A local effort to recognize women who go above and beyond for their community has Tracie Murchinson of Lincoln in the spotlight. It all started with a project she spearheaded to honor the memory of a ...

Presque Isle — There is one thing Dawn Rose learned from a project where she made 1,000 origami paper cranes in one year. “The one thing I took home is, if it’s something you truly want to do, you ...

The third annual Asian Arts & Heritage Festival lasted throughout May, with more than 30 cultural experiences that brought ...

MIDDLEBURY, Ind. — The Middlebury Peace Event Planning Committee is campaigning for paper cranes to be made and turned in at the peace booth at the Middlebury Summer Festival Aug. 10 and 11. The group ...

A T.J. Walker Middle School teacher, inspired by the book "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes," asked her students to help fold 1,000 paper cranes for a colleague battling cancer. Kasee Jandrin, a ...

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“Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes” by Eleanor Coerr is the true story of a Japanese girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima when the United States dropped an atomic bomb there in 1945. Because ...

AURORA, Colo. — Loving messages of comfort and hope helped Heather Dearman cope after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. Now she's helping to do the same for families and survivors of mass shootings in ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- An art display at a Twin Cities hospital is boosting spirits during difficult days. It's a moving international effort that started with a single piece of paper. As a pastor for ...

They could have done anything with their free time in the Tracy Elementary School gifted class. Fifth-graders Tyler Cruise and Angelo Pelonero decided to fold paper cranes. It took the whole year, but ...

"I will grow strong again." The Latin word for this phrase is: "Reviresco." It is also the motto of the Maxwell family, said Hallie Maxwell, an artist who is working on an installation of the same ...