confidence pricing</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A cracked plant pot labeled “vintage vibes — $8” sold in four minutes off Main Street.</description>
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      <title>Federal Agency Issues 400-Page Guidance on How to Read Guidance</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A new manual explains how to interpret last year&#x27;s manuals, a recursive triumph of bureaucracy over daylight. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>OPINION: We used to wave at trains and that should count for something</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A defense of pointless friendliness as infrastructure in Champaign County.</description>
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      <title>Rec coach calls emergency meeting about snacks, not defense</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The 2-3 zone can wait. The orange slices cannot. North Lewisburg edition.</description>
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      <title>Major Studio Reboots a Reboot of a Remake Nobody Requested</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Hollywood greenlit another layer of nostalgia, promising a fresh take that looks expensive and feels like homework. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Man measures self-worth entirely in firewood stack neatness</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Crooked rows have been called “a cry for help” on a township road near Rosewood.</description>
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      <title>Village extremely proud of new Main Street bench nobody asked for</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A plaque was involved on Mechanicsburg’s Main Street. Of course a plaque was involved.</description>
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      <title>AI Writes a Constitution for a Country That Doesn&#x27;t Exist Yet</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A research lab published a model-authored constitution for a hypothetical state, complete with rights, duties, and a suspiciously clean comments section. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>LETTER: Stop parking like it’s valet at St. Paris Shoppers</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Two-minute errands on W. Main have become a municipal crisis of character.</description>
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      <title>Mechanicsburg reunion Facebook event toxic six months early</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The class of whenever has already split into cliques again in the Burg chat.</description>
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      <title>Congress Votes to Investigate the Investigation of the Investigation</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Lawmakers authorized another probe into prior probes, ensuring full employment for lawyers and partial employment for truth. What do you think?</description>
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      <title>Dad buys Indian Lake boat the family did not ask for, will use twice</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The trailer is already a personality in a Mechanicsburg driveway.</description>
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      <title>Woman corrects out-of-towner asking for directions near Monument Square</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>There is a wrong way to say local places. There is always a wrong way.</description>
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      <title>Congress Debates Whether AI Can Serve as a Committee Witness</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Lawmakers are weighing a proposal that would allow artificial intelligence systems to deliver sworn testimony before congressional committees, a move supporters call efficiency and critics call a cry …</description>
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      <title>Man brags about not needing GPS on US-36, arrives 40 minutes late</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>“I know a back way between the Burg and Urbana” has claimed another evening.</description>
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      <title>St. Paris committee formed to plan another committee for fall festival</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The festival is in October. The email chain on Springfield Street is already infinite.</description>
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      <title>Scientists Announce First Lab-Grown Blood Available in Hospitals</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Researchers say synthetic blood could ease shortages nationwide after successful early clinical use, though patients still prefer the kind that comes with a story about a high school football injury. …</description>
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      <title>Man, 41, still introduces himself by what he played for the Indians</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>“I played ball at the Burg” remains his LinkedIn before LinkedIn.</description>
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