EASTER will bring more than just chocolate for Cathy Freeman next year, with word the gold medallist plans to hop down the aisle on the holy weekend. [read more]

If we're lucky, we can't begin to fathom what Patricia Fragen is talking about. [read more]

The Standard-Speaker received many nominations for Person of the Year for 2008. Each nominee warranted careful consideration because of their positive impact on the Greater Hazleton area in the last year, but the list needed to be limited to 10 nominees. [read more]

POSTPONE that wedding day and cancel your fishing trip, the only place to be tomorrow night is the Fire Service Plus Nowra Speedway as more than 30 of the best dirt trackin’ sedan drivers from all over NSW invade the local track for round two of the 2008/09 Shannon Civil NSW Modified Sedan Series. [read more]

A few weeks before Thanksgiving, the Journal invited readers to submit short essays about feeling “Thankful in Hard Times.” The response was heart-warming. Our thanks to everyone who participated! [read more]

Get out your oven mitts for that hot dish. Break out your fanciest jello mold. "The Church Basement Ladies" are in town. [read more]

A meal of frozen pizza and cheap wine, served atop a frayed blanket, remains a vivid recollection of our first apartment as a couple. The revving of bus engines some 20 floors below and the occasional slam of a door produced the soundtrack for our leisurely conversation, punctuated by companionable... [read more]

Wally the mannequin still waves to passersby outside Chinese Camp, evoking memories of his creator, Bill Duffey, who died Nov. 14 at the age of 58. [read more]

Daisy on her way back to the Permanent Campus bought a newspaper and settled on the Poet's page. [read more]

In case we didn't know the holiday season was fast approaching--despite this year's store decorations being tacked-up by Labor Day--a spate of CD box sets,... [read more]