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BUTLER TWP — Agricultural education is taking off in Butler Area School District. Not only do two elementary schools, Summit ...

True enough, the Kodak branch at the ground floor was something that Dabawenyos could hold on to, until the last day of ...

The most checked-out adult fiction books were all published in 2024 or 2025. Historical fiction dominated the top three: “The Women” by Kristin Hannah, “James” by Percival Everett and “The Unselected ...

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is inheriting a public school system that has made some progress in student learning but ...

• Visit the Main Library on 2 p.m. Jan. 8 or 11 a.m. Jan. 17 to learn how you can read eBooks, listen to audiobooks, and ...

When kindness feels scarce, these uplifting true stories prove that strength can look like compassion, courage, and empathy.

William Oplinger, 2,of Phoenixville, plays with inflatable penguins Friday, Jan. 2, 2026, in the Winter Wonder Lab exhibit at ...

Educators and administrators in recent years have been eager to reimagine math instruction. Troubled by high failure rates in ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Live With Kelly and Mark cohosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos showed off their sons Michael Consuelos and Joaquin Consuelos’ ...

For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could ...