DALLAS — 1980 and 2011 are the most miserable and memorable summers on record here in North Texas. In the summer of 1980, we marked the hottest temperatures ever recorded at DFW Airport -- including a ...

Take yourself back in time through these retro photos from the Press Democrat vault. Much like today, summertime on the Russian River in the 1980s was a reprieve from life. But before the ubiquity of ...

Tim Trent sat doodling at his desk one summer day in 1980, trying to come up with a short, catchy name for Utica’s 3-year-old, fast-growing summer festival. It wasn’t easy. After all, how did one ...