Post office painHelena Independent RecordEliza Wiley Independent Record – Gail Bruchez, left, postmaster at the Toston post office, chats with Toston resident Frank Hill while he visited the community hub. Senior citizens across the state, like Hill, use the post office as a community center … More: continued here

Daily Mail 'Utter filth and depravity': 200 walkout in outrage at sickening Royal…Daily MailBy Daily Mail Reporter More than 200 people have walked out of a sickening play which features members of the Royal Shakespeare Company in scenes of nudity, violence and rape. Audiences at Stratford-upon-Avon's famous Royal Shakespeare Theatre …

Rochester region sees food stamp explosionRochester Democrat and ChronicleFor further information about food stamps, you may call the Office of Temporary and Disability Services toll-free hotline at (800) 342-3009 and press "1" for food stamps or contact your local department of social services. Since the Great Recession …and more » More: …

New York Times A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't ComputeNew York TimesThe chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. Articles in this series are looking at the intersection of education, …Private …

Folks in Johnson are sad to lose an icon in their town. More: continued here

U.S. Postal Service changes not newThe State Journal-Register11, 1956, in front of the federal building and post office on Monroe Street. FILE/THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER. By KATHRYN REM Now that the US Postal Service is struggling to survive, the postal facility at 2105 E. Cook St. is one of nine in …

Globe and Mail Tate gets Stamps back on winning trackVancouver SunThe fact that it happened in a game the Stamps truly needed to win was icing on the cake. • And was a badly needed boost of confidence. “He played real confident and threw the ball downfield real well,” said …

Auctionbytes eBay Collector Turns to Amazon to Power Online Toy StoreAuctionbytesJay Langston began selling extra Star Wars action figures on eBay in 1998 to support his hobby. He expanded to Amazon.com and launched his first ecommerce site in 2006. His business, Backstage Toys LLC, now generates over $100000 in …and …

The United States Postal Service hosted a community meeting on Thursday evening in the communities of Lenox and Bogota to discuss the possibility of closing their community post office. Greg Jones,… More: continued here

The U.S. Post Office service counter at Texas Woman’s University closed at the end of September – another in the agency’s many service cutbacks across the nation. More: continued here