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James Scott Baron

Fredericksburg, Virginia
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I cover Stafford County Virginia news for the Free Lance-Star newspaper in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Spotsylvania mom still determined to find daughter missing since 2015

Spotsylvania mom still determined to find daughter missing since 2015

Lisa Sullivan's latest attempt to locate her 19-year-old daughter was a bright yellow billboard bearing her i…

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Stafford coalition takes aim at helping minorities, the eldery, others in need

Stafford coalition takes aim at helping minorities, the eldery, others in need

Every Thursday evening, volunteers from the Stafford Community Support Initiative, a relatively new community…

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WATCH NOW: Stafford ceremony remembers Vietnam veterans

WATCH NOW: Stafford ceremony remembers Vietnam veterans

"I think that's so very appropriate," said Christmas. "Our young men and women and their families, since befo…

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Stafford opens 'Smart Community' testbed to draw innovation entrepreneurs

Stafford opens 'Smart Community' testbed to draw innovation entrepreneurs

A high-tech proving ground opened its doors in Stafford Tuesday morning, giving inventors and researchers a p…

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Stafford supervisors step back on 'Downtown Stafford'

Stafford supervisors step back on 'Downtown Stafford'

Fourteen months ago, Stafford supervisors envisioned a vibrant and futuristic downtown area near the county c…

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Book Review: Searching for pure language, reaching the untranslatable

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By James Baron / Contributing Reporter As explained by Huang Chun-ju (黃俊儒) in one of two prefaces to this short volume, in pairing works of academic research with literary works, the aim was to create a dialogue between the two fields. “Together, they create reciprocal interpretations that are intellectually and affectively rich,” writes Huang, director of the Department and Social Sciences at Taiwan’s National Science and Technology Council.
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Book review: Lost in translation: The hazy clarity of a daydream

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By James Baron / Contributing reporter For probably as long as there has been storytelling and certainly for as long as stories have been written down, there has been metafiction. The terminology is inescapably postmodern; the practice as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh — widely considered the first literary work — where a self-referential allusion to the tablets upon which the tale is inscribed takes us outside the text.
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Book review: A man for all seasons: The extraordinary odyssey of Huang Chin-tao

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by James Baron / Contributing Reporter Speaking at the launch for this book in London last month, Anna Beth Keim described an almost 10-year process from writing to publication, which included many fruitless attempts to find a literary agent for the work. “It was actually rejected by every single agent that I contacted,” she told an audience at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Aboard USS Ogden - based in San Diego in 1977.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Absolutely!!

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