Provided by: Jenn Stadler

Students at Pickens Technical College are learning from more than textbooks. Several programs, including carpentry, electrical occupations and cabinetmaking, have recently finished building a single family home from the ground up. The construction contractor for the project Greg Shamburg knows first-hand the value of the Pickens house project. Shamburg was once a ...
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Provided by: Kristin Morin/YourHub.com

Leo Davis , 70, has smooth jazz playing on his headphones. He grabs a club from his Callaway bag and chips a dozen or so balls onto the practice green. It's a ritual that's been going on for more than 30 years - only now the scenery has changed. "I'm a golf nut," Davis said. On May 13, Davis is one of the annual pass holders playing early rounds at the new Comm...
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Provided by: Rhonda Fields

Rhonda Fields knows grief, anger and loss the way few people are able to grasp. The murder of her son, Javad , and his fiancee Vivian Wolfe , days before he was to testify in a murder trial nearly four years ago left her devastated. But with courage and determination, Fields turned her searing grief into action to enhance protection of witnesses through new ...
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Provided by: Sarah Pretzer

There is one word in higher education that is virtually guaranteed to grab attention: Fulbright. And Community College of Aurora Professor and Chair of Arts and Humanities Amy Rell has been getting a lot of notice lately: she has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright-Hays grant to study history and culture in China this summer. The college's first Fulbright fellow, R...
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Provided by: Christine Zipps

One would be hard-pressed to think of an attraction that didn't happen last Friday night in the East End Arts District's Summer Art Walk... They pulled out all the stops so there would be more than something of interest for every one. Here's a sampling of what all you could have done during this self-guided art walk: .... jumped into painting veggies with ot...
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