Toy trucks molded from a wood-plastic composite are designed to sustain interest among both children and their parents. Luke's Toy Factory in Danbury, Conn., is selling trucks with 30 percent less ...

FRANCONIA — As Peter Becker Woodworkers’ Association member Bob Coble and others in the senior living community watched the television reports of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Coble recalls they were ...

Christmas Bureau volunteer Janet “Pinki” Culbertson spent the summer assuring her “truckers” that yes, the Christmas Bureau still needs handmade wooden toy trucks to hand out to children this year.

Where: Spokane County Fair and Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. Times and Dates: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 8-10 and Dec. 13-15; 4 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 12. Closed Sunday, Dec. 11. ID requirements: Each adult ...

HARLEYSVILLE — Christmas will be a bit brighter for some underprivileged children around the world thanks to a donation of 100 toy trucks by the Peter Becker Woodworker’s Association. The woodworkers ...

Just call him Santa Claus. A 93-year-old toymaker gave new meaning to the “spirit of giving” when he donated 300 wooden play trucks to be given to local Pennsylvania kids for Christmas. Ed Higinbotham ...

Once upon a time around the Northwest, one thing likely to top a boy's Christmas wish list was a log truck. Not a real logging truck. Those were left to dads who, likely as not, earned their living at ...