Boy “Mayor” raises $300,000 for Alex’s Lemonade, Stand opens again June 11 at Woolwich Fire House
By Jean Redstone Young Mario Carpino did not start out as the mayor — or, for that matter, as a community organizer and mega-fundraiser. He was just a four-year-old kid. He was a four-year-old kid whose mom, Anna, noticed her son couldn’t move his arm one day and took him to the emergency room to […]
Kingsway Girls Soccer Coach John Kodluk Passes Away at 57
By Christian Lynch On Wednesday, May 18, I received word from one of my colleagues that John Kodluk, longtime girls soccer coach and freshman economics teacher at Kingsway, had passed away earlier that morning. Being the fixture at Kingsway that he was, I simply refused to believe that was possible. It later was confirmed to […]
The easy, the elegant, the meringue
By Jean Redstone One of the tried and tasty elegances of summer desserts has slipped somehow into the background and it’s time to pull it back to favor. I’m referencing the meringue, as in lemon “meringue” pie. People appear to have relegated the pie topping to second place in importance, a mere topping, when the […]