I am reading comments on Facebook about some people going stir crazy with the social distancing due to COVID-19. Lives have been disrupted, but not all people see this as a disadvantage. Maureen Smith of Randolph, a stay at home mom of four, who taught first and second grades for over a ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Dig. Plant. Breathe. As spring’s arrival in the Northern Hemisphere coincides with government stay-at-home orders, the itch to get outside has turned backyard gardens into a getaway for the mind in chaotic times. Gardeners who already know that working with soil is a way to connect with nature say it helps take away their worries, at least temporarily. “I love to see things grow,” Lindsay Waldrop said. “It’s incredibly therapeutic.” Now more than ever. Waldrop, a resident of Anaheim, California, has an anxiety disorder. Exercise is supposed ...
The Randolph home that Mary Williams shares with her husband, Adrian, and their children is a perfect house for them for many reasons. It has been in Mary’s family for 54 years. Before this, her father and mother, Howard and Beverly Freeman, lived with his mother and grandmother in the ...
A desolate Times Square still lit up with no one on the streets. The usually bustling Grand Central Terminal empty, except for a lone traveler. Only a few people snapping selfies on the Brooklyn Bridge, instead of the horde of commuters and tourists that usually venture across the iconic ...
Lukus Andriaccio comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. His grandmother Antoinette Coppola came to America from Italy in 1935 and eventually married Guy Andriaccio, whose family had come from the same country in the 1800s. Guy started Andriaccio’s Restaurant near the grounds of ...
Recently, Pastor Lynn and Donna Gatz spent a few hours in their kitchen while working on a sweet project. The Randolph couple were preparing a surprise for their children and Donna’s siblings. In the 1930s, Mrs. Gatz’s father, Edwin Larson and a man called Buzzy, hauled bees back and ...
