When her mother was dying of pancreatic cancer, Stephanie Ladsous knew just the way to publicly honor her. For Ladsous — who is admittedly “not a tombstone person” — dedicating a bench in Huntington ...

Bench Mark Program, a city-based mentoring program for at-risk youth, recently received the “Community-Based Program of the Year Award” from two juvenile justice organizations for its work within the ...

The La Jolla Parks & Beaches board is exploring whether it can assume responsibility for the memorial bench program in town. Through the program, people who want to honor a loved one can pay for a ...

Sitting in a hospital bed last June recovering from a gunshot wound, Nathan Luvice knew who he had to call. Over a year earlier, Will Kiefer had visited Phoenix Academy, where Luvice was a student, to ...

After nearly a decade, Bastrop has reinstated its Heritage Bench Program which allows residents to purchase a plaque to adorn benches in the city's Main Street District with their names or messages.