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The students of Noble Elementary in Hamburg are holding a canned food drive beginning Oct. 24 and running through Nov. 15.

The city of San Jose has approved a major expansion of its tiny home program for the homeless, even as it faces opposition from neighbors of one location who say it's ill-advised.

The millage-funded projects that have been under way in the Hamburg school district for the last two years are substantially complete.

ALBION — It was, fittingly enough, an organic discovery. It involved a woman from the Netherlands, an old Army man, a curious group of young people, some teachers passionate about project-based learning and a downed tree. The fifth-grade classes at Central Noble Elementary School were developing trails in the woods that the corporation owns east of the Albion campus earlier this school year. One of the students stumbled upon a dead tree. Inside that tree? Bees? Bunches and bunches of bees....

LIGONIER — Parents with students in West Noble’s dual language program voiced their displeasure with the administration’s decision to cancel the program for next year. A group of 15-20 parents and other adults attended Monday’s school board meeting to plead for the program’s reinstatement. A letter was sent home to parents April 19, which explained the district’s decision to cancel the program because of the lack of staff. Parent Justin Blotkamp said the dual langu...