Kelsey Vaughn, 15, is anxious to get her first novel into the hands of book lovers. After a year of editing and polishing, Vaughn’s published book, “A Distant Melody,” arrived a few weeks ago at her Meadow Vista residence. But the Colfax High School sophomore is keeping a low profile. “I am kind of staying…

Did you know that May 1st is National Mother Goose Day? There are a few different accounts of who the real Mother Goose was, but one thing is certain, she has had an impact on children around the world for generations. In 1697, an Italian author named Charles Perrault, gathered ten fairy tales and published…

CORE Academy students received a special message Tuesday. Ed Smart and Ahmar Rivazfar, who have both experienced the nightmare of having a child abducted, stopped at the Colfax school to share their message. Wearing jerseys sporting the slogan “Not One More Child,” the two fathers are riding bicycles across the U.S. in an effort to…

I am not sure if it was the freshly baked bread I had just sliced, or knowing our last jar of homemade blackberry jam had been opened, but all of a sudden I had a craving for something simple, yet amazing ~ a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich. The taste brought me back to when…

I decided to write about something for the local paper I knew nothing about. Tattoos. For someone who threw up on a nurse drawing blood, the thought of going near needles was way out of my comfort zone. I walked into Old School Tattoo Parlor, pen and paper in hand along with a digital recorder…

Scott had an English assignment to make a collage of things that interest him, people he looks up to and what he would like to do as a career. This afternoon I gathered a few magazines, a pair of scissors and we began to cut out words and images ~words like faith, family and airplanes…lots…