Hospice honors local man’s generosityCadillac News, MI - Feb 21, 2007He chose to sell Christmas trees because he likes to be outdoors. In high school he used to get permission to leave school to harvest and trim the trees. …

Christmas cheer continues at councilSommerset County Gazette, UK - 14 hours agoThe scheme has helped the Trust to save woods and trees, as well as cutting down the amount of waste that traditionally gets binned over Christmas. …

Icy winters devastate tiny birdsCanyon Courier, CO - Feb 22, 2007The ponderosa pines looked like flocked Christmas trees, but even more magical were the willows and cottonwoods. The next morning, the coloring of the …

My mailbox runneth over, and that's goodOrlando Sentinel, FL - 16 hours ago… of my story on the ever-popular passed-down-in-families ceramic Christmas trees that ran during the holidays, the e-mail inbox kept me busy last week. …

Christmas loses top billing at forestLos Angeles Daily News, CA - Feb 23, 2007Nowadays, families want their Christmas trees to be Douglas fir or noble fir instead, and those are imported from Oregon and Washington. …Small trees may be a perfect fit OCRegisterall 2 news articles

MARION — The DKMM Compost Facility on Herr Road will be open from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 24. Bring in your yard waste, Christmas trees for recycling. The recycling drop-off will also be open for aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, plastics #1 or #2, paperboard, and cardboard.

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For most of us, at least part of the meaning of Christmas involves giving, and many of us feel inclined to give outside the ritual of family exchange.

This year, the City of Chicago pushed New Line Cinemas out of a sponsorship of a recent event because the company would have used it as an advertising vehicle for the movie “The Nativity Scene.”

SANTA CLARITA – Frosty’s Forest Christmas Tree Farm will be offering a tad fewer trees and a lot more plants as the owner converts half the farm to a nursery operation.

Husband, friend penned song that became jazz standardElmira Star-Gazette, NY - 17 hours ago"We got on a kick of trying to write songs that would sell, and we'd both go down to the Brill Building (the hub of the music publishing industry) to try …

Movie Review: Children of MenMediaBlvd Magazine, ca - 4 hours agoChildren of Men was by far my favourite movie this past Christmas season. Dreamgirls was solid, but this had style, great execution and wow, so much style …

Stars at benefit recall Chet Atkins' lasting impactThe Tennessean, TN - 16 hours agoHarris and Welch sang plaintive songs reminiscent of the Carter Family songs that inspired Atkins as a young musician in East Tennessee. …

Twelfth Night a good turn on an old themeThe News Journal, DE - Feb 24, 2007It marked the end of the Christmas revels during Shakespeare's time. The play has nothing at all to do with Christmas. Some lawyers commissioned Shakespeare …

The Skylight wants to make our nights singMilwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription), WI - 20 hours agoIrving Berlin wrote many Broadway shows, but "White Christmas" isn't one of them. He wrote the title song in 1937, as part of a sketchy idea for a Broadway …

Lenten season: No toys, carols or push to buy There are about four weeks of the run-up to Christmas, and that’s called Advent. There are about seven weeks of the run-up to Easter, and that’s called Lent. We’re in Lent right now. It started Wednesday – also known as Ash Wednesday, when many folks get their foreheads smudged with black stuff to remind them that they’re mortals, and sinful …

Songs by actor-singer-songwriter Joe Cassidy will be featured in the Feb. 26 ArtCents Benefit Concert at The Triad in Manhattan.

Get a load of that all-star cast trodding the boards at Derby Dinner Playhouse in a rafter-raising musical tribute to the ’60s called “Beehive.” Well, they’re not really Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Patti LaBelle, Connie Francis, Brenda Lee and Diana Ross and the Supremes, but each member of the six-woman cast is a powerhouse re-creating the songs made famous by those legends.

WEM waits for Christmas filmEdmonton Sun, Canada - 17 hours agoSo the mall is keeping its decorations up, as movie props. We hear the producers still haven't signed a star. Williams and Danny DeVito have reportedly …

Christmas Decoration With Wrought Iron Posted By : Mr.Andrew Caxton -Business Portal 24 (press release), Germany - Feb 21, 2007Do you want to look your Christmas decorations to be exclusive in addition to being usual? Wrought iron Christmas decor could be the decor that you are …