I'm almost as behind in my Christmas prep as the state budget: Anne Reeves
"In homes across the land, boomers, trying their best to downsize and declutter a lifetime of acquisitions, are kindly offering shopping bags stuffed with homemade ornaments and deflated inflatables to their offspring," Post writer Jura Koncius says …
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Montvale Chamber of Commerce awards Mayor Roger Fyfe with Person of the Year Award
These include an outpatient branch of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Wegmans supermarket, Jura coffee machine company and Kitex USA. "Mayor Fyfe along with the borough council and the planning board has worked seamlessly together to …
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Silver and gold: Take a tour of a family's Southern-style Christmas
Two years ago, Carla and Tom Crawford finished a major renovation and decoration of their Alexandria house just before Christmas. Their 1919 center-hall Colonial had a whole new airy feel. And it had a fresh, neutral color palette and a gracious, …
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