Local man puts claw machine skills to good use
View full sizeJohn Ehlke | The Bay City Times”Sometimes you have to prime the machine and get it ready, ” said Fred Nowak of Essexville as he picks out a stuffed snowman from the bear claw machine at Pulaski Hall…

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Alpacas, chickens and goats at Bowne
The two female alpacas enjoy some outdoor exercise and food on the campus of John Bowne High School in Flushing. The animals are sheared once a year and yarn is made from their hair.

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Presents under the tree
“What do you really want for Christmas?” asks Harry four days before Christmas. Well, let’s see now. What I REALLY want for Christmas is: 1. World Peace 2. For children everywhere to have a home and food to eat 3. A size 10 body 4. A vacation home in the Caribbean 5. No facial hair I’m not going to hold my breath that any one of those will be under my Christmas tree. Instead, I look at my …

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Students take part in Super-Power Summit
Bob Eschliman, Editor Editor’s note: The following story did not appear in its entirety in this week’s newspaper. It will be re-run in full in next week’s print edition. We apologize for the production error.

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Certain genes boost chances for distributing variety of traits, drive evolution
Genes that don’t themselves directly affect the inherited characteristics of an organism but leave them increasingly open to variation may be a significant driving force of evolution, say scientists.

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