After storm delay, workers to build giant shark exhibit at New York Aquarium in summer
December 11, 2012
Visit to Costa Rica: crocodiles, ziplining, black-sand beach and a waterfall
By Ava Knapp, Staff Reporter
May 6, 2012
Filed under World News
COSTA RICA — Many things are different here than in the United States. The language is Spanish and the currency is the colon. I went on a river tour one day and saw wild crocodiles swimming around our boat. One... Read more »
2012 brought Leap Day; some celebrated and some didn’t care
By Lindsay McNamara and Manon Bushong, Manon Bushong, and Lindsay McNamara
March 22, 2012
Filed under World News
THE WHOLE WORLD — Leap Day came Feb. 29 and some people around the world celebrated it. But not everybody cared about the day that only comes every four years during a leap year. "I'm not doing anything special," said Mrs. Holly... Read more »
Visiting ruins of city called Pompeii for tour of the ancient
By Francesca Di Cristofano, News Editor
January 11, 2012
Filed under Top Stories, World News
POMPEII, ITALY — A Colonial Times news editor went on a tour of Pompeii, a 2,000-year-old city inhabited from approximately the 6th century BC to 79 AD by the Greeks and then the Romans. Pompeii was buried by a volcanic... Read more »