From Half Moon Bay To High School Musical
- June
- 9
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OMG! The live stage version of Disney’s “High School Musical” is finally bopping into San Jose. The chipper “tween” juggernaut hits the Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday through Sunday as part of the American Musical Theatre season.
A It’s been so great to see my family and friends and my boyfriend. What’s really cool [...]
Lost in the system
- April
- 13
A lot of people tried to do the right thing for Jeff. And yet, it all went very wrong.
When a neighbor saw what she thought were choke marks on his little sister’s neck, she reported it.
Adams County human services responded quickly. Investigators talked to the children in person and away from their mother. [...]
Allergy death threats
- April
- 12
A paediatrician suggested it, because from five weeks Amelia was screaming in pain after breast feeding, projectile vomiting _ and once stopped breathing, slowly turning blue.
At the first attempt, Amelia refused to drink the milk and was irritable and screamed for a week.
The second time, Amelia drank about 20ml. Within minutes she screamed, vomited continuously [...]
Granny flats Housing your older relatives
- April
- 12
High property prices, the exorbitant cost of childcare and an insufficient
number of care homes to accommodate an ageing population are prompting many
families to invite the grandparents to move in. The cost of residential care
is another incentive: bills of %26pound;23,000 a year or more can soon wipe out
inheritances. Research from B%26amp;Q shows that 750,000 homes in [...]
Atlantan returns to her roots in Midtown home
- April
- 8
For some folks, the old homestead is a big house surrounded by gardens tended by grandparents. For Liz Weaver, the family homestead is in the middle of Midtown, surrounded by sidewalks, blacktop and views of the skyscrapers a few blocks away.
Four years ago, Weaver moved back to town from Dunwoody and into the house where [...]
Bryon Kelso teacher of the week
- March
- 6
Age: 27. Reason for becoming a teacher: My lifetime love of sports; my high school PE teacher, who was not only my PE teacher from kindergarten to 12th grade but was also my high school basketball coach for two years and soccer coach for four years; and my grandmother, who [...]
Young activists pursue local global change
- March
- 6
From the halls of the Nassau County Legislature to church soup kitchens on the North Fork, a new generation of activists is rising.
They push for affordable housing and livable downtowns. They confront leaders of street gangs. They organize immigrant workers and fight open-air dumps.
Although activists of their grandparents’ generation integrated schools and lunch counters, these [...]
LI’s young civil rights activists push for local and global change
- March
- 6
From the halls of the Nassau County Legislature to church
soup kitchens on the North Fork, a new generation of activists is rising. They push for affordable housing and livable downtowns. They confront leaders of street gangs. They organize immigrant workers and fight open-air dumps. Although activists of their grandparents’ [...]
Mom starts online toy rental company to save parents space money
- March
- 6
HOUSTON After scouring the Internet to fill her house with only the best toys for her infant twin sons, Lori Pope hated to watch the clutter build as the boys lost interest.
If you can rent movies, video games and even handbags online, she thought, why not toys? That’s the idea behind Baby [...]
Wordsworths in love
- March
- 5
On a Monday morning in early October 1802, William Wordsworth married Mary
Hutchinson, the childhood friend of his sister, Dorothy. Dorothy was too
distraught to attend the ceremony. Instead she stayed behind at the
Huchinson farm at Gallow Hill near Scarborough, where she watched from the
window the couple walk down to the church in nearby Brompton. For an [...]
