Rick Shrum

Another slice of Americana is disappearing – the traditional bank branch.

Doughnuts are enticing, with or without icing. Doughnuts are great, especially six or eight. Doughnuts are guilty pleasure, an international treasure.

This column doesn’t dovetail with what I usually do professionally, but starting in three days, I resolve to . . .

What’s happening at Washington Mall?

To a dessert judge on a diet, this was semisweet Sunday – bordering on bittersweet Sunday.

The Microtel hotel being built – assembled? – in Chartiers Township may be completed sooner than anticipated.

It wasn’t just the pickle pin you got upon entering, or the days-of-yore tour when you actually could watch people making relish and soup. Or the diminutive samples you took home, or the sweet aromas emanating from ubiquitous city smokestacks of the time. Or the charming tale of its genesis:…