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Darcey Petrus, 15, of Hawthorn Woods (left) and Tara Gaffney, 15, of Long Grove push boxes of donated items from the St. Francis De Sales Church in Lake Zurich up the sidewalk to be loaded Saturday morning onto a truck headed for Our Lady of Tepeyac Church in Chicago as part of their Sharing Parish Giving Tree event on Dec. 17, 2016.

Paul Sassone: Top New Year’s resolutions are too self-centered

May 23, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

Notice anything unusual about these? They are the top 5 New Year's resolutions, as reported by the Nielsen research firm. They are: 1. Stay fit and healthy 2. Lose weight...

Summer Dewdney, puts her back into shoveling the heavy, slushy snow in front of her house in Oak Park in March 2014. A winter storm left as much as 7 inches snow and moved this season to the third snowiest on record.

Paul Sassone: Help your neighbors by shoveling your sidewalks in the winter

May 13, 2019 at 2:58 p.m.

I could tell a lot about this guy from just three words. In response to a story about unshoveled sidewalks in Oak Park, this guy wrote to stop complaining, "It's...

Paul Sassone: What are some of your Christmas tree traditions?

May 23, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

We disagree. If it were up to me, nothing new would be hung on our Christmas tree. I like ornaments that have been with me many and many a Christmas....

Paul Sassone: Help our hungry neighbors this holiday season

May 13, 2019 at 2:58 p.m.

What's star on your Christmas dinner menu? Turkey? Ham? How about nothing? That many Americans face each day unsure of where their next meal is coming from is a national...

A reminder from Pioneer Press columnist Paul Sassone: When Christmas fights break out, there is always egg nog to ease the conflict.

Paul Sassone: Have you had your Christmas fight yet?

May 23, 2019 at 5:55 p.m.

Have you had the fight yet? You know, the Christmas fight. What the Christmas fight is about varies from family to family. For some it's the long-simmering resentment that boils...

Paul Sassone: Great work by Oak Park library to drop late fees

May 13, 2019 at 2:58 p.m.

There is a line in some movie – I forget which one – in which a character says, "We serve others best when at the same time we serve ourselves."...

Five-year-old Delaney Legut and her brother Hudson Legut, both of Batavia, take in the Santa Claus display in the Macy's window along State Street Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, despite a nasty wet and chilly day in Chicago on the eve of Thanksgiving.

Paul Sassone: What’s the best Christmas present you ever got?

May 23, 2019 at 5:54 p.m.

What was the best Christmas present you ever received? TV commercials would have you believe you are a failure as a human being if you don't receive a Lexus for...

This 2013 photo shows pages from iPad and iPhone apps Snapette (left) and Pricegrabber. As the holiday shopping season opens, shoppers will be armed with smartphones and an array of apps. Some will compare prices, offer gift suggestions, provide price alerts and more. Snapette says nearly two million people have downloaded the app for iPhones or Android handsets to fill a need for people who want to use online tools but shop in local stores.

Paul Sassone: Just because you can shop from your phone doesn’t mean you should

May 13, 2019 at 2:58 p.m.

Ah, the wonders of technology! Thanks to advanced technology, we now can do our Christmas shopping while doing 75 mph on the Eisenhower. But, it wasn't always so. My parents...

President-elect Donald Trump waits to greet former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as he arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016, in Bedminster, N.J.

Paul Sassone: America enters wait-and-see phase with President-elect Donald Trump

May 23, 2019 at 5:54 p.m.

OK, it's safe to come out for now. The presidential election has been over for a while. Everyone has had his or her shout of joy or outrage at the...

The inside of Oak Park Village Hall is pictured in September 2014.

Paul Sassone: ‘Tis the season to raise taxes and lay off workers

May 8, 2019 at 11:36 a.m.

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Well, not always. This is the time of year businesses like to lay off workers and municipalities bring the glad tidings of...

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