Recipe: White and Dark Chocolate Valentine's Cake

Baker Annie Dam's White and Dark Chocolate Valentine Cake is not difficult to make, but it does require time, a gift that increases in value as the pace of life seems daily more frantic.

The Love-Chocolate Connection

EVER wonder why chocolate is so closely associated with courtship and love? Aside from the fact that it’s sure to get anyone in a good mood, it is also made of natural substances believed to evoke the same reaction as falling in love.

Volunteers are needed to bake cakes

Sweet Blessings is inviting the community to see what joy a little bit of flour, sugar and eggs can

Midlevel officers weigh risk, reward of criticizing Army leadership

The net effect of two articles critical of the Army and its wars — in Iraq then, and Afghanistan now — is hard to assess. But it raises other important issues: How it affected each author’s career, and what it portends for other line officers who depend on the military for their livelihood but who believe they see their leaders failing and want to speak up.

Asheville's Susan Reinhardt on the operating hours for a coffee cart at the VA Medical Center being cut in half.

1. Sponsorship for continental breakfast for Community Living Center (CLC) residents. Cost: $250. 2. Bimonthly memorial service. Sponsorship is needed to underwrite costs associated with the program publication, refreshments and memorial roses. Cost: $75.