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This Stroller bulletin lists community events across the Alle-Kiski Valley for Feb. 22, 2026, including a Fox Chapel Area High School musical and local dinners, meetings and vendor sales.

An iPhone Emergency SOS via satellite feature helped rescuers locate six skiers after a California avalanche by enabling messages when cell service failed.

Hubble's new picture of the Egg Nebula, the nearest known pre-planetary nebula, shows concentric dust shells and twin polar beams; the image was made by combining new observations with Hubble data from 1997, 2003 and 2012.

About 25 playscapes from 14 Connecticut communities were dismantled, packed into 40-foot sea containers and shipped roughly 3,200 miles to Guatemala, where mission groups and schools reassembled them; the effort required detailed, time‑intensive work by town staff and volunteers.

The closing ceremony for the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held at the historic Verona Arena in Verona, Italy, and will air live on NBC with an encore at 9 p.m. ET.

Residents and staff from Primrose Retirement Community visited Marion Technical College to hand out snacks, gift cards and conversation as part of their ninth annual Random Acts of Kindness event.

Oklahoma’s 2024 Survivors' Act lets people serving long sentences seek resentencing if abuse substantially contributed to their crimes; one woman was freed under the law while several others were denied and are pursuing appeals.

Dr. Carleara Weiss explains that extra weekend sleep can partly restore attention and cardiovascular function but will not fully undo some longer-term effects of chronic sleep debt, and that shifting wake times by as little as two hours can create social jet lag.

Indiana will visit Purdue for a Friday rematch at Mackey Arena, where a planned blackout crowd of over 14,000 is expected; coach Darian DeVries said the Hoosiers "need to play very well" and must emphasize rebounding and limiting turnovers after a 71-51 loss to Illinois.

The article reports that seasonal pastoralism structured Kazakh social, legal and political life, with winter survival and pasture rights central to migration cycles and community decisions.

A Texas middle schooler, Aamir Tinwala, began building nest boxes after adopting a cockatiel during the pandemic and has built more than 750 bird shelters while organizing neighbors and schools.

A Santa Barbara captain filmed two humpback whales approaching his boat and spending nearly two hours nearby, and the operator reported seeing more than a dozen humpbacks in the Santa Barbara Channel during an earlier-than-usual return from migration.

More than $593,000 in ODNR Volunteer Fire Assistance grants will support 95 rural projects in Ohio, helping volunteer departments obtain protective gear, communication devices and other equipment.

Alysa Liu won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and her father Arthur told CBS's 60 Minutes he spent between about $500,000 and $1 million on her skating career.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the debate over social media age limits is long overdue and said he supports state legislation to restrict access for people under 16.

Alysa Liu, an Oakland native who won Olympic gold — the first U.S. individual gold in women's figure skating in 24 years — is being celebrated at the Oakland Ice Center, where local youth and former classmates recalled her training and work ethic.

The roughly 2-year-old golden doodle/mini poodle mix nicknamed Jet Blue, rescued at Harry Reid International Airport on February 2, was officially adopted by LVMPD Officer Skeeter Black and his family, who had completed an adoption approval with Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas months earlier.

Eleven downtown Paragould businesses partnered with eleven local nonprofits Saturday for the first Souper Saturday, selling small bowls of soup and directing proceeds to the chosen organizations.

Experts report that many people experience "sleep shame," facing judgment from others and themselves for when and how they sleep, and psychologists say cultural norms, close relationships and self-criticism drive much of this response.

The Robert H. Spitz Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to the United Way of Wyoming Valley to expand its School-Based Community Navigator Program to GAR Middle School; GAR serves grades 6–8, with 86.8% of students economically disadvantaged and a reported attendance rate of 51.9%.

Jayson Tatum said he has no set date to return from a torn Achilles and has not decided whether he will play this season, and he recently took part in a limited 5-on-5 workout with teammates as part of his rehab.

A sleep writer describes five daytime habits they stopped after midday—late naps, heavy caffeine, large meals, vigorous evening exercise, and evening rumination—and adopted three sleep-friendly replacements, reporting fewer 3 a.m. wake-ups and easier sleep onset.

A 25-year-old granddaughter, Makaela Hayes, donated a portion of her liver to her grandfather, Brian Walls, who had been awaiting a transplant for NASH; the operation took place on Dec. 23, 2025.

Coastal Intelligence will hold a two-day Nonprofit AI Workshop Feb. 26–27 at the CEC Hub in Santa Barbara to help local nonprofits adopt practical AI tools; a free executive briefing is scheduled Feb. 26.

Donors gave blood Saturday in honor of Wendi Winters, and the American Red Cross said the drive comes amid a nationwide blood shortage.

The Overlap series event 'Speaking Up in Every Key' has been moved to the Orlove Auditorium in Davie for Sunday and will begin at 3:00 PM with performances and a panel featuring Seth Rudetsky, Lillias White and Arielle Jacobs.

Punch, a 7-month-old macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo, clings to an Ikea stuffed orangutan as a comfort object, and sales of that toy have surged and sold out in several markets.

Brazil and India signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to cooperate on rare earths, covering reciprocal investment, exploration, mining and AI applications; Brazil holds the world’s second-largest rare earth reserves.

Students and community members gathered at Anniston's 46th annual Heritage Festival under the theme "Poetry, a Voice for Hope," and the event at the Longleaf Event Center included student orations, local vendors, music and a vintage fashion show.

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival is offering a series of curated day trips and events around its May 15–17, 2026 festival weekend, including author talks, guided tours, a writing-on-the-rails retreat, and nature walks; registration is limited and full details are on the festival website.