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NEW HARTFORD  -- This town is bouncing back one step at a time – or, perhaps more correctly, one scoop at a time. In multiple flavors -- including strawberry cheesecake, which is to die for. The New Hartford Creamery opened up at the start of June to droves of customers. “I’ve gained four pounds since you opened!” one patron, Bob Dickson, joked to Mike Lane, who owns the shop with wife Amy.

A man who was sentenced to nearly three years’ imprisonment for injuring a judge at Milton Keynes County Court with a series of “relentless” punches to the head has been named as Greg Hazletine. Earlier coverage of the sentencing hearing this month did not identify the defendant, presumably because Hazletine, 41, had been taking part in family proceedings at the court. But his name appeared in an uncorrected transcript of sentencing remarks published yesterday by the judiciary:

Perhaps the most famous surrealist image in the world is Le Violon d’Ingres by Man Ray, a print of which was recently purchased at Christie’s for $12.4 million, making it by far the most expensive photograph ever sold. The story of this masterpiece is, in many ways, as fascinating as the mysterious image itself. At once an icon of the cultural fervor of 1920s Montparnasse, it is also the collaboration between two brilliant outsiders: Man Ray — born Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia — and his muse and model Kiki de Montparnasse, originally Alice Prin from a small town in France.

I didn’t even get a week to enjoy it. That was what I was thinking when I saw Marques Houston trending on Twitter. I’d been all giddy seeing an interview with one-third of my favorite boy band group on “R&B Money” and was reliving my childhood music memories about Immature. I’d heard the uproar here and there about him meeting his wife when she was 17 years old. Recommended Read: “‘R&B Money’ podcast brings back my fangirl days of Immature~ The podcast I didn’t know I needed to show respect to R&B legends”