In December 1940 I was five years old. About a week before Christmas, my grandfather (my mother’s father) decided to go to Bath, S.C. to see his daughter and her husband for Christmas — my Aunt Jessie ...

CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) -- At 83-years-old, Johnny Gondesen has a Christmas wish. "I want something to happen to this song before I go to meet my maker," he said from his Cypress home. The song is ...

Johnny Gondesen got to play a live version of "Christmas Is Here" on a radio station in Houston on Dec. 4 Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with ...

In 1965, Johnny Gondesen wrote and recorded an original Christmas song. He called it “Christmas Is Here." He released it on a 45 record but no radio station would ever play it. One grandpa's Christmas ...

A holiday ad showing how far one lonely grandfather is willing to go to bring his family home for Christmas is getting strongly mixed reviews all over the world. In the spot for Edeka, a large ...

After a year of unprecedented political sparring combined with a devastating global pandemic, let’s turn our attention to a debate of (slightly) less – but nevertheless significant – importance: Do ...

ALTON — A volunteers' meeting is planned Tuesday for this year's Christmas Wonderland in Rock Spring Park. The holiday transformation of the Alton park by The Grandpa Gang will begin in early ...

STONY BROOK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A family drive to see Christmas lights turned into a nightmare. Police on Long Island are looking for suspects in a road rage attack that left a grandfather severely ...

MOLALLA, Ore. (KOIN) — The Chenoweth family couldn’t afford a Christmas tree this holiday season, but that wasn’t going to stop Violet and her sister, Louann, from providing their kids a proper ...

CYPRESS, Texas (KTRK) -- At 83-years-old, Johnny Gondesen has a Christmas wish. "I want something to happen to this song before I go to meet my maker," he said from his Cypress home. The song is ...