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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines, Jan 2 2009

Lecco: Beats/strikes [female] companion – arrested

Pasturo [a small town in the mountains]: party in a mountain cabin, dies at 22 years. [We know from the local grapevine that the cause of death was probably a drug overdose. The young man dropped dead at the dinner table at a New Year’s party among friends.]

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines, Jan 1 2009

Left:

  • Savings: countdown: January 3 the sales begin, but some are already giving discounts
  • Falls into a creek and his friend saves his life
  • Happy birthday Riccardo! The great Cassin turns 100 [Italy’s “greatest living mountaineer,” a native of Lecco, turned 100 on January 2nd. There will be a statue etc.]

Center:

  • Taxes: The tax police discover 31 total tax evaders.
  • Another raid of vandalism, walls full of graffiti
  • Survery: choose the Lecchese of the year

Right:

  • Lecco: the struggle against [tax] evaders and loan sharks
  • Lecco: 15-year-old robbed by gang of bullies

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines, Dec 2008

headlines from Dec, 2008

Left:

  • The race for gifts paralyzes Lecco
  • Lecco [the soccer team] defeated during the last minutes

Center:

  • Nurse at Manzoni [hospital], native of Lecco, dies on the Medale [local cliff face]
  • Roads and trains in chaos [from holiday traffic, presumably]

Right:

  • Eluana: the decision [belongs to] the Udine clinic [this is a Terry Schiavo-like case, much debated this year in Italy]
  • Goodbye to Notaio Messina [a notaio is something between a notary public and a lawyer]
  • Crash: 17-year-old in critical condition

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Left:

  • Incredible: the [local boating club] goes to the America’s Cup, and the city government asks them for 264 thousand euros
  • Trains and roads are disgusting: Lecchesi protest
  • Soccer: Lecco loses and closes the last round of andata [? soccer term I don’t know]

Right:

  • Hospital: they weighed one kilo between the two: Sofia and Vittoria win the challenge of life
  • Airoldi & Muzzi increases fees by 200 euros per month

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Left:

  • Free gift: map of northern Lake Garda
  • Nudists at Pradello
  • Two commuters wounded
  • Disco party for dog Johnny – photo

Right:

  • Young person dies in a car run over by a train
  • Insert: housing market

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Upper left:

  • Health: “golden” consultations at the hospital and local health authority: they spend 2.3 million
  • Departments and services at the Manzoni [hospital] up for bidding by private interests?
  • Tragedy: mother of three dies in the crash

Left:

  • Free gift: the map of the pre-Alpine lakes
  • 350 thousand euros to the extortionists: gas station owner on the [?] (in the red)
  • “We sell bread, not coins”

Center left:

  • Free gift: the map of the pre-Alpine lakes
  • Volunteer dies at the fish farm
  • 140 public residences on the way

Center right:

  • Play and win very rich prizes
  • Lecco: Lario [lake] clean and safe: the interforce committee is born

Right:

  • Dangerous roads: in grave danger another mother
  • Tables in the piazza: a bar against town hall
  • Blu-celeste [light blue] rugby near Series B