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• Sara-Ann Wolf of Peru balances near an unbalanced landmark, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Wolfe's tour of Italy also brought her to Rome and Florence. Our judges at the Press-Republican, and voters on Facebook, picked Wolf's entry as this year's best.

  

• Jannette and Rich Knight of Peru pose with their newspaper in Eze, France, which was one of the stops on their July 2012 cruise.

  

• Dan Ladue of Plattsburgh visited the West Fjords of Iceland last summer. Few people live in this extraordinary region of breathtaking vistas

  

• While exploring and hiking in Seward, Alaska, Nancy Olsen stands at a sign directing residents to higher ground. In 1964 a devastating earthquake resulted in a Tsunami that inundated Seward. Olsen writes that, going still higher on a side trail up Lowell Canyon she found a flock of 20 Dall sheep climbing up a talus slope.

  

• Kathleen McGee (right) of Dannemora poses with friend Tina Manion during a visit to St. John and St. Maarten in the British Virgin Islands. McGee submitted this photo from a May 2011 vacation.

  

• Joseph, Samer and Beth Siouffi (from left) of Plattsburgh visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa with the Press-Republican during a 10-day Italian vacation early last summer. The Siouffis spruced up their photo by also wearing official Plattsburgh Mayor's Cup T-shirts.

  

• Caitlin Kozak of Mooers, camping at Yellowstone National Park, seems engrossed in the local news while a buffalo settles down for a nap beside her campsite.

  

• Caroline Averill of Plattsburgh vacationed in New Orleans. While in the French Quarter she visited the tomb of Marie Laveau, also known as the Voodoo Queen.

  

• Gege A. Fliss of Peru visited family in the Philippines for her vacation. Here she is with the Press-Republican in a village about 600 miles south of Manila.

  

• Minnie McQuinn of Malone took her vacation in Great Britain. Here she visits Edinburgh Castle, Scotland, with the Press-Republican. McQuinn and her husband, Larry, also visited England and Wales.

  

• Bunny Adler of Plattsburgh submitted this photo of her husband, Bob, catching up on the local news while he rappels down a line in Costa Rica's Monte Verde Cloud Forest Preserve.

  

• Bruce Bulriss, Carmen Coupal Davison, Holly Coupal and Crystal Bulriss posed for this photo on Fremont Street in Las Vegas. The Bulrisses, who are from Mooers, submitted this photo.

  

• Sisters Sandy Bazzano, Kate Bazzano, LIz Bazzano and Cindy Snow took their newspaper on a whirlwind vacation to France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Here, they visit the Dom Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. Snow, who is from Plattsburgh, submitted the photo.

  

• Stacie Quin, Dorothy Metz, Barbara Quinn and Linda Bigness of Malone and Saranac Lake pause to read the Press-Republican while on a pilgrimage to Medjugorge, Croatia.

  

• Mary "Mimi" Dixon of Keeseville took a break from the beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic to pose with the Press-Republican.

  

• The crew at Crickets Casual Food and Spirits in Peru, including owners Dickie and Paula Nephew, took a trip to Las Vegas. Pictured here are (top row, from left) Steve Harris, Kim Carpenter, Maha, Ashley Norton and Tricia Harris; (middle row, from left) Perry Maynard, Paula Maynard-Nephew and Meagan Holderman; and (bottom row, from left) John-Mark Ford, Paul Maynard, Dickie Nephew and Mike Mischler.

  

• Patricia Parker and and Cathy Devins of West Chazy visited Mystic Mountain, Jamaica, as part of a Caribbean cruise. Coincidentally, one of the A1 headlines on the paper they brought concerns a housing charity in Jamaica.

  

• Jim, Mary and Alex Maston of Plattsburgh visited Sydney, Australia, for the 2011 Thanksgiving holiday. Of course, they brought their Press-Republican along. The Mastons won our random drawing prize.

  

• Brandon Menard of Altona and a skeletal friend seem to have found something fascinating in the Press-Republican as friend Andrew Badger (left) looks on. They snapped this photo at Downtown Disney in the Walt Disney World Resort.

  

• Laura Jennings of Cadyville submitted this photo of her husband, Howard Jennings, on the Great Wall of China near Beijing. She was photographed in another entry. The Jennings visited with a Chamber of Commerce trip.

  

• In a turnaround for the vacation contest, here is someone from away who vacationed here and submitted an entry. Joan Short of Auburn, N.Y., and her husband vacationed in Plattsburgh to visit and babysit their granddaughter, Camila Short of Plattsburgh.

  

• Sharon Chaney of Plattsburgh took a cruise with friends to the U.S. Virgin Islands in January. Here they are overlooking St. Thomas Island: Bernadette Trudeau, Chaney, Veronica Murphy and Jeanne Matyas (from left).

  

• Debbie Cardin of Rouses Point took a "stay-cation" with her two granddaughters, Maddie Arno, 2, of Rouses Point (left) and Caitlyn Harvey, 4, of Chazy. Here they catch up on the news while waiting for their laundry to finish in Plattsburgh.

  

• Lukah Kavlock of West Chazy visited the Hotel de Glace in Quebec City, one of only two hotels made entirely of ice and snow.

  

• Debbie Carpenter of Morrisonville poses with the Press-Republican on vacation in Nassau, Bahamas. She visited an authentic Bahamian street festival called a "junkanoo."

  

• Dean and Fay Lamica of Peru brought the Press-Republican along on their first wedding anniversary. The couple celebrated in Maine. Here they pose near the Nubble Lighthouse in York, Maine.

  

• Ann Robbins of Plattsburgh submitted this photo of a trip she made with Nancy Charbonneau to Egypt in December 2011. Here they visit the Great Pyramid of Giza.

  

• Howard Jennings of Cadyville submitted this photo of his wife, Laura Jennings, in traditional dress for a visit to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. He was photographed in another entry. The Jennings visited this and several other historical attractions.

  

• Linda St. Pierre of Port Henry took this photo of her three grandchildren, Michael Stipo, Madeline Ferrara and Delaney Hughes, on the beach in Labadee, Haiti. They visited on a family cruise in February.

  

• Betty O'Leary of Plattsburgh holds her newspaper at the entrance to Tanzania National Park. Her safari vacation brought her to Kenya and Tanzania.

  

• Beverly and Ronald Lautenschuetz of Redford take a moment from their honeymoon trip to Belize to pose with the Press-Republican near the Altun Ha Mayan ruins.