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MERCER, Wis. - The annual Candy Cane Festival is set for Dec. 13 in downtown Mercer. It marks the third year the festival has taken place, featuring a parade, baking contest and other activities. Each year, the planning committee selects "Candy Cane Royalty," including a Peppermint Princess and Candy Cane Queen. Winners are selected through an essay contest, with students in fourth through eighth grades competing for princess and ninth through 12th grade students competing for queen. Essays were...
NEW YORK (AP) - Thousands are celebrating in the heart of Manhattan as they await the lighting of the 85-foot-tall Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. Performers for Wednesday night's broadcast included Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Mariah Carey and Cyndi Lauper. Seventy-year-old Patricia Donnelly, of Greenwich, Connecticut, was there watching the lighting ceremony for the first time in 20 years. She was squeezed into a police-barricaded pen with her significant other, 74-year-old, Joseph...
To the Editor, To all of you who saw the Ironwood Theatre’s Idol competition Nov. 7-8, I’m sure you would agree with me that it was a wonderful, awesome, unbelievable production. To see this show that 70 devoted volunteers put on and the 45 youth and young adults that displayed their talents in, they are all winners. Such poise and charisma they showed was touching to all of us watching them perform. The seven winners, wow, the smiles on their faces I can’t forget. I would not have wanted to be a judge. Naima Adepado and her band were truly an...