Jack-of-straw, scarebird, tattybogle, hay-man, mom met, gallybagger, showy-hoy… there are many different names for this familiar figure known as the scarecrow. Or, is it familiar? What do we really ...

KEARNEY — Orange lights glow brightly and festive Halloween music plays from Scott Whitney’s northwest Kearney home every October. The Halloween lover’s yard is packed with hay bales, corn stalks, ...

This 6-foot animatronic jack-o’-lantern scarecrow delivers subtle yet spine-chilling scares with LED lights and a rotating head. It’s on a limited-time sale on Amazon for 29 percent off, making it ...

The temptation in a story like this is to point out the rural small towns of New Jersey to dispel the notion of the industrial-smokestack and strip-mall-sameness reputation of the state. But feigning ...