NEW YORK — It’s a neighborhood Christmas display with New York City attitude: big, brash, loud and over-the-top. Blazing lights, giant toy soldiers, angels, snowmen, wise men, Santas and piped-in Sinatra caroling form an all-out barrage on the senses from nearly every house in the heart of Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighborhood, an annual extravaganza that [...]
It’s crunch time at Christmas tree farms and stands throughout central Ohio. The past weekend and the approaching weekend are expected to be the busiest for tree growers and sellers, who already have reported an exceptional season. Chalk it up to an “early” Thanksgiving or the arrival of more seasonable weather. Credit an improving economy [...]
PITTSBURGH — The slow recovery of the U.S. economy is continuing to keep the cost of Christmas — or at least the gifts listed in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” — from spiraling out of control. The price of two turtle doves jumped from $290 to $375 this year, but nine of the other 12 [...]