"Comedy keeps the heart sweet," Mark Twain wrote in 1898. Over a century later, Tony and Emmy award-winning actor Hal Holbrook is using this ideal in his one-man show modeled after the works of the author who originally penned it.

Laurel Curran (left) and Isabel Williams pose with their murals. Reaching the finish line of a year-long school project has taught Laurel Curran and Isabel Williams that while passion may spark community action, skilled project management fuels it.

Ben Turoff has the pedigree and the contacts to produce major theatrical productions in Chicago or New York, yet he chooses to live and work in Sarasota.

Some families have summer rituals of spending a week at the lakeside cottage or packing up the vehicle for a long road trip. At times, Canika Owen-Robinson wishes life was that easy.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — Ideas are flowing more freely between faculty, board and administration at Three Rivers Community College, with trustees participating on various college committees.