VETERANS DAY 2009
Salute your veteran

Veterans Day 2009 is Nov. 11. Celebrate your veteran by sharing a picture and a story about him or her. To submit, click
here. Please include your full name, along with the full name and town of residence of your veteran, and a brief description of your veteran's service to the country. We will publish photos in our online gallery.
Photos: Saluting our veterans
COFFEE MUGS
Love your mug? Tells us why

Coffee drinkers have two passions: their coffee and the mug from which they drink it. Share a photo of your favorite mug and tells us the story behind it by clicking
here. Please include your full name and town of residence, and brief description of why you love your mug and how you got it. We will publish them in our online gallery.
Photos: Favorite coffee mugs
Accused drunken driver flips car
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Accused drunken driver flips car
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Child in critical condition after pool incident
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Geneva seeks bids for road project
Body betrayed, Geneva man fights on
Cities, towns cut back on holiday celebrations
Parolee charged in stabbing, beating
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Wistful "write soon" phrases have kept two women connected across the Atlantic Ocean for 52 years. One from the Midwest and one from Finland, they met on paper in 1957.
Local Briefs: A hole in one
Scott Mickelson used a 5-iron to ace the par-3, 147-yard 10th hole at Phillips Park on Oct. 18.
Witnesses were Tim Carlson and Matt Bartlett.
'Pirate Radio' set was one big 1960s music fest
Bill Zwecker: Along with outfitting his entire cast with iPods featuring some 300
songs from the mid-’60s, "Pirate Radio" director Richard Curtis felt it important to have that music
blasting from speakers all over the boat, during lunch breaks or any
time they weren’t filming specific scenes. ‘‘You just couldn’t escape it — nor did we want to,’’ said actress Talulah Riley.
Artists getting acts together downtown
John Cusack saves the world in apocalyptic '2012'
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