This is the third installment of a trip from which my husband and I returned recently. We were on a mission to visit our friends in Alvin, Texas, after we used expiring time share points and visited two of our kids who live out of state. After a few days at our daughter’s home in ...
When Ava Millett enrolled in the Conservation/Natural Resource Management program at the Hewes Educational Center, she knew she wanted to work outdoors and do something hands-on. What she didn’t realize was just how many opportunities the program would open for her. A junior from Maple ...
Around this time of year, Sally and I have a four-week period of time, which we could call our Celebration Trifecta, as we remember our Wedding Day on March 22nd, Sally’s Birthday on April 2nd, and my trip Around the Sun Anniversary on April 23rd. While celebrating these special days, we don’t do the conventional gift giving, and we do the same for Christmas, as well. We use our Guardians Baseball Package, and whatever concerts, or stage shows that we may want to see pop-up, or if we just want to do a getaway weekend somewhere, and gift those to one another as our Birthday, ...
I met him on a playground by chance while visiting my daughter—an old man who had grown up in Cuba, under the rule of Fidel Castro. “You have no idea what a paradise America is,” he told me after we’d chatted for a while. “I walked into a grocery store my first week here and I couldn’t believe it. Food! From ceiling to floor! In Cuba, cream was an expensive luxury. I can count the times on my fingers that I had cream.” He pauses and looks in the direction of his house, somewhere past the trees. “You can’t see America the way I do,” he says “because you don’t ...
LAKEWOOD - Lakewood’s 2026-27 tentative budget has been released, and trustees learned of a tax rate decrease. The proposed $5,822,633 spending plan is considered an “all-in” budget, Mayor Randy Holcomb. “We take all of the requests from each department and their department heads, ...
High School Musical, On Stage will be presented by the Cassadaga Valley Drama Club. Performances will be held Friday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, March 29, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 adults and $8 students and seniors and are available at ...
