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Beware the hex of the polar vortex

School kids, local officials take "cold weather day(s)" as temperatures plunge

School's out for winter! School's out due to cold air!

Students at area schools could be heard singing a version of Alice Cooper's popular last-day-of-school tune as they snuggled up at home this past week. Well, maybe it was their parents who did the humming.

With temperatures plunging to nearly 40 degrees below...