Merry Thriftmas! Find treasures, save money at Q-C resale shops
Racks ... winter's night. For your fireplace, there was a gas fireplace insert with fake logs for $25.95. Need some light? A silver floor lamp with a reading light on the side was $19.95. -- Sports: Not a huge selection of sporting goods here ...

With tension and police presence, most Newtown schools reopen
It remains unclear when the Sandy Hook students will return to school, but it will likely not be until after Jan. 1, following the students' winter ... goods Tuesday: guns at Dick's Sporting Goods at the Danbury Fair mall. The outdoors corner of the sports ...

Home for the holidays
In order to practice with some of his locked out NHL colleagues at Carleton University while awaiting his sticks, he dropped into an Ottawa-area sporting goods store for some new lumber. He went old school, buying a couple of end-of-the-rack $35 wooden ...