Apr. 30—LIMA — Tucked inside the corner of the Heritage Elementary School lunchroom is a vending machine filled with books. There are comic books and chapter books. Books about hurricanes and sharks ...

When students returned to in-person classes in August 2020, Louisiana’s Livingston Parish Public Schools struggled to serve lunch while adhering to social distance guidelines. That’s when the district ...

As nachos, cheesy puffs and candy bars have taken over the average school lunch, child obesity rates in Arizona tripled over the past two decades to an all-time high of 15 percent, with only 2 percent ...

uWASHINGTON — High-calorie sports drinks and candy bars will be removed from school vending machines and cafeteria lines as soon as next year, replaced with diet drinks, granola bars and other ...

Excitement is up at Pickerington Elementary over a new vending machine in the school's cafeteria. Rather than doling out sodas and sweets, however, this vending machine is stocked with books, which ...

South Huntington's food service director figured out a way to put vending profits back into the cafeteria while allowing the district to benefit, too. The beverage vending contract is between the ...

Big news! Provided you're old enough to know it had ever left. What's an automat? For anyone born after 1991 — when the last one in New York closed its doors — the automat was a kind of ...

I am a sophomore at Montgomery Blair High School. The school's contract with Pepsi, which provides us with vending machines, was unfairly portrayed in the Feb. 27 front-page article "Schools Hooked on ...

The items are seldom a healthy salad or include a side of veggies. Donuts, cookies, pastries, the candy dish, the vending machine and more -- are office foods making people fat? Perhaps. The first ...

The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids. Agriculture ...