Michael Eng

By Matt Mauney | Associate Editor If you visited Durant High School last week, you may have noticed something strange. A wrecked car sits in front of one of the busiest student entrances to the school. Nearly 2,800 miniature crosses — signifying the number of teenagers who die in car crashes annually in the United […]

By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor It’s massive. Red blooms flower bigger than a man’s fists. The bushy body monopolizes a section of fence about 19 feet long. It’s not a monster. It’s a poinsettia plant.

By Amber Jurgensen | Associate Editor If any of the eight speakers at Trapnell Elementary’s speech contest Dec. 14 were nervous, they certainly didn’t let it show. There was no fidgeting, no rocking back and forth, and no freeze-ups. The contestants — all fifth-graders — spoke with poise, confidence and knowledge well beyond their years.

By Michael Eng | Managing Editor Haught Funeral Home launches this week an effort to help comfort the community of Newtown, Conn.