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Dress up your banana bread with nuts, spices or chocolate

By AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN One of the best ways to serve banana bread is with toasted nuts. Toasting nuts in the oven makes them taste better. Spread the nuts out on a rimmed baking sheet and heat the nuts in a 350 F oven until you can smell them, which takes about 5 minutes. Once the ...

Marquette-Alger Technical Middle College in its fifth year

MARQUETTE — Having already successfully graduated two cohorts of students, the Marquette-Alger Technical Middle College celebrated its fifth year of operation Thursday at the Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Service Agency. Many of these graduated students have completed their ...

Reasons why video games may not be so bad for you

Some people think video games are bad for you. I am definitely not one of those people. I started playing video games in preschool and most of them were educational video games or ones where you stand up and get exercise. The first console I ever played on was a Wii. A lot of video games that involve moving around are ones on the Wii. There are a lot of games on the Wii that get you up and moving: Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Wii Fit. I think video games can help develop a lot of skills. For example, certain games can give you better hand-eye coordination, and some video games where you ...

Students take a role in awarding grants to rural communities

By KATHY McCORMACK Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — High school senior Zachary Brown already knows he wants to return to his hometown in northern Vermont after college. But he’s able to have a say about its future now. Brown, 17, joined a new committee that’s allowing him and 10 ...

Mentor program puts Decatur parents into classrooms

By VALERIE WELLS Decatur Herald & Review AP Member Exchange DECATUR, Ill. — Otiyuna Franklin’s experiences as a parent mentor at French Academy have opened her eyes to a career path. She’s working toward becoming a teaching assistant. “My interest in doing this is because ...

Happy New Year

Ava Warren, at left, celebrates the ball drop at the Upper Peninsula Children's Museum Dec. 31, 2014. Revelers again will have the chance to go to the museum’s “Elementary Ball” from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Monday. The museum, located at 123 W. Baraga Ave. in Marquette, will have a party with a ...