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Although Labor Day marks the last hurrah for such things as barbecues and kids staying up late on a Sunday night, it is not the end of the season. Until the clock strikes midnight on Sept...

Credit Michael Theis

Daniel K. Oster of Batavia did not advance to the semifinals of the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee after competing in three preliminary rounds. According to Patch reporters cover...

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I’ve often wondered how the great writers of the past would have fared with the authoring and publishing tools available today. Had Dickens been able to use Microsoft Word on a computer a...

Credit Madeleine Freeman

A couple of weeks ago I pulled a copy of James Joyce's Dubliners from my bookshelf with the intention of reading a short story before I went to sleep that night. Mine is a paperback copy ...