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The Pleasant Valley Elementary School held its third annual Dewey Days on Wednesday night. It was the second year for the ...

Christmas Day is just so great, we don't want it to end. Boxing Day -- 26 December -- is a national holiday in the UK and in recent years the day has become associated with sales.

The art of tree collecting. After decades of collecting dust in basements, though, the Evergleams seem to have caught people’s eye once again. We’ve now been seeing a “post-aluminum Christmas tree ...

A storage bean bag — when your child's room is so full of stuffed animals you can't see the floor, just tell them to fill ...

The first present is for the boy. He is tempted, but he does not move. The grandfather opens the present slowly, unveiling a ...

An instant tent perfect for solo camping or camping with your family for one simple reason — you can set it up by yourself in ...

When you grow old, you slow down your pace and seek calm. You want to be away from the hubbub of city life and live for ...

Greet Jillana Joly Devine -Knickel, my younger daughter, and her husband, Wayne, who have arrived in town to rescue me from a mountain of paperwork. Wayne is well-educated, a Navy veteran, ex-Broadway ...

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It's been almost half a century since I first went to Croatia, part of Yugoslavia in those days. Shipped off for the summer ...