The Canadian Press Whether making melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies or creating a show-stopper croquembouche tower, the December holiday period is one of the busiest for home bakers. Here are recipes for Anna Olson’s croquembouche, a grand tower of cream puffs glued together with caramelized sugar, and Karlynn Johnston’s whipped shortbread cookies. […]
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By Philip Marcelo The Associated Press BOSTON — On the streets, alleyways and parking lots of Boston’s Chinatown, immigrants developed a unique style of volleyball now played in Chinatowns across the country. Now, an asphalt court where the game still thrives stands in the way of development. The prime slice […]
By Michael Casey And Patrick Whittle The Associated Press PETERSHAM, Mass. — The scourge of insect pests is expected to put almost two-thirds of America’s forests at risk over the next decade. The problem is projected to cost several billion dollars every year for dead tree removal and jeopardize longstanding […]
By Ken Ritter The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Maybe getting stuck at a traffic signal might not be so bad, if you know how long the wait will be. That’s what vehicle manufacturer Audi is hoping, with the debut this week in Las Vegas of a first-in-the-nation commercial system […]
Duane Hicks Wayne Jewell was among the many Borderland residents out early this morning clearing white stuff from their driveways. The U.S. National Weather Service reported that close to seven cm (three inches) of snow fell overnight, nearly matching the amount that came down over the weekend.
From the OPP On Saturday at 3:30 a.m., Rainy River District OPP officers received a complaint about a motor vehicle on Highway 11 in Dawson Township. Shortly afterwards, officers received another complaint that the vehicle had left the roadway before coming to rest on railway tracks belonging to Canadian National […]
Staff The “Tying it all Together” initiative, which introduces math to students through guest speakers, will get the Rainy River District School Board’s “Recognition of Excellence” at its regular monthly meeting tonight. As part of the board’s Renewed Math Strategy at Sturgeon Creek School in Barwick, Grade 7 and 8 […]
By Michael Astor The Associated Press Russia and China used their veto power in the U.N. Security Council to block a draft resolution on Monday calling for a seven-day humanitarian truce in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, leading the U.S. representative to accuse them of issuing a “death sentence” […]
By Lorne Cook The Associated Press BRUSSELS — NATO and the European Union are moving forward on deepening co-operation, the alliance’s chief said Tuesday, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump insists European allies start pulling their own military weight. Preparing to chair a meeting in Brussels of the 28-nation military alliance’s […]
By Dake Kang The Associated Press BANGKOK — An apple a day kept the doctor away but now in Asia, a cup of milk might do the trick. Milk and other dairy products have become an unexpected ally in the fight against Asia’s newest dietary challenges: obesity, and vitamin and […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press The prospect of roasting a duck strikes many a home cook as a mountain too high, but I’m not sure why. It’s definitely no more complicated than cooking a whole turkey, and I think it tastes far better. Some folks surely suspect that duck […]
Heather Latter Kay Redford handed over a donation of some toy cars to Andy C of 93.1 The Border and “Frosty the Snowman” during the station’s “Burst the Bus” initiative Saturday on Scott Street. All proceeds of unwrapped toys and non-perishable food items are going to the local Salvation Army.
