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For Mother's Day, how about sending your mom up into the hills of Tennessee for a once-in-a-lifetime weekend away from it all.

There's nothing better than being excited to go to work every day because you just love what you do. That is most definitely the case for our brand new teacher of the week. She makes the classroom such a great experience one of her students came home one day and asked to write a nomination letter for his teacher to be our next Teacher of The Week...

Teacher of The Week looks very different in 2021. The pandemic has changed the type of nomination letters we get for Teacher of The Week. This school year is filled with a whole bunch of humans who never thought they'd be a teacher. From grandparents, to siblings, a lot of family members are stepping up to help teach during the pandemic...

Being a teacher is so much more than just going to work every day and doing your job. There's so much passion, drive, and commitment to education that backs every teacher. Our new Teacher of The Week truly goes above and beyond for her kindergarteners...

There's nothing better than knowing that when your kid goes off to school, they love their teacher and are having fun. Our brand new Teacher of The Week makes sure that her kids are taken care of and that they thrive in her classroom. Congratulations to our new Teacher of The Week Amanda Milazzo from Brookview Elementary School in Rockford...

2020 was a terrible year for the service industry. Life changed as we know it when it comes to bars and restaurants. Locally, so many places have been affected, and even had to close their doors due to the pandemic. The Office Nightclub suffered greatly when the pandemic hit in 2020...

Everyone who has stepped into a teacher roll this past year - thank you. The 2020/21 school year looks like nothing we've ever seen before. And yet teachers are still going above and beyond giving their kids an incredible school experience...

As a parent, I'm sure the best feeling is when your kid comes home from school and they're excited about what they learned. They're so excited they tell you all about it RIGHT when they see you. As a teacher and a parent what more can you ask for...

Remember when Kraft made pumpkin spice flavored mac and cheese during the Fall? I do, because the though of eating it scarred me for life, and I didn't even actually eat it. There's really nothing better than a box of Kraft mac and cheese...