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Banana Ball makes baseball make fun again

Banana Ball is like baseball except everybody dances and does silly things on the field. Banana Ball rules are a little bit different than regular baseball rules. In Banana Ball, if you step out of the batter’s box, you’re out. There’s no bunting, either. And instead of getting points ...

8-18 Media: ‘Wings of Fire’ books are worth diving into

Have you ever read the “Wings of Fire” book series? I highly recommend this series. Let me show you what it is all about! The series follows a dragon per book and shows their perspective. I recommend reading this series in order. It’s easier to understand that way because when it shows a ...

One Tech Tip: How to soothe thumb pain when texting and scrolling

NEW YORK — Do your hands hurt when you use your phone? All that texting and scrolling might be stressing out your fingers. The term texting thumb can describe a wide range of phone-related pains caused by tired-out tendons and achy joints — like general stiffness, throbbing near the ...

Trip to the Great White North comes to a close

Editor’s note: This is the fifth and final installment of Jack Flaherty’s series about his family’s Alaskan adventure. Our next stop was Mount Alyeska, not far from Anchorage. By the way, you go up the mountain in this box that goes up on a cable. We drove up to the parking lot ...

The ongoing adventures of touring Alaska

A little while after we got to Alaska, we were on our way to the apartment. The drive was next to a lake, with a cluster of mountains on the other side — they all still looked like they had milk on top of them. We came to the small valley town of Girdwood. It wasn’t very exciting. There ...

Things can go sideways trying a new recipe, ingredients

If you’ve ever tried to cook a new recipe you know nothing about with ingredients you virtually never use, you know that it’s not exactly easy. This was the case when my mom, sibling and I embarked on a journey to make an Indian rice dish called biryani. We got the recipe from “One ...