Cathy Keyes News Today

With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Cathy Keyes on June 24, 2023. Cathy fought a courageous battle with cancer and passed peacefully with her family by her side. Cathy was born in Port Arthur on January 22, 1961.

ALLENTOWN (AP) — A moment of silence, please, for the good old auction. Oh, they’re still around. But the in-person auction, with its traditional patter and gavel-banging and crowd buzz, has been giving way in recent years to online business — a change accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, which, according to one study, has advanced the pace of online commerce by two years. Advertisement Skip in 3s In the “before times,” as the prepandemic era is sometimes known, auction houses hos...

Going, going, not quite gone: How pandemic changed auctions DANIEL PATRICK SHEEHAN, The (Allentown) Morning Call April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A moment of silence, please, for the good old auction. Oh, they’re still around. But the in-person auction, with its traditional patter and gavel-banging and crowd buzz, has been giving way in recent years to online business — a change accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic, which, according to one study, has advanced t...

Auction houses haven't been able to host in-person events during the pandemic, but they've found an expanded market online.