EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Three approaches to fight school shootings

On the heels of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, many ideas have been proposed to stop the violence. In regard to firearms, some groups want to ban and confiscate all guns while others want to legally arm all residents, and in particular, school administrators and teachers.

Comforting local children

Watson Elementary School fourth-grade teacher Gretchen Pishkur is surrounded by the nearly 1,000 teddy bears that have been collected.

YOUNG VOICES: More guns, laws won't keep us from cliff

We are on the verge of falling off a moral cliff.

Snowflakes unite community

Visitors to First United Methodist Church write messages on a banner bound for Sandy Hook School students during the Snowflakes for Sandy Hook event at the church.

Snowflakes unite community

Connor Kuhlman, 12, leaves a snowflake he made at a table with others to be sent to Newtown, Conn., the site of the shootings last month that killed 20 elementary school students and six adults. More than 200 people gathered for the Snowflakes for Sandy Hook event at First United Methodist C…

Snowflakes unite community

Grace Kuhlman, 11, looks at a snowflake after cutting it from paper Saturday at First United Methodist Church. Grace joined more than 200 people at the Snowflakes for Sandy Hook event at the Church, a communitywide project to make snowflakes for Sandy Hook Elementary School students as they…

Snowflakes unite community

Children run, dance and play while musician Jill Hayman-Aponte plays acoutistic guitar Saturday afternoon at First United Methodist Church during the Snowflakes for Sandy Hook event in Crown Point. "This isn't a memorial, this is a celebration of our children and a way of lending support," s…

Crafters send mittens with a message to Newtown

"Chester Raccoon stood at the edge of the forest and cried. 'I don't want to go to school,' he told his mother. 'I want to stay home with you. I want to play with my friends. And play with my toys. And read my books. And swing on my swing. Please may I stay home with you?'" — "The Kissing Ha…