Portsmouth announces the theme for Dec. 1 holiday parade

I also read an article from Seacoast Online to get some local news.  I'm from Portsmouth NH so I wanted to check out what was going on in my town.  While the article I read about Libya was very serious, this article was very light-hearted, and almost fun!  I love going to the holiday parade every year and I usually go with friends.  When I was a kid I used to walk to downtown Portsmouth with my parents and watch the parade (with a cup of hot chocolate, of course!).  That's why this article was so interesting to me, it definitely has an emotional appeal to people who live in the area and remember going to the holiday parade as kids.  It was interesting for me to read this article after reading the article about Libya because it really shows that a news story can be about anything current.  I mean, one article I read was about the attacks on the American embassy in Libya (a very intense subject) while the other was about a local holiday parade (a very non-intense subject!).  All aspects of a news story were in both articles but they were very different stories.