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Associated Press Azoosement Park creative director Dutch Akers of Chrystal Lake, Ill. uses an airbrush to paint a cast aluminum carousel horse on April 8 inside the park's paint shop in East Dundee, Ill. The figures were cast from original molds from wooden horses designed by the Allan Herschell Carousel company of Tonawanda, N.Y.
Park carousel restoration becomes labor of love
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.  — A short walk from Santa’s house and the North Pole, in the pale blue building behind Old MacDonald’s Farm at Santa’s Village Azoosment Park in East Dundee, the park’s creative...
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Associated Press Madelyn Rosario, 17, holds up her prom dress on May 7 in Pennsauken Township, N.J.
Shopping for the prom poses challenge for full figured girls
PHILADELPHIA — Like most teenage girls, 17-year-old Madelyn Rosario is enamored with this spring’s prom dresses. She loves the trendy princess gowns and body-skimming mermaid frocks made popular...
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McClatchy News Service Sisters Hannah (left) and Holly Johnson maintain their father's alfalfa farm on May 15 in Laton, Calif.
Sisters grow agricultural roots tending family farm
FRESNO, Calif. — Sisters Hannah and Holly Johnson didn’t plan on being farmers, at least not now. More than a year ago, Hannah was consumed with her marketing career and Holly was fulfilling som...
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Veterans become campus’ driving force
  CHAMPAIGN, Ill.  — Mat Jasieniecki readily admits that after he graduated from high school, he partied a bit too much, and after a while his grandparents told him to shape up. Jasieniecki, who...
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Births
Harsha — Joslyn Marie Harsha, daughter of Alan and Melissa Calhoun Harsha of Paducah, May 6, 2013, Baptist Health Paducah. Grandparents are Thomas and Clara Calhoun of Paducah, and the late Elsie E...
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Associated Press Jennifer Wingerter watches (from left) Denver and Jadyn Green, Toby Beaver, and Dexter Ruffcorn as they race cars down tubes in Quincy, Ill. Wingerter, 35, managed to attend Quincy University as a full-time student during the past two years while simultaneously running a home day care five days a week.
Mom juggles family, business and college courses
QUINCY, Ill. — As a class assignment during her senior year at Quincy University, Jenn Wingerter was required to develop a blog. She called her Web-based musings: “The Great Juggling Act.” Th...
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Associated Press Normal Community West High School senior Kerrigan Tobin holds her favorite item from the Normal West Archival Project on May 9 while working in a classroom in Normal, Ill. The school's Social Studies Club has been archiving materials for months with help from professional training during field trips to the McLean County Museum of History.
Normal high school starts archive
NORMAL, Ill. — A football helmet, a shovel and high school locker decorations all have stories to tell about Normal Community West High School, and the school is making sure to preserve them. Th...
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Paducah Tilghman High School
The origin of the Paducah Tilghman High School mascot, the Blue Tornado, revolves around the dominance of the school’s football and basketball teams during the 1920s. The first reference to the ...
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How to train your best friend
DEKALB, Ill. — When Marcia Poff first acquired Quincy, he was a terror. The Doberman pinscher was wild and out of control. But with a little love and a lot of training from Poff, he has grown to...
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Lone Oak High School
Lone Oak High School has had two costumed mascots, Peppi the mouse and the Purple Flash. One was an invention of the cheerleading squad, the other was a winner of a school-wide contest. Accordin...
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