The "Stark, actually" featurettes are about people, places and things in Stark County. Prior examples have included everything from a thoroughbred horse farm to the annual spawning run of white bass, ...

CHICAGO — There is life after death — at least in retail. Five years after Montgomery Ward went out of business, its brand name has been revived on the Internet and there’s even a 21st-century version ...

I was 9 years old in 1958. It was different then: 9-year-old girls still had little girl thoughts, little girl interests, and little girl wishes. It was a simpler time, as they say. But I digress; ...

CHICAGO -- Besieged by competition from specialty retailers, Montgomery Ward, a progenitor of mail-order shopping that operated general merchandise stores in 30 states, is closing down after 128 years ...

One of the pioneers of modern American retailing, Montgomery Ward first entered the Amarillo market in 1931. Montgomery Ward Inc. began as a mail order catalog nearly 60 years earlier before launching ...