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I hope you enjoy the 2008 Top Ten story list starting on the front page this week.

The National Weather Service has issued its official snowfall totals for the snowstorm that dumped a half foot of the white stuff on most of the Albert Lea area.

Snow and brisk northwest winds are expected to sweep into much of southern Minnesota on Saturday - prompting winter weather warnings and watches across the region.

Snow and high winds are expected to roar into the Twin Cities area this weekend, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a Winter Storm Warning through Sunday afternoon.

The teen phenomenon who earned national attention when he saved Truman's small-town grocery store has left the business.

Crystal Carr and Jerrid Wasmund of Owatonna announce the birth of a daughter, Autumn Marie, on July 8, 2008, at the Owatonna Hospital.

Crossroads Community Hospice will hold its tree-lighting ceremony at 5 p.m. Sunday on the front drive of Albert Lea Medical Center.

Brad and Mary Jo Gohla, owners of The Store in Elysian, have taken over operation of groceries in Truman and Kiester that used to be owned by Nick Graham.

Crossroads Community Hospice staff and volunteers will be at the following locations throughout the month of November with donation form envelopes: November 12th: Northbridge Mall, 10:00 a.m. To 12:30 p.m. ...

While Minnesotans wait to see who their next U.S. senator will be, Kiester Township residents also are in a "wait-and-see" mode.

Carol Soma was stunned when she learned she had been named the Blue Earth Area Schools Teacher of the Year.

Editor's note: Last in a series of stories on domestic abuse. She didn't know a man she worked with would become a friend, a boyfriend, and then put her in the hospital.

The mother of a two-year-old girl scalded with hot water has pleaded guilty to child neglect.

Originally published in the Oct. 3, 2008, print edition. This summer when it came to work, we didn't shirk.

Kiester a ' Clarence Norman Swain, age 75, of Kiester, died Sept. 28, 2008, at Parkview Care Center in Wells.

AgStar Financial Services' Fund for Rural America, a corporate-giving program, has awarded $20,000 in scholarships.

Drivers traveling on Highway 16 east of Blue Earth last Tuesday went by the Immanuel United Methodist Church at the intersection of County Road 13 for the last time.

Due to a decrease in its enrollment and as a cost saving measure, the United South Central School System closed the doors to the USC Middle School in the heart of Kiester effective June 1, 2008.

Marty Barnett watches his dog Coot launch himself from the dock during the DockDogs big air competition at the Midwest Dog and Hunt Expo Saturday at the Faribault County Fairgrounds in Blue Earth.

The dean of South Dakota State University's College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Gary Lemme , says he will leave the post at the end of the current semester.