Two students from each grade in each building will then be nominated to compete in the semifinal spelling bee held in May at the downtown branch of the Akron-Summit County Public Library. The top finalists from that event will go on to the championship spelling bee at the Football Hall of...
Lightning may not strike twice in the same place but sometimes it comes close. In 1980, the day after I returned from an extended stay in NYC, I went to Juárez the next morning and by the time I got to the area of the cathedral, I was pooped. Sat down on a bench. I saw the ...
Since there's no parking at or near the parking permit office (which in itself sets the absurd scene for how this place works), I decided to bike downtown. The fifteen minute ride would also give the fistful of pills I had taken time to kick in.I locked my bike to a pole, ...
I emerge downtown to an actual Saturday night, drunk youths everywhere, which I didn’t anticipate, and so have to navigate happy people having fun while dragging my bag and feeling the bonelessness that sometimes comes after adrenaline recedes. After figuring out that the H&M and where I wa...
Dad pastored a small, dying church in downtown Greenville and mom ventured with him on every endeavor. Dr. Johns and Mrs. Martha, longtime members at FBC Greenville, had no reservations about visiting their church or their home. Last Wednesday, my longtime supporter and friend Martha Johns ...
The terrorists, said Airport Police Chief Dennis Franz, captured a church outside of the airport grounds, after a short exchange with an older gentleman who acted terribly before being shot. The terrorists used the church as a home base to take control of the airport. All the while, the ...
A deep blanket of snow often covers New England in the winter. But there’s adventure to be found in the frozen landscape, with its steep mountains and frozen ponds—and not just for skiers and snowboarders. This route blazes a unique path through Massac
The foxes were in town to raid the ramshackle pens of the folks who, in coming up directly from the Deep South, had invited all of their future fried chicken to come with them. Most evenings I could hear the pounding of steel at the InterLake Steel Mills at a bend in the canal a ...
Sunday morning in the town of Agua Prieta: deserted. Not a lot people on the street, not even in church. Stores were closed. We did not feel unsafe at any time. Just nothing to do. It was time to go back to the US. We followed Route 80 to Lowell, AZ. A nice old “street” ...
Outside the Berea Baptist Mission Church, in one of the most crime-ridden streets in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, there's a 'baby bin'. A bit like a clothing recycling bin, it consists of a hatch in the church wall, covered by a metal flap labelled 'Door of ...