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Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 19

Goodbye to the widow and historic pharmacist

Degradation at Bione [a local sports complex] – teams in revolt

Offerings stolen from the Capucin [friars]

Italian newspaper headlines

Tragedy: Worker at Fiocchi [a factory] tries to kill himself, his mother wants to save him and dies

Black Thursday on the trains and Trenitalia threatens price increases

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 18

Vandals raid the Resinelli [a tourist area on the mountain above Lecco]: the shocking photos [note that choc = shock, not chocolate]

Tax fraud: troubles for Sergio Longoni

Free gift: the volume “In dialect you say it this way”

Sting: garbage tax goes up 30% for homes, shops, garages, and warehouses

Lecco ever more expensive: price increases for pasta and milk

Alone, depressed, and without work, architect takes his own life

Italian newspaper headlines

Scandal: young girl has sex at school in exchange for cell phone recharges

Albanian severely beats the owner of Bar Roma

The marathon crowns the Lecchesi: problems for the course signage

Tragedy: he shoots himself, but the bullet hits his mother. He is in life-threatening condition [“end of life”]

Everyday Italian: Newspaper Headlines 17

Lecco – Minors mistreated, three arrests

Dervio – The students plant trees

“Massacred” with blows his two children: arrested [massacrato di botte means severely beaten, but not literally massacred]

Sells her shop to cure her sick child in Canada

Italian newspaper headlines

Lecchese [resident of Lecco] donates bone marrow and refuses a reward of 700 thousand euros

Aggiungi un Posto a Tavola: Notte Per Non Dormire

Night for Not Sleeping

Continuing the story of Aggiungi un Posto a Tavola… God’s intention is that the inhabitants of the village will repopulate the earth after the imminent flood, and he wants them to get a headstart on it now, so he creates a magically seductive night in which love is in the air (along with a full moon and lots of stars), a night for not sleeping.

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