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For the most part, temperatures have been around 10 to 15 degrees below normal, with windy conditions making it feel colder, he said.
• One ski resort in New Hampshire shut down on Wednesday because of unsafe ski conditions -- a predicted wind chill of 48 degrees below zero.
• In northern Maine, the temperature dipped to as low as 36 below zero Wednesday morning. The weather service was calling for wind chills as low as minus 35 overnight into Thursday.
• Keith Pelletier, the owner of Dolly's Restaurant in Frenchville, Maine, said his customers were dressed in multiple layers of clothing and keeping their cars running in the parking lot while eating lunch. It was so cold that even the snowmobilers were staying home, he said.
• "You take the wind chill at 39 below and take a snowmobile going 50 mph, and you're about double that," he said. "That's pretty cold."
• The cold air has been blamed for multiple deaths.
• In northern New Hampshire, a man died Wednesday after crashing his snowmobile while going over a hill on Tuesday and spending a "bitterly cold night" injured and alone on a trail, the state's Fish and Game Department said.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The state Education Department says 10 South Dakota classroom teachers were among the nearly 4,980 teachers nationwide who achieved National Board Certification last year.
• That brings the total number of South Dakota teachers to earn the recognition to 99.
• State Education Secretary Melody Schopp says the national certification demonstrates the teachers are committed to student learning and their own growth as teachers.
• Schopp says it takes a teacher up to three years to complete the national certification process. She says teachers who are National Board Certified demonstrate advanced teaching knowledge, skills and practices similar to the certifications earned by experts in law and medicine.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A Pierre woman has pleaded guilty to stealing money from the sale of Girl Scout cookies.

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