Ready, set, read! Drop-off for Brandi's Book Drive starts Wednesday morning
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WBRZ— BATON ROUGE - Readers, rejoice: Brandi's Book Drive is happening Wednesday!The book drive's goal is help gather books for children's home libraries. Not every child has ready access to books that may interest them, and reading is a key component of academic and social success. By donating to the book drive, you could provide a book for a child in need. Drop-off will be held at Essential Credit Union in Towne Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. The drive will accept books for children...
WHNT.com—Near-record heat set to follow Tue. morning’s soaking rain. Huntsville International Airport saw over 3.5″ of rain with this system! We trend drier through Thursday, but temperatures will rise well above average.
Los Angeles Times—'Harry Potter' set at an HBCU? LaDarrion Williams wrote the book he always wanted to read. LaDarrion Williams’ dream-come-true tale sounds like a Hollywood rags-to-riches film, about a kid from a small town who packs up and moves to Los Angeles to make his fantasy a reality, struggles and suffers but defies the odds and then some. In Williams’ case, success has finally arrived with “Blood at the Root,” his first novel in a three-book deal, a series that centers on a Black boy in a young-adult fantasy saga — the kind of fiction he wishes had existed when he was a kid. Williams grew up...
MYTWINTIERS—Road work planned for Riverside Drive following Tuesday morning’s fatal crash. ATHENS TWP, Pa. (WETM) — Some roadwork is expected to be done in the coming days to help fix a large divot in the roadway along Riverside Drive in Athens Township that's been a heightened topic of concern by residents after a car crash on Tuesday killed three people. According to Maggie Baker, a spokesperson []