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  • Free toy store in Nashville gives families the dignity of choice while shopping for holiday gifts

    December 08, 2023 - 3:37 PM

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When country music star Brad Paisley and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, helped create a free grocery store in Nashville, Tennessee, their goal was to give families in need the ability to choose their own food in a place that felt like a normal store.

  • When there's lots of holiday spirit but not much space, how to deck the (small) halls

    December 06, 2023 - 5:57 AM

    It seems like the frost hasn’t even hit the pumpkin before “holiday cheer” starts showing up everywhere, from social media feeds to the aisles of CVS. Tis the season to decorate.

  • ‘Woolly delinquents’ celebrate Charles’ coronation in yarn

    April 30, 2023 - 6:38 AM

    LONDON (AP) — Heather Howarth tugged at King Charles III’s ears and tittered with satisfaction.

  • Lanterns and crescents: more retailers court Ramadan buyers

    April 01, 2023 - 6:14 AM

    With her 3-year-old daughter sitting inside a red Target shopping cart, Aya Khalil looked through the aisles with anticipation. The author was on a mission: See for herself that her children's book about a boy and his grandmother baking for an Islamic feast was actually carried by her local Target store in Toledo.

  • Sober or bright? Europe faces holidays during energy crunch

    November 26, 2022 - 10:30 AM

    VERONA, Italy (AP) — Early season merrymakers sipping mulled wine and shopping for holiday decorations packed the Verona Christmas market for its inaugural weekend. But beyond the wooden market stalls, the Italian city still has not decked out its granite-clad pedestrian streets with twinkling holiday lights as officials debate how bright to make the season during an energy crisis.

  • The best airlines for holiday travel on points

    October 24, 2022 - 6:07 AM

    If you’re seeing Halloween decorations at the store, you should take that as a sign the holiday travel season is just around the corner. Cue the expensive flights! If you’re relying on points and miles to cover the cost, you might want to consider whether booking award flights for the holidays is the best use of your travel rewards.

  • White House holiday decor honors COVID-19 frontline workers

    November 29, 2021 - 4:45 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Holiday decorations unveiled Monday for Joe and Jill Biden’s first White House Christmas honor frontline workers who persevered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • No drama corona-Christmas has some secretly jumping for joy

    December 10, 2020 - 7:51 AM

    NEW YORK - Corritta Lewis has a huge extended family. Her mom is one of 12 siblings. Usually, Christmas means that she, her wife and their 2-year-old son dig out their cold-weather gear for the schlep from home in sunny Southern California to Ohio and days of holiday chaos.

  • Cottagecore holidays: Decorations with a homespun vibe

    December 01, 2020 - 5:43 AM

    Along with bread-baking and closet reorganizing, another nesting trend on the home front is “cottagecore” style.

  • Many turn to real Christmas trees as bright spot amid virus

    November 27, 2020 - 9:04 AM

    PORTLAND, Ore. - Ani Sirois, a respiratory nurse, has spent months caring for coronavirus patients at a Portland, Oregon, hospital, and she's only getting busier as infections — and hospitalizations — surge before the holidays.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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