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THE COMMUNITY of Shadyside, specifically Vision Shadyside, will be holding a Meet the Candidate Forum at 6 p.m. Sept. 30 at the offices of OHIO-WV Excavating (right beside the Tiger Pub) on 39th Street and Central Avenue. Candidates invited include the Shadyside mayoral candidates, Shadyside Village Council, Shadyside Board of Education and Mead Township Trustee. All community members are welcome to attend and may submit a question for the candidates to Jayson Johnson @ jaysoncjohnson@outlook.com. A FALL basket bingo will be held at 1 p.m. Oct. 5 at New Athens Firehall. Doors open at ...

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. “The Secret of Secrets” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 2. “Katabasis (deluxe ed.)” by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager) 3. “Lover Forbidden” by J.R. Ward (Gallery) 4. “Framed in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s) 5. “Clown Town” by Mick Herron (Soho Crime) 6. “Clive Cussler: The Iron Storm” by Jack Du Brul (Putnam) 7. “Wild Reverence” by Rebecca Ross (Saturday) 8. “Buckeye” by Patrick Ryan (Random House) 9. “Billion-Dollar Ransom” by Patterson/Swierczynski (Little, Brown) 10. “Atmosphere” by Taylor Jenkins Reid ...

Turn your garden harvest into a peck of pickled peppers. Or cukes. Or even watermelon rinds

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It’s September, and I still haven’t harvested a single red tomato. The beets are still grape-size and, so far, my four plants have produced only two zucchini. But the green beans? They’re suddenly coming in faster than I can eat them. I’ve blanched and frozen several bags for fall and winter, and, in the interest of variety, have just pickled a batch. As a lifelong gardener, I’m no longer surprised by annual harvest fluctuations. A few years back, my plants yielded a single bean, which I comically steamed, salted and cut four ways to split with my family. It was delicious, ...

Fashion meets Freud

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NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion and Freud? From top hats to stilettos, bustiers to bullet dresses, what we choose to put on our backs is interpreted through the lens of psychoanalysis in a new exhibit five years in the making. Valerie Steele, director of The Museum at FIT, curated nearly 100 ...