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It’s Christmas for Bonnies (Olean Times Herald)

ST. BONAVENTURE - Dionte Christmas and Mark Tyndale grace the cover of this year’s Temple media guide, wearing boxing gloves and nasty scowls. The red and white lettering on the glossy guide reads: Temple’s One-Two Punch.

Waste firm recycles 62 miles’ worth of Christmas trees (Hampshire Chronicle)

CHRISTMAS may be nothing more than a memory and a few extra pounds as spring starts to make an appearance, but your old tree could be living on in the new season's blooming flowers.

Waste firm recycles 62 miles’ worth of Christmas trees (Hampshire Chronicle)

CHRISTMAS may be nothing more than a memory and a few extra pounds as spring starts to make an appearance, but your old tree could be living on in the new season's blooming flowers.

Official wants to revitalize Christmas Village in Torrington (Republican-American)

TORRINGTON --- The superintendent of the city's Parks and Recreation Department would like to revitalize Carl Bozenski's Christmas Village.

Christmas in shades of blue (The Columbus Dispatch)

Judy McKitrick knows how hard the holidays can be. She lost her father-in-law and then her cousin a decade apart but both just days before Christmas.

Christmas tree origin has many roots (The Columbus Dispatch)

Who had the first Christmas tree in the United States? There seems to be no general agreement, but here are some of the claims: The first tree was used in Lancaster, Pa., in 1821; in York, Pa., in 1823; or in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1823.

Youth to help with Christmas tree 2008 (The Montana Standard)

The Bitterroot Valley and the State of Montana have an opportunity to bring community service to schools through the Capitol Christmas Tree 2008.

Tennis | Christmas gift brings Jones scholarship (Daily Orange)

On Christmas Eve, Syracuse sophomore tennis player Chelsea Jones sat nervously waiting for the package that never came. Her coach Luke Jensen had told her to expect a gift that day, and to open it at 3 p.m. But it never came. Instead of a team poster with her name circled and labeled "The newest scholarship player for SU tennis," which would arrive later, Jones received a simple e-mail from ...