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				With decent weather 
				to start the new year, the new pole building at the waste 
				treatment facility is moving along rapidly. 
				Picture by Mike Fak (Click on 
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The 
					New Year's Eve storm system that put Logan County under a 
					middaytornado warning left a number of homes around Lake 
					Petersburg in shambles.
 Photos taken Sunday indicate that the heaviest 
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 have been at the east end of the lake.
 
					Photo courtesy 
					of Robert Martin, 
					Mason County Democrat 
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		In this theater publicity image, Christopher Tierney portrays Spider-Man in a scene from the musical 
		"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" in New York. Tierney, the actor who 
		fell 30 feet and received multiple broken bones, says he can't wait to 
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			Stanford running back Stepfan Taylor (33) is chased by 
			several Virginia Tech players during the second half of the Orange 
			Bowl NCAA college football game on Monday in Miami. 
			They didn't catch him as Taylor went on to score. Stanford won the 
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