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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Launched by The Beatles in 1968, as the new outlet for their own recordings as well as the music of an eclectic roster of artists - James Taylor, Badfinger, Billy Preston, Mary Hopkin, Doris Troy, and Jackie Lomax among them - who were all personally brought to the label by The Beatles (individually and/or collectively), Apple Records made popular music history from the very moment it opened its doors. Four decades later, Apple Corps Ltd.

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- 40 years after the August 30, 1968, release by Mary Hopkin of the international smash hit song "Those Were the Days," Morgan Visconti continues his parents' legendary musical heritage.

By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Jun. 4--The director of the state Department of Ecology called the Kennewick Irrigation District's pump exchange plan one of the best projects he's seen for Columbia River water management.

By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Feb. 3--Case VanderMeulen splits his days between his two operating dairies with some 2,250 cows near Sunnyside and the one he's building in Mesa to merge his milking operations.