The Trust for Civic Life — a collaborative of 15 grantmakers, mostly high-profile national funders — sees small, local groups as instruments of change — modern versions of the organizations that scholars from Alexis de Tocqueville to Robert Putnam have singled out as a distinguishing feature of American democracy.

Air Force veteran Jennifer-Ruth Green is eyeing an upset in an Indiana U.S. House district that has been Democratically controlled for nearly a century.

For 56 years, many would gather around the TV and watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” during the season of Halloween. Unfortunately, the tradition of having this special aired on national television has come to an end.

New exhibits at museums in Ohio and California are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of Charles “Sparky” Schulz, the man who created the comic strip Peanuts.

This Grosse Pointe Park bar offers International wines in an intimate big city atmosphere

If there were ever a list of fictional beach meetings that made significant cultural impacts, then this would likely be on it. On July 31, 1968 in the famous “Peanuts” comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown and Franklin met on a beach.

Following backlash sparked by the decision not to air the “Great Pumpkin” on TV for Halloween, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts will return with Thanksgiving and Christmas specials over the next month. Apply TV+ took over the rights to the Peanuts holiday specials in October and announced the “Great Pumpkin” episode would not air on television. On Wednesday, PBS announced it reached a deal with Apple for an ad-free broadcast of both the Thanksgiving and Christmas specials in the coming weeks. “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” will air on PBS and PBS Kids at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 22. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” will air on PBS and PBS Kids at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 13.

A farmer in California has broken the record for growing the states biggest pumpkinweighing in at 2,175 pounds. Leonardo Urena spent the summer tending to the massive gourd, on a 1200 square-foot- plot of land. The diligence Urena spent over the last two decades trying to grow such a pumpkin have finally paid off. Urena took the top prize at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Organizers said it set a record grown for pumpkins grown in the state.