When parents are expecting a baby, they normally envision spending their days cuddling and playing with a happy, healthy newborn, and cheering them on as they hit milestones. However, my parents were in for a much different experience with me.    I have a rare genetic condition called Turner Syndrome (TS) - a missing X chromosome that can have an extremely wide range of impacts, from delayed...

As the season is turning into Fall, weather patterns are bound to change as well. In the South East of the United States, hurricane season is still going strong though.   “By Wednesday morning it was Hurricane Helene. By Thursday morning, it was a Category 2 hurricane and by late afternoon it had powered up into a Category 4 hurricane with 130 mph sustained winds," reported The Tennessean.   In...

Competition season arrives for the cast and crew of Belleville West Little Theatre’s 2024 Contest Drama, Rabbit Hole, by Tom Dudzick.   Each year, Little Theatre produces five productions, all of which are viewable by the public and consist of varying genres plus a new cast and crew consisting of all grade levels.  These shows consist of Fall Play, Freshman-Sophomore One Acts, Children’s...

The Belleville West Little Theatre is prepared for the Freshman-Sophomore show, The AI Play, written by Don Zolidis. The show is performed only by underclassmen and allows them a chance to experience theater for the first time in a new show every year.   “The show is about a girl called Eleanor, who uses AI to write her Great Gatsby paper, and because of that she gets into a really smart school....