Peering down at his loafers, Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith frowned solemnly at a plaid scarf, top hat, carrot and two charcoal nubs in a heap on the wet, muddy pavement.

“I?m a little saddened our friend Frosty couldn?t be here today,” Smith told a handful of reporters. “It looks like he tried to come, but the weather got him.”

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