Jan. 7—LEWISBURG — The Lewisburg Senior Center launched a program in the new year to have the older patrons become penpals with sixth grade students from North Dakota. BJ Smith, the manager of the ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- An important field trip for a group of Pearson's Corner Elementary School second graders to Hermitage Richmond Senior Living began with a serenade. But the point of the trip was for ...

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face. The pen pal ...

After writing as pen pals since the first of the year, 51 Willett Elementary fourth-graders and their “senior buddy pen pals” at nearby Atria Covell Gardens exchanged gifts and letters in person for ...

The lost art of letter writing was recently revived in Pomeroy Living senior living communities, providing a technology-free way for senior citizens to connect with people of all ages. “I decided to ...

Students at a North Carolina high school are breaking stereotypes, getting encouragement and gaining new texting buddies as part of a pen pal program with older adults. The pen pal program, ...

A heartwarming program in Bartlesville has found a way to connect senior citizens with middle school students. They become pen pals and find they have a lot more in common than they knew. It’s called ...

After months of letters back and forth, residents of Stonebridge Senior Living Adams Street met their Callaway Hills Elementary School pen pals Wednesday. Activities Director Brittany Cerezo said the ...

What happened this week in the Pound Middle School library started as a writing project, a way to get students to improve on all those annoying details. Punctuation. Grammar. Spelling. Teacher Anica ...

A group of 23 Shaker High School students met their pen pals in the Avila retirement community on Tuesday. The pairs have been writing letters back and forth for several weeks already as part of Dr.

NORTH MANKATO — After writing since January, Bridges Community School fourth grader Illy Anil has been looking forward to meeting her senior pen pal, Sherry Landrum. “It’s pretty exciting,” Anil said.