We all know the stereotype: Librarians are stern, they’re serious. They sit quietly behind a desk just waiting for the opportunity to shut down any hint of fun with a “Shhhhhh.” In real life, though, ...

Toby Walters is a financial writer, investor, and lifelong learner. He has a passion for analyzing economic and financial data and sharing it with others. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer ...

Anne Lee has been the children’s librarian at Sterling Library, 120 Enterprise St., for just under two years. She has many books, but one in particular has been a blessing. It’s a book that lists ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...

The 1990s were an interesting time in comics. The decade saw some huge events for both Marvel and DC and the formation of Image Comics, which led to a new era for indie comics. The decade also saw ...

Celebrating the Life (and Laughs) of Jean Ellen Remer. Jean Ellen Remer made her grand entrance into the world on December 27, 1961, in Evergreen Park, Illinois, to the phenomenal Joanne Elida ...

Life before the internet was a completely different world. For Baby Boomers, childhood was an analog experience, defined by a… Image source: 123rf.com Life before the internet was a completely ...

Bil Lepp returned to Oak Ridge again over the summer to tell wildly imaginative yarns about implausible actions that sometimes defy the laws of physics. When the laughter ceased, a lesson was learned ...