All across the Columbia area, giant inflatable Santa Clauses watch over homes. Banners of lights brighten up neighborhoods. Reindeer and candy canes and snow men are all aglow. It’s clear that ...

Their hobby has made them stars in the nativity world. One of Loccisano and Palan’s nativity scenes, depicting a 1930s-era Dust Bowl farming family migrating west, has been accepted by the Vatican. It ...