BLOOMINGTON -- Memo to Easter Bunny: You'd be smarter than the average hare if you hopped on over to the Bloomington Sale Barn Saturday for some last-minute additions to your basket inventory.

My Holiday In: Rome and Florence (Independent)

Me, my mum and grandparents flew to Rome during the Easter holidays. We went on a coach tour round the whole circuit of Rome and saw all the sights, which was great. Then we went round again and stopped off at St Peter's. It was Palm Sunday and the Pope was doing blessings. I liked seeing the Pope.

Word from the Weiss: Great decisions and high drama (Lake County Journals)

Easter 2008 is one holiday Debbi Maximoff won’t soon forget. As the story goes, Deb started the day surrounded by family and friends and ended it surrounded by doctors and nurses.

Nor'easter erodes local beaches (Asbury Park Press)

Monday's nor'easter left approximately 8-foot high cliffs in some of the dunes in Long Beach Township and some dune fencing is gone, a township official said this afternoon. "We have two weeks until Memorial Day, so we're going to try to clean up the beaches the best we can before the holiday, the start of the summer," said Andy Baran, assistant director of public works for the township. "Some ...

Celebrate Pinkster the old-fashioned way (The Record)

What’s Easter without colored eggs? A lot less like Pinkster – the mostly forgotten holiday from which Easter “borrowed” the idea. “Most people don’t ever think about what eggs have to do with Easter,” says Kevin Wright, past president of the Bergen County Historical Society.