In 1951, Connie Reed McClellan's family inherited a diary that was written by her great-great-great-aunt Ellen Stetson. The diary was a chronicle of Stetson's overland trip from Massachusetts to Arkansas.

Fresh off the Massachusetts High School Drama festival, where it reached the final round, the Bromfield Drama Society will be performing an original piece, "Love in the Twilight Zone," at the Harvard Schools Trust's Dinner-Theater Gala on Saturday, March 31.

Since its formation in 2005, the nonprofit Build a School in Africa has constructed nine schools in the impoverished southern regions of Mali, West Africa. Now, the organization is close to building its tenth.

Those who were looking forward this year to sledding, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing and other traditional winter activities would have to make their fun in other ways.