“At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.” — Amanda Harlech This week it is possible to hear both. Storms, yes, but January for many is the month of owls. While the woods are uncommonly quiet on windless nights, the sounds of owls ...

“Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost Memoir of a Boy in Ballet” by James Whiteside: I was pleasantly surprised by James Whiteside’s approach to writing about his career as a dancer. There is so much more to this book then just ballet, which makes it more inclusive to folks who ...

In his introduction to Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye’s collection Everything Comes Next, poet Edward Hirsch says this about childhood: “[it is] a sacred place, almost a country of its own . . . which knows no boundaries . . . It is a colorful flag and waves over all our ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part two of a two-part column series on a school trip to Chicago. Part one ran in the Dec. 11-12 weekend edition. Once everyone had finished purchasing their items from the El Condor grocery store, it was time to go to our next stop. However, we did not have access to ...

Jim Matteson donates to the Cheer Club. The Cheer Club collected unwrapped toys and gifts throughout the holiday season to be donated to local children and families in need through the Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul. (Journal photo by Randy Crouch)

Negaunee resident Danny Thompson donates a bike helmet to the Cheer Club. The Cheer Club collected unwrapped toys and gifts throughout the holiday season to be donated to local children and families in need through the Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul. (Journal photo by Taylor Johnson)