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Columbus native selected to lead Southeast Indiana Chapter of American Red Cross

COLUMBUS — A Columbus native with decades of local leadership experience has been named the new executive director of the Southeast Indiana Chapter of the...

Making a Difference

As a member of the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity HiawathaLand, I can firsthand tell you how rewarding it is to be a part of a local nonprofit making a difference in our community. I was born and raised in Manistique, and seeing the improvements being made throughout…

Completed “Walk for Welcome” Supports Refugees and Immigrants

Dorri PartainManaging Editor A 310-mile journey from Kansas City to St. Louis, serving as “call to action for Missourians to bridge divides”, ended on Friday, Sept. 25 at the Gateway… The post Completed “Walk for Welcome” Supports Refugees and Immigrants first appeared on…

Public invited to Dream Up!, a conversation on child care

The Northwoods Forum is designed to encourage nonpartisan dialogue and collaboration among people who have a stake in the future of child care and the regional economy.

Monitoring the air in eastern Santa Cruz County

The AirSMART Network is a community air-quality monitoring project, using relatively small, low-cost sensors capable of providing frequent, real-time measurements of particulate pollution and other atmospheric conditions.

Hunger Hides in Plain Sight: North Tulsa Deserves More Than Awareness

Hunger does not always look like an empty plate. Sometimes it looks like a full-time worker standing in a grocery aisle doing math. It is a senior deciding whether medication or groceries can wait, a college student skipping dinner, or a family that appears completely stable…

A Good Night’s Sleep

The Plank Road Arbor of the Gleaners collected 15 sheet and pillowcase sets at Stylz Hair Styling in Breckenridge for the Gratiot County chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace. The bedding will be given to local children when their new beds are delivered. Pictured from left are Stylz…

Prescott Rotary Meets, Hears from Fred Harris and Eddie Daniel

The Prescott Rotary Club met Tuesday (9-29) at Norman’s 44 Restaurant in Prescott. The club meets there every Tuesday at noon. Fred Harris spoke to the club about the upcoming AYEA Banquet in November. Eddie [...]

City of Lakeland’s Thanksgiving Food Drive

Good Neighbor Week celebrates community

National Good Neighbor Day kicked off Good Neighbor Week in Missouri. David Burton says good neighbors make for strong communities.

4-H members use local produce to raise funds

The American Valley 4-H Club announces a bake sale fundraiser Saturday, Oct. 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lost Sierra Food Project’s annual pumpkin patch event. Items for sale will include seasonal, home-baked cookies, pies, cakes and bars. Most of the recipes will feature…

Lenox powwow marks ongoing, vibrant Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican return to ancestral homelands

Centuries ago, the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican people were driven out of their homelands in the Northeast by European colonists. A powwow in Lenox this weekend will continue the community’s work to reestablish millennia-old ties with the region.