Quincy City Hall will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25 in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. City Hall will reopen Monday, November 28, for regular business hours.
Central Services will also be closed Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25...
On week from today will mark one of America’s largest holiday traditions, Black Friday. Consumers will invade retail establishments with vigor in quest of big savings. With that in mind, the personal-finance website Wallet-Hub, has surveyed 35 of the largest retailers and has identified the stores offering the largest discounts and has some interesting statistics to share.
Thanksgiving Day is 52 days away and you can thank Abraham Lincoln for establishing it as a national holiday. Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving Day should be observed on the last Thursday in November on this date in 1863.
Yup, Thanksgiving is here. You know the drill -- travel, see family, eat turkey, sleep it off. But there is so much more to this day than you might realize.
This is kind of weird, I admit it, but I was actually thinking about putting up my Christmas tree before Halloween. I didn't put the tree up, but I was thinking about it. Now that November is here, the time has fallen back, and we've all had some turkey, we can start looking ahead to the final weeks of the year. When will you put up your tree?
You heard it here first, “Black Friday” will become a thing of the past within a few years. I made that comment 3 years ago and it is getting closer to reality with each year that goes by. This day, where retailers would see their sales escalate to get them into the “black”, is being manipulated by the very people who need it the most…the retailers...
Television, in years past, always left the 7 p.m. central time slot open for family programming. Over the years that has gone away. Fortunately, the major networks continue to air some classic holiday programs for families to view during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. With that in mind, here is a list of the broadcast information for upcoming classic family holiday shows.
Good news for Missouri shoppers. The price of a Thanksgiving meal is not going up very much in 2015. The American Farm Bureau Federation says that the price for most items used to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal will be very similar to 2014 prices.