The entrance to Valley View Elementary School in the Minneapolis suburb of Columbia Heights resembles a food pantry these days, with cabinets filled with cans of food products and plastic crates brimming with children’s clothes.
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Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
Billboards were even erected this year in Munich, reminding fans that the memorial is an alcohol-free zone after a couple of fans brought crates of beer last time round.
In a video of the incident, about a half-dozen women, unarmed and dressed for the classroom, square off against at least four masked agents of the federal government, their chests puffed out under bulky tactical gear.
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Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
For years, simple pine chests with large, circular knobs have been a dime a dozen at antique stores.
The visiting locker room has comparatively low ceilings, ugly carpet and utilitarian lockers.
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Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
1 Feb. 2026
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia ban phones throughout the school day but allow students to keep them in accessible storage, such as lockers or backpacks, according to the report.
According to the village website, garbage spilling out of dumpsters, not picking up pet waste, spilling birdseed from bird feeders, open compost bins, throwing food on the ground for birds, cats and other animals, and dumpsters and garbage containers in disrepair can be food sources for rats.
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Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
Some of the sensory tools in our bins that my daughter especially enjoyed are poppers, slug fidgets, pushpeel sensory boards, and an expanding breathing ball.
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