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Congress has much to do, not much time to do it

Congress went back into session after its summer recess on Sept. 9 with a full plate of competing demands. With the fall elections less than two months away, members want to walk away with some accomplishments — but not spend much time achieving them. Or as Roll Call put it, they want “to get out of Washington as quickly as possible while doing just enough to avoid a government shutdown.”

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Saying goodbye from the library

These last two years as the children’s librarian of the Litchfield Public Library have been full of joy, music, laughter and so many smiles. I’ve been so fortunate to get to know wonderful families in this community and to provide them with opportunities for their kids to have fun.

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Logging in to a record

By day, Mark Schmidt works as a manufacturing engineer at IRD Glass in Litchfield. Afterhours and onweekends,Schmidt fabricates light-colored toy logs at his rural Darwin shop that can create all kinds of structures — including one of record-breaking proportions.

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