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Hair-raising event: WSU senators vote to observe Mustache March

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 7:29pm

OGDEN — The resolution to recognize Mustache March passed by a hair, but not before Weber State University student senators removed some of its “teeth.”

The WSU senators, who met Monday afternoon, agreed to support the resolution only after wording that declared “Mustache March” the “most awesome month” was removed.

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Series makes sense of Civil War at Pleasant Valley library

J. Michael Call Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 8:41am

What happens when an idealist goes to war? How did the bloodiest battle in all of American history go down? And how did those who witnessed the Civil War firsthand write about a war that continues to send shock waves through American culture 150 years later?

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(JOSH REYNOLDS/The Associated Press) Demonstrators with “Occupy Boston” march through Boston Common, Monday afternoon, Oct. 10, 2011.

Wall Street protests to target NYC millionaires

Meghan Barr The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 7:07am

NEW YORK — The national Occupy Wall Street movement has been heating up again — resulting in about 50 arrests in Boston and plans for a Manhattan “Millionaires March” to the homes of some of the city’s wealthiest residents.

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(GENEVIEVE ROSS/The Associated Press) Protesters gather at the Hennepin County Government Plaza in Minneapolis. The demonstration is in support of the protests that began on Wall Street last month. As the protests have expanded and gained support from new sources, what began three weeks ago as a group of mostly young people camping out on the streets has morphed into something different: an umbrella movement for people of varying ages, life situations and grievances, some of them first-time protesters.

Protesters want world to know they’re just like us

Jocelyn Noveck The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 5:23pm

NEW YORK — As other protesters chanted vigorously around her, Nancy Pi-Sunyer stood off to the side at the Occupy Wall Street rally, clutching her sign, looking a little like a new teacher on the first day of school.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) Ben Lomond High School’s bagpipe band leads supporters as they march against domestic violence as part of the annual Footsteps of Light, sponsored by Your Community Connection, in downtown Ogden on Thursday.

Ogden march targets domestic violence

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 11:18pm

OGDEN -- Sometimes words hit harder than fists.

Just ask Jane Bryant.

The local author was the keynote speaker at this year's annual Footsteps to Light, a domestic violence awareness event held Thursday and sponsored by Your Community Connection.

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Moab gears up for 1st gay pride march

Josh Loftin, Lynn DeBruin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 1:19pm

MOAB -- A gay pride march in conservative southern Utah was so unlikely that the idea started as a joke.

But Amy Stocks figured it was about time, especially after the positive feedback she received online when she posted a satirical video about a small town that threw a pride festival for its one gay resident.

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