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Dirt work today. A vision coming to life tomorrow. Construction has started on the future Youth Annex at the Shawnee Family YMCA, and we are excited to see this dream begin taking shape. Are you excited, Shawnee? We are. This added space will help us serve more kids and families through after-school programming, summer camps, youth sports, and more. A new court. New classrooms. More room for community. Stay tuned — big things are coming.

By Eric Spruill The Last Rep On Friday morning, Ana Rose will raise her right hand and become an American citizen. One sentence. Seven years behind it. Seven years of forms, fees, interviews, delays, extensions, notices and waiting. Seven years of doing everything the right way while still wondering, somewhere in the back of her mind, if something could go wrong. For those born here, maybe the closest comparison is waiting on a job background check. You know your history is

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Mack Chambers talks about baseball career and life after baseball. Eric Spruill The Last Rep There is a cruel little beauty in baseball. Sometimes a whole dream can fit inside one box score. For Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, it was one inning in right field for the New York Giants in 1905. No at-bat. No hit. No ball sent screaming into the gap. Just a name, a date, and a line in baseball history so thin you almost need to hold it up to the light to see it. For Mack Chambers,