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For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.
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A group of people in the Sikeston area wanted to get together and make music to share with their community and that gave birth to the Bootheel River Symphony. The community performance group is open to all instruments and participants from advanced middle school level and up.
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