Dennis Pedisich, president/CEO of Napa Community Bank, announces that Kelly Bruns has joined the bank as credit officer. In this position, she works with the bank’s chief credit officer, Douglas Haigh, in overseeing the bank’s loan portfolio.

PRINCETON — Fourth-generation farmer Greg Massa was in the middle of the rice harvest and he was dirty, angry and depressed.

SKOKIE, Ill. — As the Great Chicago Fire was ravaging the city in 1871, William Rand and Andrew McNally saved their business by burying two printing machines on the sandy Lake Michigan shore.

WEIGHTLESS ABOVE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN — Science teacher Mike Hickey has long understood the difference between mass and weight. Now, floating in zero gravity, he doesn’t just understand it, he feels it.