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Skills on display
MOSES LAKE — Dylan Sanders credits Job Corps with showing him a path forward. “I graduated high school and I wa…
Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke?
Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke?
RIGHT AT HOME: Dining in the great outdoors, stylishly
Squeezing the most out of summer — especially this coronavirus summer — has often meant eating and entertaining outside, for those with the space to do it.
Gardening: How to reach a truce in the war with weeds
If you want to avoid chemical weedkillers but don't like the idea of hand hoeing or bouncing along behind a rototiller, you still have options to keep weeds from taking over your garden.
Parents unhappy with school options assemble learning 'pods'
MIAMI (AP) — On the 4-acre farm at the edge of the Everglades where Timea Hunter runs a horse academy, she has hosted plenty of parties, picnics and workshops. So with her children's school building closed, she fig…
A chance to give back: Trout Lake Farm holds food distribution
EPHRATA — The line of cars wrapped around the parking lot out into the street in front of Moore Furniture on Basin Street Southwest in Ephrata on Friday aftern…
Liz Weston: Can you have too much credit?
People who care about their credit scores tend to obsess about some things they probably shouldn’t, such as the possibility they might have too much credit.
Stranded by virus, honeymooners hitch home on Antarctic boat
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand honeymoon couple stranded on the remote Falkland Islands in March because of the coronavirus has managed to return home by hitching a ride of more than 5,000 nautical mi…
As US milk sales rise amid pandemic, "Got milk?" ads return
The dairy industry has a familiar question for you: “Got milk?”
Virtual school: Teachers want to improve but training varies
After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Georgia teacher Aimee Rodriguez Webb is determined to do better this fall. She bought a dry-erase board and a special camera to display worksheets, and she…
Protests in the long term: How is a lasting legacy cemented?
NEW YORK (AP) — What sort of staying power does it take for a protest movement to be judged a success?
Highways raise alarm in Cairo's historic City of the Dead
CAIRO (AP) — For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling cemeteries in Egypt’s capital, creating a unique historic city of the dead. Now in its ca…
Rent's due, again: Monthly anxieties deepen as aid falls off
Another month passes. The coronavirus pandemic marches on. And Americans struggling amid the economic fallout once again have to worry as their next rent checks come due Aug. 1.
Virtual school: Teachers want to improve but training varies
After a rocky transition to distance learning last spring, Georgia teacher Aimee Rodriguez Webb is determined to do better this fall. She bought a dry-erase board and a special camera to display worksheets, and she…
VIRUS DIARY: Cycling in COVID London gives hope in the gloom
LONDON (AP) — I moved to London in 1997. I was 31. So, measuring by my London years, I’m only 24.
Heart of a teacher: Gaynor Edwards found her calling and touched lives
MOSES LAKE — Education, like many professions, is often considered a calling. For Moses Lake High School instructor Gaynor Edwards, it was a call she didn’t ex…