By Kate Elizabeth Queram   kqueram@dnronline.com

When the average theatergoer thinks of opera, words such as “boring” or “hard to understand” may spring to mind. With the fall production of “Carmen,” Don Rierson, director of the James Madison University Opera Theater, aims to change that.

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By Jacquelyn Walsh   jwalsh@dnronline.com

At Westover Park, fifth grade girls gather inside the Cecil F. Wilkerson Community Activities Center after school. They giggle and joke with one another, eager to catch up on the day’s events as most fifth grade girls are apt to do. But these girls are gathered for more than a social hour. They are training, physically and mentally, for a 5K run in less than two months.

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