As it would for the typical U.S. Census taker, the work of counting bears in the woods starts with a clipboard and a blank piece of paper. Armed with this equipment — along with bear spray and, perhaps more importantly, tick repellent — a team of researchers has been fanning out to ...
AVIS — A local daycare’s Pre-K Counts program may not move forward for the 2026-2027 school year. According to All Things Bright and Beautiful, located in Avis, it has been faced with paying thousands of dollars in increased transportation costs from a previous school year which it says it was not made aware of until grant funding had already been allocated. The daycare currently partners with the Jersey Shore Area School District. According to Superintendent Dr. Brian Ulmer, the district exists as a “pass through” for state grant funding for the program. The issue at hand ...
Abdul El-Sayed made history this month in Michigan by becoming the first Muslim nominated by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. Senate. But elation among many of his fellow Muslim Americans was tempered by awareness of persisting and widespread anti-Muslim sentiment across much of the ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Bumblebees are able to learn to associate new odors with their colony’s queen, instead of being preprogrammed to recognize the queen’s pheromones from birth, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State. For the study, recently published in the journal ...
NEW YORK (AP) — After splurging on the World Cup and Amazon Prime Day sales, Americans unexpectedly cut their spending in July by the biggest amount in more than a year. Retail sales fell 0.6% last month, marking the biggest decrease since May 2025, compared with a revised gain of 0.2% in ...
Jesuit Tony de Mello told a fine story about a parachutist who is taken by the wind and ends up hanging helplessly from a tree. Seeing a lone traveler with a mule passing on the road, he shouts down to him, “Where am I?” The traveler replies, “You are up a tree.” The chutist says, “You must be a part of the clergy.” The traveler is astonished and says, “As a matter of fact, I am, but how did you know?” The chutist answers, “Because what you say is perfectly true, but completely useless!” There are more promises of God in the eighth chapter of Romans ...
