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ing of products and conduct a customer survey.
• Markets in the study were open for 18 weeks on average during the growing season. Nearly half of all customers reported spending $10 to $20 on each trip, while 29 percent spent less than $10 on each visit.
• Fifty percent of customers bought fruits and vegetables at the market, 21 percent bought baked goods and 16 percent took home processed or prepared foods such as jelly, salsa or pot pies.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls leaders say another 3,500 people moved to the city in the last year.
• That 2.2 percent increase puts the city's population at 162,300, an increase of 28,000 over the last decade.
• Chief planning and zoning official Jeffrey Schmitt cited its diverse employment opportunities, fiscally sound government, strong local economy and other factors.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Northerners thawing out from a bitter freeze may get rewarded with shimmering northern lights the next couple days.
• Federal space weather forecaster Joe Kunches said the sun shot out a strong solar flare late Tuesday, which should arrive at Earth early Thursday. It should shake up Earth's magnetic field and expand the Aurora Borealis south, possibly as far south as Colorado and central Illinois. He said best viewing would probably be Thursday evening, weather permitting.
• The University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute predicts much of Canada and the northern fringes of the U.S. should see the northern lights. Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Seattle and Des Moines might see the shimmering colors low on the horizon.
• The solar storm is already diverting airline flights around the poles and may disrupt GPS devices Thursday.
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