BY MATT SCHOOLEYWhether keeping hands in need warm or giving presents to others, Bow Elementary School first-graders have learned how to give a helping hand during the holiday season. After reading Candace Christiansen’s children’s book, “The Mitten Tree,” students in the six first-grade classes brought in unused mittens ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEYDonating a Baldwin piano to Memorial School was easy for George and Jayne McMurdy. “We had this piano that we didn’t really have a use for,” Jayne McMurdy said. “And, we had seen the piano that they had at Memorial.” During the 2005-06 school year, the couple, whose two children attended Memorial and ...