Tagged: Christmas

9:11am

Wed January 2, 2013
Environment

Last year's Christmas tree is this spring's mulch

Credit lizard10979 / via Flickr

If you're putting away Christmas decorations and taking ornaments off the tree, Onondaga County's recycling agency wants to make sure that old tree gets re-purposed.

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10:10am

Fri December 21, 2012
-Tuned To Yesterday

Tuned to Yesterday

Xmas #11, Christmas, Lux Radio Theater "It’s a Wonderful Life" 3/10/47 CBS

Tuned To Yesterday features programs from radio's golden era. Drama, Comedy, Western, Sci-Fi and more. Produced by Mark Lavonier.

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10:05am

Wed December 19, 2012
-Tuned To Yesterday

Tuned to Yesterday

Xmas #9, Christmas, The Marriage 12/20/53 NBC, Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show "Christmas Decorations" 12/18/49 NBC

Tuned To Yesterday features programs from radio's golden era. Drama, Comedy, Western, Sci-Fi and more. Produced by Mark Lavonier.

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8:12am

Mon December 17, 2012
Regional Coverage

Salvation Army sees continued high need for annual giveaway

At the end of this week, the biggest Christmas giveaway in central New York takes place and the high numbers of families who signed up for the annual Christmas Bureau shows an economy that's still hurting.

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7:25am

Fri December 23, 2011
Regional Coverage

Thousands find Christmas help at Salvation Army's annual Christmas Bureau

Credit Ellen Abbott/WRVO

Almost three-thousand Central New York families found some Christmas help at the Annual Salvation Army Christmas Bureau in Syracuse Thursday.  That's 400 more families than needed help last year, a nearly 15% increase. 

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10:08am

Tue December 20, 2011
Performing Arts and Culture

Charles Dickens on The Campbell Conversations

Jim Greene is not an academic Dickens scholar, but he plays Dickens and runs the Dickens Christmas Festival in Skaneateles.  In this holiday version of the Campbell Conversations, he talks - often in the character of Dickens - about the meaning and the writing of "A Christmas Carol," the Christmas holidays, and his experiences in the town.  Given the stark portrayals of poverty in his writing, what would Dickens have made of the Occupy Wall Street Movement?  Here’s one person’s take.  All in all, the conversation contains holiday wisdom worthy of Dickens’s tale.