Eat’N Park is honoring Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes — and his mustache — in a cookie available exclusively online. On Friday, Eat’N Park released the Bucco ‘Stache Smiley Cookie. This version of the restaurant’s signature treat features yellow icing and a black icing mustache atop the cookie’s iconic grin. “We frankly just got caught […]
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Cresson VFD celebrates volunteers, new tanker
Jun. 21—Cresson VFD and the surrounding community had plenty to celebrate last week. The department, along with a crowd of roughly 200, gathered June 14 to celebrate life-saving measures and a shiny new tanker truck. Cresson VFD members were recognized for one such life-saving instance by the Chisholm Trail 100 Club that occurred in May, […]
Valley celebrates diversity, freedom at Lewisburg’s inaugural Juneteenth Celebration
Jun. 20—LEWISBURG — The first of what organizers plan to be an annual Juneteenth Celebration was held in Hufnagle Park Wednesday. Kathryn Ehlo, of Montandon, brought her daughter Emily, 8. “I wanted her to be here, to see the joy of others acknowledging their heritage, the triumph of our ancestors, what they might have gone […]
Norwich celebrates Juneteenth with songs, dances and messages of freedom
Jun. 19—NORWICH — Emmaneula Prempeh, president of the Norwich NAACP youth council looked out at the more than 40 people gathered at Wednesday’s Juneteenth ceremony at City Hall and thought that 159 years ago, such a gathering to celebrate freedom for Black people would have been “unfathomable.” Even her presence at the podium, a Black […]
Melba Wilson celebrates Juneteenth with collards, catfish and red punch
Restaurateur, caterer and cookbook author Melba Wilson, of the famed New York City restaurant Melba’s, is stopping by the TODAY kitchen to celebrate Juneteenth. To commemorate the holiday, she is cooking up a collard greens salad topped with country-fried catfish paired with a festive red punch. Juneteenth Collard Greens Salad with Country Fried Catfish by […]
Philander Smith University celebrates Juneteenth with gospel concert
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Far and wide, the sounds of celebration echoed the halls of Philander Smith University Sunday honoring a monumental moment in U.S. history. As part of the celebration, performers like Alma Brown & the A-One Gospel Singers celebrated Juneteenth. Mosaic Templars Cultural Center hosts annual Juneteenth event Brown’s impromptu concerts started back […]
Beloved U-City resident and Navy veteran celebrates 101st birthday
UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. – When Ethel Mariam was born, the price of gas was just 14 cents per gallon, a dozen eggs cost 22 cents, and a new house was just under $6,300. “I was born at the old St. Louis Maternity Hospital on Euclid and Taylor,” she said. It was June 16, 1923. Ethel […]
Millcreek Common celebrates Juneteenth at third annual celebration
MILLCREEK, Utah (ABC4) — On Sunday, the third annual Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration was held at Millcreek Common to commemorate the upcoming holiday on Wednesday, June 19. The event was scheduled to run from 6 p.m. until about 10 p.m. at Millcreek Common on Sunday, and promised “fun and educational programming” for those who attended […]
Juneteenth at Virginia Beach celebrates a tribute to the culture
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) – Juneteenth at the beach continues at The Oceanfront. The 3-day festival invites families out for a long list of activities. “We have the opportunity to make Virginia Beach one of the go-to destinations to celebrate Juneteenth,” said Micah Walls, the L.A.M.B.S. Foundation creative director. “There is so much history that, […]
‘Black Fourth of July’: Boynton celebrates Juneteenth
BOYNTON BEACH — Five years ago, Boynton Beach activist Tory Orr proposed to city officials that he be allowed to organize Boynton’s first community event to memorialize Juneteenth, also known as “Freedom Day. At the time, the historical date wasn’t a federal holiday. This year, the city held its fifth Juneteenth celebration with a gathering […]
Fayetteville celebrates Juneteenth with annual festival downtown
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom on June 19, marking the day enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom, more than two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Fayetteville and surrounding areas hosted a celebration Saturday in honor of the newly adopted national holiday. Bide Divine paints Alana Joseph’s face at the […]
Downtown Orlando Celebrates and remembers Juneteenth with a festival
Saturday, dozens of people in Orlando celebrated and remembered what June 19th, 1865, symbolized and the importance behind what is now known as Juneteenth at Camping World Stadium. ▶ WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Throughout the event, the celebration was about taking the past, learning from it, and enhancing the future of our lives. “We’re […]