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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Week in Review, Aug 21 to 27

A girl's best friend, new teachers, a candidate emerges, arrests and some wild weather this week in Lexington.

Oh what a week this was in Lexington. The week began with video of a young Lexington girl meeting her new best friend, a 2-year-old Labrador retreiver she received from Canine Companions for Independence, a nation wide non-profit organization that trains and provides assistance dogs for persons with disabilities other than blindness.  But what followed that hear-warming piece took a turn for the worse, as police incidents revealed an OUI arrest and an investigation into an alleged drive-by involving a BB gun and some soda. An earthquake shook the East Coast Tuesday afternoon, but didn't have much of an impact on Lexington as dispatch received no quake-related calls. Before the shaking got started, school officials welcomed about 60 new …

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