Tree festival nets thousands 

December 18, 2006 on 7:45 pm | In Dalmatian News & Views |

Twenty decorated holiday trees and a host of silent auction items brought nearly $9,000 in donations to the Community Crisis Center on the first of two nights of bidding in the annual Festival of Trees.
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Jonathan Takiff | Some hot new games for older systems 
YOU MAY HAVE to jump through fire or fight off rivals to claim a Nintendo Wii or (harder still) a Sony PlayStation 3 at a retail outlet this season.
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Champlin students to analyze Mars photos 
Come Tuesday, 85 eighth-grade astronomy students in Champlin will hope for encouraging signals from far, far away. That’s when NASA will order its Odyssey orbiter to photograph five targets the students at Jackson Middle School have chosen on the surface of Mars. “They’re really getting excited,” said astronomy teacher Carla-Rae Smith. So excited that eighth-grader Carly Reiter last week found …
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