In honor of National Thrift Shop Day, which is celebrated today, many plan to support their local thrift shops and raise money and awareness for charitable organizations. During the eighteenth century, before thrift stores existed, old clothes given to yo

With so many streaming service options, cable, movie theatres, and conventional ways of consuming content is becoming less popular. According to Grand View Research, since the start of the COVID-19, subscriptions and viewership has increased across all ma

When Jake Miller quit teaching last March, he was teaching eighth grade history in the Cumberland Valley School District. Over his 15-year career, Miller taught several subjects in 6th to 12th grade classrooms. But it wasn’t just the 50 percent increase i

The last time schools were what can be described as normal was in March 2020. That’s when the COVID-19 pandemic struck and disrupted education like never we’ve ever seen before. Online classes, to mask or not to mask students, and politics have had roles.

Many kids deal with challenges when starting elementary school like finding new friends, adjusting to new teachers, or understanding new concepts; but some deal with those challenges and additional ones that are presented because of learning disabilities.

Since the Congressional Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol began hearings earlier this year, there have calls from Democrats and others for the Justice Department to conduct a criminal probe of former President Donald

It’s August – temperatures have been in the 90s for the past week. Schools haven’t opened yet and the football season and crisp fall weather are a few weeks away. But there’s a local business that wants their customers to start thinking about the holidays

As kids go back to school this year the are confronted with challenges like readjusting to in person learning, making new friends, and a new bedtime schedule after the summer. But a major challenge that some will face, due to COVID-19, is catching up acad

More than 300 people have been shot to death in Philadelphia in 2022. 497 were killed in shootings last year. The numbers are rising too. A group of students from Philadelphia descended on the state capitol this week demanding action on gun violence in Pe

Ideal Food Basket, a fresh produce grocery store, opened last Tuesday; with the long-anticipated snipping of their red ribbon a neighborhood food desert in Reading was eliminated. The family-owned grocery store provided the first 100 shoppers with a compl