Tough and Tender

MANILA, Philippines - Each person is gifted with one true mom. Our mom is our passport to enter earth. What a calling! All that effort for such an important life-changing delivery already bespeaks of a mom's profound love. I have constantly written about my love and appreciation for my mom. I am partly who I am because of who she is.

Literary Club donates scrapbooks to museum

After years of being stored in one member’s home and then passed on to another, the Marshall Literary Club’s recorded history will now be housed in its new home – Harrison County Historical Museum’s research library.

At 80, a lot of good memories from Beaumont and Banning

Photo for the Record Gazette by Julie Farren Margo Owings Laughlin, who will turn 80 on April 18, has kept three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings regarding her work with the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce in the late 1960s and up until 1974.

Carolyn Hax: Before the advice, a brief introduction

Editor’s note: Carolyn Hax has been doling out advice to readers for 15 years. To mark the anniversary of her “Tell Me About It” column, we’re republishing the very first installment, which ran in The Washington Post’s Style section on Monday, May 19, 1997. Tell us how you’ve used Hax’s advice in real life here . Read full article >>

Read Across Mattoon marks a decade encouraging literacy

MATTOON — Ten years ago, Mattoon Middle School media specialist Anieta Trame realized she was onto a success story.