Captain Kangaroo News

KREX mobile radio and television van. COURTESY OF AL LADAGE In January of 2008, a Grand Junction landmark and the home of many Happy Valley memories was lost in a tragic fire.

Before Darth Vader, there was Oscar the Grouch. Before Barney, there was Big Bird.

Kevin Clash is an Emmy-award-winning performer and producer with dozens of TV and film credits to his name, but he's far better known as a furry red monster.

Mineola to Ridge , from Eatons Neck to East Islip - who grew up in front of their TV set in the mid-'60s and doesn't have an absolutely vivid memory of that name, of that face? Anyone? Unlikely because for a brief, shining and even slightly controversial period, Sales, who died Thursday at 83, was a kids' TV king while the 75-mile radius beyond his ...

Chuck McCann will always be best-known to a generation of New Yorkers as the warm-hearted, moon-faced host of kids' shows on Ch.

Today is Saturday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2009 with 89 to follow. The moon is waxing.

It's official. We just got word. Captain Kangaroo day is on October 3rd, 2009. This special day is just too much fun to pass up.

RECENTLY READER Lorae Vanden Berge contacted me to ask if I'd ever written about Ontario Plaza's ping-pong ball drops of the 1960s.