Brittany Zieba, 3, rides the carousel with her mother, Kerry Zieba, during a stop on their beach vacation. Erin Clark/Globe Staff SALISBURY — George Burtch eased his foot off the pedal.

After spending years in storage while preservationists looked for a new, permanent home, the Jantzen Beach Carousel finally has a corral it can call its own: the National Neon Sign Museum in The ...

In the days that followed, Long Beach State announced it was parting ways with head coach Dan Monson, and all he did was take the 49ers to the NCAA Tournament via winning the Big West Conference.

For the next 40 years, the amusement park and the carousel were fixtures in the Portland area. But tastes and recreational pursuits changed. Not long after Labor Day 1970, the park shut down for ...