In Tuesday's non-league game, the North Pole Patriots basketball team edged the visiting Eielson Ravens , by a score of 62-56.

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Winter training for a summer expedition Of course, Lonnie and Eric will be traveling in the summer, but remember that summer across the Arctic Ocean and at the North Pole resembles a Minnesota winter. Lonnie and Eric have progressed from fall training of pulling tires and backpacks full of bricks up the Sawtooth Mountains to pulling kayaks across the frozen lakes of the Boundary Waters.

"If there was ever a time on this expedition where we wanted to just give up and go home, this was it."

After two months explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larson have become the first to walk to the North Pole during the summer. They had to traverse slabs of ice and open water in modified canoes to complete their journey. This expedition was launched by Greenpeace to raise awareness about global warming and its possible victim, the polar bear. Bill and Barbara talked with Lonnie and Eric when they called us from the North Pole.

A motorcyclist died in an accident in north Houston overnight.

North Pole City Council members voted at their last meeting to donate two lots in the Highway Park area to Habitat for Humanity.