Welcome to 2026! A New Year has arrived; the last one is safely behind us. As always, this New Year brings with it our hopes for a new beginning.

The Savannah River String Band will meet from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5, in the back of Trinity United Methodist Church, ...

Larry's Litter Busters Kids Club will meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, at Carolina Bay on Price Avenue in Aiken. For more ...

After that, I called my wife and told her I wasn’t going to try to be Jewish anymore. Franny said she’d just told her ...

We’ve probably all heard the words of the 60-year-old Christmas song, “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” According to multiple sources, the song was written by Jill Jackson Miller and Sy Miller in 1955, ...

Somewhere along the way, peaceniks like me got the wrong idea about peace.

It isn’t, by any obvious measure lyrically, a Christmas song. It never mentions the day itself, nor does it touch on themes that have become rather synonymous with the season in modern times. There ...

The Christmas message of “peace on Earth” is a heavier lift this year than in some years past. There is now turmoil on every front — internationally, domestically, in our communities and even within ...

Matt Damon knows how to put his best foot forward — much to the amusement of his teenage daughter. A video originally shared by Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday, January 13, captured the moment ...

This selection appears courtesy of EWTN Publishing. The full book is available here. To get along better with everybody — well, almost everybody — the first question to answer is “Why?” After all, ...