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From staff reports

MIDDLEBURG — Who says meals have to center around beef, pork and chicken? The world is full of wild animals whose meat just might make a tasty meal. Grilled antelope, anyone? Maybe some frog legs?

DANVILLE — For Chelsie Derr of Danville, the ABC Fashion Show at the Pine Barn Inn is as close as she’ll likely get to the reality competition show RuPaul’s Drag Race. That’s why she went all out with her design this year for the fund raiser that invites contestants to walk the runway in “Anything But Clothes.”

WATSONTOWN — The Watsontown Historical Association will host a showing of a 2013 documentary about the lost village of Alvira in Union County.

I once heard that the first thing lost in war is humanity. I have never been in the military. I have never fought in a war. But I have been in a conflict zone on more occasions than I could have ever imagined.

NORTHUMBERLAND — A Shikellamy teacher was named one of 63 national winners for the Civic Star Challenge by The Bill of Rights Institute and iCivics.

Sometimes even the greatest differences can be bridged in a three-hour taxi ride with a stranger. I now call an Iranian stranger my friend.

SUNBURY — The Northumberland County Agricultural Land Preservation Board will accept applications to the county’s Agricultural Land Preservation Program beginning March 14.

The fighting has killed at least 1,230 people in Iran, more than 200 in Lebanon and 11 in Israel, according to officials. Six U.S. troops have been killed.

Police say 77-year-old Bonnie Micklesavage died from injuries sustained in the crash.