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BELLWOOD — Bellwood-Antis School Board members voted Tuesday to continue all remote learning through Jan. 11. The district began the school year with five days a week face-to-face instruction — one of only a few in the area to do so. But on Nov. 24, after COVID-19 cases started to surface in the district, the board decided to move to full remote learning through Friday. Board members were split on plans to continue with remote learning, but the motion passed by a 5-4 margin. Voting yes were Hope Ray, Bob Fisher, Tim Mallon, Kathy Burch and Chris McCartney while Tom Finn, Kevin Luensmann, ...

Somehow the act of handwriting words and sentences to communicate is fading from our culture. Gone are the days of letters to and from grandparents. Instead, we FaceTime or, more recently, Zoom. Gone are the days of mailing a postcard to friends while you were on vacation (which, admittedly, often did not arrive until after you were home). Instead, we take a selfie with the mauve beach scene behind us and text it instantly. While electronic forms of communication are certainly fast, something gets lost in the translation. When we took the time to think more, we included more. The greatest dis...