Pavlik maintains Valley’s interest

Pavlik maintains
Valley’s interest

kIF THERE’S any waning interest in middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik, above, one certainly couldn’t tell Saturday by the large crowd that gathered at Eastwood Mall in Niles looking for one-on-one time with the boxer.

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SPORTS

Basking in glory

kSINCE DEFEATING Jermain Taylor for the WBC middleweight title in September, Kelly Pavlik (32-0, 29 KOs) has spent much of his time enjoying — or, at times, tolerating — his emerging celebrity.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Black & Matthews

kCINDY MATTHEWS will debut Monday as the newest member of the WFMJ Channel 21 news team. She will join Bob Black in co-anchoring the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts.

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BUSINESS

Paying the price

kNEVER HAS the bare minimum meant so much to some local companies. Business owners are cutting the hours of staff and raising prices after another increase in the state minimum wage.

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LIFE&WORK

Weddings 101?

kIF THERE’S one thing Mooney graduate Maggie Daniels wants students at George Mason University to know in her semester-long class on wedding planning, it’s that this is not just fluff.

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TRAVEL

‘Mothman’ allure

kMORE THAN 40 years after the first reported sighting of the mysterious creature “Mothman,” residents of Point Pleasant, W.Va., have helped to turn the town into an offbeat tourism experience.

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HOME

Cultivating it

kAn innovative cottage industry is sprouting up for people new to gardening or hoping to enrich their crop- or flower-growing skills. It’s called garden mentoring, garden coaching or garden tutoring.

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