Dorri PartainBy Dorri PartainContributor Elves may make toys and bake cookies, and gnomes might garden or roam, but pixies seem to only be cute and mischievous. Like all other fairy tale…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri PartainContributor Following a recent Facebook post regarding items needed but not available to food pantry patrons, the Northeast News reached out to area food pantries to find out…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri PartainContributor Our house at Christmas time is loaded with decorations filled with memories of Christmas past: items from my childhood, my parents and grandparents. While I prefer a…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain Whether you love it or loathe it, you probably have a fruitcake tin stashed somewhere filled with odds and ends. The controversial fruitcake dates to the days…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain Long before these Christmas-time favorites starred on television, Rudolph and Frosty each told their story in Little Golden Books. Since 1942, Little Golden Books have been a…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain This poultry pair is ready to offer up seasonings for the season. With tom turkey offering salt, and his hen companion offering pepper, they make a perfect…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain After vandals torched one of the wooden picnic shelters in Budd Park in May 2016, park users were left with only one usable shelter house. At the…
Dorri PartainBy Dorri Partain For a fun recycling project that’s suitable for all ages, save your chewing gum wrappers. While other colorful candy wrappers may also be suitable, the paper gum…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor “In Flanders fields the poppies blow, between the crosses row on row…” This poem penned by Lt. Colonel John McCrae (1872-1918) was the inspiration for the Veterans…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor Travelers along Missouri Highway 13 knew they were entering the city limits of Springfield when they passed longtime business Carpet Barn and its mascot, a nearly eight-foot-tall,…
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