The circle of life lives within local school campuses. From planting seeds, hatching chicks and slaughtering roosters, ...

Welcome to The Last Word, a monthly column about craft cocktails. Meg van Huygen talks about her cocktail faves—both ...

No nice weather ever goes unpunished in our neck of the woods. We had a fabulously clement March, with nearly no snow and temperatures that were generally agreed to be “not too bad.” We didn’t receive ...

The following news items are reprinted from the Manistee Daily News for March 27-28, 1925 and are compiled from the Manistee ...

Did I ever tell readers about the time in the winter of 1993 that Skagit Valley College sent my wife and I to Siberia? Yes.

Time to put your two-wheeler to good use on these scenic, fun bike paths—one in each state. Bicycling is as popular as ever, ...

which would revise requirements for milk provided by the National School Lunch Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Current USDA regulations require milk to be fat-free or low-fat ...

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has long required school lunches to include milk on all trays in order for schools to be reimbursed for the meals. But the Freedom in School Cafeterias and ...

A food service director says funding school meal programs is the best use of federal dollars. During Tuesday’s Senate Ag Committee’s hearing, Michigan’s Dan Gorman testified about federal school meal ...

More than a dozen years after higher-fat milk was stripped from school meals to slow obesity in American kids and boost their health, momentum is growing to put it back. Federal lawmakers have ...