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The deadline to submit Santa Letters to The Springfield Sun is 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 3. Photos may be submitted with letters. Make sure to include your name, age and address. Age limit for letters is 11 years old. The letters will be judged with first place winner receiving $15, second place will receive $10 and third will receive $5. The letters will appear in the Santa Section on Wednesday, Dec. 25 and on news stands Dec. 24.

In what the Kentucky State Police said was the largest one-day drug round-up in agency history, 479 people across the state were arrested on Friday of last week.

The arrests, resulting in 774 charges, were part of ‘Operation Black Friday.’
According to a press release from the KSP, the initiative utilized “every available sworn unit within the agency” and was the “direct result of law-abiding citizens providing tips via phone calls, messages, letters and information to the anonymous tip lines.”

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

That’s the well-known (though unofficial) creed that is engraved outside of the James A. Farley Post Office building in New York City. For many with the United States Postal Service, that motto leads as an example of what to strive for in their careers. For Marshall Simpson, it’s simply the natural way of things.