Save Our Stages: ‘First to close, last to open’
A glimpse into the struggle to keep music venues open — and the innovations the pandemic has inspired as a result
EASEL saw record number of pet adoptions in 2020
The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things. At the EASEL Animal Rescue League, it will be remembered as the year more people rescued dogs and cats than any year before
2020 a mix of missed and new opportunities for local musicians
The past year has been challenging for music venues and for the musicians who have been unable to play live events. Both hope that with Covid-19 vaccines now approved for distribution, things will be different soon
Ewing novelist Kate Francis brings mysteries to life with book series
Francis is the author of two mystery novels — Double Image, published in 2017, and Triple Damages in 2020.
Helen Kull: Two exotic visitors
A year ago, author Mark Falzini received a strange Facebook message from someone in India. Knowing no one there, he assumed it was a scam, but decided to research the message and found that it was legitimate — and surprising.
Area artists give holiday gift givers reasons to shop local
Local artists like Caryn Newman of Willowood Pottery offer unique gifts for holiday shoppers — no shipping required
Ilene Black: A life well lived
Digging deeper into the box, I found that the box was full of my columns. My dad had clipped every one of the columns I ever wrote for the Ewing Observer and kept them in that unlabeled box in his hall closet
Community Forum: How mask-wearing demands a cultural reset
Confronting other college students is something that was not included in the plan to make our campus safe. So why do we have to remind people to wear a mask?
Pandemic can’t stop Meals on Wheels from serving its clients
While Meals on Wheels volunteers won’t be going out on Christmas day to deliver meals, they will be providing the nonprofit organization’s homebound senior clients with traditional Christmas meals earlier in the week
Volunteers help Homefront provide amid pandemic
Homefront has distributed more than double the number of groceries and other basic essentials in 2020 than in a normal year.