Editor's note: This is the final installment in a five-part series of articles honoring retired educators for Teacher Appreciation Week. RUSSELLVILLE - An untold number of former students can ...

The last 10 years of her life, Mama once said, were the happiest of an extremely happy, fulfilling life. Daddy had “made his way to the Lord” a decade before Mama did so, for the final chapter of her ...

Family and consumer science teacher Marcia Kreutner smiles Tuesday as seventh-grader Alexander Kriener, right, Landon Hemphill, middle, and John Mauren, back, ask how to get their “baby” — an infant ...

High schools and middle schools refer to the home economics classes of yesteryear as family arts and consumer sciences courses today. I never had any of those classes during my school years, but I’ve ...

Whenever I bite into a ginger-spiced cookie I think about Mrs. Wright (no relation), my seventh-grade home economics teacher. She taught me about the basics of cooking before my mother did — I had ...

“We had families that came to us that did not know how to cook,” said Saviello, whose late wife had been a home economics teacher. At the food pantry, some people select only processed food and wind ...

Dr. May Edwin Burke, who taught at several schools and became head of the home economics department at Lake Clifton High School, died of a stroke Sunday at her Owings Mills home. She was 92. Born in ...