Exit the classroom, enter the woods

Exit the classroom,enter the woods
k THE MONTESSORI SCHOOL in Youngstown offers a new environmental curriculum that has pupils attending classes in the woods.
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Young peopleleave the Valley
k WHEN IT COMES to keeping its single, college-educated young people, the Youngstown-Warren area falls below the midpoint among a list of the nation's 276 metropolitan areas.
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OPINION
Campbell womandefends dress codes
k IN TODAY'S LETTERS to the editor, a Campbell woman responds to recent criticism of a proposed dress code at a Mahoning Valley high school. A dress code in no way "stifles" creativity and individuality, she argues.
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BUSINESS
Astro workers strike
kUNION WORKERS at Astro Shapes were on the picket line at the Struthers aluminum extrusion plant this morning. The company's contract with Local 9401 of the United Steelworkers of America expired at midnight Tuesday.
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ENTERTAINMENT
A boring 'Matrix'
k THE THIRD and final installment of the futuristic action series "The Matrix" opens this weekend. A Vindicator review finds "The Matrix Revolutions" exhausting, boring and lacking in humanity.
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WEATHER
Partly cloudy
k PARTLY CLOUDY tonight. Lows in the upper 30s. Partly cloudy Thursday. Highs near 50. Lows in the lower 30s Thursday night.
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