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By RODNEY D. BOAM Citizen editor The Cache Singles 31+ will hold their annual Single Adult Conference on Oct. 18-21, in Logan. The four-day event will have something for just about everyone. There will be musical entertainment to enjoy and speakers to learn from. For the most part the conference will be held at...

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A third-annual 5K Run/1K Walk will be held in Preston on Oct. 20 to raise funds for the Preston Special Olympic Team. The event will start at 9 a.m. at 310 N. State Street behind the LDS North Stake Center, said officials, who encourage participants to wear Halloween costumes. No masks please, they added....

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By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor A fundraising Craft Fair will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Franklin County Community Center, 64 W. 100 S., Preston. Center director Carol Parker said vendors will sell home decor items including Rada knives, Doterra Essential Oils, quilts, custom signs, candies, bird houses, clocks, Pampered Chef,...

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By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor The 2011-12 water year ended on Sept. 30 much drier than normal in the Preston area at 10.62 inches. Normal is 16.97 inches. That is close to 63 percent of normal. Only one year ago the water year ended wetter than normal in Preston at 24.26 inches. King...

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The Preston Hometown Quilt Show, sponsored by the Preston Piecers Quilt Guild, will be held Oct. 11-13 at the Larsen-Sant Library Conference Room. Enter your works of art – all sizes, all levels of skill – pieced, embroidered, appliqueed, etc., hand or machine quilted. No tied quilts, purchased quilts or quilts that have been...

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Plenty of carriers found, but none had the virus  By ROBERT S. MERRILL Assistant editor   Mosquito abatement efforts in Franklin County have come to an end for 2012 and none of the insects trapped and tested were shown to carry West Nile Virus. “During the course of the spring, summer and fall we...

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By RODNEY D. BOAM Citizen editor   Hannah May Waite, daughter of Aden and Eve Waite of Clifton, finished in the top 10 of the Distinguished Young Women (DYW) of Idaho pageant held in Idaho Falls last Saturday night. The West Side High School senior played a piano solo for her talent at the competition....

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