CONWAY POLICE ARE ENCOURAGING SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS – BOTH VALLEY RESIDENTS AND VISITORS – TO PROTECT THEIR EQUIPMENT BY REGISTERING IT. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT’S REGISTRATION DATABASE WILL BE LINKED WITH OTHER POLICE AGENCIES AND INFORMATION WILL STAY ON FILE FOR TWO YEARS. REGISTRATION FORMS CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE POLICE STATION AND VARIOUS PARTICIPATING [...]

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VOTERS IN ALBANY HAVE DEFEATED A PROPOSAL TO SPEND 450-THOUSAND DOLLARS TO BUY ABOUT 300 ACRES OF LAND ON THE KANC AND BALD HILL. TOWN CLERK KATHY VIZARD SAYS A TWO THIRDS MAJORITY WAS NEEDED TO APPROVE THE PLAN. AT LAST NIGHT’S SPECIAL TOWN MEETING 83 VOTED IN FAVOR OF THE PLAN AND 66 AGAINST. [...]

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New Year’s Eve Superstitions (snopes.com) From kissing at midnight to making sure a tall, dark man is the first person to cross your threshold, people around the world have observed numerous customs to make sure they have a happy and prosperous year. Here are some of them: Kissing at midnight: Nobody to kiss as we [...]

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Actress Mia Farrow’s adopted daughter, Vietnamese-born Lark Previn, has died at age 35, the Associated Press reports. Previn died Christmas Day at a Brooklyn, New York, hospital. No cause of death has been revealed. Lark was one of three children adopted by Farrow and her then-husband, conductor Andre Previn. The couple also had three biological [...]

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THE CONWAY DAILY SUN SAYS A 48-YEAR-OLD OSSIPEE MAN WHO’S A CONVICTED RAPIST HAS BEEN ORDERED HELD WITHOUT BAIL AFTER BEING CHARGED WITH SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WAKEFIELD WOMAN, THREATENING POLICE WITH A KNIFE AND RAMMING A POLICE CRUISER IN A HIGH SPEED FLIGHT INTO TAMWORTH. THE SUN SAYS A JUDGE CITED THE QUOTE “EXTREME VIOLENCE [...]

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* Zooey Deschanel has reportedly become engaged to Ben Gibbard, frontman for indie-rock band Death Cab for Cutie. Per E! Online, the 32-year-old musician proposed to 28-year-old Deschanel the weekend before Christmas. It will be the first marriage for each. Deschanel, currently on-screen opposite Jim Carrey in Yes Man, previously dated Jason Schwartzman. *Paris Hilton, [...]

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*Estimated ticket sales for Friday (December 26th) through Sunday (December 28th) at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday (December 29th). 1. Marley & Me, $37 million. 2. Bedtime Stories, $28.1 million. 3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, $27 million. 4. Valkyrie, $21.5 million. 5. [...]

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A NYC radio announce has made his own parody of the video for Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” Click Here

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*Singer, dancer, actress and self-described “sex kitten” Eartha Kitt died Thursday (December 25th) at the age of 81, Reuters reports. According to her long-time friend and publicist, Andrew Freedman, Kitt died of colon cancer. Kitt was initially diagnosed with the disease two years ago and treated, but after a period of remission it returned. She [...]

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*A wrongful death lawsuit against director Peter Berg has been dissmissed, the Associated Press reports. Berg was sued by the parents of Nick Papac, an assistant propmaster killed in a sport utility accident while filming the 2007 Middle East war movie The Kingdom. Court records show Papac’s parents moved for dismissal last week, but don’t [...]

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