From Aspen to Las Animas, whistles and sirens still blow just as stomachs are beginning to growl. “It’s important for a small-town image to have a whistle,” said Tracy Barnett, director of ...

Lights and sirens! Bells and whistles! Today, Los Angeles fills your ears and eyes with noise and light, the rush and whoosh of cars and buses and trains, the pinging and ringing of millions of ...

Others, including Freeman, S.D., have let their sirens go silent. In Proctor, Minn., the whistle still sounds at 9:45 p.m. Decades ago, if a kid was out past then, "you were noted for being the ...

The whistle was eventually replaced by an electronic siren. At its April 13, 1926 test run, a reporter noted that “for approximately two minutes the deep-throated, yet piercing roar echoed and ...

It’s noon time whistle. As Colorado’s Public Radio’s Zachary Barr explains, it’s a new sound that won’t make you duck and cover. Zachary Barr: For decades an air raid siren ripped ...

It’s a tradition in many Iowa towns. The "whistle" blows at noon. Oftentimes it’s the town’s tornado siren that marks the start of the noon hour. Grinnell Mayor Gordon Canfield has been ...