Several Highlanders spread some holiday cheer, volunteering at Riverside’s annual Lincoln Park holiday dinner on Friday, Nov. 21. The event included 73 student volunteers who helped prepare food, decorate the venue, serve meals, and clean up after. The volunteers included members of campus fraternities and sororities, and the women’s soccer team...

Susan Straight had a front-row seat to the impacts of COVID-19, from the window of her home in Riverside’s Wood Streets. During COVID-19, nurses working shifts at Riverside Community Hospital lived in RVs or rented rooms near the hospital, which is in Straight’s neighborhood. “They would walk by my house for their 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shifts,” Straight...