December 27, 2007 edition


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COVER STORY:

Homeless for the holidays

The Dunphy family of Somerton received an early Christmas gift this year.
It might seem a strange thing to say, but this year’s special gift arrived with a devastating fire that ravaged the family’s 130-year-old hilltop home on County Line Road.
The Dec. 16 inferno claimed virtually every material possession owned by Michael and Janet Dunphy, as well as those of the five youngest of their seven children. It left their three-story stone and wood-frame home looking like a medieval ruin.
The fire also left Janet Dunphy burned and battered, a result of her desperate leap from a second-story window . . .

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Editorial:

Never again

Word that Archbishop Ryan High School’s former principal, the Rev. Charles Newman, is charged with stealing nearly a million dollars from the school and from his religious order, the Franciscan Friars, and that he allegedly used hush money to buy the silence of a former student whom he had sexually abused, couldn’t have come at a better time for the good folks who attend or teach at the school, or whose children attend the school.
This is, after all, the middle of the . . .

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