Young Philanthropist Aims Big: End Illiteracy

No one can accuse Bobby Washington of thinking small and he probably doesn’t need reminding to carry his books home from school. The Callanan Middle School student has his sights set on the elimination of illiteracy, that’s all. …

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At Carver, Improving Literacy is a School-Wide Priority

Carver Community School students went home last Friday with this year’s second school-wide read aloud title. Each student received a book, guidelines for their families about reading together, and a schedule for questions about the book to be …

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Black History Month Comes Alive at Garton School

It’s not always easy talking history that was made many decades ago to an audience whose personal histories only go back one or less. But local actress/activist Sharon Kay Brown carried it off Wednesday afternoon when she staged …

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