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‘I’m thankful for the dollar store’: Parents are stressed out shopping for clothes during back-to-school season, and struggle with record-high inflation
India Wayman, 40, a stay-at-home mom in North Syracuse, N.Y. says she’s never felt this much stress buying back-to-school clothes for her daughter. “I have to go through too many avenues to find affordable clothes, way too many avenues,” she said. In prior years, Wayman shopped off-season and in the clearance section. But this year, she said, even the clearance section was out of reach. One pair of jeans cost $40, Wayman said. “My daughter is 11, and she’s rapidly growing. She kind of skipped over the junior phase.” Children will be headed back to school in a matter of weeks in some places, and many parents say they’re stressed…
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A Spirit Halloween store movie is coming
With toy-similar movies all the rage (just search the Play-Doh motion picture from Emily V. Gordon and Jon M. Chu, Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie and Paramount’s “Transformers” franchise), Halloween fans have been still left less than-served — until eventually now. Spirit Halloween, the iconic costume and prop keep with 1,425 places across North The usa, has teamed with Strike Again Studios, Hideout Pics and Specific Group for a characteristic-size loved ones motion picture identified as, you guessed it, “Spirit Halloween.” Billed as a spouse and children/youngsters adventure motion picture, the project stars “Back to the Future’s” Christopher Lloyd and “She’s All That” star Rachael Leigh Cook, as well as some new faces. “When a new Spirit…
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Peoria photography store to close after 84 years in business |
PEORIA — Over 84 years, Peoria Camera Shop survived changes in location and changes in how people took and preserved photographs. But it appears it might not survive the death of “The Camera Guy.” Located at the Metro Centre shopping plaza, Peoria Camera Shop plans to close for good Feb. 25. Its photo-processing laboratory probably will shutter next week, although the store is to continue to sell cameras, lenses and other equipment through February, the Journal Star reports. The unexpected passing of Bill Dobbins, who purchased the store in 2007, led to the closure, according to his son, Nate Dobbins. The elder Dobbins, a Morton resident, was 61 when he died…