There were once over 3,400 Sears stores embedded in U.S. everyday life, yet the final five could shutter in the coming days ...

Weindruch had business history in mind in his youth. His family was in the grocery business, with his father's side in retail and his mother's in wholesale. His father, who ran the produce part of his ...

With this week’s look into the WDBJ7 Archive, we visit Sears Town, which began to take shape in Roanoke in the spring of 1956 ...

Housing options vary from relocating condemned houses, craning in factory builds and shopping plans from catalogs.

This story takes place in Northern Richmond County during the nineteen thirties, but it could have taken place at any home in ...

The Eastville Community Historical Society hosted a holiday-themed gathering at its newly renovated headquarters at 139 ...

It’s Christmas time, and you’ve got the entire holiday package wrapped up in a big, red bow: Glittering tree Twinkling lights ...

Christmas was simpler in the 1950s. Children spent weeks poring over the Sears & Roebuck Wish Book. And, most Christmases, I ...

As Santa gets ready for his journey to deliver gifts this year for Christmas, the most asked question is — how does Norad track him? It’s been 70 years since this tradition first began ...

This story takes place in Northern Richmond County during the nineteen thirties, but it could have taken place at any home in ...

In 1955, Sears, Roebuck & Co. ran an ad in The Gazette that contained a phone number for children to call Santa. “Hey kiddies!” St. Nick says in the ad. “Call me direct on my telephone.” One of the ...

A judge has dropped the theft charge that led to the arrest of Cecil Roebuck, who is planning a new Carnival parade to start the season. Cecil Roebuck’s plans to produce the Mystic Kings parade were ...