With titles like Bacterialand, Horizon: What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity? and Rumor Buster _ Microwaves, the Science Film Festival Thailand always boasts a nerdy charm for young and mature viewers alike.

Tyler Bryant and Ben Miles stand in a rushing stream under a high green canopy of alder, rubbing little bugs off of slippery rocks. They look like any country kids, dawdling away a summer day in a creek.

Phil Solimine, who will be entering ninth grade at York High School in September, scrambled up a white pine on the morning of Monday, July 7, to install a cell phone for owls.

Jerry O 'Brien is getting used to working on Thursdays. For 27 years, the Iowa native worked for Target, one of the largest retailers in the country. The last 10 of those years he spent working as manager of the Target store on Madison 's Far West Side.

Sun Staff Report AYER -- The Ayer Education Foundation voted to fund 12 educational enrichment grants to help support the curriculum at Ayer Middle-High School and Page Hilltop School. The foundation allocated $10,000 for its fall 2008 grant cycle out of