UPDATE: City leaders have arranged a special public meeting for Tuesday, Aug. 23, at 7:30 p.m. It will be held at the Main Street Center, 255 Park Ave. (the old post office building). City leaders are planning a public forum to hear concerns and possible solutions about flooding after hundreds of basements were soaked during […]
Talk radio is a format that emphasized talk and discussion instead of music. Over the years, I have been a talk radio listener — mostly NPR — as well as an occasional participant. My first experience as a talk radio participant occurred in the summer of 1958 when I was 10. My boyhood friend Jimmy […]
In our 49th season, we opened in New York with “Lost in Yonkers,” moved to Maine for “The Whales of August,” followed by the French Riviera for “The Boy Friend,” back to the USA for “All My Sons,” and then the world itself became our stage for Kander and Ebb’s “The World Goes Round.” Once again, […]
Madeline Patawaran and Rex Smith can do anything that ice skaters do. They just do it on wheels. The duo are local rollerskating royalty and both are now veterans of the 2011 National Figure Skating Championships held in Fort Wayne, Ind. Last week, seven-year-old Patawaran placed 27th from a field of 39 contenders in her […]
The flag that was Mary Powers Miller’s birthday gift from her son — a Navy veteran — was found burned in her driveway last week. It’s the second time in a year that vandals have defaced the American flags hanging outside the Park Avenue homes of Powers Miller and her neighbor, Judy Reichert. “It looked like […]
Elvira R. Colella (nee Caserta), 98, of Amherst, died on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at Amherst Manor Nursing Home. She was born Oct. 9, 1912, in Montenero Val Cocchiara, Italy,to the late Guiseppe and Giovanna Caserta. She came to America, settling in Lorain with her family, at the age of 3. Elvira was a member […]
Dear Folks, As I know our time in Illinois is running down, I would like to share some of the sights we have seen and watched grow over our five years of traveling back and forth, and back and forth, and back, oh never mind, you get my drift. We can honestly say we have […]
When I think about a financial recovery, the thing that excites me is the millions of previously hard-working people who would go back to work. I would be excited for their families, and what an economic relief it would be for them. Families could again have the essentials, maybe even a few luxuries or take a […]