(AP) – The United States Postal Service officially announced the
price of Forever stamps and other postage will go up on Jan. 22,
2023. The move has been anticipated for months after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said in August that increases would be
necessary to keep up with costs. Inflation was expected to add
$1 billion to the Postal Service’s operating budget. 

The USPS plans to increase prices of affected postage by 4.2%,
which amounts to a few cents per stamp. The cost of a Forever
stamp would go up 3 cents, from 60 cents to 63 cents. The price
of Forever stamps just went up in July from 58 cents to 60 cents.

A year ago, the stamps cost 55 cents.

Postmaster general Louis DeJoy (65).

(AP) – “Pan Solo”,that’s what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay
Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star
Wars" character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in 
“The Empire Strikes Back."    

Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of
One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding,
baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and
two types of dough, including a type of yeast less dough with a
higher sugar content that will last longer.

The two worked at night, after the day’s business was done. The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about
a half-hour’s drive north of San Francisco.

Unfortunately, Pan Solo won’t last forever. The dough eventually
will be composted, not eaten.

So, as a wise Jedi might warn: Don’t use the forks, Luke.

Harrison Ford as Han Solo.

Jessica McClure Morales (born March 26, 1986; widely
known as "Baby Jessica" in 1987) fell into a well in her
aunt’s backyard in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987,
at the age of 18 months.

Jessica Morales, now age 36, lives with her husband,
Danny, and two kids, Simon and Sheyenne three miles
from the well that made her famous.

(Fox News) – NASCAR Cup Series driver Kurt Busch (above) 
announced he will be stepping away from full-time racing.

Busch made the announcement from his hometown of Las
Vegas and said he will miss the rest of this season and will
not race full-time in Cup next year.

Bush stated, "As I continue to focus on my health and work
towards being cleared, I will be stepping away from full-time
NASCAR Cup Series competition in 2023.”

TIM MAGUIRE

I Love Lucy is a television sitcom that originally aired 
on CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with
a total of 180 half-hour episodes, spanning six seasons. 

The show starred Lucille Ball, her husband, Desi Arnaz
(above), along with Vivian Vance and  William Frawley.