Freelance artist Melissa Shimek, 44, center, poses with her 8-year-old twin daughters Ginny, left, and Mary, in their home in Millcreek Township, near Erie. Shown are dozens of illustrated paper bags ...

In the Jinks house, it is not just what’s in the school lunch bag that counts, but what’s on the bag. For the past seven years, Martinez artist and father Lynell Jinks has drawn magnificently detailed ...

Some Northampton Area kindergartners have gone where no other local kindergartner has gone before: the cafeteria. The new half-hour lunch is part of the district’s all-day kindergarten, which debuted ...