Global paper maché created with local news

Laura Young ECB Publishing, Inc. Fifth grade student Gretchen Brown stopped by the Monticello News office one day recently to see if we could give her some old newspapers. It's not unusual for several people a week to come load up their trunk with $2 bundles of past issues. They work well for packing up dishes for a move, potty training puppies, rolling into fire logs or mulching gardens. But Gretchen had something else in mind. She was learning about Earth's continents in her homeschool cu