Education With just 3 students, small-town high school closing down In this Dec. 11, 2017 photo, a student walks toward the Rochester School in Rochester, Vt.

For a local school, the final bell before summer vacation will simply be the final bell, period. Budget cuts are forcing the Lodi Unified School District to close Clements School, a 130-year-old ...

Doubleday Field and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum may be the stars of Cooperstown's lineup, but the ...

First-year college student Zoie Geronimi is the only person she knows from her small town who goes to Columbia University. Geronimi, 19, went to high school in Kingsford, Michigan, where the ...

As Small Towns Get Smaller, High School Football Teams Reduce Their Squads Football is a way of life in many small towns. But as some populations shrink, teams are forced to also shrink.

A new school in a western Minnesota town of fewer than 800 residents was a full-community project, from start to finish. ... A Small Town’s Deep Affection for Its New School.

A small college town in South Carolina was named one of the nation’s best — again. Clemson — home to Clemson University — ranks No. 5 on a list of places where “small-town charm meets ...

Towns are small, so it’s easy to tell when apartment buildings start to crowd, a family is displaced or new families move in. Merlyn Johnson is superintendent of Cassville School District, just ...