Haunted Trail open
The Haunted Trail at Camp Alexander is open on Fridays and Saturdays in October.
The trail will be open from 8 p.m. to midnight through October. The cost is $7 per person, with children under 5 getting in free.
The Haunted Trail will not be accessible through the main camp property. Participants will need to go east on Interstate 35, take the County Road R1 exit, then follow the signs to the trail.
More information may be had by calling 343-5595.
No more zeros
NEW YORK — In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.
As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure — the “1” in $10 trillion. It’s marking the federal government’s current debt at about $10.2 trillion.
The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.
The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt.