“The Spirit of Christmas”
EDITOR’S NOTE:
As Advent comes to a close, and the Christmas season nears, the following reflections on Christmastide from Charles Dickens’s Pickwick Papers
serve as a reminder of the goodwill the season is meant to foster: Full Story
Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives
150 Years Ago Dec. 2 16, 1859
In these days of “wars and rumors of wars,” when carnage and bloodshed, death and desolation, are laying waste the proud cities and cultivated plains of foreign lands, it is truly heart-rending to contemplate a scene at home, among those standing high in authority not less animated in its persecution nor terrible in its consequences. Full Story
A Taste of China— With Some Twists
Anna and Tony Guo are veterans of the Chinese restaurant business in Putnam. The husband and wife pair ran Hom Bon Buffet along route 22 in Brewster for 11 years, before selling it earlier in 2009. Now Anna Guo is making her way as the proprietor of China Taste in Putnam Plaza, located in the corner near Hannaford. Full Story
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