Linda Shipley wants to offer her stationery shop customers a bit of the Farmington Valley. So Shipley, who owns Lettres, Stationery of Distinction, in the Shops at Riverpark in Avon, commissioned a ...

Local artist Hugh Greer looks over proofs of winter scenes from Wichita on some of his past Christmas cards. For eight years, he’s painted a historic, well-known scene to benefit the Independent ...

Sports broadcasters do a lot of preparation before calling a game. That frequently includes putting together play-by-play sheets and note cards filled with various factoids and relevant information to ...

Here are a few ways you can thank someone: You can receive a gift and say thank you to the giver upon opening it. You can text “thxxxx bb xo!!!” later that night, or on the drive back from the ...