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MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2015
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Jessica Reierson, left, Sydney Randall, center, and Jake Reierson, right, react to a display at the KOA haunted house Saturday night.
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North Coast
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RIGHT: An undead head is held up by a deer in the KOA haunted house.
See BEER 101, Page 10A
From social services to police in C.B.
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