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Richard Squires, referred to as “Dick” by his northern family and friends, was born on May 8, 1945 in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He was the second oldest of six children to

We also asked if the holiday was better or worse because the Bears weren’t one of the six teams playing. In hindsight, maybe it was a dumb question.

For 70 years, Ace Home Improvements has built a family empire based out of western Monmouth County.

Q:I am a woman 74 years young, brought up in a Jewish home. I do not go to the synagogue for holidays but celebrate in my own way at home.

Retired attorney raised near Stanton: The Iowa family farm of my youth has almost vanished, along with the farm kid’s unique perspective.

From the blog of Bernice Lerner at The Times of Israel

Black Diaspora Louis Chude-Sokei: “It was accents and curses, uncles and aunties, cousins and endless trips to Western Union.” February 3, 2021 Diaspora was one of those words from my mother’s “word of the month” or “word of the week” subscriptions. What made it stick out was that I heard it repeated around the table. The word meant the scattering of a people across different lands and countries and languages. To me, this meaning seemed immediate, oppressively intimate. It wa...