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Columbia Christian honor roll

BUCKHORN — Here are Columbia County Christian School honor roll students for the first marking period:

Warrior Run honor roll

TURBOTVILLE — Here are Warrior Run High School honor roll students for the first marking period:
 Distinguished

HOROSCOPES

FOR YOU WHO WERE BORN TODAY:You’re observant about everything around you. Because you are compassionate, you often choose to be a role model or a mentor for others.

U.S. runs $120B deficit in October

WASHINGTON (AP) —The federal government started the 2013 budget year with a $120 billion deficit in October, an indication that the nation is on a path to its fifth straight $1 trillion-pl

Straight talk about stooped posture

DEAR DRS. DONOHUE AND ROACH:Help, help, help. I’m getting stooped, I hate it, and I hope you can tell what I can do to keep it from getting worse. Will exercise help?

It’s never wrong to learn good writing skills

DEAR ABBY:I am delighted that you still offer the booklet “How to Write Letters for All Occasions.” When I was in my early teens, I ordered this booklet from you.

City officials deny anything fishy about precinct in lake

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) —Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day.

Bread buyer questions price hike

Just came back from the Giant Supermarket at Briar Creek Plaza. Sunday, Nov. 4, 12:30 p.m., went looking for a loaf of rye bread and Milano’s White Italian bread.

THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON

EDITOR’S NOTE:Economist Robert J. Samuelson says the welfare state must be acknowledged, reformed; excerpts from a column in The Washington Post.

EDITORIAL

As Pennsylvania school districts go, Benton is barely a teapot. But a tempest there over privatization neatly illustrates what’s wrong with public education statewide.