It’s that time of year and whether you call them ‘rummage sales’, ‘garage sales’, ‘yard sales’ or ‘tag sales’, they’re as popular as ever.

If you’re having a garage sale (we’ll stick with that one) and you want some FREE publicity, send us a note with all of the details (dates, hours, location and a little information what you’ll have plus any other important info) and we’ll post it here on the community site. 

Be sure to get it to us at least a day or two in advance.  We’ll try to post it during the week leading up to the event. 

The Santa Claus Post Office will offer the 2011 special holiday postmark to the public starting December 1. The “picture postmark” will cancel the postage stamps on holiday mail throughout December again this year.

This famous small-town post office is the only one in the world with the Santa Claus name and receives over 400,000 pieces of mail in December. About 11,000 letters are sent by children from all over the world in hopes of getting a response from Santa. These letters are answered by “Santa’s Elves” at the Santa Claus Museum and returned to children with the holiday postmark. The Santa Claus Post Office has offered the special postmark every holiday season since 1983.

“The Santa Claus holiday postmark has become the most popular in the nation over the past two decades,” says Postmaster Marian Balbach. “Postal patrons worldwide request the picture postmark each year and many customers traditionally drive hundreds of miles to personally obtain the famous cancellation on their holiday mail.”

Southridge hosts South Spencer in the second round of the indiana High School Football Class 2A playoffs Friday night.

The Raiders and Rebels are no strangers.  This will be the 49th meeting since 1972.