When Smouse School moved across a shared parking lot and merged with Ruby Van Meter last year, a longstanding tradition went right along with it, the annual Thanksgiving Feast to which the whole district is invited. Tuesday it …

McCombs Middle School is normally the home of the Golden Eagles but on Monday, lots of turkeys were loose on the grounds. The school picked just the right day to resurrect a dormant tradition, the Turkey Trot. What …

During the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe was inspired to write the poem that became The Battle Hymn of the Republic. A little more than half a century later, a small grade school opened in Des Moines, Iowa, …