After the deluge The Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Eleven months ago, retailers in the Petaluma Village Premium Outlets mall were cleaning up after being inundated with up to two feet of muddy water. The New Year's floods forced the 25-acre outdoor mall to shut down for five days, and it didn't fully recover for two months.
Open-mall shopping, when consumers were tough Reno Gazette-Journal
There was a holiday season years ago when old local shopping habits started to fray at the edges.
Legislature just keeps on giving Pioneer Press
Joe Atkins, a DFL representative from Inver Grove Heights, and Katie Sieben, a DFL senator-elect from Newport, are ready to solve the gift- card problem. Life must be pretty good when you can list among your political ambitions a deep and abiding desire to protect the people who buy and receive gift cards.
In the Bag A column by Cindy Larson: Wedding outfitter opens on Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Guess what: Fort Wayne is getting a new bridal salon, and it’s downtown! The Perfect Dress – a full-service bridal salon – is opening Tuesday in a renovated house at 537 W. Jefferson Blvd., catty-corner from the new Starbucks.
Antonio Pappano: Local hero Independent
Antonio Pappano is famously the youngest conductor to have command of Covent Garden since 1955. Yet his was not the meteoric rise of popular fiction. Though small of stature, he cuts a powerful figure. There's bulk in those shoulders, and grit behind the affable pragmatism of a busy man. Were we to come to blows over the highs and lows of his four-year career at the Royal Opera House, I wouldn't
Local apparel retailers report strong November sales bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance
Los Angeles area apparel retailers Guess? Inc., Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., The Wet Seal Inc. and Hot Topic Inc. reported an increase in sales in the month of November.
Q&A With the 'American Father of the Prius' US News & World Report
Toyota executive engineer David Hermance, known as the "American father of the Prius," died in his single-engine experimental plane on November 25 when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Hermance, 59, gave what would turn out to be one of his last in-depth media interviews to U.S.News & World Report on September 26. Excerpts appear below. Toyota North America Motors President Jim Press had
From new to worn, book fair has it all The News & Advance
MT. CRAWFORD - With more than a half million books for sale, the Green Valley Book Fair has become one of the largest book fairs in Virginia.
Favre makes SI cover for sixth time in his career Green Bay Press-Gazette
Brett Favre is on the front cover of this weeks Sports Illustrated, the sixth time the Green Bay Packers quarterback has been featured by the magazine. The issue hits newstands today. Below is the SI story Huck Finns last ride written by Jeff MacGregor. The article is printed with permission from Sports Illustrated.
Shopping frenzy starts The Robesonian
LUMBERTON - Cinta Grice was on a mission. After spending Thanksgiving with her family, the Fairmont woman hit Interstate 95 and was at a Smithfield shopping outlet when it opened at midnight.

After the deluge The Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Eleven months ago, retailers in the Petaluma Village Premium Outlets mall were cleaning up after being inundated with up to two feet of muddy water. The New Year's floods forced the 25-acre outdoor mall to shut down for five days, and it didn't fully recover for two months.
Open-mall shopping, when consumers were tough Reno Gazette-Journal
There was a holiday season years ago when old local shopping habits started to fray at the edges.
Legislature just keeps on giving Pioneer Press
Joe Atkins, a DFL representative from Inver Grove Heights, and Katie Sieben, a DFL senator-elect from Newport, are ready to solve the gift- card problem. Life must be pretty good when you can list among your political ambitions a deep and abiding desire to protect the people who buy and receive gift cards.
In the Bag A column by Cindy Larson: Wedding outfitter opens on Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Guess what: Fort Wayne is getting a new bridal salon, and it’s downtown! The Perfect Dress – a full-service bridal salon – is opening Tuesday in a renovated house at 537 W. Jefferson Blvd., catty-corner from the new Starbucks.
Antonio Pappano: Local hero Independent
Antonio Pappano is famously the youngest conductor to have command of Covent Garden since 1955. Yet his was not the meteoric rise of popular fiction. Though small of stature, he cuts a powerful figure. There's bulk in those shoulders, and grit behind the affable pragmatism of a busy man. Were we to come to blows over the highs and lows of his four-year career at the Royal Opera House, I wouldn't
Local apparel retailers report strong November sales bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance
Los Angeles area apparel retailers Guess? Inc., Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., The Wet Seal Inc. and Hot Topic Inc. reported an increase in sales in the month of November.
Q&A With the 'American Father of the Prius' US News & World Report
Toyota executive engineer David Hermance, known as the "American father of the Prius," died in his single-engine experimental plane on November 25 when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Hermance, 59, gave what would turn out to be one of his last in-depth media interviews to U.S.News & World Report on September 26. Excerpts appear below. Toyota North America Motors President Jim Press had
From new to worn, book fair has it all The News & Advance
MT. CRAWFORD - With more than a half million books for sale, the Green Valley Book Fair has become one of the largest book fairs in Virginia.
Favre makes SI cover for sixth time in his career Green Bay Press-Gazette
Brett Favre is on the front cover of this weeks Sports Illustrated, the sixth time the Green Bay Packers quarterback has been featured by the magazine. The issue hits newstands today. Below is the SI story Huck Finns last ride written by Jeff MacGregor. The article is printed with permission from Sports Illustrated.
Shopping frenzy starts The Robesonian
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