Train noise is hardly noticeable in Rainier Valley, where most of the Link light-rail line’s neighbors live. But the clang of automated train bells can be heard two to four blocks away. The ...
Clanging bells will resonate in Mission Valley this weekend to herald the founding of California’s first Franciscan mission. Founded on July 16, 1769, by Father Junipero Serra, the Mission San Diego ...
John Laird is The Columbian's editorial page editor. His column of personal opinion appears each Sunday. Reach him at [email protected]. Notes, quotes and anecdotes while wondering why many people who ...
At first, it seemed that Robert Handwerk might have been overreacting to the clanging of bells in Jim Thorpe. Granted, gratuitous noise is obnoxious. Nitwits who like to torment others with booming ...
TOKYO — The sound of clanging bells echoes through my brain, shaking me to attention. It’s barely 6 a.m., and I’m standing with 60 other tourists behind a rope line in a massive fluorescent-lit ...
GLENWOOD — June Kasparek works the graveyard shift and wakes every morning to the loud clanging of bells. The nurse goes to bed at 6 a.m. after working a 12-hour shift at Florida Hospital DeLand. The ...
Mission ValleyMission Valley — With a resonant clanging that cut through the thick noonday heat, all five bells at Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá were rung in unison Saturday to mark the ...
A few staff members at the chancery office of the Catholic Diocese of Tulsa gathered around the television just before 11 a.m. Tuesday. For many minutes, it was unclear whether a new pope had been ...
Bells and Christmas go together like mistletoe and kisses. From “Carol of the Bells” to “Silver Bells,” Christmas carols for centuries have been written about bells and even sung in the style of ...