Origin of Pumpkin Carving – by L. Peterson

With Halloween approaching, many houses have already been festooned with spiders and their webs, skeletons, fake blood, tombstones and other ghoulish spectacles. Yet no matter the theme of the house, most porches and stoops will be hosting carved pumpkins, also called jack-o’-lanterns. This is in fact not a custom reserved to the United States. It did not even start on this continent, and there is a reason they are called jack-o’-lanterns (No, it has nothing to do with Jack Skellington from the Nightmare Before Christmas).

Read the entire article in the Oct. 29th edition.

The Express Newspaper October 29, 2015

Johnsonville 5K Pumpkin Race – By C. Barton

   Twenty-two runners participated in the 3rd annual 5K Pumpkin Brigade on October 25th in Johnsonville. The results for the race have been calculated. The 2014 first place winner with a time of 24:06 was Megan Reynolds of Johnsonville NY. Jason Malm also of Johnsonville holds second place with a time of 24:48 and Ann Alessandrini of Johnsonville took third place with a time of 26:06.

Read the entire article in the Oct. 6th Edition of the Express.