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If there’s one thing the last three years have taught American parents, it’s that they need to take control of their children’s education. Despite mas...

My mother tried to teach me to see danger. Even the kind you can’t see until it’s too late. “You have to watch for it,” she’d say. “Pay attention and ...

OLEAN — CA BOCES will honor Career and Technical Education (CTE) graduates for all three CTE Centers in Belmont, Ellicottville and Olean at 7 p.m. Jun...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Coudersport Elementary School will host registration for all in-coming kindergarten students on March 15. Parents call 260-4033 or ...

San Francisco is arguably America’s most progressive city, so the lopsided recall of three school-board members on Feb. 15 stunned political observers...

Recall elections are blunt instruments, channeling voter anger against incumbents before their terms are up. New York doesn’t have that option, but Ca...

I’m so old I can remember when people calling themselves “conservative” thought “cancel culture” was a bad thing. Oh wait, that was last week. More re...

ALBANY (TNS) — A few days ago, we witnessed the latest episode of a long-running series we could call “Parents Behaving Badly.” After a state Supreme ...

The people in contemporary America who most pride themselves on their alleged commitment to science and public health are also the most superstitious ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s online registration for DEC’s 2022 Summer Camps program will open March 6. To mark 75 ye...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

BRADFORD, Pa. — A signal to the sideline followed a coin flip and a series of handshakes. Bradford won the coin toss, opting to defer to its opponent ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — When I called to schedule an annual well-check appointment for my son, I was told that he would need to wear a mask in the o...

OLEAN — A son, Elliot Ray Corkery, was born Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2022, in Olean General Hospital to Makayla Butler and Shane Corkery of Olean. The baby wa...

The recently established James A. and Joan E. Maguire Family Scholarship Fund will support hard-working graduating seniors of four local high schools ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) —Driving home Wednesday after our first day of co-op schooling, I felt overwhelmingly grateful. Many of my friends have spent ...

During the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic, my brother and I congratulated each other that we had little to fear. Descended from hardy Irish peasa...

The worst part of the debate over school mask mandates is how uncharitable it has become. For example, at the Fort Worth, Texas, school board meeting ...