Brinley Wyczalek has spent 263 days at Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. Brinley was admitted to the hospital on ...

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The Bethalto Floor Store has received the RiverBend Growth Association’s Small Business Excellence Award for July.

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Celine Tails showcases small but capable girls confidently managing strong and energetic dog animals. 'We will all go to prison': 2 staff members arrested after 93-year-old woman dies in the snow just ...

A Writer’s Ode to the Small-Town Girls Who Left, and Those Who Stayed A new book by Jayne Anne Phillips, a Pulitzer-winning novelist, recalling her childhood is a bittersweet triumph. Jayne Anne ...

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This week, two books seem to walk in and immediately start arguing about how to tell a life story. Jayne Ann Phillips, in "Small Town Girls: A Writer's Memoir," takes her time, sifting through decades ...

Every year in May, the small Appalachian town of Buckhannon, W.Va., hosts a weeklong Strawberry Festival. It began in the 1930s as a booster for the local farms that were once a mainstay of the area ...

The essays in “Small Town Girls” (Knopf) were written over many years, says author Jayne Anne Phillips, but they go together to make up a memoir that moves from Phillips’s childhood in Buckhannon, ...