Thomas Moran

Thomas Moran has been the principal at St. Francis High School in La Cañada for the last 18 years. Still, he can't help but get excited when the new school year arrives. "The last couple days [before school starts] are quiet, kind of like the calm...

From Kendrew Morales Abueg to Christopher Gregory Zuzow, 162 students graduated Saturday morning from St. Francis High School in La Cañada. Hundreds of family members and friends gathered around the statue of St. Francis of Assisi to watch their sons,...

Smithsburg Middle School Fifth marking period Distinguished honor roll Grade six — Bryce H. Arnold, Brett D. Baile, Hannah J. Barbarino, Matthew S. Burke, Alissa N. Callis Stottlemyer, Lucy E. Conrey, Lauryn M. Daniels, Elizabeth G. Harshman,...

Distinguished honor roll Grade six — Bryce H. Arnold, Brett D. Baile, Kaylee M. Bonenberger, Megan E. Bonham, Matthew S. Burke, Alissa N. Callis Stottlemyer, Lucy E. Conrey, Lauryn M. Daniels, Seth D. Dodson, Benjamin M. Hixon, Charles A....

Christopher Knight reviews Joan Nelson's landscape paintings at Michael Kohn Gallery...

In 1861 Carleton Watkins took the definitive picture of Yosemite Valley from the aptly named Inspiration Point. The sheer granite wall of El Capitan, as sharp as if cut with a cleaver, fills one side of the photo. A rising tier of rock monoliths marches...

The Orlando Museum of Art is focusing on Florida for its 2011-12 season. The season kicks off with a temporary exhibition, “Tony Robbin: A Retrospective,” which will be on view July 30 through Oct.30. Then, it's on to “Made in Florida&#...

A railroad bridge that has been around for more than 100 years is coming down. The bridge at Cedar Avenue in Scranton has been condemned since the 1980s and is causing safety issues for drivers. The National Park Service said the north side of the...

You know western Wyoming and dumb luck are both on your side when: • Your daughter spies three mule deer in a Yellowstone meadow. Then a moose mid-river. Then bison, fox and marmot, trumpeter swans, a wayward seagull and a grizzly family —...

Grand Canyon North Rim, Arizona My brother, John, loves deserts, slot canyons, mesas, buttes and treacherous dirt roads. At home, he pores over U.S. Geological Survey maps, dog-ears pages in hiking books, studies dry treatises on the archaeology and...

Former Gov. Mario Cuomo once said politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But Suffolk Legis. Wayne Horsley (photo, left) has decided lawmakers can only be ???hoist by their own petard??? picking a county poet laureate. Caught in......

There is something wonderfully peculiar about the paintings of Gegam Kacherian, but it???s difficult to pinpoint just what it is. Each of the 15 works in his second solo show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery begins in a reasonable, even orthodox......