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Dec. 12--You could call Theodore 'Sonny' Attea a front man, seated at his computer amid the mounds of packaged candy in his cluttered Clinton Street store. As vice president in [...]

Dec. 03--Robert Wilson Minter, one-time president of Minter's Candies, who moved to Rhode Island to take over another candy factory and then to Vermont for skiing and community service, died [...]

Nov. 23--Tempe wants people to know downtown for its shops, lush trees and brick sidewalks, but recently some of those features have been overshadowed by dead plants, gum and bird [...]

Oct. 31--The sights and sounds inside Ford Gum and Machine would captivate anyone who has ever tucked a coin into a gum ball machine, turned the dial, and waited to [...]

Oct. 29--No need to worry about the fact Halloween is on a school night or what night city leaders officially mark the spooktacular holiday. Chattanooga Market's got a plan. Children [...]

Oct. 22--ROUND LAKE -- Ninety employees of Farley's and Sathers Candy Company Inc. spent extra time in the factory's parking lot this week, hopping aboard the bus for better health. [...]

Oct. 20--Ford Gum & Machine in Akron has added Big League Chew to its production lineup. The company, which employs about 100 people, has acquired the rights to make the [...]

Sept. 27--One of Roald Dahl's best-known stories for children, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,' went through a lot of changes before it was first published in 1964. It was supposed [...]

Sept. 26--After a freakish storm nearly blew down the historic, century-old Switzer building in July 2006 and also led to a string of legal disputes, the Laclede's Landing site is [...]

Jun. 17--THE HERSHEY Co. has sold its former Reading plant to a Connecticut real estate firm, which in turn intends to look for another buyer. Kelly Emmert, vice president of [...]

Jun. 5--Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co., a fixture in the anthracite region for many years, has sold its properties in Carbon and Schuylkill counties for $11 million to a Montgomery [...]

May 26--After a $4.5 million donation from the former CEO of the candy and pet food company Mars Inc., Colonial Williamsburg is planning to construct a replica of the blacksmith [...]

May 25--Schuylkill County's oldest anthracite company is at least temporarily out of business, as state officials on Monday suspended its mining permit for what they termed an unwillingness to operate [...]

May 18--OLAFFUB SEZ: Advice from mathematician, philosopher and poet Omar Khayyam, born on or about this date in 1048, 'Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why. Drink! [...]

May 6--When it comes to showing how much they care about their teachers, Cibola High School students go above and beyond presenting them apples. Cibola's sixth annual teacher appreciation luncheon [...]

May 1--VALPARAISO -- Beginning today and lasting through the end of the month, a visitor to the downtown area can buy a coffee at The South Bend Chocolate Co. and [...]

Apr. 23--Among the tables off ering free cookies, pretzels and hot dogs were insurance agents and jewelers, caterers and candy makers and credit unions, and firms offering help with face-lifts [...]

Apr. 3--Good news, Easter candy junkies: That chocolate bunny isn't going to cost you any more than it did last holiday season. Reduced production of cocoa in the Ivory Coast, [...]

Mar. 28--They seem too delicate and beautiful to eat. Still, you can't help but want to munch on one. After all, it's made of sugar and frosting. A sugar-mold egg [...]

Mar. 1--HOBART -- The colorful and tangy-flavored crunch Gummi bears at Albanese Nut and Candy Co. have caught the eye of the Food Network's 'Unwrapped' program. ''Unwrapped' came into our [...]

Feb. 24--Making candy at home does not require you to become partly mad scientist. But it helps. That's because working to transform sugar and chocolate into mouthfuls of wonder takes [...]

Feb. 23----Name: Holder Concessions and Wholesale --Location: Willow Street, just off East 13th Street. --Products/services: Holder Concessions manufactures snow cone syrup, the only company in the area to do so, [...]

Feb. 12--Karen Gaylor wrote a love-filled message on pink paper and sent it and a red heart-shaped lollipop to an H.J. MacDonald Middle School eighth-grader who helps out with her [...]

Feb. 11--Hello. My name is Susan and I'm a chocoholic. You probably thought that during the week before Valentine's Day I'd be reminding you of all the calories in chocolate. [...]

Feb. 10--Valentine's Day for many is more than a dozen red roses and a Hallmark card. It's all about chocolate. Melted, poured, frozen, boxed, wrapped, in a pie shell or [...]

Dec. 28--CHESAPEAKE -- Since 1919, family-owned-and-operated H.E. Williams Candy Co. Inc. has been making seven kinds of sweets the old-fashioned way, with the same taffy pullers, rollers, presses and slicers [...]

Dec. 23--The candy cane was born at Christmastime in 1670, when a German choirmaster asked for sugar sticks ben tinto the shape of a shepherd's cro6ok to mollify children during [...]

Dec. 23--Chocolate and wine historically have been a tough match. Putting the two together in the same bottle seems disastrous. At least, that's what I would have thought before tasting [...]

Dec. 23--The candy cane was born at Christmastime in 1670, when a German choirmaster asked forsugarsticksbentinto theshapeof ashepherd'scrookto mollify children during 'living creche' services at his Cologne cathedral. That's the [...]

Dec. 16--Kraft has openly questioned Cadbury's ambitious growth targets as the battle for control of the British confectioner yesterday descended into a slanging match. The American conglomerate pulled no punches [...]

Dec. 6--Cadbury is tomorrow expected to reject the [pounds sterling]10.1 billion bid from US food giant Kraft, details of which were formally sent to shareholders last Friday. Kraft boss Irene [...]

Dec. 5--Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has slammed the idea of an American takeover of Cadbury as it emerged the boss of suitor Kraft enjoys a vast array of personal benefits. [...]

Dec. 4--Kraft's [pounds sterling]9.8 billion hostile bid for Cadbury began in earnest today, when the American food giant posted the details of the offer to shareholders of the Dairy Milk [...]

Dec. 4--Kraft will today formally post its offer document for Cadbury, barring last minute hitches. The Ritz cracker maker has tabled a [pounds sterling]9.8bn bid for the British confectioner. It [...]