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As Carla Evans prepares for her retirement from Flossmoor Hills School, she feels like her 25 years there have gone by in a ...

Comeaux, who is 49, has been on the local FCA staff for nearly 25 years and is now the coordinator of chaplains for the WNBA.

Dwyane Wade’s résumé could have stopped at three-time NBA champion, 13-time NBA All-Star and Naismith Basketball Hall of ...

Hundreds of high school students in the Cayuga County area will graduate this month, with commencement ceremonies getting ...

This unassuming community in Langlade County has quietly become a haven for retirees discovering they can actually live well—not just survive—on a modest fixed income of $1,200 monthly. I found Antigo ...

In the land of $7 lattes and million-dollar starter homes, there exists a Central Valley haven where your modest retirement check might actually cover more than just your utility bills and cat food.

The best way to get something across to a young, little child is a children’s book,” Larrick said. And they have given the ...

In the novel “Peachaloo in Bloom,” the selfishness belongs to one man. In the picture book “The Wanting Monster,” it belongs ...

By Nehru OdehLola Shoneyin, award-winning writer and poet, has released a children’s book about Tunde Onakoya’s tough but inspiring life and how he waded through the storms to become a chess champion.

Books are a safe way to make sense of issues children might not be comfortable asking adults about. “There is a growing consensus among creators that everything that touches a child’s life at ...

The plots in the Bobbsey Twins books appealed to children younger than 8 ... Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who did everything together until they entered Sweet Valley Middle School.