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News
10 Halloween Fun Facts: Halloween is the Second Highest Grossing Holiday and More
1. Hope you have enough candy! In 2010 there were an estmated 41 million trick-or-treaters between the ages of 5 and 14. 2. That's a lot of pies. More than 1.1 billion poun...
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Opinion
Last-Minute, Clever and Easy-to-Make Halloween Costume Ideas
Mark my words. Courtesy of the recent presidential debates, expect to see an abundance of Big Birds, women in binders and maybe even some horsebacked, bayonet-waving fools on this year’s ...
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Sports
No Tricks, But Plenty of Treats on Saturday When Plymouth Hosts Kitchener
When the Plymouth Whalers host Kitchener on Saturday at 7:05 p.m. at Compuware Arena, expect no tricks on the ice. But the game might be a treat. For families and their kids, th...
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Halloween
Spooky Specs: Halloween Styles
Halloween is around the corner, and trick-or-treaters will be donning their costumes for parties and door-to-door quests for candy. On this eve of total disguise and transformation, Pearl...
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Opinion
Patch Picks the Top 10 Scariest Halloween Movies of All Time
Here it is. Halloween season. My favorite time of year. I love it more than Christmas, Thanksgiving and any other notable holiday. Maybe that's weird, but whatever. Those holidays a...
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Patch Reads
Scare Your Kids Into Reading with These Books for Halloween
All of us—adults, teens and children—enjoy a scary chill. What better time of year than Halloween to indulge in stories that make our spines tingle? It's the perfect time for ...
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Halloween
Zombie Fest!
Zombies. Pale faces. Blood. Ghostly eyes. Screaming. Running. More blood. My significant other loves the "Walking Dead," but a bit much too much gore for me. Zombies bite. But, ...
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Business
LIST: Top Halloween Costumes of 2012
Americans will spend nearly $3 billion on Halloween costumes this year, and the majority of them will dress as witches, vampires, princesses and other traditional outfits. The Nati...