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Happy Birthday To Orangetown's Toni Morrison
ORANGETOWN, N.Y. – Happy birthday to Orangetown’s Toni Morrison.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, editor, and professor turns 86 on Feb. 18.
Morrison, who was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, is known for writing novels with epic themes -- among the best known are: “The Bluest Eye,” “Sula,” “Song of Solomon,” and “Beloved.”
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 and, in 2012, she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Morrison, who is the mother of two, has also written books for children with her younger son, Slade Morrison, a painter and musician. Slade died …
Poughkeepsie Pair's Recipe For Success? Lists, Space And Lots Of Good Food
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – With two restaurants, a deli and a catering venue to run, Poughkeepsie couple Charles and Megan Fells have quite a lot on their plate, so to speak.
When they opened The Artist’s Palate (a play on the word palette), their first eatery on the city’s Main Street, then Canvas, the banquet hall right next door, the Fells were around each other “24/7,” Charles said, adding: “We were pretty much joined at the hip.”
Too much togetherness can be tough on any couple, much less one involved in the high-pressure business of feeding people.
Then the Fells opened Brasserie 292, a st…
Monroe Police Department’s K9 Murphy Gets Gift Of Body Armor
MONROE, CONN. – One of the Monroe Police Department’s four-footed officers will be a little safer now, thanks to some free body armor.
Murphy, as the police dog is fondly known, got the stab- and bullet-proof vest from the nonprofit, Vested Interest in K9s Inc., and manufacturer Armor Express.
As part of an incentive program, one free vest is awarded for every 15 vests purchased by the Taunton, Mass., charitable organization.
There are an estimated 30,000 police dogs working around the United States.
So far, Vested Interest in K9s has handed out more than 2,300 protective vests, worth mor…
