Two women and a child enjoy a walk along the riverfront in Leach Park. The unseasonably warm weather the past two weeks melted all the snow from an early winter snowstorm. With the winter solstice arriving Dec. 21, temperatures are expected to be more like fall than the middle of winter.
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