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Fredericksburg.com (blog)
Battle of Spotsylvania event will offer color, lore
Fredericksburg.com (blog)
(SPOTSYLVANIA TOURISM OFFICE) BY CLINT SCHEMMER Robert E. Lee. Jeff Davis. Ulysses S. Grant. Ladies in crinoline skirts, artillerists with Stribling's Battery, cavalrymen, US Colored Troops, the 2nd South Carolina String Band, tintype photographer ...

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Fife Today
Groups head to London to sell Fife
Fife Today
THE Fife golf partnership and Fife tourism partnership are attending this year's Golf Live event for the first time. They will be highlighting the golf partnership's new website and the recently-launched Fife golf map. Golf Live is the world's leading ...

Event planners experience Fife
CIT Magazine
Scottish conference planners, including Dunfermline Football Club, The Boathouse, Aberdour and Knockhill Racing Circuit have experienced Fife's tourism businesses and meeting facilities first-hand. A two-day event hosted by VisitScotland's Business ...

St Morons: Tourism map mixes up famous fishing villages
Deadline News
The map of Scotland was given away to newspaper readers in the UK and Ireland in a bid to boost “staycation” tourism. But two communities in the picturesque East Neuk of Fife were put in completely the wrong place by VisitScotland, ...

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MSP's Visit Big County Renewable Power Schemes
Perthshire Advertiser
The visiting Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee wanted to see how achievable it will be for Scotland to generate all the electricity it needs from renewable resources. A new target has been set by the Scottish Government to build enough renewable ...

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Fife Today
Optimism at St Andrews rail link feasibility study
BBC News
Lobby group Starlink have said that an hourly service, introduced between the Fife town and Edinburgh, would pay for itself. They maintain that a rail link would help boost the town's tourism numbers and reduce traffic on the A91.
Full steam ahead for new St Andrews rail link?Fife Today

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"Welcome to Philadelphia Parade" with the Phanatic on Saturday
Phillies.com
It's National Tourism Week – and the Phillies and Independence Visitor Center are celebrating with a “Welcome to Philadelphia Parade” for Philadelphia visitors and fans alike. The festivities take place on Saturday, May 12, from noon to 1:00 pm, ...

Fife Today
New map to guide you along the coastal path
Fife Today
“The path is considered one of Scotland's Great Trails and Fife has been recognised as the top destination for outdoor tourism for the past four years, we are confident that the new extensions will prove popular and will help to ensure the Fife Coastal ...

Put business at top of agenda in 2012 says Chamber
Fife Today
A commitment to maintain discussions with politicians on renewable sector growth, addressing the detrimental impact of high cost energy and possible impacts on tourism. * Support for the promotion of tourism in Fife to markets in the UK and Europe, ...

Fife Today
We need tourism more than a crematorium...
Fife Today
... to see a tourist attraction. Last week, the Mail reported on the hopes of a Leven businessman to provide a single-stop bereavement services centre at the Leven park, under Fife Council's plans to lease sections of land for private investment.

Fredericksburg.com (blog)
You're Invited to Spotsylvania Civil War Re-enactment, Living History Weekend
Fredericksburg.com (blog)
The Spotsylvania Fife and Drum Corps will share their skills both before and after the Battle on Saturday.The NPS will have a children's learning area with an NPS historian onsite to answer questions. Sunday events begin with a Civil War-era church ...

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Scotland Courier
Windfarm campaigner outraged by Green Party MSP's 'demeaning' behaviour ...
Scotland Courier
A north-east Fife spokesman for a Scottish anti-windfarm group has denounced the leader of the Scottish Green Party as ''unfit to hold public office''. Graham Lang at a windfarm debate in St Andrews late last year. By Michael Alexander Green Party ...

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Scotsman
Welcome to the Golfing County
East Lothian Courier
East Lothian hopes to rival - and even surpass - the success of golf tourism destinations in Fife and the west coast after the launch of a new initiative on Tuesday. The branding of the county as 'Scotland's Golf Coast' was launched at Duck's in ...
Coltart backs East Lothian claim of best 'Golf Coast' in ScotlandScotsman

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Local politicians call on EventScotland and VisitScotland to ensure the ...
ic Perthshire.co.uk
by Clare Damodaran, Blairgowrie Adv A LOCAL councillor and MSP are joining forces to convince tourist bosses to promote Blairgowrie ahead of the Ryder Cup 2014. Blairgowrie and the Glens Conservative Councillor Caroline Shiers and Mid-Scotland and Fife ...

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Local politicians call on EventScotland and VisitScotland to ensure the ...
ic Perthshire.co.uk
by Clare Damodaran, Blairgowrie Adv A LOCAL councillor and MSP are joining forces to convince tourist bosses to promote Blairgowrie ahead of the Ryder Cup 2014. Blairgowrie and the Glens Conservative Councillor Caroline Shiers and Mid-Scotland and Fife ...

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Local politicians call on EventScotland and VisitScotland to ensure the ...
ic Perthshire.co.uk
by Clare Damodaran, Blairgowrie Adv A LOCAL councillor and MSP are joining forces to convince tourist bosses to promote Blairgowrie ahead of the Ryder Cup 2014. Blairgowrie and the Glens Conservative Councillor Caroline Shiers and Mid-Scotland and Fife ...

Vision Iowa program manager tells supervisors county money needed.
Burlington Hawk Eye
Several efforts to gain financial support from county board failed on 3-2 votes, with supervisors Kruse, Gary Folluo and Janet Fife-Lafrenz opposing the contributions and supervisors Rick Larkin and Ernie Schiller in favor of them.

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Scotsman
Coltart backs East Lothian claim of best 'Golf Coast' in Scotland
Scotsman
... at yesterday's official launch of the 'Scotland's Golf Coast' brand, a new initiative involving the East Lothian Golf Tourism Alliance in conjunction with East Lothian Council. It's a title that could just as easily be claimed by Fife, ...

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Lore of the Laughery this weekend
Batesville Herald Tribune
Featured performers will include the Voyageur Ancient Fife and Drum Corps, a recreation of an 18th century group with members under 18; the French-Canadian sounds of Travelers Dream; and the hammered dulcimer and fiddle of the group Jim's Red Pants.

Virginia launches new tourism sweepstakes
Inside NoVA
Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums members play the fife on the Festival Stage during the Jamestown's 400th anniversary celebration. Virginia will launch a tourism sweepstakes today with the aim of attracting a million visitors to the state's ...

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