Prepare to be boarded, bitten by pirate bugs

Hungry bugs should vanish after area's first hard frost

Arrr, matey, they be harvesting the corn, so that's a sinking ship. Shiver me timbers, we need to start eating humans.

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• Flu shot clinics team up with polling places
• Military families get YMCA membership deal
• Agencies share their pain from state's cuts
• Fifth annual march urges passage of tax hike to assist poor
• Effort to expand junkyard clears planning, zoning panel
• Store plans fundraiser to support Kickapoo State Park
• Teen on probation accused of another sex-related crime
• Obituaries

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