Category: Community

  • A Local Holiday Table

    A Local Holiday Table

    This fall has strengthened our local community, with many groups and local residents helping each other out after the devastating Lee flooding. In that spirit, The Bloomsburg Daily thought it would be nice if residents helped out local merchants, farms, and vendors this holiday season by buying gifts and sourcing your holiday meal ingredients locally. And if you think it’s impossible to create a meal with local ingredients during this time of year, you are wrong! Check out these great ideas for both local gifts and food. And be sure to visit the other local merchants in Bloomsburg for all…

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  • Remember When: The Sounds of Memory

    Remember When: The Sounds of Memory

    What do sounds have to do with memory? Let’s explore!

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  • The View from Here: Bloomsburg Memorial Award Assembly

    The View from Here: Bloomsburg Memorial Award Assembly

    Have a look at the sights from the aassembly at the Bloomsburg Memorial Elementary School celebrating a national achievement.

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  • The View from Here: Backstage in Santaland

    The View from Here: Backstage in Santaland

    The Bloomsburg Daily’s photographer, Bob Rush, found his way into the Moose Exchange on Tuesday to catch a backstage glimpse of rehearsal for the one man show, The Santaland Diaries. The show, written by David Sedaris and directed locally by Elizabeth Dowd has a special early season showing is at the the Moose Exchange. The show runs from December 8-11, 2011. Buy tickets at www.bte.org or email boxoffice@bte.org or call 570-784-8181 or 800-282-0283 The Santaland Diaries performance schedule 
Thursday, December 8 at 7:30PM Friday, December 9 at 7:30PM Saturday, December 10 at 7:30PM and 10PM Sunday, December 11 at 7:30PM

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  • Local Girl Becomes a Bodybuilding Pro

    Local Girl Becomes a Bodybuilding Pro

    Kasey Shaffer is not what you would expect when you meet a professional bodybuilder. Aside from a few trophies, a sound system that any DJ would be proud to use and a room-filling weight machine, her house near Stillwater is cozy and warm, a fitting home for a petite, attractive young lady, a mother of two, a full-time employee at Kawneer and an athlete with goals and dreams. So it makes sense that she is only too willing to share the secrets of her workout schedules, diet and motivation with anyone who is interested. “At some level, this is a…

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  • Remember When:  Putting Up the Christmas Tree

    Remember When: Putting Up the Christmas Tree

    Unless you were the ambitious sort that got your Christmas tree up after Thanksgiving, you might be working on that task this weekend.  We asked the editors of The Bloomsburg Daily to think back to putting up their trees and recall the good, the bad, and the ugly of the event. Kristin Camplese doesn’t really remember where her family would get the tree, just the arguments (or “discussions” as parents call them) about getting the tree in the stand.  “Pre-drilled stands didn’t exist and it required parents holding the tree and screwing in the stand simultaneously, which inevitably ended up…

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  • The View from Here: Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

    The View from Here: Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

    It seems each year we start to see it a little earlier — sights of Christmas. Even well before Thanksgiving it happens in stores around town. You walk into the grocery store to pick up your Thanksgiving Turkey and they are already highlighting Christmas. I don’t know about you, but that gets me down. And then it happens, Thanksgiving passes and the sights and sounds of Christmas become so very welcome! The Bloomsburg Daily photographer, Bob Rush took a few pictures of some of the sights of Christmas in the area yesterday. I know it made us smile to see…

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  • The View from Here: North Pole Express

    The View from Here: North Pole Express

    “I see it!”, “Look Mom, there’s the train!” Everywhere there are small voices echoing with excitement and wonder. A reminder that even in the most challenging times, magic is still here if you take the time to see it. The North Pole Express train ride offered just that opportunity for yound and old. A time to forget about the stress of every day and of the difficult task of rebuilding lives for those who lost so much in this year’s flood. “All aboard!” The conductor announced and it was time to sit back and enjoy the trip down the rails.…

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  • The View from Here: The Bars of Bloomsburg

    The View from Here: The Bars of Bloomsburg

    When I was in college I would come home for the Thanksgiving break and get to see all my high school friends. Most of them had gone off the school, but the Thanksgiving weekend was a chance to come home, spend time with family, and get together with the friends that matter the most. Typically I’d get in on Thursday morning and spend the whole day with my parents and sister as the house filled with the smell of Thanksgiving dinner. I think you know the drill all to well — eat until you can barely move and then fall…

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  • Happy Thanksgiving from The Bloomsburg Daily

    Happy Thanksgiving from The Bloomsburg Daily

    When we started The Bloomsburg Daily we were all hurting from the flood caused by Tropical Storm Lee. While many of us are still working to put our lives back together, the feelings of friendship and community have become overwhelming evident in our community. In the two months since the flood, we have seen stories of tragedy, rebuilding, and hope remind us just how important it is to take stock in the most important things in life. This year I know I am feeling especially thankful for the friends and family that I have around to support me, pick me…

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