Houghton News

THE STARS SO FAR November 11, 2009 Here's the updated list of starred reviews for 2009 children's books.

One hundred-sixty students from Christian colleges around the country will spend three days this week at Houghton College as part of the annual National Christian Multicultural Student Leaders Conference.

Gourmet Today had a lot going for it before the magazine folded on October 5. For $40 , readers would get more than 1,000 recipes - for vegetable sides, seafood dishes, cocktails and much more - from the editors at the prestigious magazine.

The unfortunate closing of Gourmet may have had one positive side effect: the publisher of Gourmet Today reports that the book's sales have increased significantly since Cond Nast announced the magazine's shuttering.

October 10, 2009, 7:09 AM / Youth, adult retreats Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 146 Utica St., will offer its fall youth and adult retreats Friday and next Saturday, featuring the Rev.

For one giddy, improbable evening, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award upstaged its far more glamorous siblings, the Newbery and Caldecott Awards, during the American Library Association's annual conference in Chicago last night.

It was a book begun in 1966 and then set aside - for 43 years. Margaret Smith has just published her first book, A Spiritual Journey: An Autobiography.

The foundation for Houghton College, a Christian school in Allegany County, is listing its 40-acre Star Lake campus for $799,000. "We do have an offer, but it's not a confirmed sale so we're not going to release any information about it and we're going to continue to show it," said Sharon L. Myers, director of public relations for Houghton College.

This weekend's performances: Faculty recitals at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday at Rodeheaver Auditorium Admission: Free; for full schedule of performances, go to www.masterworksfestival.org If it weren't for agriculture, northeast Indiana would not have the MasterWorks Festival.

New Testament scholar and author Ben Witherington III will lecture on "Transfigured: The Theology of Worship in Revelation" at 7:30 p. m. June 22 in the Center for the Arts Recital Hall of Houghton College in Houghton, Allegany County.

Houghton College has put its West Seneca satellite campus on the market. The 36-acre complex, which has been owned by the Allegany County-based private college since the late 1960s, is listed for $2.5 million.

Margaret Smith recently finished a project she started 43 years ago. A Spiritual Journey: An Autobiography is being launched at the Dr.

Marie S. Martin, 73, of 75 Andrews Ave, formerly of Panama, N.Y., passed from this life into the arms of her Savior on Saturday, May 30, 2009 in Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, Buffalo.

The Sin of Apathy by Ralph P. Kerr . Kerr contends that many schools are moving away from the Judeo-Christian ethics and morals upon which this country was founded - and fewer parents are being involved in their children's lives.