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We swear, kids, it has nothing to do with whether you were naughty or nice. Canada Post announced today that Santa will not be writing back to the children who write him letters this year.

The multi-billionaire has started funding Ad Astra, a Montessori private preschool, outside Bastrop, Texas, recently state-issued documents show. The preschool will be located on 40 acres of land ...

This Montessori-style playset features tools kids can use to learn letter identification and writing. The set comes with letter tiles, puzzles that spell out words, a dry-erase marker, and more.

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from the Liberal cabinet on Monday, posting her resignation letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on social media. Here is the letter: ...

Written between November 1872 and April 1873, these letters remained hidden for more than a century due to their explicitly erotic nature. Yet they uncover a previously unknown side of Courbet, ...

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The art students at Lovejoy High School in Lucas held a gallery event Dec. 7 to sell their artwork.(Pixabay) 1 Lovejoy High School art students — The vast academic halls of Lovejoy High School ...

Seventy percent of the preschool suspensions in the Charleston ... the BEE Collective’s campaign manager, with a four-page letter asking the group to “cease misrepresenting student data ...

This was a big year for arts, culture and heritage in Pendleton, with the Arts Council of Pendleton, which operates the Pendleton Center for the Arts, and the Umatilla County Historical Society ...

Pope agreed, noting that letter writing declined in the 1970s and 1980s, and then postcards went out of vogue: “Now we have a generation that finds email bulky,” she said. But the art has not ...