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It has been a fun job as one might imagine teaching the Kindergarten class. Jane Chudina has been teaching 32 total years and 31 of them at Troutville Elementary School. The breakdown of her teaching ...

Pastor Pete. Mr. Huggie. Peter Huggenvik. Regardless of what he's called, his presence is the same: a burly, dark man, gentle and charismatic, with a passion for teaching. With expressive eyebrows and ...

Go back to where IT all began.

My daughter Lyla went to her first day of kindergarten last week. Correction: It was orientation for kindergarten. But watching her race up the steps of the brown brick school near our home, I felt ...