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Jennifer Sharpe, right, and her mother, Pam, sold 17,328 boxes of cookies.
(By Romain Blanquart -- Detroit Free Press Via Associated Press)
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Sweet Sell of Success
· A Michigan Girl Scout troop is going to Europe this winter, thanks in large part to a troop member who sold 17,328 boxes of cookies.
Jennifer Sharpe, 15, set up shop on a street corner in Dearborn every day during Girl Scout cookie-selling season.
"We were always there. We never closed," said Pam Sharpe, Jennifer's mom. "At one point, Jenny got really sick and we did shut down early, and we heard about it the next day."
Jennifer's troop raised about $21,000 in this year's cookie sale, enough for a 10-day trip to Europe.
Cookie sales records are not kept at the national level, so it's not known if Jennifer has set an all-time record, but the two bakeries involved said she was the top seller for 2008.
Voting for Change
· The city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, has a new mayor. He's barely old enough to vote.
John Tyler Hammons, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma, was elected Tuesday with 70 percent of the vote. He defeated Hershel McBride, a former mayor of the city of 38,000.
Hammons called his win "the greatest, humbling and most awesome experience I've ever had."
He plans to stay in school while running the city.
The Hills Are Alive . . .
· If watching "The Sound of Music" makes you wish you were one of the von Trapp kids, here's your chance: The family's villa near Salzburg, Austria, will open as a hotel in July.
The 1965 movie is based on the true story of how an aspiring nun named Maria sang her way into the hearts of Baron Georg von Trapp and his children.
Guests staying at the Villa Trapp hotel will be able to sleep in the family's former bedrooms or get married in the private chapel. They also will be able to buy a build-it-yourself version of the gazebo where some of the filming took place.
