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Bert Nash leader offers tips on how to survive stress of holidays

Happy. Merry. Jolly. These are all adjectives used to describe the holidays. But who are we kidding? How about demanding? Hectic? Depressing?

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Little Claire is 1st baby of 2012
By Shaun Hittle
January 1, 2012
No one chooses to give birth to the first Lawrence baby in the new year; there are too many variables, and it just comes down to luck.
NYC, world ring in 2012, bid adieu to a tough year
Associated Press
January 1, 2012
Revelers erupted in cheers amid a confetti-filled celebration in New York’s Times Square to welcome in the new year, part of star-studded celebrations and glittering fireworks displays around the world to usher in 2012.
Warming up to unexpected weather
Spring-like temperatures inspire outdoor activities
By Alex Garrison
January 1, 2012
Before New Year’s Eve parties got started, many people on Saturday got to celebrate a less-annual joviality: unseasonably warm weather.
Dave Barry’s 2011 in review: A ‘train-wreck of a year’
Dave Barry
January 1, 2012
It was the kind of year that made a person look back fondly on the Gulf oil spill. Granted, the oil spill was bad. But it did not result in a high-decibel, weeks-long national conversation about a bulge in a congressman’s underpants. Which is exactly what we had in the Festival of Sleaze that was 2011.
Anatomy of a hangover: Is there anything you can do?
By Shaun Hittle
December 30, 2011
Dry mouth, pounding headache, queasy stomach, body aches — all standard fare the morning after a heavy-drinking New Year’s Eve celebration.
Walking while drunk can be dangerous on New Year’s
By Christine Metz
December 30, 2011
We all know it’s a bad idea to become smashing drunk and then get behind the wheel of car. But what about people who trade the keys in for a pair of shoes?
Highway Patrol reports no fatalities in traffic accidents over holiday weekend
By Christine Metz
December 27, 2011
With no fatalities from traffic accidents, the Kansas Highway Patrol is declaring that the Christmas holiday weekend was a fairly safe one.
Registers keep ringing to tune of gift cards, exchanges
By George Diepenbrock
December 26, 2011
Christmas came one day late for Colin Neill — in a good way.
Volunteers help make free community dinner a success
By Andy Hyland
December 25, 2011
Hundreds of volunteers helped dish out a free Christmas dinner Sunday to anyone who cared to partake of the Lawrence Free Community Christmas Dinner.
Not all workers get holiday off
Essential services — and battery sales — must be maintained on Christmas
By Andy Hyland
December 25, 2011
On the one day that this country comes closest to standing still, I’m going to work. And I’m not alone. Since I had to work, I decided to catch up with a whole bunch of other people who were at work, too, and give them a chance to talk a bit about the whole experience, or, at the very least, break up the boredom.
Keep your tree green — recycle it
By Christine Metz
December 25, 2011
When your live-cut Christmas tree branches are no longer lovely, the city of Lawrence will recycle them.
Santa trackers having record holiday
Associated Press
December 25, 2011
Santa’s piling up more than presents this year. The big man’s trackers at NORAD say Santa Claus also broke records this Christmas Eve.
Cancer fighter receives caroling surprise
By Aaron Couch
December 23, 2011
When Becky Wisdom looked out her front door, she saw dozens of smiling people clutching sheet music.
Love of lights spreads like wildfire
By Aaron Couch
December 23, 2011
It started with several strings of lights and two houses. It grew to encompass an entire street.
No snow expected in Lawrence area for Christmas
By Alex Parker
December 23, 2011
If you were dreaming of a white Christmas, well, keep dreaming.

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