Early Christmas gift for highway users

Less than 24 hours after Transport Minister Mike Henry disclosed that repairs on the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 would stretch into next year, the ministry yesterday announced a change in the timetable."Following discussions with the agencies/entities...


Tanaka's Take: Will Tebow be like Denver's Christmas gift?

DENVER - So the Tim Tebow era is officially underway in Broncos Country. The best way I can describe it is like when you were a kid sitting under the tree on Christmas morning.


Ho, ho, ho, it's Christmas in July

The North Platte Telegraph Haul out the holly, its Christmas in July. Knowing it is better to give than to receive, local Wal-Mart associates are asking shoppers to find a little Christmas spirit in the midst of summer to help fill local food pantries.


Gift for North Pole: Say it with sewers

Christmas in July for Santa? Tucked away in the fiscal 2011 appropriations bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency is a $1 million earmark, inserted by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), to be given to the "City of North Pole for industrial force sewer main." Shopping - Gifts - Personalized - Greeting Letters - Santa Claus


Immigration as partisanship

WASHINGTON — Christmas came early for demagogues. The court decision putting a hold on the worst provisions of Arizona's new anti-Latino immigration law is a gift-wrapped present to those who delight in turning truth, justice and the American way into political liabilities.


Tech: Thinking of Christmas shopping already?!

I make it a point of not thinking about Christmas until Thanksgiving at the earliest.


Giving and receiving the gift of life one pint at a time

While donors receive a pint of ice cream in return, organizers say it's their gift of life that's most important.


Denvir Marketing: Loch Fyne Launches New Christmas Gift Range

LONDON----Loch Fyne Oysters, Scotland's leading seafood producer, has created a range of Christmas and New Year themed gift boxes filled with delicious seasonal produce to help stock up winter larders and ease festivities.


Review: 'Kisses' a dark charmer about childhood for grown-ups

Lance Daly's heartfelt little film makes magic happen when you least expect it. Consider it a Christmas gift in July. The story of a Christmas Eve a pair of 11-year-old runaways spend in downtown Dublin, "Kisses" can sound familiar, but it really isn't. Written and directed with deftness, wit and restraint by Lance Daly, it makes magic happen on-screen when you least expect it.


Donations can help soldiers, children

Kirlin's Hallmark will assist in giving service people overseasthe opportunity to send a special gift to their children this year.Each Kirlin's Hallmark location will accepting donations to helppurchase “The Night Before Christmas ” recordable storybooks to sendto soldiers serving overseas. The program throughout August. Thesebooks allow service members to record their own voices reading ...