It took over a decade for the vision to come to fruition. The goal: memorializing the legacy of Lincoln High School and honoring the unity and resilience of its alumni community. The Lincoln High School Alumni Association’s memorial wall ceremony drew about 100 alumni to the Lincoln Middle School auditorium, 1001 SE 12th St., on […]
Memory can be mysterious. Certain life events remain clear in our minds no matter how long ago they occurred, while episodes from the prior day may already be fuzzy and difficult to recall. A study, published Thursday in Science, reveals why this happens. Scientists have found that the brains of humans and other mammals have […]
Mar. 26—Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… For some Minnesotans, Tuesday’s collapse of a freeway bridge in Baltimore brought back memories of the tragic, deadly collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis back in 2007. The circumstances are very different — but scenes of the wreckage and the water search for survivors in Baltimore […]
Mar. 25—LEWISTON — A small room at the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor — Maine MILL, for short — contains a heart-wrenching exhibit of Lewiston’s darkest day. On one pedestal sit four tiny white statues of hands forming the “I Love You” sign used by the deaf community, created in the aftermath of […]
The school building in Mineral City has faithfully served the community for 87 years, and now the time has come for it to be retired. The Tuscarawas Valley Local School District, which operates it as the Tusky Valley Primary School, will be closing it at the end of this school year. The district will open […]
Mar. 24—KOOSKIA — Jim Renshaw, a well-known outfitter, packer and guide, could keep an audience spellbound for hours with stories about his lifetime in the Idaho backcountry. Renshaw, in fact, did just that in February when nearly 300 people from throughout the region and several states packed the Kooskia City Hall to hear him spin […]
As I write down today’s date, many memories flow through my mind. Twenty years ago we left Geneva, Indiana with all our belongings and headed north to our new home in Michigan. We had six children at that time: Elizabeth, age 9, Susan, 8, Verena, 6, Benjamin, 4, Loretta, 3, and Joseph, 20 months. The […]
MONTCLAIR — Ashton Clatterbuck was remembered Saturday as a champion of trans rights who was deeply committed to social justice and to those lucky enough to be his friend. The 22-year-old junior studying journalism and political science at Montclair State University took his own life on Feb. 27 after having expressed sorrow for the highly […]
As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others who are charged with masterminding the 9/11 attacks proceed at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, the government continues to stumble with its own witnesses. In hearings last week, government lawyers tried to demonstrate that statements the defendants made to CIA […]
Feb. 20—MITCHELL — A pile of rubble may be all that is left of a longtime building on Dakota Wesleyan University’s campus, but the decades worth of fond memories will forever remain in the hearts of the former students and professors who spent years in the building. After spending 31 years teaching business courses in […]
Russia’s now-10-year war against Ukraine has affected every inch of the country, but no other region has taken the brunt of Russian aggression like Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, comprised of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. While the initial eight years of Russia’s invasion only affected a handful of eastern Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages, some 200 […]
Feb. 9—Think honeymoon road trip, a family tradition of dining at a decades-old restaurant along Route 66, or the crumbling of a family business off the iconic highway. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has invited travelers, business owners, historians and ordinary people to compile their memories, stories and photos of Route 66 in a […]