Audubon Community Nature Center recently announced the winners of the 2025 photo contest. More than 100 photos were submitted from all over the world. The winners can be viewed at https://www.gogophotocontest.com/acncphotocontest2025 and soon will be on display at the Nature Center. They are ...
America makes an appointment with the Doctor, et. al. America speaks: Doc, I feel lousy. Not sure how much is real or how much is in my head, but I’ve got to do something. Physically, I feel hot most of the time – like my body temperature is two degrees above normal, and it lasts for weeks. It feels like the sun is just burning through my skin, and when I’m outside it seems like there is no real shade – the heat just radiates through everything. I have to crank the AC even at night, and maybe that’s what’s causing my headaches. And there are these little marks on my ...
The warm days and cool nights of late September take me back to 1969, where the sweet scent of ripening concord grapes nearing harvest joins memories of my cross-country days under the guidance of Coach Fred “Ferd” Larson of Fredonia High School. Like farmers nurturing their tender vines, ...
As a retired physical therapist with more than 30 years of clinical experience, I never imagined I’d one day find myself on the other side of recovery — the patient side. The side so many of my elderly patients once faced: struggling with mobility, managing chronic pain, and navigating ...
The 17th annual Art Trail, hosted by the North Shore Arts Alliance, has concluded with resounding success, reporting a 20% increase in visitor traffic over last year, affirming the event’s growing popularity and the strong community interest in arts and culture across the county. This ...
Sydney Hawkins has been accepted into the prestigious Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Scholars Program at Princeton University. It’s an impressive achievement for Hawkins, a senior Biology major from Ripley, as only 10 U.S. students and two international students are accepted each ...
