The second-place winner of The Ledger’s Gingerbread Cookie Decorating Contest has been disqualified for being a professional baker. The rules state that entrants must be amateurs. The prize the winner received is being returned

Rochester’s Gingerbread House, 1104 N.

MADISONVILLE – In many ways, the Bobbie B. Fairfax School is just like other public schools

The Purcell Register will be closed Friday, January 1, for the New Year holiday. We will open Monday, January 4, at 8 a.m.

HOUGHTON – The gingerbread houses are back at the Carnegie Museum in downtown Houghton. The third-year exhibit has an edible recreation of the Copper Country, including the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, Quincy Mine Shaft and even the Carnegie Museum …

WINSTON-SALEM — The nine Saunders children around the table work over their gingerbread houses with the industry of elves. Tiny fingers spread pink icing across roofs and attach candies to the siding

Around 2:30 a.m. each day, Pam Rosone is up baking fresh pastries and coffee, preparing for the morning crowd of hometown regulars

New Year’s Eve dance, 8 p.m. to midnight, today, Belle Valley American Legion; features Rick Moore and the Country Choice Band with Harry Murel Moore; kielbasi, ribs, kraut; single, $15; couple, $25

• Making gingerbread houses is fun, giving them i… • Next census could give state added seat in Cong… Stanwood High School students paint a barn black Monday night as a memorial for Mason Derrick, a 2009 graduate who died in a car accident …

When I called to make my dinner reservation at Mirepoix – and reservations are a must for this 24-seat gem in downtown Windsor – the hostess wanted to be sure I knew the restaurant’s concept had changed in November. Rather than the a la carte French …