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Yo, Betsteroids, note the date on this issue. That’s right, it’s Feb. 7, a week out from National…
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Worried that Homer had settled into a nice, calm stable weather pattern? Did you fear that our reputation…
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Over the past few weeks, Facebook has been mixing up its status questions. One week it was “How…
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You know how in the police blotter sometimes cops pull over motorists because they crossed the center line?…
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Yours truly does not like to be the town scold, always grumping about something that really doesn’t matter.…
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Starting at midnight today, there are 521,280 minutes left in the year. You already blew the first 1,440…
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Oops. Santa Claus seems to have messed up the Betster’s Christmas wish list. “A new snow shovel,” the…
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How can you find joy in a season when in a small New England town 26 families bury…
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If you’re reading this on Thursday morning or anytime after Dec. 13, well, whew, the world didn’t end.…
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With only 19 shopping days left until Christmas, now is when seasoned shoppers get frantic. We Alaskans know…
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Recently an alert citizen called the paper saying a friend overheard some government types at a café talking…
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Slouching into middle age, the Betster has been facing the bitter reality of a youth-deficient body. Things just…
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Slip sliding down West Hill Road the other day in a thermally confused snowstorm, the Betster realized that…