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If you could go back one year, what would you have done differently? If I could go back one year, I would be sure to tell my students how much I love them and show them how strong and smart they are. One of the biggest struggles last spring was how lonely and isolated my first-graders felt. They were scared of COVID, but I think even more so they missed their friends and teachers. They really need that personal human interaction to thrive and during those last few months of school they were dep...

ASHLAND Easter-related events at Ashland Town Center are set to get going on Friday, March 19, which is when the Easter Bunny arrive.

• Alfalfa: Compared to the last report Feb. 4: Hay trade remains slow, with Arctic temperatures and heavy snowfall over the trade area has hampered movement. No trades of ground alfalfa yet demand remains moderate to good as most feed yards and dairies seem to be current as of now. Demand remains moderate for farmers and ranchers. No trades reported. Grass hay: Central Oklahoma: Large round bermuda grass $55-$60 per bale. Large round prairie/meadow grass $35 per bale. Eastern and Western ...

Live and learn Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines said he’s glad to be basking in the proverbial light at the end of the pandemic tunnel. However, he remains concerned that there’s much recovery left to undertake over at least the next year, particularly K-12 students and small businesses and restaurants, Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines  Andrew Dye, Journal “Most of the changes we were forced to make are temporary, and we have slowly been able to get back to some le...

Minnesota gas prices have risen 3.6 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.71 per gallon today, according to GasBuddys daily survey of 2,856 stations in Minnesota. Gas prices

Patrick Jaynes can still remember it like it was yesterday.

Up until March 7, 2020, Sarah Johnson was spending three days per week at the Stafford County Senior Café operated by Healthy Generations Agency on Aging. On Wednesdays, she and a close-knit group of about 30 other senior citizens went shopping. On Mondays and Fridays, they played Bingo, or went bowling, or saw a movie, or did arts and crafts or listened to guest speakers or went on field trips—to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, to see “Annie” at Riverside Dinner...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

WODEN -- The most popular song that country and western singer Marty Robbins ever issued is a 1959 murder ballad called "El Paso" which tells tales of jealously, gunfights and horse thievery set to Spanish guitar playing that is equal measures gripping and haunting.  "Out in the West Texas town Of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl, nighttime would find me in Rosas Cantina, music would play and Felina would whirl, blacker than night were the eyes of Felina, wicked and evil ...

Just after opening a new vintage ice cream parlor in a Crown Point strip mall, Dairy Belle will soon open its sixth location in Dyer. The 71-year-old Region institution, which has been serving scoops since it started in Hammond in 1950, is opening next to Pops on U.S. 30 in Dyer, about three miles west of its existing location on U.S. 30 in Schererville. The Colao family, owner of Dairy Belle, is friends with Pops owners, which led them to open next to Pops Italian beef restaurants in Crown ...