Shop Local: Area retailers offer myriad opportunities to support small businesses
‘Tis the season when consumers are faced with a shopping quandry: Where should one spend hard-earned dollars on holiday gifts?
More and more people are...
Gift Guide: Menzel, Rucker among artists with holiday albums
In many years, when November arrives, it’s time to brace for the onslaught of Christmas albums. Often, the selection is filled with the usual...
Gift Guide: ‘What If?’ adapts popular webcomic into entertaining, offbeat read
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s witty, offbeat webcomic, featuring stick-figure drawings addressing topics of science, technology, language and...
Gift Guide: John Denver collection loaded with previously unreleased material
For the John Denver fan — even the one who has all his albums on vinyl and a turntable that still works — comes...
Local organizations join Giving Tuesday movement
After the long shopping weekend that follows Thanksgiving — Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday — local organizations hope area residents will...
McGinnis: Go, cart
It doesn’t matter how many times I have made the decision, I always seem to get it wrong.
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It comes at the least opportune time....
Review: ‘Kronos Rising’ offers a story with teeth … giant teeth
If you’re a fan of big monsters, this is definitely a story for you. Max Hawthorne’s “Kronos Rising” takes readers on a roller coaster...
Retirement Guys: What are you most thankful for?
I (Mark) can recall a couple of Thanksgiving family gatherings at which each member had a chance to say what they were thankful for.
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It...
Holiday gifts sought for abused, neglected kids
As Black Friday approaches, the holiday shopping season is getting serious.
But a local agency hopes shoppers also give serious thought to helping out Northwest...
Ottney: Giving back
About six years ago, I went Black Friday shopping for the first time, just to see what all the fuss was about.
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What a rush!...
