With Christmas near, many people are excited to exchange gifts with family and loved ones. Children are especially enthusiastic on Christmas morning as they open their presents under the tree, hoping they received everything they asked for. They could be getting the latest technological gadgets ...
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash flooding soaked roads in northern California, leading to water rescues from vehicles and homes and at least one confirmed death, authorities said Monday. In Redding, a city at the northern end of the Central Valley, one motorist died after calling ...
Per my reporting duties, I had the opportunity to attend the Besser Male Chorus Christmas concert this month. This was actually the first time in my life I have ever stepped into the Trinity Episcopal Church in Alpena, and I grew up in this town. Isn’t that weird? I noticed that all the ...
On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem we now know as the song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." Earlier in the year, Longfellow had unsuccessfully pressured his son, Charles, not to join the Union Army. On Christmas Day, Longfellow learned his beloved son had been ...
Of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar, Chanukah, which began last Sunday evening, has always been one of my favorites. Even when I was younger and far less observant, I appreciated the holiday's well-known rituals and customs: lighting the menorah, spinning the dreidel, eating potato ...
Maybe I am in the minority, but what I love most about this season is the impending darkness. The Winter Solstice, also called Jule (pronounced "yool"), occurring this year on Sunday, December 21, is the shortest day and longest night of the year. There's something sweet and precious about the ...