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BEV BENDA: My Coach Bev — How To Escape Back To School Shopping And Save Thousands of Dollars

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I recently read that the National Retail Federation projects parents will pay on average $970 for back-to-school expenses. “Back to School” shopping is the second-largest retail shopping season next to Christmas. So if each family spends roughly $1,000 annually, we are up to $13,000 on average from kindergarten to 12th grade! Ouch! Want to save thousands of dollars in back-to-school …

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TIM MADIGAN: Anything Mentionable — A Serendipitious Chance To Remember Mrs. Norton

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In 1965, my parents decided to move my younger brother and me from public to Catholic school in our little town in Minnesota. That meant I was the new kid in second grade, which probably explains, at least in part, why Mrs. Norton has such a special place in my heart. My teacher that year was tall and thin, somewhere …

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