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When parents and PTA members of Monroe-Woodbury took the district to task last week for identifying some religious holidays in its calendar and not others, they were not alone.
Officials of Clarkstown School District in Rockland County (New York) said that it plans to reprint all of its calendars after it was discovered that Christmas [...]

Some people were already calling it the “Creche War” before Wednesday night’s City Council convened. There were expectations that angry words would fill the air.
But by the time a succession of concerned citizens had each finished their allotted three minutes at the podium during an 80-minute public hearing, there was a minimum of verbal [...]

In a new video message on his website, Toby Keith tells his fans that he made the upcoming Yuletide album, A Classic Christmas, for them so they can have “more of the big dog” during the holidays.
Toby says that for him, Christmas is the most important birthday of the year, and he makes [...]

First there came word of television cameras following Santas around while doing their duties in the malls at Christmastime. And now this new idea from NBC about choirs trying to outsing each other with Christmas carols in a televised competition.
NBC is putting a new twist on the reality singing-competition genre with “Clash of the Choirs,” [...]

Bennett’s Christmas Album, Snowfall, was first issued as a 10-song LP in 1968 and was a yuletide staple for years. In 1994, it was upgraded to CD for the first time, expanded with a bonus track recorded on The Jon Stewart Show (broadcast at the time by MTV Networks). Ten years later, the CD [...]

New York, NY — Central Jersey favorite rock ‘n’ roll sons The Smithereens wil released their first Christmas CD Oct. 9 on KOCH Records.
“Christmas with The Smithereens” is hot on the heels of the smash Beatles tribute, “Meet the Smithereens,” their version of the Beatles debut album.
“THE SMITHEREENS set out to re-invent the Christmas [...]

Jaci Velasquez will release a 3-track Christmas/New Year’s EP titled Open House on 30 October, A’postrophe Records announced.
This EP includes a well-known Christmas song “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”, an original Christmas song titled “Quiet Christmas Night” and also a Velasquez version of “Auld Lang Syne”, the popular New Year’s song.
Velasquez states, “I [...]

Christmas is hands-on and we found a site — Kaboose.com’s Christmas Crafts — that will show you just how hands-on it can be. It is another winner of our Site of the Week honors.
Technically, Kaboose.com isn’t a Christmas site. It is a family/Mom portal featuring a plethora of parenting, schooling and family material.
But [...]