Author: SPY

This Saturday, December 21st, Weavings, INK Gallery will host a Winter Solstice Party. The party is free and open to the public. There will be light refreshments served. It is a great opportunity to purchase unique gifts for everyone on your holiday gift list or even for yourself. Samples of the work on display can be found at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Weavings-Ink/257132257707198 The party will officially be from 1-4 but the 10% discount applies all day. Bob Hammer hopes to see you there. Be sure to pick up his latest 2014 Year of the Horse calendar(supplies are limited.)

They have also extended their holiday hours …due to the snowy weather.

Friday, December 20, 10-5
Saturday, December 21, 10-4
Monday, December 23, 10-4
Tuesday, December 24, 10-1

They hope this extension of hours make it more convenient for you to come and support your local artists!

An animation of the Christmas tree lights at Locust Street Park

 Another stash of phone books ready to be foisted upon an unsuspecting public

Sittin’ awhile . . . in the street

This smaller tree in the gazebo was also illuminated.

Firemen hang lights in preparation for Saturday night’s tree lighting ceremony at Locust Street Park.

This PT Cruiser was involved in a collision near Little’s Beverage shortly after 9 o’clock this morning.  One person was taken in an ambulance.

Telephone books were being delivered around town yesterday, many of which will end up moldering and forgotten in idle doorways.

In the note to CEO Richard Dreiling, Nader said he calculated that Dreiling earns more in one day than many of his employees do over the course of an entire year, a bit of math that Nader found “shocking.” According to a Wall Street Journal analysis, Dreiling’s 2012 pay package was $22.5 million. Surveys on sites like GlassDoor.com show an average wage for Dollar General store associates and cashiers of less than $8 per hour.

“Dollar General’s treatment of low­-wage workers is shameful,” Nader wrote. “Low wages not only hurt workers: they hurt all taxpayers, too. When large, profitable corporations like Dollar General employ workers at shamefully low wages, employees are forced to resort to public assistance programs to provide their families with necessities. Thus taxpayers end up footing the bill for your company’s poverty wages.”