DETROIT -- Well over 1,000 Metro Detroit residents found at least a short-term cure to economic troubles Friday when they enjoyed carols, hot chocolate and the annual lighting of the holiday tree at Detroit's Campus Martius Park. "Just let it all go ...
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Green and blue are the colors of the holiday season this year, and hundreds of people gathered to see the colors illuminate the planted Christmas tree Friday evening at Heritage Plaza in downtown Woodland. Downtown merchants organized the tree ...
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Graveside services for Gussie Patterson, New London, were Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008, at the Lakewood Cemetery in Henderson with the Rev. Cary Ponder officiating. Services are under the direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. Mrs. Patterson ...
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The 11-year-old son of a Fairfield woman who was stabbed to death at her retail clerk's job is being denied his mother's workers' compensation death benefits by the store's insurance company. The reason? The firm says the woman was killed because of ...
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Sidwell Friends School in northwest Washington. Quakers established some of the earliest independent schools in America: Philadelphia's William Penn Charter School was founded in 1689, New York's Friends Seminary in 1786, Sidwell in 1883 (when it was ...
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After Peder and Karla Christensen left Denmark for Minnesota in the early 1900s, they started a rose nursery in Maplewood, built a house near some woods and planted a blue spruce tree in the back yard. The nursery is long gone, but the house and tree ...
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Snowflakes whipped out of dark clouds Friday to swirl around a funeral procession silently winding through the Naval Academy campus. Wrapped in gray blankets, two sisters of Midshipman 4th Class Frederick Henry Eissler walked behind his casket ...
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