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Troiano to perform for annual Summer Organ Recital

ESCANABA — Organist David Troiano will be performing the annual Summer Organ Recital at St. Joseph & St. Patrick Parish on Tuesday, June 17. Troiano’s performances have garnered notice for their clean performances, musicality and interesting programing. He has appeared throughout the United States; in Canada, Portugal, Sweden, Poland, Lithuania, Argentina, and Ecuador, Finland and Mexico. Dr. Troiano currently serves as director at Liturgical Music and Choirs at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Shelby Township, Mich. He served as Instructor of Liturgical Chant at SS. Cyril ...

World’s oldest restaurant faces challenge from tavern that says its even older

MADRID (AP) — In the heart of Spain's capital, Sobrino de Botín holds a coveted Guinness World Record as the world's oldest restaurant. Exactly three hundred years after it opened its doors, Botín welcomes droves of daily visitors hungry for Castilian fare with a side of history. But on the outskirts of Madrid, far from the souvenir shops and tourist sites, a rustic tavern named Casa Pedro makes a bold claim. Its owners assert the establishment endured not just the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the Napoleonic invasion in the early 1800s, but even the War of Spanish Succession ...

When a fox says ‘help’ in London, there’s an ambulance waiting

PADDOCK WOOD, England (AP) — The injured fox is cornered in a cage, teeth bared and snarling at the woman trying to help it. Nicki Townsend is unfazed. Wearing only rubber gloves and an outfit suitable for a yoga class, she approaches with soothing words. "All right, baby," she coos as she ...

How the Vatican manages money and where Pope Leo XIV might find more

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The world's smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn't tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily finances the Catholic Church's central government through donations that have been plunging, ticket sales for the Vatican Museums, as well as income from investments and an underperforming real estate portfolio. The last year the Holy See published a consolidated budget, in 2022, it projected 770 million euros ($878 million), with the bulk paying for embassies around the world and Vatican media operations. In recent years, it hasn't been able ...

Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get

NEW YORK (AP) — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni ...