And if you plan well this year, you can make latch hook a family activity, or a holiday gift-making one. You might even stumble into spring with a vaguely usable latch-hook item for your home.

When in park, that spring shoves the hook down, which will then latch into the teeth on the output shaft of the transmission. Once hooked in, the shaft stops spinning.

State Sen. Andrew Gounardes on Monday celebrated the soft opening of Spring Bank, the first retail bank in Red Hook in a decade, which will deliver accessible banking services to the neighborhood. The ...