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Augusta no longer majoring in minor sports

...events-driven city with plenty of annual staples. The Augusta Futurity, the largest cutting horse show east of the Mississippi River, held its 34th consecutive event in January. The Masters Tournament, the most popular golf tournament in the world...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-18/augusta-no-longer-majoring-mi
Kurt Busch on Darlington pole after record run

...Regan Smith holding on to bring victory to the single-car program and the only NASCAR operation based west of the Mississippi River in Denver."To put it on the pole is a great surprise, but it's also showing the strength of the team," Busch...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/nascar/2013-05-10/kurt-busch-darlington-pole
Parks tour beckons true baseball fans

...I rented a car one day and made the two-hour drive to Samuel Clemens' childhood home in Hannibal, Mo., the Mississippi River village that inspired Mark Twain's best-known books about the childhood adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/life/2013-03-21/parks-tour-beckons-true-baseball-fa
Augusta Futurity bringing the West back to town

...prevalent in today's society. The National Cutting Horse Association event, the largest cutting show east of the Mississippi River, also has brought in $200 million over more than three decades. Each January, the event brings in an estimated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/futurity/2013-01-08/augusta-futurity-bringin
Corps finds deficiencies in US levees, including Augusta's

...overtopped in 2011 during historic flooding of the Mississippi River valley.? Inadequate or crumbling infrastructure...Corps report found parts of a 2.2-mile-long Mississippi River levee in South St. Paul, Minn., dotted with trees...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-01-17/corps-finds-deficiencies-us-l
Georgia launches effort to protect military bases from cuts, closures

...said Hinesville Mayor Jim Thomas, whose city is the gateway to Fort Stewart, the largest Army post east of the Mississippi River. "And there needs to be an organization at the state level that does this for the entire state."In the past...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-12-15/georgia-launches-effort-
Phil Rapp looking to make more Augusta Futurity history

...healthy Rapp is expected to return for the full show when the Augusta Futurity, the largest cutting show east of the Mississippi River, officially returns Sunday. The seven-day show is packed full of events and will run through Saturday, Jan...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/futurity/2013-01-15/phil-rapp-looking-make-m
Looming Army cutbacks would hurt Georgia, report says

...to remind them of reasons Fort Stewart, home to the 3rd Infantry Division and the largest Army post east of the Mississippi River, should be spared from any cutbacks. "The socio-economic impact is huge, but it's a snapshot" of what might...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-02-01/looming-army-cutbacks-woul
Rants & Raves

Comments from readers: COLORADO IS BURNING. The Mississippi River is running low on water, and America's top government leaders are turning out to be renegades. Does it sound like the chaos...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-07-12/rants-raves
Bookworm: 'Muskrat for Supper'

...Muskrat for Supper by Kenny Salwey, you'll find out by reading the story of a river rat.It was quiet along the Mississippi River, with nothing to disturb the river rat as he sat and listened to the wind and the birds. The swamp was his favorite...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/2012-07-05/bookworm-muskrat-supper