Put on the cocoa, stir the fire and settle down for a delightful read of this year’s installment of Letters to Santa by Haywood County school children. Thank you to the wonderful and caring teachers ...

Ray Watford is a retired production director who worked for newspapers in Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. At my part-time job at The Well community center in Hilliard, I help ...

For more than 50 years, Loveland area youngsters have been posting their letters to Santa in a special mailbox, first at the Reporter-Herald office, and now at the Loveland Public Library. Thanks to ...

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Santa receives more than one million letters from children across Canada each holiday season, and last year, The Globe’s North Pole bureau had the pleasure of helping Saint Nick write back when the ...

On December 12, 2025, joy and hope filled the halls of the Alay Pag-Asa Christian Foundation, a nongovernment organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and known for its ...

Every December, Mrs. Claus travels from the North Pole down to the city of Rockford, Illinois, to help Santa Claus collect children’s Christmas wishes and hand-write responses to each of them. NBC ...

When teenager Keith Chegwin wrote a letter to the BBC in the summer of 1976, he could not have imagined it would help change the face of British television. Then a jobbing actor, 19-year-old Chegwin ...

WELL, FOR THE FIRST TIME, MANY VISUALLY IMPAIRED OR BLIND KIDS ARE GETTING A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN A CHRISTMAS TRADITION LIKE THIS. IT’S WRITING THEIR CHRISTMAS LIST IN BRAILLE AND SENDING IT OFF ...

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Abstract: Prolongation is a speech disfluency that lengthens some portions of speech utterances. It is frequently observed in children's spontaneous speech, while it is rare in read speech. To make ...