A Greenfield second-grade teacher shares her passion for teaching students how to read, her own love of reading, scrapbooking and more.

After 41 years of teaching, Michele Lugar is retiring from Fairview Elementary in Mount Prospect, where she taught her ...

On school days, my mother would leave our apartment before seven to spend the day talking about literature with other people’s children. Through their discussions, and the essays and stories that they ...

The HGTV host shares her two daughters with husband Ben Napier ...

The annual draft is watched by millions, and analyzed by a set of professional and amateur prognosticators. Still, it comes ...

Families will love Hugh Jackman's "The Sheep Detectives" — and there's another heartwarming animal flick in Netflix's "Remarkably Bright Creatures." ...

These awesome books definitely won't feel like homework ...

Kim Morant takes the stand in her husband's wrongful-conviction trial and talks about how they met in fifth grade, and later ...

What’s Going On is a listing of activities taking place throughout the Downriver community. To submit an event, send an email to downriverlife@thenewsherald.com. List the time, date, location, cost ...

MEYERS, Calif. — Lace up, grab a costume, and get ready for one of Meyers’ most fun community traditions. Registration is now open for the tenth annual OMG Fun Run, happening Sunday, June 7 from 10 ...

The Dallas Public Library kicks off its Science, Math, Art, Reading and Technology Summer Program on Saturday, May 30, with multiple events.

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