Last week in this space we reported on the surprising victory of a college student in a county-board election. Eric Folkman, a junior at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, won election as a ...

Before we turn the calendar, I want to highlight a few things we explored together in 2025, and reveal my new word for 2026.

The group of developers that includes builder Jerry Bishop of Akron has failed to pay $277,369, the balance due the King Estate on 50 of the 74 acres of woods and wetlands known as “King’s Woods” on ...

Thanks to the proliferation of smart devices, cloud-based services and more fluid content creation and distribution systems, technology is fundamentally changing the way we learn. Not only is it ...

That’s what the first-graders in Sue Allen’s class at Townsend Elementary School in Vandercook Lake thought of her activity designed to help them count by ones, tens and hundreds last week. Maybe ...

Especially in light of the filmed police shootings of African Americans this year, more attention is being paid by educators toward culturally responsive teaching. It might be a bit more obvious about ...

Counting Lessons in Purgatory, New Mexico displays Joel-Peter Witkin's signature penchant for the bizarre and the freakish. Witkin puts out calls for models who have unusual appearances, from giants ...

Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo want to make sure their daughter stays safe in the water. Soon after moving to California, the couple signed 1-year-old Felicity up for swimming lessons, as they shared ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On Dec. 31, 2015, with about ten minutes left in a year that had graced us with the first great ...