Ice cream, hot dogs, ice cream, lobster, ice cream: Selectmen may limit food vendors

Oh, summer’s sweet innocent indulgence: The ice cream truck with its ringing bell calls a crowd of eager kids. It’s the iconic America that Ridgefielders pay half a million a house for. But can there be too much of a good-tasting thing? “All the pools are fed up,” Di Masters told her fellow selectmen. “It’s a parade of ice cream trucks that goes through, and the moms get fed up: ‘Enough with the ...

Cannes Diary: Of Efrons, Cinephiles And Whale-Taming Cotillards

In the first of several letters from the Cannes Film Festival, writer Raj Ranade parses the fest's appetite for art-house fare and reports on one standout drama that's headed for the U.S. this year.

From trash to treasure

ASPEN - Aspen Village residents Eric Ward and August Casal provide proof positive that being green pays financial awards. Over the past six months they removed a trailer from their lot and built a house that is a recycling marv Copyright 2012 Summit Daily News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Summit Daily News From trash to ...

TCT gets trashy in 'Trailer Park Musical'

"The Great American Trailer Park Musical" touches on enough subjects to fill a season of "The Jerry Springer Show" - agoraphobia, adultery, mullets, hysterical pregnancy, strippers, death row romances, flan, disco, drugs and road kill among them.

Students and Firefighters hold annual Fire and Ice event

Students from Evans Middle School were at the central fire station in Ottumwa Tuesday, raising money for those in need.