The Department of Development may be changing their strategy a little bit when it comes to nine houses involved in a city housing rehabilitation project. Crystal Surdyk, city development director, told Housing Committee members the long term goal is to get the nine houses homeowner occupied. ...

CLYMER — Next year, the wind will come sweeping down the plains from Oklahoma to the town of Clymer, as their local community theater group, Cast and Company, has recently announced their plans to return in 2025 with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” The last musical put on by ...

Chanukah (or Hanukkah) 2024 begins at sundown on Wednesday and ends the evening of Thursday, Jan. 2. Celebrating Chanukah and other Jewish holidays began in mid-life for Timothy O’Malley. Until about the age of fourteen, he considered himself to be Irish Catholic. However, the family ...

When we (my generation) were growing up, things were a little different than they are today. Just like any other family, we had traditions that we carried over year to year, but it seemed like Christmases then were much simpler focusing more on togetherness, peacefulness, simplicity and the ...

Maybe the Buddhists have it right. They say that everything we do in life produces a consequence—positive or negative, and that your intention causes the outcome. For example, if you had a rich great uncle and you visited him often and brought him gifts so you’d be left a small fortune in ...

Planning for Christmas perfection should be simple by now. I’ve been doing this holiday countdown for so many decades that I should have the decorating, baking and meal prep perfected. Fuggedabouddit. I’m lost as usual. I have no one but myself to blame. Isn’t our American Christmas ...