By the third excavation attempt, everyone involved had started to wonder if the missing time capsule had become more myth than history. There had already been two attempted digs behind the Walls Elementary School sign. Shovels hit rocks. Soil was moved carefully by hand. Old memories were tested. Former students and administrators tried their best to remember exactly where the capsule had been buried back on Jan. 3, 2000, when Walls Elementary students sealed away a snapshot of life at the start of a new millennium.Then came the backhoe.And finally — after weeks of digging, laughter, prob...

The Kent State University Museum received its first congressional proclamation from the office of U.S. Rep. David P. Joyce in recognition of the museum’s recent reaccreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national standard for museums. ...