As a teacher and guitar builder, David Pelham’s visit to Paracho, Michoacán, Mexico, in 2002 changed his life and inspired a new personal mission.

YouTube.com has been around for years and is a go-to for almost anything you can think of. We go to it for everything from cooking to auto repairs, and now there’s a new reason — book reviews. On May 17, local resident 11-year-old Alexandra Zakharin was finally able to start her own YouTube channel. It’s…

Congratulations to the ribbon winners from Saturday’s “Celebrate!” show at the Courtyard Gallery. You are still able to visit the show until the end of September. Best of Show: Zimou Tan for “Xia” (oil on canvas) Best Theme: Kirk Evans for “Long May She Wave” (copper wire inside a bicycle wheel rim) People’s Choice: Art…

Mayor Max II is very happy about the Cranston Fire disaster’s amazing outcome. Firefighters, early responders, hot-shot teams and supporters from the community unified cooperatively to save animals and this made him very happy, too. The mayor reported, “At 3 a.m., we went to the fire line to see how much time we had to…