merchant service center

JCPenney will provide catalog service in Newark, NY through the JCPenney Catalog Service Center located at Secor Home & Hardware, 800 W. Miller Street, Newark.

Beginning November 14, customers will be able to satisfy all of their catalog needs at the facility. Operated by Secor Home & Hardware the catalog service center will offer convenient shop-at-home and online catalog ordering services. Customers orders may be picked up at the service center or delivered directly to homes, offices or anywhere in the United States.

According to Jodi Houge, JCPenney Catalog Sales Merchant Coordinator, the Service Center will provide the same customer services provided by the catalog desks in their department stores, ranging from processing of credit card payments to the sale of gift cards.

Herald-Press editor to step down

Michael V. Perkins, editor of The Herald-Press for nearly 30 years, will step down from that position next month to lead the Parkview Huntington Hospital Foundation.Perkins came to the newspaper in the summer of 1967 and, except for a brief stint in the Navy, has been here ever since. He was named editor in 1978."A value cannot be placed on the contributions Mike Perkins has made to this newspaper and the community," Herald-Press Publisher Steve Kimmel said. "His leadership will be sorely missed by everyone at The Herald-Press."Perkins' last day in the office will be Feb. 10. After a week of vacation, he'll begin his new position as executive director of the Parkview Huntington Hospital Foundation."It was an opportunity that presented itself that, at this time in my life, was the right opportunity to take," Perkins said, acknowledging "a bittersweet element in leaving."

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Incidentally, they don't play around in Mexico--if they find out you're in their country illegally, you're gone. On the subject of citizenship by birth, in the past it has made sense that children born here in the United States are automatically citizens. But given the millions of new people who abuse this every year with "anchor babies," it's time to amend this. Changing the citizenship-by-birth requirement to specify that the parents have to be in the United States LEGALLY at the time of the child's birth would make sense, and would pretty much wipe our "anchor baby" abuse. Like Huckabee, Giuliani's another one who's not committed to securing our borders and enforcing our laws. Not acceptable for a Republican candidate.