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MARYVILLE, Mo. — As a way to honor her son, Marsha Martin began a nonprofit selling Christmas stockings, and this month the Ten Squared Women on a Mission organization added

Dressed as Santa Claus, 12-year-old Owen Farnsworth and some helper elves visited Union Hospital Friday with hand-sewn totes full of gifts for children in the pediatric unit.

If you have not tried using wool dryer balls yet, you may be missing out on a good thing. Today, our topic will be all about wool dryer balls and

A Sherrills Ford woman has worn the same orange and black dress every Christmas for 51 years.

Editor’s note: As Christmas approaches, the Daily News looks at Christmases past through children’s letters to Santa that appeared on our pages:

Stitching together hundreds of Christmas stockings is a big job. However, 42 area children with big hearts and nimble fingers took on this monumental task.

It seems everyone is missing someone: deployed, living far away or passed into immortality. The holidays can be especially hard and they’re okay to grieve — just don’t forget to

African violets offer great variety of shapes and colors and are easy to maintain indoors.

"Sometimes lessons from the Ghost of Christmas Past can make the spirit of Christmas Present brighter. Or at least less chaotic," Hazlett writes.

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