Fudge

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchisee Isaac Collins and employee Hannah Strasser mix the heated ingredients of the fudge on a marble top while it cools at his store in the Tanager Outlets in Williamsburg on Wednesday November 28, 2012. The batch of fudge being made was being produced to ship to US Armed Services personnel overseas as part of a pound bought/pund matched pledge by the store. (Justin Torner/Freelance)
Thursday, 6 December 2012

Rocky Mountain High

Chocolate store makes, sends 669 pounds of fudge to U.S. troops

  WILLIAMSBURG — The scent of sugar wafts through the air as Isaac Collins uses a large wooden spoon to mix fudge in a copper kettle. Minutes later, he pours the fudge onto a marble table. Working in a circle, Collins walks around the table, using large wooden paddles to move the fudge around. Swapping [...]

continue »
Brook Collins holds her dog, Fudge, at her home in Juneau, Alaska on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011. Collins punched a black bear in the snout after the bear attacked Fudge on Sunday, Aug. 28. (AP Photo/Juneau Empire, Michael Penn)
Thursday, 1 September 2011

Alaska woman punches bear in face to save dog 1

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A Juneau, Alaska, woman says she knows it was stupid to punch a black bear in the snout to save her dog. But Brooke Collins says the attack happened so fast that all she could think about is keeping her dachshund, Fudge, from being killed. The 22-year-old says as soon as [...]

continue »
Monday, 21 June 2010

Back at My Post 150

After a week away, I’m back at the corner of Third Avenue and Fifth Street SE. Sifting through e-mail and news I missed. Slowly. In the interest of re-remembering how to type and make English sentences, here’s what I did on my summer vacation. Our family vacation was fun, if not very restful. My wife, [...]

continue »