Halloween News

Anoka Halloween reps take in Winnipeg fest (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Several representatives of the Anoka Halloween festival attended the city of Winnipeg's 41-year-old Festival du Voyageur last month. Each year, the Winnipeg celebration invites people from a limited number of other long-established festivals.

Laval, Ugandan students doing business (Montreal Gazette)
When Grade 7 students at Laval Junior High School first wrote to children in Uganda they asked them about Halloween and Christmas.

Saline to host Princess and Superhero Fantasy Fun Night (The Saline Reporter)
Children in the Saline area have a chance to dust off their old Halloween costumes Friday, as Saline Parks and Recreation hosts Princess and Superhero Fantasy Fun Night in the recreation center's gym.

Where the wild things are (Telluride Daily Planet)
Nick Kenworthy of Pip’s Fine and Funky Consignment shop gets into the Halloween spirit. The shop offers all different kinds of costume ideas for the creative minded people of Telluride. [Photo by Brian Kozak]

Hockey season begins Nov. 1 (Telluride Daily Planet)
It won’t be long before Town Park is filled with red noses and the scraping of ice skates. Telluride’s winter alternative to soccer is forming teams now, with first ice to be the day after Halloween.

Slumping Nick Young struggles to find a place with the new-look Washington Wizards (Washington Post)
Nick Young is starting to feel left behind. A Halloween mask of Gilbert Arenas hangs in his locker room stall, a symbol of the friend and mentor who has been banished for the remainder of the season. His closest friend on the team, Dominic McGuire, is no longer sitting two stalls down after McGuire was traded to Sacramento.

Panel Part II: Playoffs need fewer days off; shorter spring (USA Today)
No one is suggesting the New York Yankees return the 2009 World Series trophy. And maybe Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cliff Lee would have still overpowered everyone in the postseason.

The Minnesotan who helped bring "Avatar" to earth (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
When the going got tough, director James Cameron turned to St. Louis Park-bred film editor Stephen Rivkin.

Oakland Raiders Team Report (USA Today)
Rather than simply hand the starting job to their presumptive quarterback of the future, the Raiders will make JaMarcus Russell work for it.

Green Bay Packers Team Report (USA Today)
The blunt words came first. An alleged harsh action soon followed.