DAY 1 This is what mornings are like for Joanne Westall, 44, a family and early childhood educator in Fredricton, New Brunswick: frantic, rushed, a swirl of making breakfast and…
Nearly a year after we profiled six child migrants reunited with parents already living in the Washington area, all are getting on with their American lives, despite predictions by legal…
Michael Gendy of King, N.C., said he hadn’t really noticed memory problems before. Since starting an exercise program, however, he says he feels and sleeps better and has noticed his…
75 years ago: “The Spanish Trails Fiesta parade for Aug. 10 and 11 promises to be one of the most colorful and entertaining parades ever presented on the streets of…
A consensus statement published last month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine recommended that people in desk jobs aim initially for two hours of standing or light walking each…
The United Blood Services will host these blood drives: From noon to 6 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Pine Valley Foursquare Church in the fellowship hall, 1328 County Road 501,…
75 years ago: “Dr. J.W. Stovall of the University of Oklahoma, who has been excavating for fossil bones in this region, has changed his base near Aztec to a place…
What do you do? If you’re Darla Neugebauer, owner of Marcy’s Diner in Portland, Maine, after about 40 minutes of listening to it, you snap. Ten minutes after giving Tara…
“My son is still single, so …” Shinji Asano, 83, of Fujiidera, Japan, sincerely listens to such remarks from visitors who want to marry or are concerned about their children’s…
A: I am sorry. This doesn’t look good. And no, he’s not laid up in a body cast from skimboarding gone awry – he’s purposely distancing himself from you. He…
Maude Tarr demonstrates her skills as a “champion bronco buster” at the September 1919 Durango fair.Courtesy of Animas Museum/No.98-17-010 75 years ago: “Joe Piccoli, Trimble Springs resort and night club…
When I emerged from the kitchen, my husband had commandeered a near clean sweep of our new guest room, except for the bits of scissored paper scraps that had dropped…
The former are often protagonists in literature and muses in pop music’s soulful ballads. The latter are known to be annoyingly earnest at best and desperately forlorn at worst. We’re…
That bit of validation comes courtesy of Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff, researchers at the University of New South Wales and Miami University, respectively. For their latest study, published in…
Typical first-date jitters. Except the date’s platonic. Perhaps you’re just in the market for some new friends. Maybe some have moved out of state or had children or vanished after…
Building a well-rounded registry can be difficult. How many place settings is too many? Is the range of price points wide enough? Do you really need that mini-doughnut maker? Sarah…
Amy Shives, of Spokane, Wash., was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. New research released Tuesday suggests that women may be harder-hit by Alzheimer’s disease than men.Young Kwak/Associated Press Nearly…
Koreans have been making the bubbly rice wine called makgeolli for centuries.Matthew Mead/Associated Press That might have something to do with most people not knowing how to pronounce it, or…
A great after-school snack, this DIY granola can be easily customized with your favorite ingredients.Matthew Mead/Associated Press The best part of homemade granola is that you can customize it to…
The artificial sweetener in Diet Pepsi is about to change from aspartame to sucralose, but fans of the old formula may still be able to get it.Matt Rourke/Associated Press file…
75 years ago: “Mesa Verde and all other national parks are threatened with what practically amounts to a shutdown. The U.S. Bureau of the Budget has recommended drastic reduction in…
Adult Day Care at “Our Place” an outreach of The First United Methodist Church is seeking loving, caring, compassionate, dependable volunteers. People who are at least 18 years of age,…
75 years ago: “W.A. Nash, who has a lease on the Gold King gold mining properties in the La Plata Mountains, has had a group of interested mining men viewing…
My father, a native Vermonter who passed away two years ago, had a lifelong love of exploring the Green Mountain state’s back roads. Bud Petty would be driving his pickup…
President Barack Obama, second from left, accompanied by his daughters Sasha and Malia, and their friends, walk through Central Park in New York on Saturday. Obama is spending a mainly…
75 years ago: “Elwood Nixon, a member of the Durango contingent employed at Mesa Verde this summer, was in Durango enjoying his one day per week vacation. Elwood says that…
I was hoping that my son’s postal habits would tend more toward my brother’s side of the spectrum – I wanted to know that he was fine, but mostly too…
