For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face. The pen pal ...

After writing as pen pals since the first of the year, 51 Willett Elementary fourth-graders and their “senior buddy pen pals” at nearby Atria Covell Gardens exchanged gifts and letters in person for ...

ICONIC PLACES LIKE THE TWIN ARCHES, DAVIE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS SPENT THIS PAST SEMESTER WRITING LETTERS BACK AND FORTH TO SENIOR CITIZENS. WXII 12 S MARIA DEBONE WAS THERE TODAY AS THE SENIORS ...

“Being pen pals makes me really feel special and makes me happy,” said 11-year-old Tristian Carter with a smile on his face. “Whether they know it or not, they’re learning,” Blaine said. The ...

LATHAM, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A group of local high school students are ditching the convenience of direct messaging online and sending letters the old-fashioned way, through the mail. Their pen pals are ...

EMMETSBURG, Iowa (KTIV) - In the digital age, a volunteer program is working to preserve the tradition of the hand-written letter, and they need help to make it possible. The “Northwest Iowa RSVP ...

By Barry Porterfield | [email protected] Students at one Pauls Valley school are coming together for one simple but important reason – helping local younger kids stay on top of their reading ...

RICHMOND, Va. – A group of Richmond seniors met their elementary student pen pals on Thursday. Seniors living at Hermitage Richmond and students at Pearson’s Corner Elementary School in Hanover have ...

Retired volunteers, coordinated through RSVP, Foster Grandparents, AmeriCorps/SeniorCorps, Area Agency on Aging for Luzerne and Lackawanna counties and the Campaign for National and Community Service, ...

BRANFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Branford seniors are teaching students cursive, how to read legal documents and other life skills. “Everybody’s texting, all their assignments go through computers,” said ...

Preschool students at the University City Children's Center in St. Louis spent the morning at a Garden Planting Party, getting dirt under their nails as they planted vegetable seeds in cups as a ...