Once their three children became adults, Michael and Jill Loughran moved from Stowe, Vermont, to a rural town about an hour away – more specifically, to a 300-acre spread that ...

“Tonight, when the lights of the nativity scene are turned on and the Christmas tree lights up, even the wishes you have transmitted through your decorative works will be bright and seen by everyone,” ...

Working alongside them is a group of tree surgeons, summoned from Kilkenny ... Every day they’re up at seven. “Then we’re straight to ESB headquarters. We get locations and coordinates.