Did you hear about the little boy who asked Santa for a baby sister last year? ...more

December 25, 2009

Christmas' effect on pocketbooks can be enough to reduce the good cheer. Like many wholesome traditions, people have found a way to slap a price sticker on the holidays. Every winter celebration will share the common thread, not of purporting religious and cultural motifs, not even of spending extra time with the people we're stuck with. The running trend weaving around Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice is the price tag. ...more

December 9, 2009

You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars. Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday. ...more

November 13, 2008

"The Necklace," by Cheryl Jarvis (Ballantine Books, $24) ...more

October 26, 2008

About 80 people attended an impromptu meeting of the Keystone Civic Association last week to discuss upcoming amendments to its community plan. ...more

January 19, 2008

KEYSTONE About 80 people attended an impromptu meeting of the Keystone Civic Association on Thursday night to discuss upcoming amendments to its community plan. ...more

January 11, 2008