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The Patch Spring Fling Photo Contest kicked off this month to start the warm weather season right. Readers submitted more than 240 photos, the best were picked out of the bunch and t...

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Voting closes at noon March 19.

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About 3,000 runners laced up and stretched out for this year's Run the Reagan road race on February 18, 2012. Results for each race -- half-marathon, 10K, 5K and one-mile events -- w...

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The Powell family was technically the winner of the Deck the House contest. But since the prize is $100,000 to Davis, CA., schools, Kristy Powell doesn't quite see it that way. “We a...

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I stood in the middle of the toy room floor, surveying the chaos left over from Christmas with a nervous twitch in my eye. I realized I needed help, and I thought some of you might t...

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Congratulations to the 24 Finalists in Patch’s "Deck the House" Contest. The Grand Prize Winner will be determined by your votes, and the public schools in the winner's town will rece...

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Christmas is almost here, which means there are just a few days left for holiday entertaining. So we put together three of our favorite appetizers that can be prepared in minutes and ar...

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As the last pieces of Halloween candy are being polished off, turkey and pumpkin pie are waiting around the corner. But just because the holidays have arrived, it doesn’t mean weight ga...