Each year, the BOO by the Woods at Avon Lake Public Library, 32649 Electric Blvd., does its best to get its corner of Lorain County ready for Halloween. This year’s festivities will include two days ...

ROB: IF YOU HAVE KIDS AT HOME LIKE I DO WHO CANNOT WAI FOR HALLOWEEN YOU CAN GET THE CELEBRATION STARTED EARLIER. JOINING ME THIS MORNING FOR ALL THE DETAILS ON HALLOWEEN BOO-BASH IS JULIA KINGSBURY.

Every once in a while I have an unbidden flashback to being 3 years old, sitting on the floor of my aunt’s house, a nondescript rambler tucked away in a suburb just south of Sacramento, Calif. In my ...