Pictorial
      Left, Highland High School librarian Julia Blanchard with a ninth-grade English class and, top right, middle school teacher Jessica Pyle teaches sixth grade mathematics.
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What's really at risk with federal permit?
      The well-orchestrated and carefully stated position presented by supervisors Tuesday on Highland New Wind Development's project requirements is baffling, at best.
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Pritchard House Tales
The cat's revenge or how I survived winter
By Ludford Creef
      One cold night during the winter of 2007 I awoke at 2 a.m. and got up to go to the bathroom and check the wood stove. The bathroom floor was very cold as I fumbled to find my slippers, which were even colder. Finally I ambled down the steps, the cold air was unpleasant and not what I expected.
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