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White Christmas

Hamburg’s city crews were busy during the Christmas week clearing snow. After a deep freeze of Christmas temperatures and a blanket of holiday snow, the thermometer returned to more pleasant readings for New Year’s week.

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Food Collection Contest

Hamburg’s Charter High School 9th Grade Civics Class did a contest with students from Pre-K through 6th grade to help supply the Hamburg Inter-Church Food Pantry. The students brought food items to school and the class that brought the most items we treated to a pizza party. The students nearly 3,000 food items to the pantry. The Inter-Church Food Pantry would like to thank the Civic Class and all student that participated. Photos Contributed

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Popular songs to stream this holiday season

The holiday season is steeped in tradition. One of the most popular traditions is playing holiday music, which many retailers begin to broadcast over their PA systems shortly after people put their Halloween costumes in storage. The popular music streaming platform Spotify tracks the most popular holiday songs each year, and 2021 featured a mix of some newer songs and some all-time classics. According to Spotify, these five songs were the most streamed holiday tunes on the platform between November 1 and December 9,

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Repeating Itself

with Phyllis Buell Hearing and reading about the snowstorm that shut down western Nebraska last week, I thought about other years when there were other memorable winter storms. My ancestors didn’t take time to record happenings in their personal lives.

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