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  Excerpts from Wednesday, August 28, 1940, Paso Robles Journal: Nominations for Pioneer Day Queen start today Nominations open today for the coveted honor of […]

Born in mainland China, Carina Lau grew up thinking she’d be a factory worker, but moved to Hong Kong and, through hard work, built an acting career despite a kidnap ordeal. She met and wed fellow actor Tony Leung.

100 Years Ago: 1923 The Auburn-Lewiston Kiwanis club members are especially favored today in having for the speaker D. Thomas Curtin, one of the famous war correspondents, representing the London Times. Mr. Curtin is now on a tour with the Redpath Chautauqua lecturing on the subject, “What is the Matter with Europe?” so the Kiwanis Club […]

100 Years Ago: 1923 At the weekly luncheon of the Lewiston-Auburn Rotarians at the Auburn Y. M, C. A., Friday noon, Daniel Sulivan, district governor, will be the speaker, according to an announcement yesterday. 50 Years Ago: 1973 An antique weathervane, dating back to the 1870’s, is being put on display in the main hallway […]

I was blown away last week when I FINALLY got to see The Lion King in Philadelphia last week.

REMEMBER this lost Warrington railway station?

The store — located in the Snyder Plaza — will close for good in December 2023.

Aug. 27

100 Years Ago: 1923 Aged flappers put crimp in bobbed hair in New York. Bobbed hair must go, the National HairDressers Association, which will hold its third annual convention in this city Sept. 10 has decided the style was ruined when it was adopted by women over thirty. Present long skirts decreed for older women, […]

This photo originally ran in July 2012, and was submitted by Helen M. Harris. Pictured is Howard M. Edge with his 18-month-old son, David, in December 1958, at “Grandma Maddrey’s