NOTHING IS so welcome as a sunny, warm spring day and the Fine Arts Fiesta.

The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board made real history Thursday night, and for a rare change, it was the good kind.

FORGET THE debate over teacher pay and contract rancor, drop, for a moment, any envy of the (largely misguided) notion that all teachers get three months off each summer. Remember instead, the teacher who influenced you most, the educator who exposed you to your favorite...