Troupe alumnus and country music artist Mo Pitney, since his signing with Curb Records in 2014, when he was 21, has released two studio albums and dozens of singles since his move with his family to Nashville from Cherry Valley, Illinois, near Rockford, when he was about 17.

As someone with a social work background as well as many years of working with struggling youth in a number of settings, I’d highly recommend Landon and Amaria as a winning young couple to all middle school and high school audiences as well as to older teens and young adults in their 20’s – even beyond!

During the morning of June 20, 2023, Steve encountered a gentleman whom he had met earlier in the year at the HumanKind Ministries Homeless Shelter in Wichita, Kansas, where Steve had been a volunteer. The gentleman was Erwin Frankfort, who was walking a bicycle and whose face showed obvious distress.

Branden Colvin Jr.’s personal world literally came crashing down on Sunday, May 28, 2023, when a six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa partially collapsed.

A school custodian in Hampden, Maine is also the winning part-time coach of his school’s elementary and middle school chess teams.  Appropriately, his name is David Bishop, and his teams are sweeping the competition.  His students agree that their goal is a national championship