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Willowtown Spring Fair Coming Saturday, May 17

We have word from Ben Bankson (in striped shirt in photo, at last year’s Fair) that this year’s Willowtown Spring Fair will be Saturday, May 17 from noon to 5:00 p.m., on Willow Place (between Joralemon and State streets). This year’s Fair will feature a pet parade. Participants and pets should assemble in Adam Yauch […]

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Renowned Heights’ Resident Amity Shlaes Publishes New Bio On Calvin Coolidge

Renowned author, columnist & Brooklyn Heights rez Amity Shlaes, whose 2007 book “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” was widely acclaimed, has just published “Coolidge,” a chronicle of the life of 30th president Calvin Coolidge. She tells webbie Woman Around Town, “Our ignorance of Coolidge hurts more than our understanding of […]

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