EAST HARTFORD — All hands on deck! Local residents and students will be treated to a little bit of history this holiday as the replica tall ship Half Moon docks at Goodwin College’s riverside campus on Thursday.

□ The Iota Class recently graduated from the Triad Community Kitchen program. The program is operated by Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina. Since the Triad Community Kitchen program began 108 people have graduated from it.

Oct. 6, 2008 -- This one's for the birds. A study by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis shows that the more diverse a bird population is in an area, the less chance humans have of exposure to West Nile Virus (WNV).

A school in Lutz, Fla., today officially opened the nation's first modular classrooms to be registered for Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Schools program.

Ten educators from Hawai'i and Pacific Island nations landed Tuesday on Nihoa Island as part of a special voyage in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.