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Dolly Parton’s passing reminder age is a number

I was shocked Aug. 26 when I read online that Dolly Parton had died.

“That’s impossible,” I thought. “I’ll turn on the TV to see if it’s true.”

It was. Breaking into tears, I had to sit down, unable to process the idea that Dolly was gone. Though I never met her, it felt like a part of me was gone, too.

Nudge poinsettias, holiday cacti into bloom

Colorful poinsettias and flowering Thanksgiving or Christmas cactus fill garden centers and homes during the holiday season. If you saved your plants from last year, it is time to get started forcing them into bloom for the upcoming holidays.

Tune into the birds on your fall walks

Fall is a great time for birding as many species are on the move, migrating from their northern breeding grounds to their wintering grounds in the south.

Stutleen named to OFHS Wall of Fame

Darleen Stutleen will be the latest inductee as the Oconto Falls School District celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Oconto Falls High School Wall of Fame.

Nature focus of Sacred Heart scavenger hunt

Third grade students at Sacred Heart Catholic School recently took their learning outdoors during an exciting science scavenger hunt around the school campus.

Bonduel High named T-Mobile contest winner

Bonduel High School was named a T-Mobile’s Friday Night 5G Lights $5,000 Fridays winner in week 6 of the company’s national program built around high school football and community pride.

These funds are theirs to allocate how they see fit, whether it’s supporting their academics, athletes or the broader school community.

Toothpaste teaches lesson about clean words

First grade students at Sacred Heart Catholic School in Shawano recently learned an important lesson about the power of their words through a hands-on activity called Toothpaste Words.

The students squeezed toothpaste onto plates and then attempted to put it back into the tube. As they quickly discovered, once the toothpaste is out, it is nearly impossible to put it all back in.

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