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Shopping News This Oscar goes to the first taker (Los Angeles Times) A 1930s Academy Award lies among the furniture up for grabs at a Hollywood home. The early morning browsers at the estate sale on Miller Drive found the typical crystal, dining room set, Wedgwood collection — and, in the jewelry case, an Oscar for best supporting actor, on sale for $150,000. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:42:21 GMT Help Teen Girls in Foster Care Feel Special (The Signal) Certainly in this valley there are homes with new or gently worn prom dresses or bridesmaid gowns collecting dust in the closets. Surely in this town there are teenage girls and women with more evening handbags, wraps and fancy costume jewelry than they actually require. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:51:33 GMT $15,000 reward offered in jewelry thefts (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Buckhead-area businesses and community leaders are offering a $15,000 reward to help stop a crew of armed robbers from taking expensive wedding rings from women. The bandits netted rings valued from $10,000 to $60,000 in seven robberies — some in broad daylight with the victims' children present — since early January. The most recent one was Sunday. Lenox Square mall, Phipps Plaza and the Target ... Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:27:40 GMT Couple opens second store in Middletown's downtown (Middletown Times Herald-Record) Middletown — North Street is an artery that can get you to Route 211 and its promise of big-box store shopping. It can take you right out of the city to the north, or south into what once was the thriving downtown, now dotted with vacant buildings. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:07:22 GMT Blue Tulip creating niche for rich (The Record) A new kind of gift store is sprouting up across North Jersey, and it's changing the competitive landscape for local merchants. Blue Tulip is a five-year-old chain that wants to be the ultimate gift-giving and special-occasions destination for time-strapped working women and stroller moms. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:13:26 GMT Attention, Fashionistas: Sample Sales Are Expanding (New York Times) Avid shoppers tackle a day?s sales with military precision. Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:04:34 GMT Harford County Datebook (Baltimore Sun) Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:46:02 GMT Spring Herb Day set for April 7 at Kent Plantation House (The Town Talk) Kent Plantation House and the Central Louisiana Herb Society will present their annual Spring Herb Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 7. Admission is free. Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:54:56 GMT Fredericksburg Standard Online (Fredericksburg Standard Radio Post) Shoppers turning 30 in 2007 will get an extra bonus for shopping this weekend’s Peddler Show Friday through Sunday at the Gillespie County Fair Grounds. Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:11:55 GMT Camp benefit (Greenwich Time) Camp AmeriKids' March 8 benefit at the Greenwich Hyatt raised more than $32,000 -- twice as much as the inaugural fundraiser last year. The benefit was sponsored by MasterCard and attended by Connecticut residents, camp supporters and employees from AmeriCares and Camp AmeriKids. About 200 attendees shared summer-style cocktails and listened to African drumming. Camp AmeriKids is a community ... Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:20:58 GMT |
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