By Nancy Huddleston, Editor

Do the proposed intersection improvements at Highway 13 and County Road 101 provide a proverbial “win-win” for everyone in the city?

By Tim Gillette, Community Voices

Those in between times are with us again. You know the time between eating too much and spending too much. Oh you thought I was going to say something about Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays. Well I did, sort of.

By David Taylor, Spiritual Reflections

One of the classic spiritual tensions is between light and darkness. In our experience of life, darkness manifests itself as fear, brokenness, despair, oppression, suffering, etc. And yet darkness has not fully overcome the light. Both Judaism and Christianity focus on that darkness/light tension near the end of the calendar year. Both holidays were placed near the Winter Solstice to highlight that tension.

Are you interested in reading the public notices published in the December 5, 2009 print edition of the Savage Pacer newspaper? The page or pages on which those notices were printed are attached to this item, in the form of .pdf’s that can be opened with Adobe Acrobat.

By Karen Wheeler, Slice of Life

We went to Madison, Wis. a few weeks ago and had the best time ever. Things went especially well because we brought along my new best friend, Wanda. She was simply amazing! Not only was she extremely knowledgeable about the city, she also knew the quickest way to get to a new restaurant we wanted to try. She explained the exact route from the campus to our hotel, and could even tell us the names of all the city parks we drove by!

The following obituary is from the Dec. 5, 2009 print edition of the Savage Pacer newspaper:

Family Story Times will replace Toddler and Preschool story times throughout December at the Savage Library, 13090 Alabama Ave.

Family Story Times are Monday, Dec. 7 and Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 10:30 a.m. have the theme “Holiday Celebration.” Family Story Times are open to all ages and no registration is required.

The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Dec, 10, in the Diamondhead Education Center (Burnsville High School Senior Campus), 200 W. Burnsville Parkway, Burnsville.

Prior to the meeting, a superintendent's listening session will take place from 6 to 6:30 p.m. in the same location.

By Keighla Schmidt, Staff Writer

Trudy Allen is a geography teacher. She uses the maps on her Eagle Ridge Junior High School classroom walls and in text books to teach lessons every day. Now after a trip around the world, she’ll have some new maps to hang in her classroom.