by Cindy R Ray I started writing Backyard Living years ago when my kids were little and I spent a lot of time in my backyard playing...

by Cindy R Ray This summer I was lucky to have my 14-year-old niece who lives in North Carolina spend a month here with us. While she...

by Cindy R Ray I come across the most interesting tidbits of information at 3 a.m. Being a woman “of a certain age,” I am at that...

by Cindy R Ray Those lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer . . . That is the refrain rattling around in my head these days. First it was the...

A 1960s news room by Cindy R Ray The Herald office had some out-of-town visitors this week. Traveling through Hancock from Rochester...