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Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
Read more...Letters: West's comparisons with Nazis outrageous
Letters: West's comparisons with Nazis outrageous
Read more...Cool weather needed to kill toxins
Three area waterways with blue-green algae will remain under a warning "for the rest of the season," according to a spokeswoman for the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit.[...]
Read more...Sidewalk work continues downtown
The intersection of Cottage and Maple avenues on Fond du Lacs east side will be closed all week to allow concrete to cure.
Read more...Harness lightning for energy, thanks to high humidity?
Why do the roiling, black clouds of a thunderstorm produce lightning? Ben Franklin and others helped prove that such lightning was discharged electricity, but what generates that electricity in such prodigious quantities? After all, storms generate millions of lightning bolts around the globe every year--even volcanoes can get in on the act as the recent eruption of Eyjafjallajökull did when ...
Read more...Lemme Tell You Something!! "Ben 10: Alien Force" Vol. 8 Gets Good Again!!!!
Oh, Ben 10: Alien Force , why must you toy with my affections so? I was almost ready to write off the entire series after volume 7 , which took out much of what I liked about the show and replaced it with unlikeable characters and less interesting... [read more]
Read more...Man builds dream home near De Soto
DE SOTO — The house that Nick Bukacek built in rural De Soto islike nothing else folks in these parts have ever seen. It rises outof the distant landscape along Hwy. 82, Bukacek’s tribute to theland, the materials that come from the land and a vision that hasbeen decades in the making.
Read more...Duguid Meets With Ratepayer's Groups On Wind Turbines
Attention: Assignment Editor, Business/Financial Editor, Environment Editor, Energy Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor
Read more...A brief survey of the short story part 28: Vladimir Nabokov
There's no doubting that he's a master writer – but not of short stories In Paris in the late 1930s, Vladimir Nabokov duped a hostile critic, Ales Adamovich, by publishing a poem under the pseudonym Vasiliy Shishkov. Adamovich proclaimed it a masterpiece, then said when the truth came out that Nabokov was "a sufficiently skilful parodist to mimic genius". This judgment, quoted with relish by its ...
Read more...Motorin: Adair-Casey student climbs motocross ladder
Rob Gray looks at motor sports in central Iowa and beyond
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