Time for a new Christmas tradition – cut your own Christmas tree

Maybe your family Christmas tradition includes driving to the parking lot in front of a department store that is closed, or was replaced by a second-hand store. Sometime, days before your arrival, a truck pulled up and dropped off a beat-up-old camper. Then some workers setup posts around the camper and strung orange twine through loops in the posts. Finally, …

Cal & Shan’s Christmas Tree Farm is a Mahoney Family Tradition

This is the third year in a row that the Mahoney’s of Wonder Lake have come out to Cal & Shan’s Christmas Tree Farm, 14216 Thayer Road, Woodstock, for their Cut-Your-Own Christmas tree. As with others who come to Cal & Shan’s for their Christmas tree, the Mahoneys said the trees are great and the experience is priceless. “It’s a …

Cal & Shan’s Christmas Tree Farm joins Woodstock Christmas Parade

Throughout most of the year, Cal & Shan’s provides landscaping services or snow removal services. This time of year, however, they join the holiday revelry by providing a traditional cut-your-own Christmas tree tradition. They kicked off that service Sunday in the Woodstock Christmas Parade. “This was the first year we were in the parade,” said Melissa Manke, whose husband, Todd …