During the 2025-2026 school year, Eastern High School will celebrate its 75th anniversary, a feat that will likely go mostly unremarked among the young people who attend. They won’t think...

Every state has a unique style that is influenced by its history, the people who make it their home, and the food it serves, but there is something special about...

Musicians sometimes take unusual measures in order to create the specific sounds they have in their minds. Other times, they experiment to just see what happens with sound. For example,...

The return of a library book usually doesn’t make the news, but it does when the return takes more than a century. Recently, Michael King, Mark Perelmuter, and several of...

Imagine your favorite superhero. Maybe yours carries a hammer that only he can wield (Thor) or wears a specially designed suit made of vibranium, which is only found in Wakanda...

If you don’t have the desire to sit in the car for four or more hours for a full-fledged vacation to Chicago or St. Louis, the beaches of Alabama or...

The people who make up Young Hearts Theatre know singing, dancing and camaraderie aren’t just for the young. Young Hearts Theatre began in 1979 under the direction of George Partridge,...

The life of a high school athletic director (AD) varies from day to day, but not many would consider it a glamorous enterprise. Hiring coaches, checking student-athletes’ grades, scheduling games...

Baseball has permeated American culture, from movie references to music to commonly used idioms. Whether you learned the phrase, “Hey, batter-batter-batter. Swing, batter!” from watching “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” or...