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VETERANS DAY 2009
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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.

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GREEN HOUSE BLOG
Calling fowl over chicken arguments
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, Lockport will vote on whether to lift its chicken ban. Plenty of upstanding municipalities, including Naperville, allow chickens in backyards. They're a good source of local, sustainable food. But plenty of people have a knee-jerk reaction and think they should be banned everywhere? But their arguments just crack under examination.

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