The Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum finished as the top two in a USA Today Readers’ Choice Awards category for religious museums. The Williamstown and Petersburg attractions, both operated by Answers in Genesis, topped a list of twenty nominees from fourteen states and Washington, D.C. “We are so grateful to USA Today for considering our internationally recognized attractions […]
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Boone County Soldier Killed in Vietnam to Have Part of Road Named for Him
Nearly fifty years after he was killed in the Vietnam War, Boone County native Charles Fleek will be honored in his hometown of Petersburg. Sgt. “Chalkie” Fleek threw himself on a grenade in 1969, dying after absorbing the blast, and saving the lives of at least eight of his fellow soldiers. He was 21 years […]
